I looked at the pics but they are so blurry I cannot tell anything about where or what the damage is.
Glad to know I'm not the only sucker. One time, I built a computer from older/spare parts (perfectly good) for my sister's neighbor because she wanted a computer for her daughter to use for school and stuff but they were on a fixed income. The woman's husband was disabled and took early retirement due to a major stroke, could barely get around and had some speech difficulties. I thought what the hell, I've got a bunch of older computer parts just collecting dust.
So I built them a Pentium III system that was worth an honest $250 (at the time). Even a brand new $350 computer would not have been much faster or had more features. I charged them $75 for the genuine Windows XP license and $25 for everything else. When I told her $100, she looked at me as though I had slapped her. Wow, that much? OK, can I pay you $50 this month and $50 next month? Sure, that's OK. It took three months to get the other $50. However, in the meantime, she leased a brand new Lexus and I found-out she had went to a casino for two days with friends. I'm not kidding, a new Lexus!
But I still wasn't done being a glutton for punishment. Over the course of the next year, I ended-up reformatting the system and restoring from backups TWICE because of viruses, malware, and other user-caused issues (thank gawd I made a system restore image the first time). I only charged them $25 each time, unless it was a quick fix that only took 10 minutes.
Even my poor sister got ensnared in all this. They seemed to figure that since we were related, my sister would be glad to provide them free technical support. My sister was over there a dozen times helping them with various issues like can't get printer working, internet not working, so on and so forth. Oh and subsequently learned that her casino trips with friends are a quarterly event, not some rarity or exception.
