Apple Flat Rate - Mercado gives cold hard facts!

Paul Mercado was quoted as saying,

"About the flat-rate repaire thing. I took my laptop to the Apple Store (after having made an appointment at the Genius Bar) and the folks there inspected it. They determined that it was definitely #@$ up and that the damage was not 'accidental'. Since my laptop was out-of-warranty they told me that they could ship it out to Apple Repair Land and that the folks over there would repair whatever was wrong with it for a 280 of the dollars. From what they told me, the Apple Repair people would fix ALL of the things that are wrong with it; meaning, they would fix the motherboard and the screen cable and any other busted doodads. Sounded like a good deal so I agreed and they boxed up the computer and shipped it out. It came back about 3 days later."