{"id":97,"date":"2008-04-03T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-08-22T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T16:04:46","slug":"why-haul-your-computer-to-a-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/why-haul-your-computer-to-a-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Why haul your computer to a shop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One reason I started an ON-SITE computer service business 5 years ago is because being one-on-one with customers allows me to ask questions about the computer and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>I just came across this investigative report that shows how taking your computer to a shop where the person checking-in the computer doesn&#8217;t ask detailed questions and is not likely the person doing the repairs, which can lead to mis-diagnosis and unnecessary repair bills.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nmNrm9vHBHs&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nmNrm9vHBHs&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason I started an ON-SITE computer service business 5 years ago is because being one-on-one with customers allows me to ask questions about the computer and vice versa. I just came across this investigative report that shows how taking your computer to a shop where the person checking-in the computer doesn&#8217;t ask detailed questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}