A Small Victory

[squirrel dog]

Called Sears to fix a non working agitator in washing machine.Repairman called back and said it would be $200+ to look at it.I googled "repair washing machine agitator"got to several good web sites with pics,found what I needed(agitator dogs)went to local shop and got them for $4.82 and had them in and fixed in under 30 minutes.

 

[Ryan]

Yay - go you

 

[geno]

Doing stuff on your own and not paying someone else out the ass = win

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: geno
Doing stuff on your own and not paying someone else out the ass = win

$200... fsvk

 

[xSauronx]

you called sears of all places?
i mean, kudos to you for fixing it cheap but....sears? you couldnt find a local repairman to call?

 

[shortylickens]

Thats nothing compared to computer work. Geeksquad is flat out robbery.
Am so glad my father got me building systems back in the DOS days.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Called Sears to fix a non working agitator in washing machine.Repairman called back and said it would be $200+ to look at it.I googled "repair washing machine agitator"got to several good web sites with pics,found what I needed(agitator dogs)went to local shop and got them for $4.82 and had them in and fixed in under 30 minutes.

I just did the same repair a couple of weeks ago. Pretty simple to fix.

(seems like a crappy design to me...tiny teeth on the dogs are expected to withstand quite a bit of torque.)

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Called Sears to fix a non working agitator in washing machine.Repairman called back and said it would be $200+ to look at it.I googled "repair washing machine agitator"got to several good web sites with pics,found what I needed(agitator dogs)went to local shop and got them for $4.82 and had them in and fixed in under 30 minutes.

By calling Sears, you were probably paying twice (once to Sears, and again to the actual repair company).

A reasonable price to arrive, diagnose, and install a $5 part is probably just +/- $100. So yeah, if you can figure it out on your own and do the work you can almost always save money.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Called Sears to fix a non working agitator in washing machine.Repairman called back and said it would be $200+ to look at it.I googled "repair washing machine agitator"got to several good web sites with pics,found what I needed(agitator dogs)went to local shop and got them for $4.82 and had them in and fixed in under 30 minutes.

By calling Sears, you were probably paying twice (once to Sears, and again to the actual repair company).

A reasonable price to arrive, diagnose, and install a $5 part is probably just +/- $100. So yeah, if you can figure it out on your own and do the work you can almost always save money.

Unless Sears has no physical presence in the area, they have their own repair crews...one of the largest in the nation. (I have seen them contract with a local repair service because it was much cheaper than sending one of their crews out. (Over 100 miles each way of travel gets costly)

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Thats nothing compared to computer work. Geeksquad is flat out robbery.
Am so glad my father got me building systems back in the DOS days.

Geeksquad should actually have a class action lawsuit against it for conning people. I am sure that their model is technical illegal. Their "optimize PC" service on a new PC is flat out deceitful.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Called Sears to fix a non working agitator in washing machine.Repairman called back and said it would be $200+ to look at it.I googled "repair washing machine agitator"got to several good web sites with pics,found what I needed(agitator dogs)went to local shop and got them for $4.82 and had them in and fixed in under 30 minutes.

By calling Sears, you were probably paying twice (once to Sears, and again to the actual repair company).

A reasonable price to arrive, diagnose, and install a $5 part is probably just +/- $100. So yeah, if you can figure it out on your own and do the work you can almost always save money.

Unless Sears has no physical presence in the area, they have their own repair crews...one of the largest in the nation. (I have seen them contract with a local repair service because it was much cheaper than sending one of their crews out. (Over 100 miles each way of travel gets costly)

Ahh, around here a lot of it is subcontracted.