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Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Apr 3, 2024 ^^
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Something that didn't get mentioned was that the guys at Best Buy were cranking up the technical talk in an attempt to overwhelm Chewie, even after Chewie made it clear that he wasn't technical and didn't really understand what they were talking about. Keith, however, dropped trying to be super technical once Chewie made it clear he wasn't technical in his knowledge. I believe that's why Keith didn't do a super detailed rundown of every single thing he fixed, like the connectior being unplugged. He just hit the high points that were easy to understand and left it at that. I don't see that as a bad thing. It's something I do every day at my job. As my boss likes to day, "They don't care how you did it, they just want it fixed".
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I am from germany. When my grandpa told me his pc makes weird noises and won't start I (computer scientist) couldn't help him remotly, I told him to go to the near by compter repairshop. So he did. When he called me afterwards I asked him how much he payed. He told me the man at the shop fixed the problem in 5 minutes and refused to take money for the minor issue. When I asked what the issue was my grandpa told me the man replaced a broken RAM-bar. In fact the man replaced a broken DDR3-8GB-RAM with another one! My grandpa had no idea and tipped him 20€. In my eyes this man could have made 200€ when I think about what happend here in this video. What a nice and generous computer-repair-hero.
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What i can say about mom and pop shops is there was one in my town where i went back when i was in highschool, i said i was building my own pc and wanted some help doing it. He charged 100 dollars, gave me an old dell from 8+ years ago to let me practice taking apart and putting back together, then let me build my own pc in his shop using his tools and helped me between other things he was working on. It took a couple hours.
Amazing guy.
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I used to have my own PC repair service in college, would run it out of my dorm. We had a Bestbuy and OfficeMax near campus. I didn't expect much business, but I still distributed my business cards across campus. Within a week I would get constant emails of students needing help fixing their computer, the issue's ranged from trivial to challenging, but all of them had told me they went to Best Buy first and stated they "repaired" their computer but basically ran some diagnostic software and used the customers situation to upsell them on a new computer.
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When I was working at Microsoft Store at the service desk we were told not to work on custom PCs (although there were like 4 of us that did anyway cause we were familiar with building devices) and heard a lot of stories of Geek Squad not even looking at custom units just to see if it was something they could even support. Like I get not taking a custom unit in, but not even looking at it to try and give some sort of support is wild to me.
Watching this just opens up some old memories (and wounds). Do not miss working at service desks.
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Ex-GeekSquad agent here. I worked both as a front end person and an "advanced repair agent" (the one who actually does the repair in the "Precinct"). I never turned away a computer. I dealt with anywhere from macbooks with an actual virus to a custom built PC that did not have the 24-pin power connector a bit unplugged. It was always interesting to see what came in and if we did not know something, we researched it until we found an answer. this was prior to the pandemic. I feel like they have gone down hill due to bestbuy trying to cut costs.
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I used to work for a lcoal computer store, and our local best buy sent people to us all the time. We also had lots of people who took things to best buy, got service like this (or worse) and then came to us to get it properly fixed. There were a few other technicians at our shop but peolle would come in and specifically request me to work on their stuff because i was the only one they trusted after the hell they had been through in the past with best buy/other repair shops. After the owner of that store retired and closed up shop i stared my own computer/IT business. And i actually have LTT to thank for inspiring me to get into this stuff back in 2015. The old techquickie videos taught me so many thigns while i was still inexperienced
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4 weeks ago
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