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[5]Last week while enjoying dinner at a friends house, I noticed a $900 Bose stereo/dvd player sitting in the corner unplugged. This fantastic feat of audio engineering was now useless because the dvd drive would not close and made a terrible noise. My friend, Bill, had checked with Bose about sending it off for repair. They had offered to upgrade his stereo at a modest discount which still involed him paying hundreds of dollars. 
[6]Being one who like to tinker with things I offered to take a shot at repairing it. Amazingly, Bill agreed to let me have a try! Over the weekend I managed to repair the broken dvd drive without the need for any new parts! Bill was thrilled as he watched Bolt [7] with that fantastic Bose [8] stereo sound!
In this case the repair of a $900 stereo was free. What is something you've had repaired that would have cost you alot of money to replace? How about a car or a household appliance?