<rant>Repaired a computer a few days ago having problems with an Iwill board. Traced the problem down to a psu incompatibility, and returned the system to the customer informing him he needed to get a new PSU, I suggested a 550w enermax as he has 4 hard drives, 2cd, 1, floppy, 5 pci card, 1 agp card, and about 5 fans. When I had the system up with a borrowed 150w of mine, I set up his 2x new maxtor drives in RAID for him. Anyway, he bought another PSU and it didn't work so he took it back to the shop where he bought it along with the system. The guy who looked at the system then told him that I hadn't set up the RAID array properly and that was causing the system not to boot. He then charged the guy £45 to "fix" the problem, when all he really did was change the power supply. Next thing I know I have the customer on the phone demanding a refund of the money he paid me. Obviously I told him where to get off, but I thought that was very bad of a shop to blatantly rip someone off like that.</rant>
Whats worse is when people expect you to spend 1/2 a day on a pc and expect to buy you of with a cheap bottle of scotch (tight arse buggers). Or the uncle that offers you feck all after you set up his printer, scanner, modem and put in a new mobo+cpu+ram, but you have to do it to shut him and the rest of your family up (total wasted hours = 30 approx). Then to cap it off someone at work your've never met brings in a pc/printer etc expecting you to fix it because some useless w***** on the helpdesk said that you will have a look at it. Oh dear I must have missed the rants thread
