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Re:Computer repair with the speed and reliability of FedEx by mproud on Thursday December 11, 2014 @07:02PM (#8737814)
I’m wary of third-party repair facilities like this, especially for hardware. Having worked for a first-party repair shop, there are often times so many obvious fixes that require little to no effort that we would only know simply from the experience of seeing the issues repeatedly and knowing what works and what doesn’t, and our ability to get specific parts so quickly, and have repairs done in a few days or less would set us apart from shady third-parties who would otherwise take weeks to fix our equipment.

Thorough documentation on repair strategies and troubleshooting for all computer models is paramount to a good and fast repair.

Re:Computer repair with the speed and reliability of FedEx by rasz_pl on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:23PM (#8738310)
Sounds like hubris This is how professional repair center looks in eastern Europe: https://www.youtube.com/user/1servicecore/videos?sort=dd&vie...

I also worked for first party RMA house in central Europe. It was mostly out of school noobs on quick rotation cycle. Teach them to diagnose and follow solutions book, after that its high speed, low drag to burnout by crazy hours and shitty pay. Dont even get me started on quality.

There is a sweet middle ground between mega pay by the fix first party grindhouse and obscure one man we do it all operations.