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[โ€“] zero_iq@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While a 3 year service contract was clearly overkill, your estimate of 1 hour is ridiculously tiny. Nothing of any worth can be audited with a 1 hour phone call.

[โ€“] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not true at all.

It's just a bad idea. You need to have a minimum contracted price.

There's plenty of "$0.10 for the screw $1m for knowing that's the solution" stories.

[โ€“] bjorney@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

In this case, by "audit" it was more of a metaphorical "here is our setup, do we plug this into slot A or B, we don't want to read the 300 page manual", so 1 hour was literally all it needed

Spoiler: I ended up reading the 300 page manual, it took a week. That was 3 years ago and we have never touched it since