Was that $48 plus mileage for the on site mobile repairs, and did that include a second $48 for returning to install the parts. Or did you have to pay vehicle maintenance and gas out of that $48.
No. This was not mobile or on-site at all.
They contacted me at least three times but I think the following two I simply turn them down so I didn't get there sales.
The one that I have is probably from the first contact and was only about carr in handheld items such as strain trimmers, blowers, chainsaws.
I assume they were going to have the customer drop them off to me as an authorized service center but it's possible they would have brought them to me also since they had various resources to do that when the store was still open up the.
It would have been simple for me to pick them up too because it's about 1.5 straight up the road from me but still that would have been time that I would not have been willing to do.
So no, there were no other expenses coming out of that.
That's why I first mentioned it wasn't a terrible deal especially for someone who might be doing it as a hobby etc because they would be clearing $48 on each item they fixed.
You could be nitpicky about it and claim that you are going to have some expense in paper towels, shop towels carb cleaner spray etc or even you know the wear and tear on your screwdrivers and hammers etc.
But that's really quite insignificant so basically you would be clearing $48 on each one.
It probably could have been negotiated a few dollars higher but there was no reason to mess with it for me as I have an entire line and waiting list of customers.
I also don't personally like doing those items while some people who like to tinker do like them or even prefer them.
I look at things strategically and cost-effectively and I have found that even in the most efficient and smartest of text hands, these items are more time consuming to get to the desired effect than other items especially push mowers and items with the similar three and a half to 7.25 horsepower engines on them.
The time involved, almost always is less on a push mower let's say for a no start or even an annual service than it is to get one of these handheld items running or fixed AND then there's the fact that it's common and even expected for the repair Bill to be higher for a mower since it's a larger, more expensive, more complicated piece of equipment.
I find the smaller handheld ones like that to be a lose-lose situation compared to the others.
I'm probably not alone in this and that's why they have become quite disposable.
Unless you have a steel, echo, red max, shindaiwa, for a couple of other high-end basically commercial grade ones of these, you're better off in the end and your wallet is Fuller to simply clean it up nicely and sell it for parts or repair on marketplace and take the first 25 to 35 bucks you get for it and put that towards the price of a new one.
This way you will have a brand new piece of machinery that operates properly at least for now, or you return it, and you'll have more money in your pocket than getting the old one repaired.