When FixYa started profiling our best and brightest a little over a year ago, Ekse was the first Expert that we chose to feature.

Affectionately nicknamed “The FixYa Sleuth” by staff members, due to his uncanny insight, Ekse has been an invaluable member of FixYa’s site and community for the better part of two years now. It has been our pleasure to watch this Expert grow from a young man into the seasoned tech he is today. It has been an even bigger pleasure to watch him cross the 10,000 solution mark and take his place with the giants.

When asked about his great development, Ekse credits being able to practice his skills frequently by assisting users and customers, saying “10,000 solutions… I think anyone would learn a lot from doing it.” But the true credit goes to someone closer to home. As he puts it, “I really have my father to thank for getting me started. I first soldered with my father’s help before I even started school.”

Speaking of school, Ekse has actually helped all those thousands of people in between classes and studying, as he finishes his Information Technology degree. And then there’s his job! Considering how much he has going on in his own life, the fact that Ekse still finds the time to help so many people out with theirs speaks volumes about his character. As do his testimonials and Chat Reviews, where customers sing praises like “Ekse is the best I have ever worked with” and “this person was absolutely brilliant and so polite! Worth his weight in gold.”

As Ekse crosses this milestone he takes his rightful place among an elite group of Experts who prove that you can make an enormous impact upon the lives of thousands of people, just by taking the time to share your knowledge, growing your own abilities, and having a focus on quality and service. Thank you, Ekse! Ten thousand times thank you!

Even in paradise, things don’t always run smoothly. That’s what captal413, a resident of Kihei, Hawaii discovered when his oven timer started going off incessantly and couldn’t be silenced. Kihei is a small town of about 16,000 residents on the island of Maui. There’s an active tourism industry, hundreds of hotels, and dozens of surf shops, but not a lot of appliance repair centers.

A professional repairman, total tech, faced a similar dilemma. In a town full of tourists, how was he to reach out to the actual residents who needed his services? How was he supposed to attract attention to his business on an island where almost everyone was more interested in riding waves than microwaves?

Luckily, captal413 and total tech found FixYa, and through FixYa, they found each other. FixYa’s new Local Repair enabled captal413 to post a request to local repair pros, and allowed total tech to respond, connecting with this potential customer right in his own backyard! Now captal413 can consult with top tech through the request he posted, can get total tech’s contact info from his Repair Directory listing, and total tech can get to work repairing that broken timer!

The request for help was posted by captal413 early this morning. He received a response from total tech within the hour, and can start to benefit from total tech’s 24-hour service immediately. FixYa’s Repair Directory has the ability to connect customers actively seeking repair services with pros right where they live. This means that captal413 can now enjoy his afternoon by listening to the waves break on beautiful Maalaea Bay and not the beeping of a faulty oven timer.

FixYa has launched some major enhancements to our famous Tech Support- a brand new Repair Directory and enhanced Product Recommendations pages!

FixYa is now there for you from start to finish, helping you decide on the best products to buy, advising you on how to get the most out of your gadget, and connecting you with a professional repair person when necessary. These services make it even easier to get all the support you need to make sure that the products you own are ones that you’ll love and will last you for years to come.

Product Recommendations - Before you buy, make sure that you aren’t wasting your money on a lemon. View feedback from people who actually own the product and ask for free Recommendations from Experts who have years of experience with the items and brands you are interested in purchasing.

Technical Support - Get free solutions and advice from our great community of Experts. Learn how to get the most out of your belongings and save money by Doing It Yourself!

Repair Directory - When nothing but professional help will do, consult our Repair Directory. Get free solutions from Repair Pros and get matched up with the top repair businesses right where you live!

Business owners and professional repair persons can create free listings in our Repair Directory. They can also pay for a featured listing that will be displayed directly on FixYa’s site to our millions of monthly visitors and will enable them to receive leads from customers seeking repair services.

FixYa has become your best destination for selecting and maintaining the products you depend on every day. Check out our great new features and make sure that you’re getting the most out of everything you own!

One of FixYa’s top Experts recently crossed a couple of major milestones- June marked the end of emissionwiz’s monumental first year at FixYa. Then, in mid-July, emissionwiz became the second Expert ever to post a mind-blowing 10,000 solutions. That’s an average of around 25 solutions a day, every single day, for over a year. He has earned more Brand Badges than any other Expert, with expertise in 35 different brands. emissionwiz has also assisted well over 300 customers in Live Chats, which represents a huge amount of time devoted to assisting people in need.

It’s not just emissionwiz’s commitment to helping people that makes him special. He’s also a veteran, a world traveler, family man, devoted husband, and also drives a super sweet Corvette. emissionwiz is a graduate of an Air Force electro/mechanical tech school, and has earned his expertise through years of training and hands-on experience. His skill and background really shines when assisting the less technically-inclined, and a customer that he recently Chatted with wrote “emissionwiz was very helpful. He expressed passion and confidence with his suggestions as to how to fix my slow starting engine and what products to use to do so. Much thanks for his guidance and support.”

We also just happen to know that a reporter for The Associated Press once privately referred to him as “a wonderful man”, and we couldn’t agree more. On behalf of FixYa and its millions of users, many of whom you’ve personally helped, thank you emissionwiz!

If you don’t know the username Molson02536, you haven’t been paying attention to FixYa’s homepage. Molson02536 hit the scene in a big way, posting 1242 solutions since debuting in April. He quickly rose to be featured on the Top Expert module on the front page, and has stayed there ever since. Molson02536 has obviously been storing up knowledge and experience for years, but where did it all come from?

Molson02536 hails from Ontario, Canada. He learned his specialty by being around cars all his life, and working in both speed shops and machine shops. The Chevy, Dodge, Ford, GMC, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Toyota Brand Badges he’s earned are testaments to his skill and versatility when it comes to the care and maintenance of all things automotive.

Molson02536’s enthusiasm for cars doesn’t just drive him to help fix cars online, he has also made it his real-life occupation, driving a tour bus around the Canadian countryside. While many professional drivers covet a muscle car or an old classic, Molson02536 thinks his favorite car might come as a surprise to some people. His 1996 GMC Jimmy has earned a special place in his heart after pushing over 425,000 miles with nothing more than a little maintenance to replace worn out parts.

When he’s not on the road, Molson02536 likes to get out to the speed shop to work on his cars and maintain the bus. But it was actually his inability to get to the speed shop one rainy day that first led to his finding FixYa and signing up as an Expert. Molson02536 loves to answer automotive questions on the site, and as he says “I’m glad to know that I can help many good people here save money that can be used for something else needed in this time of hardship.”