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Louis Rossmann’s rants, tips, and ideas on the laptop repair industry.
Who's the dick?

Customer service at Rossmann Repair.

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Invest in yourself. It worked for me.

If you want to become successful, put the work in. If it worked for me, it can work for anyone.      

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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - right in front of my store!

When having the sign made, I didn't take into consideration that by June leaves would grow on this tree. Check it out. Invisible. 🙁 Can you find us? Make it in and I'll give you a free screen protector, just for your skills. If you ask nicely... we may actually fix your computer. If you […]

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Thanks Dad - for not getting me the knockoff screen on my birthday.

A few months ago, this guy comes in for a screen replacement. He left the first Yelp! Tip of our business in April of this year. I tell him the price, and get this look – this terrible look like “WOW, OMG, RIPOFF!!” when we were about $5 less than anyone else in the area […]

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For you? Of course not for you!!

About a week and a half ago a customer walks in with a broken laptop. Right after she gets the price of the service, she asks to come in and sit down next to me while I work. Starts talking in a breathy voice. I forget if the charge was $150 or $170. Let' say […]

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Why don't consumers trust us? We lie when we can get away with it... yeah, that's probably it.

A kind young woman walked in with a dead laptop. It won't turn on. In the end, it has a problem we're all too familiar with – nothing but a bad keyboard. She tells me Apple told her around $800 – mistake #1. She also makes mention that her parents are going to pay for […]

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San Francisco loses to cellphone industry - who cares?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/us-usa-sanfrancisco-cellphones-idUSBRE9470I720130508?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&ca=moto Does this really matter? No. Scientific research has barely given any credence to the idea that cellphone radiation harms your health. There is a lot of debate around whether cellphone radiation harms  you, but no well recognized & accepted conclusion. Do you know where there is no debate? Cigarettes. A large majority of Americans […]

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The $20 dilemma.

Professional labor costs money, to the detriment of the occasional client. A service we offer. We charge $130 for a 500 GB hard drive installed into a Macbook Pro, with an operating system installed. This price includes  500 GB drive Part installation Installation of a functional operating system Same day service This amounts to approximately […]

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You got accused of putting a broken X into someone's device.. what now?

This video series was a four part series. I'm so happy with part 4 that I'm posting it in its own blog entry.

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