I dropped my iPad, and upon the recommendation of a co-worker I took it to Discount Electronics for a replacement of the digitizer (touch screen). They said there was a $50 deposit, and after the technician checks it out they will contact me with the final price - probably $100. A few days later I was contacted, and the tech confirmed that all I needed was a new screen - would I like him to proceed. Yep - authorized!
"It will be ready in about a week."
Two weeks later I'm contacted that it is ready.
I go in to pick it up, and the edge of the screen is now white - it was black when I took it in. I explain to the guy at the counter that it wasn't correct... I wanted a black screen like it had when I brought it in. He checks the computer repair log.
"It doesn't say you wanted it to be black."
"Well, it doesn't say I wanted it to be white. I didn't specify color - I didn't think I needed to. I just asked for it to be repaired" I say.
"Well, you didn't say you wanted it to stay the same color. Maybe they had trouble getting a black screen"
"Yeah, I get that I didn't specify it needed to stay black, but I didn't say I wanted it pink, either. Look, I'm not trying to be a jerk, its just that I wanted the screen replaced with the same thing. If the tech couldn't get a black screen he should have said that he could only get a white one and give me the choice."
Guy gets the manager, manager laments that if he replaces the screen then he is "out" the white screen. I let him know I appreciate that, but the tech ordered and installed the wrong screen, and it isn't really my problem that he will be unable to use this screen.
He lets me know it will be ready in a week.
Two weeks later I'm contacted that it is ready again (sense a theme?).
I go in, black screen, I pay, I leave. After I charge it, and I start using it again I find a problem with the screen "clicking" near the home button. I look at it a bit more, and I notice that the screen all along one side isn't fully affixed to the iPad. I gently put my thumbnail under the screen and the whole thing starts lifting out. Back to the store I go.
"Hi. It doesn't look like the tape or adhesive that was used to affix the screen is holding. Can you fix that?"
"What did you do to it?"
That is when I had my WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM moment. The muscles on the back of my neck tensed up, and I wanted to yell, but you don't get help that way...
"Nothing - just noticed it was coming up."
They take it in the back. When it comes back the screen is better.
"Your iPad case is all beat up, and that screen will never fit in it without it coming up. You need to put it in a case."
I thank them.
I leave.
I wait a month to do a Yelp review.
Look, guys... the case does have some minor dings. It is 4 years old, but the glass clearly rests inside the aluminum frame. When you screwed up the screen the first time you threw a BS answer that "I didn't specify I wanted it black". That's a garbage response from SED (employee). Manager tried to make it right. I'm good with that. Your repair times took 2x as long as you said they would. You try to blame the customer for a poor repair by asking "what did you do" that caused the screen to lift.
Never, ever will my shadow darken their doorway again, and I will relate this story of poor customer service to my friends. read more