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UPS - Your Computer Repair Depot?

Posted by timothy on from the contrary-incentives dept.

dcsmith writes "UPS and Toshiba are entering into an agreement to have UPS provide warranty service on Toshiba laptops. Might not be as weird as it sounds -- they claim that the bulk of the effort in a computer repair is moving the computer and the necessary parts together. The actual repair itself is often trivial. I'm not sure I'm onboard 100%, but if its a faulty display or a bad CD drive, this might actually work ..."

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  1. I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINUX!

    1. Re:I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I got a greased up Nick Berg head shoved up his decapitated body's ass!

    2. Re:I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I GOT a BIG bucket OF AIDS shoved up my ass SIDEWAYS!

    3. Re:I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good dai govna! I got me thumb stuck in me bum!

  2. If only UPS... by theJerk242 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    paid for damages that were caused to your computer during shipping, even if it is not a Toshiba laptop.

    --
    Red Bull gave me wings and I flew into the ceiling fan.
  3. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but does it run Linux?

  4. Slow by siege04 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    UPS is the slowest way to ship anything. Everything I've ever ordered online that has been shipped via UPS has taken over a week to get here, not counting weekends since they don't even work on weekends. Fedex and the US Postal Service are much faster.

  5. Re:Just becareful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut up, you careless troll.

  6. Re:Who services for other companies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, you stole my joke. That's always my first response when anyone asks "where does _____ come from?"