People ring and ask what it costs to fix a phone that went in the sea, and the truthful answer is that nobody knows yet, including us.
Two phones from the same accident can be a four hundred rufiyaa clean and a finished board, and the only way to tell them apart is to open both. So the only figure we will give on the telephone is the assessment fee, which is fixed and published.
After the assessment you get one figure, one opinion about the odds and a written note. Nothing is started until you have said go ahead. If lifting a component shows damage underneath that could not be seen from above, which happens about one time in eight, work stops, we photograph it, and you get the new figure before anything else happens.
That is slower than being told a price at the door. It is also the only version where the price you were told is the price you pay.