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Ralph Mowery

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LID says...

Look at at this way: you made the $100 service call and replaced the $2 part.
(Just throwing out numbers here, so please don't hold me to them). Discard
the bad part so nobody will try to resurrect it, ultimately resulting in
another $100 service call.

If customer wants a spare, sell him a new one, $2 plus an (ahem) appropriate markup.

Or let him buy one on eBay.

I got ripped off big time on the heat pump.

Service call was $ 100 just to come out. Fair enough.
Replaced a capacitor that shoud have been a fair pricce of $ 50 due to
markup. However their standard rate ws about $ 300.

I later bought a capacitor and relay just to have off ebay for less than
$ 20 each including shipping.

Two years later the capacitor went out again, so put in my $ 20
capacitor and ordered another off ebay.

If it is a part that may be ok, I may save it for an emergency,but
usually just chunk the old part if it is not very expensive.