This entire website - minus, oh say..... I dont know, 400 some odd cruddy old posts - have moved to a more
professional, better quality, and most importantly, snazzier site!

Yes, you're right, the new site features my past greatest posts, without the awful ones, and all new
ones to come!

Come visit or I'll throw you into a vortex of lava for still being on this old site!
**The link actually works now. Enjoy!


Thursday, January 6, 2011

How 15 bucks helped me save 400 on a new laptop, spoken from an ex-busted laptop!

A while back, I posted a blog post from the same laptop, suffering water damage: http://jcoinster.blogspot.com/2010/10/9ott-9ob5v3e-3ey9o4r-0p4r9o3en6m.html

Finally, I can say that this laptop is fixed and working just as it did before, only with about an hour less battery life...

To recap the story and update it:

Someone used I a bit too much water while cleaning her laptop.
The first thing I did was make sure only the keyboard was damaged and then called the manufacturer.
Upon calling, the support, the man told me it would be about 50-70 dollars for a new keyboard.
Upon me calling that crazy, I hung up.

So I went to Amazon and searched the replacement number on the back. Low and behold, it came up for 15 bucks.
I ordered it, got it in the mail and when I opened it did not find the right keyboard, my luck.
A quick email and a few days later, a resend and retrieval, the right one arrived.

Today, here I stand knowing I saved someone 400 dollars and my reward: Brutally crushing the old keyboard

1 comment:

  1. I am the "she" mentioned in this story, and I am so grateful to be typing this out without using the virtual keyboard I suffered with. Thanks JCoinster!

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