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Old 03-17-2007, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Scanner View Post
It was $60 for the service call/diagnosis and then they applied credit towards the final repair.

So. . .I was in for $60.00 unless I just didn't want to diagnose it and just throw it out or sell it for scrap metal.
When our washer broke a few years ago, we had the service guy come out to diagnose it. Once we had committed the $60, we felt obligated to fix it and we did. When the dryer broke last year, we decided not to call for service so that we didn't get stuck that way again. We just figured the $60 we would have spent for the service call went toward the new dryer.

I wish the service calls weren't so darn expensive. It would have been nice to find out what the repair actually would have cost without committing the $60 upfront.
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