Is small electronic repair a dead end field?
in this millennium we just prefer to replace the entire thing for 10x the cost
There's still some money in it, but the days of charging someone $300 for a capacitor are mostly over. Really only works if you have a retail store and can get shit in and out in a timely manner. It's only gonna get harder with serialized parts in the case of laptops, no schematics, and unlabeled components.
>>107894404The problem is that your clients are all cheapskates who would rather repair something broken rather than spend on something new and shiny,
>>107894404No. It's fun
>>107894526why is that a problem?
>>107894404No, but you need skills to do it.
get into gpu repair. you can make thousands of dollars an hour if you are lucky. most problems require resoldering ram, reflashing vbios, or in worst cases reflowing the core.
>>107894404I wouldn't have a job if it was. I work in a electronics repair shop. Constant steady flow of customers everyday, every week, every month. Phones, headphones, tablets, home electronics, smart watches, wireless speakers etc. But my country is also very keen on being environmentally friendly and even the government recommends reparing and reusing old stuff over buying new.
Everyone has been getting noticeably poorer in recent times, but it's a decades-long trend. That bodes well for repair.
>>107894404as a business? probably, unless you specialize in industrial electronics and can somehow jew your way into avoiding legal liability. as a hobby? probably not. i just bought a broken welder for $150 on jewbook, fixed it, and i'm trying to resell it for $600.
>>107894404I see it everywhere in SEA.Short chubby little Asian man with a mall kiosk resoldering laptop PSU connectors with a decent looking girl taking in the items and charging for his work. I paid about $40 US to have a laptop VRM replaced. It works wherever labor is cheaper than the price of a replacement. Looking at Vloggers like Northwest repair, northbridge fix, and that Italian mullato Jew manlet, they really seem to hate it, they are always angry, but it pays their bills.
>>107894741>why is that a problem?They also won't want to pay you a fair price to fix their broken shit.
i refurb film cameras that i buy on ebay. you pay like $25-$30 and resell for about $80-$120. i do about 2 a day, sell about 40 a month.like 95% of the time they need a squirt of lube on the linkages and corroded battery contacts cleaned. easy fucking money. easy easy. it's the autistic niches you gotta focus on anon. don't worry about what others are doing. you'll nickel and dime yourself trying to fix nintendo switches for $30.
>>107894404Quite the contrary. Once the "you vill own nothing and be happy" thing's kicked into high gear, a portion of the population will be left scraping for the old stuff (then likely no longer operational) and that's when we come in to save the day.
>>107894903that guy in your thumbnail bought a house from repairing shit
>>107894741You never want to bill people who are trying to save money. Better to bill people who are happy to spend it.
>>107895110he made money from content creation, not repairing things
>>107895142he's less than 500k subs on youtube. you dont make money with that low sub count. pewdiepie leaked the data by saying you need to be at least 10 million.
>>107895167He's not making money from yt ads, he's making money from sponsorships and all the money that gets directed to his business because of his following. I've seen people in some niches make six figures a year with only about 20-30k subs. It can't be only from yt ads but if it funnels money to you in other ways then it absolutely can be a great living.
>>107895167You are so wrong.I listen to a few sub-200k YouTubers who are living off the ads and sponsorships.
>>107894404Not yet, but chips are moving to proprietary versions and/or serialization. It'll get to a point you can't repair anything, that's the peak greed we're heading for.
