lol @ Future Shop

[Wojtek]

Today I went to my local future shop (kind of like best buy for usd folks)

As I entered the store, something caught my eye, something I never saw was there. Besides the customer service place was a big red board with price for pc upgrades/fixes. I went at the end of the customer support line and read the board while the guy was arguing tha his vcr ate his tape, heh. Here's some prices:

Replacement of motherboard = 99.99$
Replacement of hard disk = 74.99$
Replacement of video/sound card = 59.99$
Ram upgrade = 34.99$
Application Installation = 19.99$ / per app

Isnt this a LITLLE overpiced? I mean come on...
Mobo chamge costs almost as the mobo itself. lol
And what about app install.... Double click on setup.exe and click 5 times on next and here ya go, 20 bucks... god

During summer I think I'm gonna try something.
Make them install some complex app fr 20 bucks :)
So far I've got linux as the most troule-making app. Especilly X under a laptop, took me 5 days to configure the -----... I wonder if they'll charge 20 bucks or 1000, lol. 20 for each bundled app with linux (x, txt editor, printer support, blablablabla) :rolleyes:

Oh, and I picked up a work aplication while I was waiting in line reading the prices, heh

[Daniel]

How come my Future Shop doesn't do that? :confused2

[Robert]

Those prices are reasonable.

To you, a person who doesn't physically own a store that has to pay rent per month, plus employees and utilities may seem a little expensive, but down here in FL we charge the same.

[dawizman]

That is WAY over priced. At my shop here in Cold Lake, I have an hourly rate of $40 Canadian. The average Motherboard takes half an hour to replace and then another hour is charged if they want windoze or the linux of their choice installed. Ram takes a minute to install, so I usually stick it in for free if they buy it. As for video cards, sound cards hard drives, usually half an hour is charged. So Those prices are extremely high.

[jmiller]

They are free to charge what they please for those services.
If people feel they are charging too high of a rate then those individuals are free to not use those services and can go elsewhere. :rolleyes: