WATCH OUT !!! STAY AWAY FROM THIS GUY !!! DON'T TRUST HIM !!!
HE IS A REAL CON MAN !!!!!!!!
I gave him a Toshiba lap top to repair and he said that it needed a new fan, a new keyboard, and a new charger. First I asked him if it was worth spending the money on this computer to fix it, and he assured me that it was definitely worth it, and that it was a good computer (even though it was ten years old).
He ordered the fans and installed them, and he told me that he put in a new keyboard. He said that he had to order a charger, and in the mean time he gave me a Gateway charger where the cord was broken, and he told me to hold the two wires together to make it work!! I took it home and spliced the two wires together so that I would have something in to use in the mean time.
When I went back the next week to get the charger he gave me one, but when I took it home it wasn't charging the computer. When I took it back he told me that they had sent him the wrong one, and he told me to keep the one that I had spliced and he charged me the same $35.00 for it!!!! And it wasn't even a Toshiba; it was a Gateway that he had lying around the shop.
Then I told him that the computer was still running kind of slow, and he said that he would have to reformat it and reinstall Windows. He installed Windows, and with that, the charger, the fans, and the keyboard I had $356.00 into the computer.
Then I had to go back again because the keyboard was not working correctly and the cursor was skipping back a paragraph every once in a while. He said that they must have sent him a defective keyboard and that he would have to order another one.
But then when I went back to give him the computer to fix the keyboard it intermittently stopped charging , and he told me that it was going to cost another $195.00 to put in another motherboard. He told me that he would keep the Toshiba and sell me a used HP for $325.00 instead of my putting more money into the Toshiba, and that was a better way to go because he would normally charge $800.00 for the HP, and then he admitted that it did not really pay to put money into a computer that was over 3 years old like the Toshiba. So I gave him another $325.00 and I took the HP and left him the Toshiba.
But when I took home the HP it had the same problem where it was not charging, and when I looked at the specs in the computer it did not have the 4 gigs of ram that it was supposed to come with, and it only had 2 gigs. Then I looked it up online and I saw that the next version of that model (which had twice the hard drive space and 6 gigs or ram) was selling NEW on Amazon for $500.00.
I took it back the next day and he said that he had given me the wrong charger and that is why it was not charging. I told him that I didn't want the HP and that I wanted my Toshiba back, and I told him to put in a new keyboard that worked. But when I went back to pick up the Toshiba he said that it would not hold a charge at all now, and that there was nothing that he could do other than to put in a new motherboard (and that he would do it for $150.00), or to sell me another computer.
I told him that I did not want to pay him for another computer or to spend any more money on the Toshiba, and to give it back to me, but that I wanted my money back for the charger because it was not right to charge me for a unit that I had to cut up and tape together and that was not the right one for that computer anyway.
He did give me the $35.00 back for the charger, but when I looked at the charger as he was giving me my money back I saw that he had cut the line and disconnected the ground wire so that it would not charge the computer, and that way he could say that it need a new motherboard and he could get more money out of me without having to put in a new keyboard.
I don't believe that this guy put in a new keyboard; he just used an old one that he had lying around the shop because he didn't want to have to buy a new one and replace it. And then he tried to scam me, and he rigged the charger cord so that he could say that the computer was not charging anymore so that he could get another $150.00 out of me for a new motherboard.
I think that the real reason why the computer was only charging intermittently in the first place was because he gave me a Gateway charger instead of the right Toshiba charger (which you can buy new online at Amazon for $14.00 anyway)
Don't let guys like this sucker you into spending money on fixing an old laptop, because with the prices that they are getting for the new ones today it is not worth putting anything into an old one; you are better off just getting a new one.
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