How many here own/work for a PC repair/building business?

[ddeder]

Just curious. I'm running one out of my home and Anandtech is one of my most valuable resources.

I just had a call this afternoon from a guy who said his computer would not boot up. I drove out to his place, rebooted the computer and then turned on the monitor and it worked just fine. I think he was a little embarrassed. Turns out, his computer had locked up and he didn't realize he needed to press and hold the power button down for 4 or 5 seconds to power off.

 

[Barrak]

I have been wanting to start one, there are no local shops where I am. But I dont think I could come up with the start up capital

 

[samito87]

Well i work for compaq until i get layed-off in december!!!

 

[NesuD]

do a bit od side work for a local shop owned by a good friend of mine. Used to do a lot of it out of my home on the side but it got to be to big of a pain with people calling me about problems they created screwing around with the configuration so i stopped. I had 1 guy that actually expected me to come over to his house on a holiday because he was screwing around with system files and hosed windows. I did go to his house and fix him up but it cost him 120 dollars for an hour of my time. He never called me again.

 

[SWScorch]

I own the company Scorching PCs (still getting really started) and we build and sell PCs and PC Components. Its pretty cool, cause I'm an authorized reseller for AMD, Intel, MSI, nVidia, etc; also companies will send me emails asking me to test their new products. Its great