Oh hell no. We just…read moremoved to a new house and needed to get some type of TV service going meaning the choice was between cable (nope, sorry never again), DirecTV or Dish. Dish currently has the best pricing and so I went online to set it up which should be a relatively simple process, right? Nope. I won't go into the long, horrible story but I'm now on my third rep over 4 days and between online chat and the phone, it's well over 2 hours of my time. Bottom line, they messed up during the credit check process and ended up "locking" me out because they pinged it so many times. They promised a call back to complete the process which of course never happened and when I finally did get set up complete they tried to bait and switch me to a more expensive package. On top of that, more than one rep tried to get me to give them a second credit card number - even though they acknowledged the first one worked just fine. Super, super, super shady. The whole process was time consuming, inconvenient, frustrating and more than a little sketchy. There are very limited choices for TV service in this market and I believe all of them suck. Know that Dish is no exception and in fact, sucks HARD.

I tried to get them to take me as a customer without a credit check because they unnecessarily do…read morehard check. We all know they do that to better package you for sale to their customers and make plenty off those who have great credit and we get nothing in return. Over an hour conversation and the rep WOULD NOT give me a flat price for the services i asked about. Eventually they did quote some ridiculous obviously made up price on the spot. Every question i asked was met with only half an answer followed by... "hows that, now lets just get you qualified..." In case you think I'm making it up here is a sample of the nonsense, you better know what to ask case they aint telling nothing. The comment space is not long enough for the full transcript from our conversation the shadiness will make you crazy. Danisha Djemile (ID: VXO): For the equipment, We'll provide you our award winning Whole Home DVR set up which can record up to six shows at once during prime time hours. Danisha Djemile (ID: VXO): Hopper is a whole-home DVR that gives you the power to pause, rewind, and record TV in any room since it has mobility feature. Plus, you can watch your live TV on your smartphone or tablet. Danisha Djemile (ID: VXO): Good so far? Andrew Brin: Slow down. Can the DVR also record up to six shows at once when its NOT prime time? If I'm using the Hopper to record, may i watch other shows on the same TV or only on my portable devices? Danisha Djemile (ID: VXO): It can record 3 shows at the same time on the non-prime time. Andrew Brin: Good thing i asked huh?

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While I back up online and offsite due to a complicated failure I was without a complete image of…read morenearly 6TB data back to 1992. Gillware and their team are true professionals. Did an online intake, received a phone call Christmas Eve morning to confirm everything. Great updates and proposal before providing a method of payment. By 30 Dec my replacement drive with 99.999% of the recovered data was in the way back to me. Do know if they needed clean rooms or the level of effort needed or the time required. Just know they took a inop drive and got the data off. Just like an lawyer, dentist, pilot or doctor sometimes you pay for experience and in my opinion it was worth for 30 years worth of files. While I hope to never need their services again, they are the only ones I would trust my digital footprint too. While not inexpensive you are paying for their knowledge and experience. If is was so simple and fast then you could do it yourself or maybe hire the "neighborhood geek" or you could pay the experts to professionally recover your important data. While my choice may not be the best for everyone glad I paid Gillware to do it. However, we will be installing a RAID 5 NAS as part of our new 3-2-1 back up plan.

Take it from a software engineer, you'll wanna read this review before you go with this company…read more You are about to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in your repair, its worth your time to spend a few minutes reading this review. I have included email quotes from the company in my review too Summary: Gillware is very good at what they do, but they will take as much of your money as possible even if its an easy fix. I ended up paying them over $550 plus $28 shipping for a 20 minute fix, and I didn't get all the files I expected. The good: -They uploaded the recovered files to their website so I could preview the file NAMES (this does not mean you can open / download the files) before purchase, which was very valuable to me. It was nice seeing exactly what files were recovered before I put my money down -They are protective of your data once they recover it: once they ship your recovered data back to you on an external hard drive, they keep a backup on site in case it gets lost in the mail or if you need to access their backup -They are responsive and reasonable to deal with. The website is fast and easy to use The bad: The file previewer is misleading, to say the least: For me, it showed that there were 5155 photos recovered (.jpg, .png, etc.). I was very excited to hear that they recovered that many of my personal photos, but when I got the drive back, there were really only 900 personal photos that I took with my camera which were recovered. The rest of the 5155 quoted photos were SYSTEM RELATED PHOTOS. What this means is they are images that you don't care about, images that came with your software, operating system, or applications, icons, etc. I recommend you don't let the file previewer fool you, and realize that there are a TON of system generated files (which show up as images: .jpg, .png formats) which will be recovered. When I spent my money, I thought I was getting 5155 photos, or about $0.10 per photo which was worth it to me. When I found out that 4000+ of those photos were system generated, this was slightly annoying. The worst part of this is that Gillware did not warn me about this at all before taking my money. They should have cautioned me saying: "hey, even though it says 5155 photos were recovered, most of those are system generated photos / items that you probably don't care about". But they didn't and the website doesn't warn me of this trap either Once Gillware finished recovering my data, I asked them what was wrong with the drive. I was surprised to find out what a simple fix this was for them. All they had to do was move some of the harddrive heads and reinstall the firmware on the harddrive. Here is what they said: "During the evaluation the engineers have determined that the firmware on the drive (the brain on how the drive works) had died and we had essentially replaced/repaired the firmware to ensure that the drive knew was it was doing. From there we had also released the read/write heads that were stuck to ensure that we can read the data off of your drive successfully." "Some cases are easier for our engineers to complete the recovery during the evaluation process rather than sending it back into the lab for further work if the customer decides to proceed. Essentially we are taking a gamble that you will agree to move forward with purchasing your data by working on it ahead of time. This route saves us and customers on wait time." In english, this means that it took them less than 1 hour to recover my data, and the drive didn't even need professional LAB work to be repaired. They charged me $550 plus $28 shipping for the recovery operation. Meaning, I paid them $550 per hour, and they didn't even need to send the drive to the lab. That is RIDICULOUS! They don't need $550 / hour for non-lab work. And I honestly don't even think it took them 1 hour to fix my drive. Most likely 20 minutes, if that I know that $550 is cheap for data recovery, but if its only a 20 minute repair, you would think that they would provide a discount.

Awful. Lost information on what was wrong with my pc. Strung along day after day when it would be…read morefixed. Finally went in 8 days later and picked up my still broken pc.

I brought my computer in to retrieve files per their website. The clerk said he was 99% sure they…read morecouldn't restore any files, so I asked for my computer back & to refund the $60. He wasn't authorized to do so. Their customer service is refusing due to diagnosing. The computer doesn't have a battery so he wasn't able to turn it on! The computer was in their back room for less than 2 minutes! Don't go there!

I needed an iPhone screen repaired and MSG did exactly what I needed in a quick and efficient…read moremanner. Highly recommend service !

I booked an appointment online for today (Saturday), in the morning between 8-11. It's now 11:38…read moreand no one has shown up, nor even responded to my inquiries. What a waste of my time! Don't waste yours !

Yesterday afternoon my phone screen went completely green on my iPhone. I did some Google searching…read moreto see where I could take it in to fix, and a prince range on what it would cost me. During my search I came across smart tech and went through the reviews and the photo gallery of previous work. I was very impressed, and I decided to send them an email. They got back to me within 10 minutes, and they were able to help me the following day. Ryan came to my office, I handed him my damaged phone and fixed it in under 15 minutes. I'm extremely satisfied with the quality of the repair. My phone looks brand new!

Ryan does great work. I was able to book a same-day appointment with him to repair my iPhone. He…read morecame to me and fixed my phone in his mobile workshop in less than 20 minutes. Great service, fair price. Highly recommend!