tech support & repairs costs

What is a decent price to pay for comp repairs? any platform - what is the going rate now?

My G3 went in the shop this week and I want to know if I got shafted out of $60...

(PC junkies salivating to type up some anti-Macintosh crap: Save it. It's been done. get over yourselves. - after all, you might drip some saliva into your keyboard and fry your PC, in which case, this thread may turn out useful, for a change!)

Alot of place charge $30-60 just to look at your computer. I think if there was a problem with it and it got fixed for $60, that's not too bad. I dont charge an initial fee, but I do charge $25-30 an hour.

Don't feel bad, the company I work for charges more for 1 hour than what you paid to get that fixed to look at Macs, and we don't know anything about them.

thanks - I feel better now. I'm cooking up a G4 as we type, regardless.

G3 is too old for OSX anyway. At least now I can sell it fully functional.

yeah, $60 is not bad.... I generally expect $100 minimum when sending one of the Macs to the shop.

I can remember back in the mid 90's paying someone $40 to take a screwdriver and short out the cmos.....NOW THAT IS GETTING SHAFTED!

Originally posted by tornupinside
I can remember back in the mid 90's paying someone $40 to take a screwdriver and short out the cmos.....NOW THAT IS GETTING SHAFTED!

Contact me next time. I can give you a better price.

Technically Torn, since a screwdriver was used for the process, you were not "shafted", but rather, you were "screwed"

sure is a lot of screwing and shafting going on here... what happened to all of the females in the forum, anyway?

They left for this reason exactly.

Yea, they don't wanna see your man boobies bounce when you get screwed.