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From: bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: How to fry your //gs
Message-ID: <1990Apr7.064622.10824@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 90 06:46:22 GMT
References: <23777@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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In <23777@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) writes:

>The Apple //gs, when seasoned appropriately with fused plastic, can bring
>great joy to the pocketbooks of computer repair centers.
{ lots of editing}


>If anyone at Apple can explain why a ROM 01 motherboard rose in price by
>$100, I'd like to hear from them...  (only thing I can think of is that the
>trade-in was devalued).

Well, I'm not with Apple, but I find your message surprising, as I
understood that the cost of the replacement motherboards for the GS
had come DOWN somewhere between $70-90 in the past few months.. That's
dealer price that I refer to.. As far as labor goes, it you carried in
your defective board for an exchange, there should not be a labor charge.
However if you brought in the entire machine, and the dealer had to "pop"
the board out, then he did provide service, although not any good will.

On the other hand, if you had AppleCare or whatever the other insurance
from Safeware or others is called, then the motherboard exchange would
have either been free, or at worst cost you the $100 deductable depending
on which policy you had.. You cannot have your cake and eat it too I 
guess.. Either you buy some sort of insurance, or you self insure, in
which case YOU pay for the repairs with the money you saved by not getting
other insurance..

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