Customer falls on computer and wants warranty

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A customer came in with a computer that was crushed. The customer fell down with the computer in his hands and he landed on the computer. We just rebuilt the computer 2 weeks before. He requested that we look at it and see what we could do. So we check it in and diagnose the computer. The case is destroyed and the motherboard is damaged. The customer is expecting warranty repair on the system because he told me as much. I told him that we would look at the computer and see what the problems are. He is a very good customer that we have been doing business with for along time. My choices are call him and tell him all of the problems with the pc and make him pay for everything and lose him as a customer or take care of the motherboard under warranty and charge him for the labor and the case and keep him as a customer. I will be going with option 2, but what would you do? Better to break even on it and keep him as a customer than to lose any future business.

Customer Hardware versus Software Problems

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We had a customer come in with a computer about 2 weeks ago for viruses and spyware. We eradicated the problems and gave the customer their computer back. The customer calls two weeks later and says that their computer won’t boot up. We tell them to bring it in at no charge. We diagnose the system and find out that the main board in the system is bad and needs to be replaced. The customer loses their minds and says that we should have tested that when we had it in two weeks ago. The customer also says that they hadn’t used the computer since they picked it up, but then they countradicted themselves and say that some of the software work that was requested wasn’t done correctly. So which is it? We try to explain that hardware is different than software. We worked on software before and now they have a hardware problem. We removed viruses and spyware and now their mainboard has a problem. Sometimes you just can’t get information across to people. What do you think?

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