Below is the email I sent. I have yet to get the situation resolved. I am out over $100 due to incorrect information provided by the staff. I will never shop there again.
Nov 5
To Whom It May Concern,
I'm contacting you to complain out the absolutely horrendous service that I received recently while looking to purchase a laptop from your South Surrey location.
To begin, I went in when it was fairly quiet and there were a number of staff on. No one offered to help me, but I did manage to seek out help from a young man who knew nothing about lap tops and, as a result, handed me over to another staff member by the name of Dallas.
Dallas appeared to know a bit about lap tops, but was unable to communicate this information in such a way that is accessible to the average person with minimal computer knowledge. She would provide information that was meaningless to me and finish with "You know what I mean?" to which I responded "No, I do not."
Anyhow, I was interested in a Toshiba lap top and was told there were only a handful of them on sale and they were all previous returns. When I asked why these computers had been returned, I was told that all of them had been returned because the customers had "changed their minds." In other words, I was led to believe that the returns occurred for minute reasons.
I ended up purchasing a lap top along with a Home and Student Office 2013 program that night and was told that if I changed my mind on the purchases, I could receive a full refund for everything.
A week into my computer use, the computer blacked out on me and I was unable to remedy the problem because the battery is built into the lap top. Since I'm a university student, I need a reliable computer so that I can access MS office and the internet on a daily basis. So, I had to return the computer because it was unreliable.
When I went to return the computer, I was then told that I would not receive a refund for the MS Office because it had already been installed (something that I was not told during the purchase), but that I could reinstall it onto a new PC. Under the assumption that I could reinstall MS Office, I felt somewhat redeemed but would have appreciated being told this information at the time of purchase since these details factor into deciding on whether or not to make a purchase.
Also, while another young lady was entering in the details of the return into the computer system, she aked Dallas what the reason of the return was and Dallas replied "Change of mind." This reason is the same reason she gave me when I initially enquired about the returns. And while, technically, this reason is correct, it hardly does justice to the nature of the return and is very misleading. This information is important to the customer because it, again, factors into the decision making process when it comes to a purchase.
Additionally, after I purchased a new PC from London Drugs and went to re-install MS Office, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that I actually can't reinstall the program onto my computer. In actuality, I can only access it via the internet. This is a huge problem for me since I need to be able to access MS Office without access to the internet. So, this means that I'm going to have to buy another MS Office account and because of the misinformation provided to me by your staff, I now will have wasted over a hundred dollars.
Due to the misinformation, waste of money and time, I will never shop at Future Shop again.
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