Every listing was read from the business’s own public pages rather than from speaking to them, so check before you rely on it. Run one of these businesses? Tell us and we will correct or remove your entry.

Is it worth repairing?

Three questions. The answer depends much less on how bad it looks than people expect, and much more on whether you could ever get another one.

We don’t take a cut of any repair, so there is nothing in it for us either way. One of the best repairers we know tells people outright to go and look on eBay instead. That is why people trust her.

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Could you buy another one today?

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Whose is it?

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How bad is it?

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Answer all three and we’ll tell you what we’d do. Sometimes that is buy another one, and we will say so.