Re: Recovery from unauthorized Vista upgrade?
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:56:05 -0700
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:45:36 GMT, "Phil Weldon"
<not.disclosed@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
'Ken Blake' wrote:
| First of all, note that Malke was talking about support issues, not
| buying hard drives. But even for buying hard drives (or *any*
| hardware), unless there's an extra special sale going on, there are
| usually *much* better prices available on the web.
|
| I once needed a USB cable, and didn't want to wait for shipping time,
| so I went to Best Buy to see what they had. They had what I needed,
| but the extraordinarily high price of $25-30. I went home, searched
| the web, and found and ordered one for $.01 (that's not a typo--one
| penny). Yes, there was a $5 shipping charge, but the total was still
| much lower than Best Buy's price.
|
| Regarding support and service issues, I completely agree with Malke.
| These stores are normally the *worst* possible place to go. Most of
| these places choose the people they hire based on their willingness to
| accept something close to minimum wage, not based on their skills. If
| these people knew anything, almost certainly they could get a better
| job. I wouldn't trust any of them with any computer I owned.
_____
I understand Malke's point.
I don't disagree with Malke's point.
In fact, I would expand on Malke's recommendation.
I did not make my point clearly (see my reply under Malke's post.)
Yes, I missed your sarcasm. Sorry.
Only some commodity component prices are better on the web - hard drives in
particular were used as 'loss leaders' at CompUSA, it doesn't make sense for
an e-store to do the same. Considering carefully, I would have to say ONLY
hard drives were 'loss leaders' at CompUSA.
Yes, a $30 USB cable was what you generally found at a CompUSA, and I bet it
was a Belkin cable B^) Bulk purchase or remaindered items by an e-store and
subsequent sale for a penny does make sense. But is it a good idea to
purchase a remaindered cable (not that I consider Belkin a particularly good
brand)? Depends - intermittent cable problems can drastically increase the
real cost of a cheap cable.
You wrote:
| These stores are normally the *worst* possible place to go. Most of
| these places choose the people they hire based on their willingness to
| accept something close to minimum wage, not based on their skills. If
| these people knew anything, almost certainly they could get a better
| job. I wouldn't trust any of them with any computer I owned.
Which is why I like repair procedures that don't depend on the skill or
dedication of the technician. When hardware is so cheap, then the best
repair procedure is the one that uses the least human intervention (warranty
repair, for example.) Data is very expensive, so data recovery has a
different cost paradigm. Computer security breaches can be very expensive,
so computer security also has a different cost paradigm.
Phil Weldon
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:l8cna3lq425ghm4fvnq54okn6frg1tlvsu@xxxxxxxxxx
| On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:17:07 GMT, "Phil Weldon"
| <not.disclosed@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| > 'Malke' wrote, in part:
| > | If you don't have the ability to do the above - lack of equipment,
lack
| > | of skill, etc. - take the machine to a professional computer repair
| > | shop. This will not be a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place.
| > _____
| >
| > Come on, what's wrong with a BigComputerStore? That's where I buy all
my
| > hard drives B^) Or did, as all the BigComputerStores in Georgia have
| > closed, and over half in the rest of the USA have closed. But on the
other
| > hand, I've never used a repair service other that notebook warranty
repair.
| > If you don't count the days of resident IBM engineers B^)
|
|
| First of all, note that Malke was talking about support issues, not
| buying hard drives. But even for buying hard drives (or *any*
| hardware), unless there's an extra special sale going on, there are
| usually *much* better prices available on the web.
|
| I once needed a USB cable, and didn't want to wait for shipping time,
| so I went to Best Buy to see what they had. They had what I needed,
| but the extraordinarily high price of $25-30. I went home, searched
| the web, and found and ordered one for $.01 (that's not a typo--one
| penny). Yes, there was a $5 shipping charge, but the total was still
| much lower than Best Buy's price.
|
| Regarding support and service issues, I completely agree with Malke.
| These stores are normally the *worst* possible place to go. Most of
| these places choose the people they hire based on their willingness to
| accept something close to minimum wage, not based on their skills. If
| these people knew anything, almost certainly they could get a better
| job. I wouldn't trust any of them with any computer I owned.
|
| --
| Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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