Ripped off

[malandri]

Hello all,

Just came back from a computer shop where I had my old laptop's hard disk replaced. I paid £79 pounds for the disk and £15 for the work. £79 pounds for a 40GB hard disk (hitachi HTS424040M9AT00) did sound excessive, but I have lost contact with the market really as I haven't needed to buy a new laptop for 4-5 years.

Well, coming back in the office I was told by a colleague that this disk costs between 39 and 44 pounds online. I understand that I would pay more in a shop but I paid almost double... How thick of me!

Apart from being punished for being thick , any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks

[DimPrawn]

Forget about it.

It's only a few quid. Lifes too short.

I can buy six bottles of beer in ASDA for a fiver and yet if I go into a bar I pay £3 a bottle.

[Pondlife]

Forget about it.

It's only a few quid. Lifes too short.

I can buy six bottles of beer in ASDA for a fiver and yet if I go into a bar I pay £3 a bottle.

You're a contractor - Why are you shopping in Asda. They still have an isle marked 'foreign foods' that has pasta and rice in FFS.

[DimPrawn]

You're a contractor - Why are you shopping in Asda. They still have an isle marked 'foreign foods' that has pasta and rice in FFS.

I don't shop at ASDA but I do hear poor permies talking about how they survive on just a few K a month.

[wc2]

Hello all,

Just came back from a computer shop where I had my old laptop's hard disk replaced. I paid £79 pounds for the disk and £15 for the work. £79 pounds for a 40GB hard disk (hitachi HTS424040M9AT00) did sound excessive, but I have lost contact with the market really as I haven't needed to buy a new laptop for 4-5 years.

Well, coming back in the office I was told by a colleague that this disk costs between 39 and 44 pounds online. I understand that I would pay more in a shop but I paid almost double... How thick of me!

Apart from being punished for being thick , any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks

Online Price
Disk £44
Delivery £10
Calls to Customer Support when it turns up fecked £10
Return postage £10
Your time Fitting HDD 10mins @ Contractor Rate £10ish
Your time Reloading O/S 90mins @ Contractors Rate £90ish

Total Cost £174

You Paid less than 1/2 of that - Were you ripped off?

[xoggoth]

Not that unreasonable for the labour. Desktops are easy, you can replace a disk in under 10 minutes, but have you ever tried replacing a disk in a laptop?? Must be 3.8 million x 10^96 screws and they are all different sizes.

[malandri]

Not that unreasonable for the labour. Desktops are easy, you can replace a disk in under 10 minutes, but have you ever tried replacing a disk in a laptop?? Must be 3.8 million x 10^96 screws and they are all different sizes.

The labour was another 15 pounds. He didn't install any software, I am doing that. In total I paid 94. He did it in front of me, took him 20 min to manage to get to the disk. Indeed, laptops are hard to open

I think I should follow DimPrawns advice and forget about it. Had a bad day today, this and being for 2.5 hours in the M25 and M3 made it worse

[BoredBloke]

On my laptop it is 1 screw to to remove the drive and its bay from the case. Then it is a further 4 screws which fix the drive itself to the bay. So changing it would take literally minutes.