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bobbdobbs

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Sky News exposes dodgy laptop repair shops

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	Quote: Sky News in the UK have exposed several laptop repair shops including some big names like Micro Anvika and PC World. During the investigation, researchers unplugged a RAM stick from a laptop to see if the shops would simply diagnose the fault or charge extra for work and components. Only one shop was genuinely honest, Pix 4 in Shepherds Bush. The rest, including Micro Anvika and PC World, charged huge amounts for work that was not required, including replacing the laptop motherboard.

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Re: Sky News exposes dodgy laptop repair shops

In the case of PC World I would put money on the fact that they were too stupid to diagnose the fault instead of being dishonest about it.

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Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:16 am

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Re: Sky News exposes dodgy laptop repair shops

I saw the report this morning.

I am not surprised that they said Micro Anvika overcharged. Went in there some time ago. Their prices are ridiculous.

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Re: Sky News exposes dodgy laptop repair shops

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/262978/expo ... words.html

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... onal_Files

Mind you, isn’t this how Gary Glitter was caught?

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Re: Sky News exposes dodgy laptop repair shops

Also raking through private data is no new phenomena, it seems to happen all the time in PC repair shops. At a particular PC workshop I had the misfortune of working in my "colleagues" took great delight in seeking out the customer's pr0n collection. 9 times out of 10 there was one too.

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