The hinge on my perfectly working Asus laptop brok...

The hinge on my perfectly working Asus laptop broken. The first shop I went to went online and said no parts were available and that he would have to lose things back together and need to keep the computer for five days. I stopped by this shop six blocks away and he said he could fix it by putting three miniature screws in from the back of the laptop. He said it would be ready the next day. Three hours later he called and said it was ready! I went and picked it up and the price was the $180 he had quoted.
I have a regular "computer guy" we have used for many years to build our desktops and set up the software on my laptop's. He wasn't equipped to deal to deal with a problem like this.