Question Replacing a battery and O-ring in computer

[dmaziuk]

For sure, they are a bit harder to replace than the battery in my Perdix, but $90 to change it seems like robbery. Even the "kit" that some of the DC manufacturers sell are a ripoff. A battery and o-ring for $20-$30, possibly more is ridiculous.

It's whatever they paid for the kit(*) plus the tech's hourly rate in 1 hour increments. You can do $10 if you are finding your staff in Home Despot's parking lot and paying them cash under the counter.

*) At $10 it's the battery and an o-ring from the same Home Despot where you find the tech -- not that there's anything wrong with that, it's where I get mine from, but it's certainly not the vendor "kit".

 

[Belzelbub]

It's whatever they paid for the kit(*) plus the tech's hourly rate in 1 hour increments. You can do $10 if you are finding your staff in Home Despot's parking lot and paying them cash under the counter.

*) At $10 it's the battery and an o-ring from the same Home Despot where you find the tech -- not that there's anything wrong with that, it's where I get mine from, but it's certainly not the vendor "kit".

Yeah, I agree. I should have said $10 is a great price.

But to charge a full hourly rate for about 5 minutes of work is excessive.

 

[dmaziuk]

Yeah, I agree. I should have said $10 is a great price.

But to charge a full hourly rate for about 5 minutes of work is excessive.

Only if you do it all the time. If you have to google for battery type and o-ring size for that DC and then run out to the hardware store to fetch them, it could easily take hours plural.

Edit: and then you could claim to have pressure-tested it too.

 

[DanBMW]

Mods, please close this thread. Thanks.

 

[Jake 10]

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