Severe corrosion poorly repaired but it works

[britechguy]

I think WorstBuy

I have come to the conclusion that I would not trust the "tech squads" that any of these big box stores have as far as I could throw all of those techs collected into a single concrete container.

Quite a bit of my business over the years has been playing clean-up after what those big box tech services have messed up.

I hope they come back to you if they want data transfer.

 

[Philippe]

I could use it for parts

Don't mention that. It's what I call "recycling"

WorstBuy will do data transfer to a new computer for free but my charge is very reasonable

Don't forget it should be easy for them (the clients) to trust you rather than a big store with random employees.
So it's a big plus for your services if they value their privacy...

 

[britechguy]

Don't mention that. It's what I call "recycling"

But it is recycling! You didn't say what recycler you were going to hand it to, or how, exactly, it was to be recycled. Cannibalizing for parts that get reused is a very good thing indeed. The phrase here is, "Reduce, reuse, recycle." That's what you're doing, provided you don't toss the unusable part into the trash can and do pass it along to an electronics recycler.

 

[Rigo]

But it is recycling

The hype these days is "recycling".
If you use it for parts, you benefit. Might matter for some people.
If you recycle it, it benefits the environment.

 

[HCHTech]

I have come to the conclusion that I would not trust the "tech squads" that any of these big box stores have as far as I could throw all of those techs collected into a single concrete container.

We just had a data recovery job this week - Just an old computer, not a failed disk. When we opened up the box, it didn't have a hard drive in it! When the customer was contacted with this new info, they remembered that BB had already done the recovery. They remembered them putting the data on an external drive, so they dug around, found it and delivered it to us. So we had BB's recovery effort as well as the old drive to look at. BB had completely missed 50GB (!) of family pictures because they were on the desktop in a folder named "pictures".

We used Fabs (another shoutout to the endlessly-useful program - thanks @fabs !), and put the recovered data on that same external in a folder labeled "USE THIS ONE" - haha. She said BB charged $199 for this bad effort 5 years ago. Wow.

 

[Rigo]

Their problem/feeling, not yours. For me, any diag, even if it's "not economically fixable" get billed...

You're totally right.
In trying to be fair with customers, we might lose business common sense sometimes. Thx for the reminder

 

[britechguy]

If you use it for parts, you benefit. Might matter for some people.
If you recycle it, it benefits the environment.

I can't know what might, or might not, matter for some people. If I offer to take a piece of equipment and safely dispose of it, that does not specify exactly how.

There's no hype, to me, in the oft-used phrase here in the USA that I quoted earlier, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle."

I am doing all three when cannibalizing something that's otherwise dead for parts. I am doing all three if I take something that's uneconomical to repair for the client but using it as an experiment in "can I fix this, even if I could never justify doing so on a cost basis, just because I want to try." I have one laptop and one desktop that were given to me to dispose of, and that meant "haul it away and get rid of it such that my data cannot be stolen," that I revived from the dead for the fun of it. I don't feel one bit of guilt about that (and I did wipe the data as part of the revival process).

All of that benefits the environment compared against tossing something in the dump.