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If you were confident about the solution, you could have offered to do it for a fee or ask him to gift it to you. That could have been an easy sale. Also, a lo
by Gpetrium 8y ago
If you were confident about the solution, you could have offered to do it for a fee or ask him to gift it to you. That could have been an easy sale.
Also, a lot of people complain to generate conversation, not for the 2nd opinion they get.
- coldtea 8y ago>Also, a lot of people complain to generate conversation, not for the 2nd opinion they get. Doesn't make his friend look any better...
- sokoloff 8y agoI've a standing offer out to friends of mine. They can drive their car over to my place (pre-arranged, of course) and we'll change their brakes together and all they have to pay is the cost of the parts (which is usually much less than they expect). A few of my mechanically inclined but lacking confidence friends and a few of my other broke as a joke friends have taken me up on it over the years. Most can't believe how cheap, fast, and easy to do/hard to screw up it is. Very few repeat "customers" though. :( In the fridge case, it turns out he had already ordered one for delivery in a few days and had already mentally parted with the money, so didn't want to fix his and call to cancel the order...