It hit me after I was cruising eBay for a broken 360 to give to my cousin (he fixes them, RROD or DVD etc and sells it on), why do people pay such ridiculous prices to people like TheTechGuys at PC World, to do such ridiculously easy tasks.
It reminds me of when I was about 10, and I got a Packard Bell for my birthday. I was really amused. But one day, the onboard graphics adapter fucked itself, and so my mum took it to PC World.
They said it would cost £100 for the new graphics card, and another £60 to fit it.
My mum cruised around and found the same graphics card for 2/3rds the price, bought it, and brought it all home.
Since it was late, and she had a headache, she went to nap.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I scrambled over to the boxes and had a look at the graphics card.
I distinctly remember yahoo searching how to fit a graphics card, and not 15 minutes later, I had it fitted, and installed the drivers from the CD.
Since then I've built quite a few PC's and troubleshooted about 14 of my friends others.
If I could do this shit, and you could too, at the age of 10, where do PC world get off charging £60-- probably more now, to do the same thing?
So, here's what I plan to do.
I'll list my services on eBay, once a week, starting at £5. To build a PC from scratch, if you provide the parts, or I'll fit other pieces of hardware in for you. As long as you cover the cost of return delivery.
Potential y/n?