From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 19 14:28:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FDE37C226 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 13F1Nx-0006cx-00 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:28:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:28:09 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony laptop repair ? Message-ID: <20000719172809.G18295@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200007192055.VAA37668@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007192055.VAA37668@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:55:09PM +0100 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Somers probably said: > could buy an up-to-date model for about that and didn't believe that > the drive or motherboard were faulty, they charged me #90 to get the > bits back (including battery which I really shouldn't have sent along > in the first place). > > The moral ? Assume the worst I think. Agree a price up front before > sending them anything. I was told you can't get a quote before you send it off :/ It's looking more and more like I'll be buying a refurb Z505 and keeping an eye on ebay for a 505T* with a dead motherboard/whatever that I can swipe the screan from and repair it myself, later. *sigh* THanks, P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message