6 May
2010
6 May
'10
11:39 a.m.
On 5/6/10 1:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
For all we know, the $800 fee was for 5 minutes of
work with a
soldering iron.
That's fine by me. I suspect most of us have charged more for less,
and without flinching. We all burned a lot of midnight oil earning it.
I do, however, have to throw in my 2 cents about opening the drive.
It doesn't matter how obvious the obvious problem is, if I'm going to
charge more than $20 to recover your data, as far as I'm concerned I'm
obligated to not further jeopardize it. I'd BETTER open that sucker up.
I was actually shocked to read that the service under discussion
considers it optional.
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