Good for all those with 5 star reviews, but doesn't change the fact that I felt really disrespected & wasted a lot of time without getting my issue taken care of.
I dropped off my phone for data recovery. Ryan asked me to keep the case, I asked him to keep it on but he said no. I did not get my phone back for 3 weeks. During that time, I received no calls regarding the process. I followed up 3X. Ryan talked in circles, something about how people want their device back right away and stuff like that. One time he said "yeah, there was another older lady also who dropped off her phone for the same reason...." that was it, end of story. Did you recover her stuff? What was the point of that sentence? To call me old? Well since we're the same age, does that make you an "older man" then? Not cool man. I think I was actually pretty patient. I was always nice and courteous and whatever he told me, I just said OK and waited.
Finally after 3 weeks, I went there to pick up my phone at 5pm (they close 7pm). Drove in rush hour, low and behold, he decided to close shop early! I had told him I would come 2 days earlier. So why not tell me he will close the shop? I attached a photo of what I saw on the door, stating that if you needed your phone, to call. I texted and I left a message, please see text photo. He called me back (1st time ever!), I asked for my phone back, he stumbled on his words and finally came up with that he was in Seattle and coming back late that night. But he would not give me the opportunity to come back that night. After we got off the phone, I texted both his numbers, but he didn't respond. I really wanted it back because I had a one time opportunity to have someone look at it the next morning only.
Sure it's a holiday, but that usually affects government, it's not assumed that anyone else is closed. It wasn't like it was Christmas. If he told me in advance when I called, then no problem, otherwise. The reason for the 2 stars rather than 1, is because perhaps he really did do the things he claimed to try to recover data? I appreciate his efforts if he really did try. I won't ever know, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
****I understand sometimes a person tries but they just can't do it, had that been the only issue, I wouldn't be writing this review at all.**** But its the poor communication nor getting back my phone with cracks on the side that was not been there before. I heard him rifling HARD through stuff trying to find my phone for a few minutes, and it made me cringe. I take care of my stuff, that's not right. He wouldn't look me in the eye under his baseball hat, kinda mumbled, it was hard to trust. But I will say this, I took my phone elsewhere, and I did get 70% of my data back, and it took less than a week.
UPDATE!
Ryan emailed me and I was going to email back that same day, but then he posted on here. So if I am to be discredited publically, I will defend myself.
Not sure why water damage is mentioned again when I never got water on the phone & there was no evidence of it either.
1. I have attached the dent to my phone. I immediately noticed it because I know my phone. In fact, I felt it first. I stared at it for several minutes debating if I should say something to Ryan or risk an argument. He knew I was looking at it because it was several akaward minutes of me staring and touching it while he looked down, no questions asked. I know how I left the phone.
2. I have attached a photo showing every call I made to his business. They are all OUTGOING. Not a single call was incoming with one exception and that is when he called from his personal cell when I had called the day I was outside the business and they were closed. I did include that photo too with part of the phone # removed. It's fine if you close, but please find a way to get people their cell phones when the sign says to call if you need your phone. The implication being that they will get their phones. He said he called so many times, please provide PROOF.
Of the outgoing calls to his business, I spoke to him about 3X. The rest I either left a 1 min vm or hung up if I had already left - these are the 1 minute calls. And you see photo proof where I called on the 9th, 2 days before he closed shop on the 11th, but was not told they would be closed even though I indicated then that that is when I would be coming by.
3. While I have no doubt that some of the reviews here are real, I do have reason to believe that some of the reviews are not. Too many one review FB friends wrote reviews, some of which were filtered. Sure you can become friends with some of your customers in theory, but for the most part business/personal is separate. So I don't know if they were real customers. read more