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> That being said, when I go into BB it saddens me to see how they up-sell ignorant people. It bothers me so much. I'll be inline behind someone and they'll off
by zbuc 15y ago
> That being said, when I go into BB it saddens me to see how they up-sell ignorant people. It bothers me so much. I'll be inline behind someone and they'll offer an initial setup and cleaning of your new PC for $75+ and I'm thinking to myself I could do this in 20 minutes and I'd do it for a lot less. Installing memory is way more than it should be. Backing up and restoring, etc, all relatively simple things they charge so much for.
The same argument can be made for cars(oh boy, a car analogy!). It's much cheaper to change your own oil yet people still go to oil change shops and pay a ton of money for it.
The reasons are ignorance(not knowing how to do it yourself) and convenience.
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- joshmlewis 15y agoEh, not exactly the same argument. I pay someone to change my oil, but I know how to change my oil. Getting someone else to do it is not that expensive, not messy, and takes 20 minutes or less. With computers, I don't know how long it's going to take them to fix (a day, a few days, week, etc), who knows. I don't know if they screw people over or not, and I know I can do it myself faster.