
A real-life story that happened yesterday:
My son's Sony Ericsson Satio phone was giving some problems after having gotten wet (fell in a pond for about 30 seconds). So, we have this new Sony service center in front of our home. I took the mobile phone to them yesterday. The technicians said they need to change the motherboard, and a few other things. They will need to bring in the MoBo from a bigger city because it were not available with them in our small town. They said the MoBo would alone cost around INR 3k, plus other charges...
I took the phone to a local repairs shop. They got it working and the cost was only INR 200!!!

When asked what they did to make it work, the guy told my son that he only cleaned all the internals...
Being a Sunday today, I will go tomorrow across my home and give the owner a earful. Also will publish the story in the local newspaper soon. People got to know how these top companies (SONY's name is there on the shop) scam their customers EVERYDAY.
I saw at least 2 other customers who were being told BS by their other 'trained' technicians... MoFUs those!!! I heard one customer was being told that his Xperia needs a MoBo change.
Adding:
My mobile wasn't even opened by Sony technician and he gave me that MoBo change B.S. My phone was working... only complaint was that if the phone was shut down, then it needed the charger to be plugged on to re-start the phone. We also thought that the battery was draining fast and needed a change. Else everything else was working perfectly even after the phone was in the drink and was only Sun-warmed by my son.
OP did nothing in comparison to such world-famous companies' routine scams.
Google:
"sony service center" complaints
I wish that the whole world spits on such companies and their "authorized service centers", because they rob their customers through such routine malpractices and expert BS advices as many times as they need to, to make money...
In advertisements: almost every advert is an example of every day cheating that goes on. Are those marketers any better?
In politics: the less said the better!
In offices: everyone who goes to those offline offices has a story to tell in this respect...
So what kind of a scam we are talking about?
