and I could either fix it myself or know someone who would do it for me, I would fix it.
If you have to depend on the yellow pages for repairmen, forget it. Buy a new one from a place that guarantees next day delivery.
Appliance repair is a rip-off nearly all the time. They quote you an estimate price and claim it applies to the repair if done. Then they charge your eyeballs out for the first hour and add it on to the initial price. Good racket. I often thought about getting into it, myself.
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