In my family we have a tendency to keep using half-broken devices and stuff for years, and never having anything fixed, because my father, the head of the family, insists that service centers and repairmen do not care about fixing your and will almost always return it in a worse state than it was.
Examples:
- A HP Deskjet 560C printer, purchased in ~1994, the paper feeder crapped out some years later, and he still uses it by manually feeding it each sheet of paper.
- A HP 530 notebook running Vista. The screen got weirdly shifted, like this image:
My mother has translated several books on this notebook since the screen crapped out. - Wall taps that have been dripping for decades.
- We cannot let our dogs roam our huge garden because the garden fences are full of holes.
- Holes in the wall where there was a burst pipe 10 years ago, because he took out some bricks, replaced the pipe, and called it a day.
Etc.
In your experience, are all service centers and repairmen mostly always doing a shitty job?