Funny how hustling someone tries to comeback and bite you in the a$$. My central air went out last night at around 7pm. I went out and pulled a cover off the outside unit. I found the motor capacitor to be bad. Problem was all the parts places were closed at that hour.
My wife saw me outside and started screaming at me to call an A/C repair guy to fix it. “What do you want to do, have another heart attack?” she asked.
Anyway I call a a/c repair company up to shut her up. I figure it can’t cost me more the $150 for the guy to replace the capacitor. The guy comes. He was someone I hustled for a few $100 over 10 years ago at a bar in Tampa. I make believe I don’t recognize him and he made believe he didn‘t remember me, but I saw his eyes get real wide when let him in the house.. He checks around for a few minutes and tells me I need a new motor, a capacitor, Freon, and a coil cleaning to the tune of $900+. I calmly asked him to write out the estimate and I would show it to my wife in her home office to talk it over real quick.
I called his company from her office and told them I was a retired A/C man (a lie) and knew it only needed a capacitor and that his company would be on channel 10 tonight for trying to rip-off the elderly. Long story shorter, the owner said he would fix it free of charge with no service charge. I told him to call his man and tell him to get the hell out of my house…which he did fast.
I went down to the parts place, bought a new capacitor for $11.02 with tax and put it in in 10 minutes. Cools like a dream. I hate a poor sports. Johnnyt
My wife saw me outside and started screaming at me to call an A/C repair guy to fix it. “What do you want to do, have another heart attack?” she asked.
Anyway I call a a/c repair company up to shut her up. I figure it can’t cost me more the $150 for the guy to replace the capacitor. The guy comes. He was someone I hustled for a few $100 over 10 years ago at a bar in Tampa. I make believe I don’t recognize him and he made believe he didn‘t remember me, but I saw his eyes get real wide when let him in the house.. He checks around for a few minutes and tells me I need a new motor, a capacitor, Freon, and a coil cleaning to the tune of $900+. I calmly asked him to write out the estimate and I would show it to my wife in her home office to talk it over real quick.
I called his company from her office and told them I was a retired A/C man (a lie) and knew it only needed a capacitor and that his company would be on channel 10 tonight for trying to rip-off the elderly. Long story shorter, the owner said he would fix it free of charge with no service charge. I told him to call his man and tell him to get the hell out of my house…which he did fast.
I went down to the parts place, bought a new capacitor for $11.02 with tax and put it in in 10 minutes. Cools like a dream. I hate a poor sports. Johnnyt
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