where to get laptop LCD displays fixed??

[THELAIR]

My 31 day old (1 day past warranty) dell laptop fell and has a crack on the screen.

Not covered under warranty. Dell.ca wants over a thousand dollars to fix it, i paid 1,700 It is an inspiron 4100

someone please tell me that there is a cheaper alternative.

If i have to pay 1,000+ to fix this damn screen i might as well throw it in a trash bin and buy a new one for 1,200
The laptop works fine cept for the obvious line going through the screen. I would settle to just have a external monitor plugged into it, but i need to be mobile.


any suggestions?

 

[Gunbuster]

If it's one of the huge 15 inch screens I doubt you could find even a used/refurb part for less than $500


Try ebay

 

[Derango]

One day past warranty??

Oh you muse have got a refurb or somthing. Thats why I always buy new

 

[hans007]

of course its not under warranty. even you have gotten one with a normal 1 year warranty that wouldnt have been covered. physical damage never is . you are basically screwed. try ebay you might be able to get a new one under $500 there.

 

[medic]

I would start to get a phone list of every comp. shop in your town and close to town that repairs LCD's and Notebooks. Try TV shops as well as sometimes they also do LCD's, then start calling all of them and get the best price possible for a new LCD, but stress that you will take a used one as well.
Had a friend freeze his 14" IBM and after a week of calling around found a shop with a compatible 14" that had a couple unnoticeable dead pixels in a corner...total cost with install, $300.00

 

[bacillus]

does your house insurance include accidental damage cover?
your laptop may qualify!

 

[dkozloski]

Using homeowners insurance to repair a laptop is a bad plan. Your rates will skyrocket. The insurance company will have their money back faster than you can say Jack Robinson.

 

[amdskip]

May be just easier to part it out and get a new one.

 

[apoppin]

31 days? . . . awesome luck!

Did you buy it from Dell? Did you use a pemium credit card? If so, you may have a free extended warranty through your credit card provider. It's worth checking.

But give us some details on this 31-day-warranty-'thing'.

 

[THELAIR]

yah the home owners insurance is under my fathers name, and i dont want to put a claim in that way.

What really bugs me, is that this laptop FELL ON CARPET... but it must have just been at the right angle to go through the carpeting and hit somthing hard to make this stupid line pop up... really annoying. I know this isnt a panasonic tough book, but im sorta pissed, both at myself and the fragileness of these things.

Im thinking right now, that i might just throw a larger hard drive in this laptop, and then plug in an external keyboard/mouse and make this my "Desktop", with external monitor as I was going to buy a new one, and the money i had saved up for the high end desktop, will go towards a new laptop that has extra warranty coverage heh.

i'm gonna keep checkin ebay though, see if somthing doesnt pop up.

thanks for the suggestions guys

 

[Gunbuster]

So is it cracked or just a bad line of pixels?

 

[Comp625]

Maybe you could sell the laptop on E-bay. Someone will surely buy it even with the broken screen. That way you'll at least be able to redeem some of that money that you lost from buying the now-defunct laptop.