Cost to fix my laptop

Crashtogether

Just been quoted £50 from somebody who has fixed my laptop. He took 3 hours and did it in a night (i.e good service), got rid of a virus and downloaded and installed free anti-virus from the internet.

Is this a resonable price? i know nothing about computers so I don't want to feel ripped off.

Thanks for any advice.

enigma52

very reasonable.

totalsolutions

Too late now, but seems ok to me. Done a few for free ;( Cash would be nice. It does take a lot of time and mostly just waiting for something to run/install or download.

edison1457

yeah this will not take much time for the people who know basic knowledge. It is ok that he helped you urgently.

motorguy

totalsolutions wrote: »

Too late now, but seems ok to me. Done a few for free ;( Cash would be nice. It does take a lot of time and mostly just waiting for something to run/install or download.

Presumably you're not actually running a business though

totalsolutions

Spot on - correct.

ExiledWool

Sounds fair to me - but is basic stuff and really something everyone should know how to do.

CHR15

If I charged £50 for doing that I would be a rich man.

If I was doing something like that for a stranger, I would ask for a tenner at most.

It does take around 3hrs but tbh, most of that is sitting around whilst it does it's thing, maybe half hour digging through the registry.

£50 I would expect that to be shop prices, not mates rates.

Crashtogether

£10? really? i don't know what to make as an alternative offer.

enigma52

you may want to think about who will do repairs for you next time before you quibble over the cost, just my opinion.

Crashtogether

he said that he would fix it for free if anything happens to it in the next month.