Question about a friendship and morals

[honkee]

Im under the assumption that the majority of the people here are great with computers and usually can fix your own pc related problems?
However every now and than you run into a roadblock and actually need the help of a second party!!

A lil backdrop on the situation.A good buddy of mine has a small pc repair store for well over 5 years now, ive known him for the entire time and have actually helped him on stuff over the years as well.

So i called him yesterday told him my new hp laptop wouldnt power up, it wont charge or turn on with the battery in or out of it.He tells me to bring it in to try a universal adapter on it. We try it and it doesnt work, he comes to the conclusion that my ac jack is friend and he needs to resolder 2 o f the pins of some bs like this by the jack and he can have it ready in a couple hours.

Im excited by this until he tells me its gonna bost 150 bucks.I agree to it however and give him the money and just leave his place.
I return no later than 10 minutes later because i left my cellphone there and sure enough hes on my laptop and it looks like its running great.

Im shocked as to how quickly he got it done and he laughed it off and said im a fuckin genius would you expect anything less?
I normally never call people out but i had to call him out on this one. I grabbed my adapter and plugged it in and sure enough it was shot, i used his universal adapter and its fuckin charging the battery.
Im fuckin pissed and just flat out say, dude give me my money back because you didnt do shit to my laptop.All along i knew the adapter was shot and i believe he tricked me earlier. He wont give me my money, i offer to give him 50 for wasting his time(how fucking generous was that) and he still wont accept that.
I just knocked over a keyboard he had in this display pc and walked out screaming go get hit by a bus you fat fuck. Man im still fuckin pissed.

Now im not a millionaire but i have enough money where i truly can spend freely and get whatever i want. My buddy knows this and i honestly think he tried to take advantage of me here!! Im not tripping out right? I mean i do play cards with this guy every week and he has called me and texted since yesterday but i havent returned the call or text.Im just avoiding the mfer for now.

Am i honestly wrong in this situtation?

 

[dabuddha]

I'm confused. You said you tried his universal adapter earlier and it didn't work. Then when you came back, the universal adapter did work?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: honkee
Im under the assumption that the majority of the people here are great with computers and usually can fix your own pc related problems?
However every now and than you run into a roadblock and actually need the help of a second party!!

A lil backdrop on the situation.A good buddy of mine has a small pc repair store for well over 5 years now, ive known him for the entire time and have actually helped him on stuff over the years as well.

So i called him yesterday told him my new hp laptop wouldnt power up, it wont charge or turn on with the battery in or out of it.He tells me to bring it in to try a universal adapter on it. We try it and it doesnt work, he comes to the conclusion that my ac jack is friend and he needs to resolder 2 o f the pins of some bs like this by the jack and he can have it ready in a couple hours.

Im excited by this until he tells me its gonna bost 150 bucks.I agree to it however and give him the money and just leave his place.
I return no later than 10 minutes later because i left my cellphone there and sure enough hes on my laptop and it looks like its running great.

Im shocked as to how quickly he got it done and he laughed it off and said im a fuckin genius would you expect anything less?
I normally never call people out but i had to call him out on this one. I grabbed my adapter and plugged it in and sure enough it was shot, i used his universal adapter and its fuckin charging the battery.
Im fuckin pissed and just flat out say, dude give me my money back because you didnt do shit to my laptop.All along i knew the adapter was shot and i believe he tricked me earlier. He wont give me my money, i offer to give him 50 for wasting his time(how fucking generous was that) and he still wont accept that.
I just knocked over a keyboard he had in this display pc and walked out screaming go get hit by a bus you fat fuck. Man im still fuckin pissed.

Now im not a millionaire but i have enough money where i truly can spend freely and get whatever i want. My buddy knows this and i honestly think he tried to take advantage of me here!! Im not tripping out right? I mean i do play cards with this guy every week and he has called me and texted since yesterday but i havent returned the call or text.Im just avoiding the mfer for now.

Am i honestly wrong in this situtation?

you learned a good leasson. when it comes to money don't trust anyone and that he is not a real friend.

money has a way fo seperating real friends from fair weather ones.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: waggy
money has a way fo seperating real friends from fair weather ones.

Yeah, real friends fix your computer when you pay them, fair weather ones take your money and tell you they tried, but sorry, no luck. He sounds like a chum to me. You coulda gone to geeksquad and ended up in jail when they found all the illegal porn you had. Consider yourself lucky.

 

[SpunkyJones]

He's not your buddy, he thinks your idiot and stole your money. F him. And stop playing cards with him.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
He's not your buddy, he thinks your idiot and stole your money. F him. And stop playing cards with him.

 

[effowe]

I think it's crap that he told you he had to resolder, and that was why it would cost 150 bucks. If he didn't have to do that, you shouldn't have to pay that much, especially since he's a friend. What's with the contradiction in the post though? You say the universal didn't work when you were there, but it worked when you came back. Whats the deal?

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: honkee
Am i honestly wrong in this situtation?

wrong about what? him ripping you off? how could it be ok for him to rip you off

 

[MisterJackson]

You're leaving something out here. You did say you tried the universal and saw it didn't work, then you say the same adapter worked??

Regardless, $150 seems fair if you ask me, seeing as how another PC shop would have likely charged more or you could have always spent many hundreds more and been a position where you had to buy a new laptop.

The universal adapter alone is about $50 to $80 (even more in some cases) when you buy it local/retail. My priority service, to look at you THAT DAY, is $119 per hour. If you want to wait a few days in cue then it's $89 per hour. I imagine his rates aren't too far off from that.

Overall it sounds as if he helped you out. It's not his fault if MAYBE he found a simple fix after you left. Hell, even a bad battery can cause your issue, and taken out it will fix it.

Remember, you paid him for his time and knowledge, because you obviously didn't have it for this situation.

You could have always tried the troubleshooting yourself.

Hitting things in his store and shouting obscene things was out of line. I'd have called the cops on your immature ass. Hell, he could press charges if anyone else witnessed that and he felt so inclined.

 

[meltdown75]

that sucks dude. i am sorry to hear you thought he was a good buddy. his shenanigans seep into his friendships, i worry for his actual customers.

 

[honkee]

yeah it didnt work earlier, im assuming he didnt plug in the jack all the way the first way around.
It was one of these targus thingies, with like ten adapters with it

 

[honkee]

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: waggy
money has a way fo seperating real friends from fair weather ones.

Yeah, real friends fix your computer when you pay them, fair weather ones take your money and tell you they tried, but sorry, no luck. He sounds like a chum to me. You coulda gone to geeksquad and ended up in jail when they found all the illegal porn you had. Consider yourself lucky.

dont make assumptions, no porn was on there.You know people use computers for other shit than porn and whatever you do

 

[Ns1]

if he was a friend and it was that easy he would've done it for lunch or beer

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Remember, you paid him for his time and knowledge, because you obviously didn't have it for this situation.

Wrong. He paid him explicitly to resolder the AC jack.

Whether it truly is a bad battery or AC adapter, that is a completely different charge and repair order.

 

[Juddog]

It's possible that the AC adapter you had initially is what blew out and caused the port to get f'd up. If that's the case then soldering the connection would allow the universal adapter to work afterwards, but the initial AC adapter would still be fried.

If you saw him try the adapter before and it didn't work, then chances are that the port was not working. He also did the repair which was paid for. If you had gone elsewhere it probably would have cost you even more money; most shops like that want to replace the whole motherboard which costs more in parts and labor.

 

[Kadarin]

It sounds like your assumptions were flawed: You assumed he was "a good buddy", whereas to him you were "a customer".

 

[jjones]

He's no friend. If he was he would have just charged you for a new adapter.

Your mistake. Live and learn.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: waggy
money has a way fo seperating real friends from fair weather ones.

Yeah, real friends fix your computer when you pay them, fair weather ones take your money and tell you they tried, but sorry, no luck. He sounds like a chum to me. You coulda gone to geeksquad and ended up in jail when they found all the illegal porn you had. Consider yourself lucky.

WTF? what porn? don't make assumptions.


anyway you are wrong. Real friends fix the computer for beer, fair weather ones charge you and fake ones tell you it cost more then it does.

 

[pstylesss]

Any guy with a conscious wouldn't do that to anyone. Hell, I feel bad charging my lowest rate to my co-workers when it's an easy fix. He isn't your friend. I would look into filing a BBB complaint against him.