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Posted by krw on October 10, 2006, 7:40 am
paul_d_demott@yahoo.com says...
> I had a bad experience with general electric service company. My
> dryer stopped working while I was away and I told my wife just to call
> someone. A repair man came and determined that I had blown a fuse to
> the dryer. He charged $30.00 for the call (I have no problem with this
> part of the charge) and $60.00 more for the labor. It seems absurdly
> overpriced to me to charge $60.00 just stick a multimeter into an
> electrical outlet. He did not diagnose the fuse circuit to the dryer
> or replace the fuse.
$30 for the drive over (pretty low) and a one hour minimum seem to
be fairly standard.
> I would not call any of the major repair companies. I would try
> to diagnose and/or fix the problem first myself. If I could not fix
> it, I probably would just replace the appliance. It seems to me that
> even a minor repair would cost over $100.00 for most items. If an
> appliance is over 6 or 7 years old as mine are, I would rather just
> replace it than spend 25% to 40% or its replacement costs to repair it.
I agree here. Most of the time they're just about at the end of
their useful life when they first fail anyway. I had a drier eat a
belt recently. I ordered the parts over the Internet and had it
working the next weekend for $15 or so. If I failed at the repair
attempt (never done it before) I would have just bought a new
drier. Same with the dishwasher. I didn't even attempt to repair
it. We were putting in a new floor and didn't want it to leak
again.
--
Keith
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