We’ve all run into the problem of what to do when good gadgets go bad. Sometimes we buy that perfect gadget, it does everything we expected and ten things more. We raive about it to all our friends, bragging about the great price, and great experience and great user interface and color.

And then the unexpected happens, the gadget goes bad.
We want to trumpet our displeasure, but our reputation is at stake. We’ve told too many people how good the gadget was.

Call support, call warranty, take it back. Sometimes these things return us a working gadget but sometimes it returns a REFURB! So we suck up our pride, and hide it in the side pocket of our cheek.

Then sometimes a service comes along that helps us redeem that favorite gadget. Back in 2002, I was writing my master’s thesis on International Taxation in Belize. I was also moving from Florida to Georgia that year, and my primary computer was 700 miles away. So I went to Costco and bought a $900 Compaq Presario 700 laptop. It was cheap(at the time) worked great, very fast, and got the job done. I finished my Master’s and the laptop survived. It wouldn’t die. I bragged about it. “Yeah, who would have thought that I’d get soo much mileage out of a cheap laptop . . .”

But several months ago, my good gadget started to go bad. It wouldn’t hold a charge. I bought a new battery, and it helped for a short time, but I noticed that the laptop would crash with a sudden sparky pop and instantly shut down. I had a very hard time keeping the power cord plugged in so that the laptop would charge or run for that matter.

Now I’ve recently learned about a company that specializes in “laptop power jack repair.” They do other services as well, but they devote one area of their business to just this function. (http://www.absoluteraleigh.com/power_jack_repair.html)

So I’m going to give them a try and see if I can earn bragging rights on my 4 year old Presario back again.

If you’ve got a gadget gone bad and found a way to redeem it chime in and lets hear your story too. Maybe its an old Newton or a laptop or analog cell phone or that MP3 player that won’t quit and just needs a driver. Let’s hear about your favorite gadget and if you want to post anonymously to protect your ego, your more than welcome!

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