The other repair person mention above is Castellen I think. Used his services once, all good.
I've used the one in France too, didnt have a bad experience, though it was very expensive.
One thing to consider sometimes, is that somethings are not easily repairable, specially since I doubt these guys have any service manual from the maker of the card!
But this specific case you should have confronted him that you didn't say to go ahead and repair the card.
Hell, in the recent past I knew a few local services (Algarve here..) that didn't charge at all if they didn't manage to repair the equipment (TVs, VCRs, stereos, that kind of stuff..). They all charge for diagnosis nowdays, and the funny thing is that sometimes you're better served with old "do it all" repair shops run by very old and knowledgeable people than by the official repair services. As an example, I wanted to repair an old Panasonic stereo remote recently and the official service center charged me for the diagnosis, kept it for almost 6 months and then said they couldn't do anything about it. Took it to a local very old and small electronics shop and the guy repaired it without any problems!
