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That customer who swore their TV was haunted and it was just a bad HDMI cable
Had this lady bring in a 55 inch Samsung last year with a straight face telling me her TV was possessed. Said it would flicker and show static faces at night only. I asked when it started and she said right after her nephew 'plugged in some game thing.' Took me about 2 minutes to unplug the HDMI cable from her Xbox and boom, picture was perfect. She didn't believe me at first, kept insisting I needed to bless it with holy water or something. Charged her $40 for a diagnostic fee and she actually paid it and thanked me. Ever had someone argue with you that the easy fix wasn't the real problem?
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jordanr894mo ago
Read somewhere that something like 30% of "broken" electronics people return just have loose cables or bad connections. People see weird flickering patterns and immediately jump to ghosts or demons instead of checking the $2 cord. Always gets me how the simplest explanation gets ignored first.
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rowangonzalez4mo ago
I mean, sometimes the weird stuff really is just a bad cable, but not always.
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