House of Horrors PC Repair Man (Cowboy Ripoff) Part 1 of 2
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- PC repair guy visits a home to repair a computer with a simple problem. He charges a fortune to fix this and also replaces good parts with inferior ones so he can profit. All this is caught on camera.
I hate Techs like that. I'm a computer repair tech and this video showing this dude ripping people off pisses me off. You have to love the work you do and hold on to that passion and always tell the truth to your clients no matter what.
This is why its good to know some one that knows PC repair,
Joshua Alvarez Yep its always good.....Im a Computing Teacher and I constantly help people. I find people like incredibly dishonest and they give everyone else a bad name!
Who needs plumber's crack when you have pc repairman's crack?
God... I could never do that to a customer it's shocking.
Sadly this kind of thing happens all the time.
I work in IT and I hate people like this, they give us all a bad name!
I'd have done this for a brew!
PC World Tech Guys Anyone...??? ;-)
Makes me want to go into PC repairs and do it properly
It's so surreal hearing some of the specs in 2021 and the prices too. I wonder what year this was actually made?
What a thief, knickin' all the good parts for himself and chargin stupid amounts for... NOTHING!!
Great vid!
AMW LAPTOP REPAIRS in bristol is thee fairest and most honest repair guy i know, He even describes faults to you in technical terms and lamens terms. gold dust
Bro we know your the AMW guy, so cut the bullshit.
Had an issue with my MacBook Pro, which resulted in figuring out how to solve it on UA-cam. Now I'm rambling through all of these other videos about computer ripoffs, and learning things like quid. Had no idea what that was.
The guy noticed it had an aftermarket card and wanted to yoink it, then buy a cheap low-end card, unless it had integrated graphics on the MB, he could always just turn it back in through the bios and not buy anything.
The public will contact the show to report scammers they have encountered. If the show gets enough of these complaints from the same person, they will try and catch him/her in the act.
I'm being doing PC repairs since 1995, never ever took a dime for a obvious problems such as push back the card(ram memory, graphics card or hard disk) into the slot. Never ever take a customer part and swap it with worst one, also never ever take somebody else's components. I am charging only for my time that i spend coming and detecting the problem and its not a big fee. if i detect the real problem on the spot then i am taking the machine with me into my repair shop. If i found that only take me to move back card, ram or cable back that's fine with me and i will go home happy that i did in on the spot. But that's just me.
anyone notice the guy how fast he went into the house lol, starting from the way he parked so he gets in quicker.
why the hell did you pimp your tower up for a cowboy to rob your bits 😂😂 mad guys!
To bait him into the scam.
I highly doubt they put the top of the range parts in , it was probably just nicer parts than your average Home pc to lure him in quicker
Steal half the memory :| Yeah, scamming is one, stealing is just worse.
its neen a fookin grueller foamy! ive been at my pals since tea time eating shepards pie & trying to fix my pc 😫😫😫
i agree that the HOH should have called the police, when this so-called tech returned to charge the customer. but the HOH had to give him the FULL opportunity to discover the actual problem before he charged her.
Get some boxers dude!!! You aren't a plumber are you? MAybe huh?
"nobody know"
LOL YES I DO
This also happens in America where computer owners get ripped off. It makes sense choosing someone who has plenty of experience and knowledge and knows what they are doing.
@MrRackmount my uncle wrote on his parts with ultra-violet pen and when he got it back the marks where all still there
I agree with what mrRackmount says except I dont see the point of a "burn in" test in a situation like this, as They are only usefull really if you want to adjust the cpu temp for overclocking so that errors are not produced and still maintain a stable enviroment, all the other tips are good sensible safe guards
Shame really most people don't even know enough about their PCs to be able to fix the basic faults.
I find it hard to believe that most drivers know to replace the engine oil or do a jump start when the ignition fails , but most computer users aren't even familiar with the functions of their BIOS along with its beep codes.
He'd probably take an 80 gig hard drive and replace it with a 40 gig.
You can tell that guy's a pro con-man.
And it bothers me that he's got a beamer. I want a beamer and I'm an honest bloke so I can't afford one just yet. But he gets what's coming to him in part 2/2
80gb lol
his shirt changed because he came back a few days later
I am actualy a computer technician as a full time job, i have to say; it makes me cringe when people are ripping people off... at the shop we would charge £10 for this, even then thats pushing it.
If the GPU was fucked, it wouldn't post. Simple!
When was this first shown on TV?
Stupid idea, the card could easliy partial insert itself into the connector and then FRY out.
to be fair, it's not possible to come to the conculision that the gfx car has been pulled out of the slot. When customer says computer just died I too would assume the bios has failed or ram has failed. Some mobos wont post without any ram.
I would not assume that the gfx has been pulled out because the gfx bracket and clip on fastener is designed so that it doesn't accidently come out once fitted. It stays in place unless someone opens the case and removes it. Obviously client does not give any indication they opened the case and meddled with it.
Surely one of the first things for anyone with some computer experience would be to open the case and check nothing has come lose for starters , then if it was still not booting would be to investigate it further
+MitchO Haines To be fair GPU's don't suddenly go (lose)
But you would certainly spot it after taking it away, surely? Also, inspecting the motherboard for "burst caps" is quite a common thing I hear people do. So he has lots of reasons to be looking closely.
Graphics cards used to be only held in with a screw and on some shitty cases the screw wouldn't line up.
He says it's a very high end pc, but it's not if the gpu is under £200.
Seems like a mediocre pc to start with.
I hope he gets prison time for it.
the programs at least 12 years old
@@MrGrenades123 Good point, should have realised it was that old by everything in the case. I just thought it was some shitty pc though.
@@colinjava8447 Well its a shitty pcs now hes robbed the bits from it
@Tron1999
I am not a PC repairman but I know what is required. To fix a PC, you need to first inspect it so all you need is your eyes, no tools are required. Often, the fault lies within the software rather than hardware so again, no tools required. It makes no sense to bring a toolbox without first inspecting the PC.
If hardware is to blame, new hardware needs to be purchased, no toolbox needed for that job, not until you get the new part, then you may need a screwdriver, that's about it!
@enzomaidana You're wrong, most of us aren't. When it comes to pricing, it can cost £60 for removing malware but you're forgetting that we have to make a living as well as pay for overheads and staff if we're running a shop. You'll find that trainee technicians like myself are generally more reasonable because a lot of us don't have our own place to pay for and we want to establish a customer base.
I used to like the House of Horrors programme. Jonathan Maitland was a good presenter i thought, he didn't act stupid or say stupid things, just said it all in a sensible way, completely different to Matt Allwright riding around on that motorbike on Rogue Traders
Is there any honest tradesmen left
What a criminal.... like all repairman , I really hope after this, he have zero costumers and have to close his business.
Yes Lee butler
He's charging a massive amount but then he's also taking the high performance parts out of this computer, so he could've made about 500 on it. I can't believe that he actually thought he'd get away with this, eventually he was always going to get caught. Car mechanics do this all the time... they offer the most lucrative solution rather then fixing the simple things first. But you have to be sensible. And not using a wrist-strap to protect against ESD, how criminal! lol
I'm not saying all his victims are hard working poorly paid Nurses, but honestly, I'd have done the job at cost price for them just because of the selfless service they provide. There's a reason they have the nickname "Angels".
The saddest part is, its actually very simple to build/update computers nowadays. with a little bit of basic knowledge and confidence its no more difficult than a lego set.I've only been at it for about 2 years and have already built three systems from scratch with no formal training. Arseholes like this baffle customers with tech talk. half of what he was saying was total bullshit. The chances of a graghics card frying through an electrical surge and taking a ram chip with it is very remote.
his shame as bestbuy
@MrRackmount
Well the top tip there is to make sure the guy returns the broken parts (and make sure these parts are actually yours)
omg...realistically any decent tech would have a diagnostic card to use when there is no picture....you plug it into a pci port and it gives you numerical codes that tell you about the motherboard, memory and graphics.
Basically nicking her stuff & replacing it for cheap shit ,unreal
Why finished like that not to confront the scum
that guy kinda looks like adam savage
@enzomaidana
No, we are not scum or cheats, watch what you are saying, this is not polite. And one screwdriver and USB stick IS all a good PC repairman needs. If you want, you can have a power supply tester with you as well.In my 15 years of practice I never had a problem with cables and with a right screwdriver you can check the cables as well, or carry a spare power cable with you in a car.
Think that's a house of horrors - watch My Money Pit, parts 1-3.
Did anyone notice that his shirt kept on changing colour?
its the white balance from the cameras
TV's Al Bickham!
£328!! bloody hell! what a joke!
he should be put in jail!
wow this shows the age
1997 I started....robbing people blind!
lol!!!
Should have been called Mouse of horrors Get it blahahaha
lol *rolls eyes* how old are you? 7?
worzel gummidge you have nice eyes and straight teeth
I'd have sorted that out for her if she let me have just a quick feel.
you are fucking disgusting.
£200 quids worth of parts he stole? Hows that a high performance machine? My graphics card alone cost me £350.
mellodge k
Have you ever heard of inflation? This show is 15 years old.
This is fake and it's sad the crap they fake just to entertain people. I thought it might be fake when I saw the plumber crack, but then when I charged $350 dollars I knew it was fake. if someone was trying to get away with something illegal they would not risk such a stupid price! For $350 any customer would have said no thanks, that's more than I paid for the computer, I'll buy a new one.
he doesnt even take any tools, at least a screwdriver lol, all of a sudden he has a shoulder bag when he is leaving? hmmmmmm guess the whole video isnt played
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pc repairman who drives a brand-new bmw 7 series limousine isn’t that the biggest giveaway
See Ram Car Sales (Bham ) for more Rogue Traders !
You have to charge at least a £50 call out charge for your time , for any repair,job or you would you would be wasting your time and would not make any money, as for this simple fix , but £350 is a rip off ..
7.21 he's two different shirts on
Damien Mannion 7:21 see what I did there !
I wander what the gpu was because they ended up with a AMD HD 3300? Something like that
Cowboy thief
How in hell he managed to "loosen" gpu? It's hold in place with screws on pcb and on case.
i guess if someone who didn't know much about pcs didn't screw it in all the way and moved their computer around it might come lose.
It's a seperate card that's how it's loosened not on board graphics
How come around 8.25 when he brings the computer back, he has a different shirt on in each of the camera shots ? first he has a dark blue top on, then he has a light blue top on....then as hes heading to his car he has the dark top on again.........??? STRANGE !!!
different cameras/lighting/calibration.
whats the show called?
House of horrors....
£328 lool buy a new pc lol wtf!
lol, they should now better
Ok all this don't make sense, how do you know that the graphics card was working since it was last pulled out? you guys could quite easily have damaged it!
Tyrone Nelson Are you serious..? He took the parts for himself, left her with cheaper parts and THEN charged her £328 for nothing!
You're not seriously suggesting that what he did was in any way fair, surely... Even if the GPU had been damaged in some way, the parts he replaced them with aren't worth £328 combined... He ripped her off big time...
ArchGirl i'm not suggesting what he did was fair but what i'm saying is this situation could have been dealt with in a more professional manner, but then again it is hard to get hold of a half decent IT engineer these days.
Tyrone Nelson A more professional manner would've been him doing his job correctly and just pushing the GPU back in place when he surely spotted it. Professional would've been doing real testing instead of telling the woman a false story in order to take the computer away so he could wantonly steal parts and replace them with cheaper, inferior ones for no reason other than greed.
This is fake and it's sad the crap they fake just to entertain people. I thought it might be fake when I saw the plumber crack, but then when I charged $350 dollars I knew it was fake. if someone was trying to get away with something illegal they would not risk such a stupid price! For $350 any customer would have said no thanks, that's more than I paid for the computer, I'll buy a new one.