Was I cheated or got what I asked for

Was I cheated or got what I asked for? This is a question I've been asking myself ever since I remembered something that happened to me years ago.

As usual, this thought popped into my head and for some reason now, I can't stop feeling like I got cheated, but then again, another part of my mind is telling me that I wasn't cheated, but merely got what I asked for.

So many years ago when I was still a little kid, after I misplaced the first phone my dad gave to me, I found myself with different kinds of phones throughout the years, and all of these phones had one thing in common, they were phones who were badly damaged and already had one foot in the grave.

_{photo by Kilian Seiler}

Well one day, I had taken one of these phones to the repair shop because the speaker wasn't working. I couldn't hear any sound coming from the phone, and I could see clearly from where the speaker was positioned on the phone that one of the wires there was cut.

So I had taken it to the repair shop when the battery was dead, and asked one of the guys there, to help me solder the wire, because the speaker wasn't working. Those were my exact words to him, for him to solder the wire because the speaker wasn't working.

It took him barely two minutes and he was done. I paid him, thanked him and returned home with my phone. When I got home, I had quickly gone to charge my phone, only for me to discover, after it was done charging that the phone's speaker still wasn't working.

So I had quickly taken it back to the repair shop, which was miles away by the way. I had walked back to the shop, to complain about the speakers not working, only for the guy at the repair shop to tell me that the services I had requested for were for the wires to be soldered back into the phone, and that I didn't specifically request for my speakers to be fixed.

He went further to tell me that if I had wanted my speakers fixed, it would have cost me a lot more than the amount I paid for the wires to be soldered. So I had walked back home that day, feeling defeated and like I just got defrauded.

When I got back home, I couldn't help but see some sense in what he had said, so I accepted the fact that I had made the mistake, and ever since then, whenever I go to a repair shop to repair anything, I never make the mistake of telling them what to do, what I do instead is tell them the fault and then let them do their thing.

But then again, were my words truly misleading, or was I played by the guy at the repair shop and got myself scammed?