Maybe get a message through saying you’ll sell/dispose of laptop if you don’t hear back by a specific date?
Sent from a mobile device! > On 27 May 2019, at 10:12, tim <zir...@xendistar.co.uk> wrote: > > > Morning all > > Hope you are enjoying the bank holiday weekend > > I have an issue and would like to get the thoughts of the group if I may > > A friend of the wife had a problem with her laptop, I was asked (via the > wife) if I would have a > look at it to which I said yes. Laptop was dropped off at our house and turns > out to be a > nondescript HP laptop with a failed hard disk. I also found a second problems > which (I believed at > the time) was a loose hinge. I said I would replace and hard disk with a SSD > and tighten the hinge > up, I said the cost would be what ever the cost of the SSD was which at the > time was £30-ish subject (240gb Kingston). > > Fitted the hard disk and reinstalled windows, that was easy enough, the loose > hinge turned out to be > the 3 captive nuts the hinge screwed into had broken off. After much thought > the only option was to > glue (with araldite) the hinge to the body of the laptop, this worked well. > > I had kept the woman upto date with what I had found with photo images which > my wife passed on via > Facebook messenger, even send her a video of the laptop booting up once it > was finished . This was > the end of March, apart from a message from her saying she was short of fund > could she pay over two > installments to which I said yes we have not heard from her. I am only asking > her to pay the cost > of the SSD which was £27 and a few pence. > > So what do I do, the laptop is worth nothing, I could find a home for the > SSD, how long do I wait? > anybody else been in this situation. > > regards > > Tim H > > -- > Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-06-04 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-06-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
