I have no idea what's happened to Jim since 2018, but the service was underwhelming. I would rather a person UNDERpromise and OVERdeliver than OVERpromise and UNDERdeliver, which is what happened in my case.
I had a laptop with a dead hard drive. I found Jim online, and after reading the reviews, chose his place of business to do the work.
I was prepared to leave the laptop and come back the following day to pick it up, but he assured me he could have it ready in an hour to an hour and a half.
I rescheduled an appointment I had with a client and waited in the neighborhood for the hour and a half he said it would take to repair my laptop. When I returned to the store, he was sitting in conversation with someone, and my machine was lying on the cart as yet untouched.
He said it would take him 10 -15 minutes to fix it, and that he'd come get me. I stood outside in the parking lot (COVID 19 protocols were in place) and waited for approximately 15 minutes.
He came out to inform me it would be another 15-20 minutes as there were so many screws for him to remove. (He's supposed to be the expert, and should have known how long it would take to repair the laptop.)
At this point, I was tired of waiting, so I told him I'd be back the next day (today 05/21/20).
This morning I called to make sure the laptop was ready before I drove all the way over there again.
While I was on the phone with him, I attempted to let Jim know that I would have preferred being told to come back the following day instead of waiting around for most of the afternoon and then STILL being told I'd have to either wait around some MORE or come back the next day anyway. He didn't even let me finish my statement before he got defensive with me.
During this conversation, Jim also informed me that the KEYBOARD is not working, and that he had to use an external mouse and keyboard to complete the 'repair'. I hung up, but after starting to write this review, decided I needed to call him back because WHEN I BROUGHT THE LAPTOP IN, THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH IT WAS THE HARD DRIVE DIED. EVERYTHING ELSE WAS FUNCTIONING PROPERLY. Just based upon Jim's own report of how much trouble it was for him to take the machine apart, I am reasonably certain that he broke the keyboard in the process of repairing the hard drive, and - just like when I tried to speak with him about the issue I had with waiting for nothing -
he got defensive and started asserting that there was no way for him to verify the laptop's keyboard was working when I brought it in.
I KNEW I should have just gone to the local BIG BOX computer repair store, but I was trying to do the RIGHT thing and support a local small business. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I am now left with a KEYBOARD that probably got BROKEN BY THE GUY that was supposed to FIX my LAPTOP!
I now get to pay for a repair that was more likely than not (yes, it's a legal term of art, I used to be a lawyer) caused by the computer repair person. I am on my way over to the store to pick up my now fixed, but also still broken, laptop.
I would hope Jim would do the right thing and offer to either: fix it, no charge or deduct the cost of the new part and the labor to install it from the cost of the hard drive repair.
I doubt that EITHER will happen, but if it does, I promise to post an update here. I will post an update here either way.
MY OPINION based only on MY EXPERIENCE with this business: GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
If I could give a ZERO STAR rating, I would. read more