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Once a crappy computer place ripped me off bad:
My girlfriends laptop had an internet connectivity problem, so she takes it to a place that's owned by her neighbors. They take forever (a month) to fix it, and supposedly restore the files. They demand $600 (I thought this was outrageous, the computer didn't have all that much wrong with it)
She gets home and the laptop doesn't even turn on, in worse condition than when she gave it to them. She takes it back to the place, where they say they will do their best and they say they won't charge any more as a "favor" lol... so a month later they claim that there is nothing they can do to fix the computer, and they are sorry, but they will not issue a refund.
I immediately contact my bank and have the charges reversed... problem is my girlfriend is lazy as hell and never picked it up (she'd already bought a new one), so once they figured out they got a chargeback they decided not to even give the computer back.
After bullshitting with the crazy Indian owner of the place and listening to his childish threats of "defamation" I had my attorney send him nice demand letter telling him she'd incurred $10,000 worth of damages due to loss of use of the laptop, and we'd like to reach a settlement
In the end, I got to keep the $600 and they had to give my girlfriend a new laptop and the old one as well.
Checked the laptop out, and turns out the entire screen was broken (girlfriend just too oblivious to know this), those fuckers had obviously dropped or smashed the thing and just didnt want to take responsibility
So all this over $600 and a laptop.... but that's what it takes to make things right sometimes, it's the point of the thing.
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