Beware of paying for nothing

I called Appliance Repairs Johannesburg ( ********** ) for the price of replacing the main drum bearings on a LG 6kg direct drive washing machine. Mina said she could not give a budget price over the phone because the technician must come round to confirm that that is the problem. Mina also told me that its R 350.00 to troubleshoot the problem, but it is included in the price of the repairs, if I accept the quote. Elvis the technician arrives, I explain the problem, I rotate the drum to demonstrate the problem, he rotates the drum, and within a minute confirms my suspicions and quotes the repair at R 2 800.00, and suggests that the repair is not worth doing, considering the price of a new machine. This conclusion I would have reached myself without paying the R 350.00. The moral here is, deal with people that are not purely looking for ways to extract your money without delivering any service value. This is one business that won’t be seeing me again.