"I WILL REPAIR"
-no....the shop's name should be, I WON'T REPAIR and I WILL overcharge you.
Fair Warning: BIG SCAM ALERT!
Be warned ... be cautious!!! ..
iPhone repair store in Chandler, located on the the SE corner on Ray road and Rural road.
Unnecessarily scamming customers over batteries, adding on $25 charges, and not being able to repair the phones.
When we came in the first day, Sousan and I and my brother were all at rhe store talking. We had a pleasant concersation aboit how she was rushing to find new vendors for her parts, and how she was having immense difficulties closing up a customer's iPhone 7 because an internal component wouldn't fit properly...
- That should have been a red flag warning for me.
We sat there and tested the phone battery; it was working perfectly. Sousan plugged it into a power adapter located by the front desk, ad we had agreed to do ONLY a screen repair.
(On a side note, I noticed she was using several Non-Apple cables to charge her customers devices. I know that third party cables can sometimes be Apple-certified, but I just wanted to point this out.)
About 20 minutes after leaving her store, I received an email invoice that included an additional charge for a Battery Replacement $25.
The day before, I spent over 2 hours at the store waiting for her to work on the phone, but she insisted that the SE was working .. she said it would only take an hour. Again, we agreed that only the screen needed to be replaced.
She even invited me to come around her makeshift curtain counter display to observe her own personal workplace.
Needless to say I was taken aback..
Chicken nuggets and apples were scattered among her repair tools ... and dangerously close to a few iPhones being repaired, I saw an almost full cup of soda about to tip over ...
I wanted to say some thing to her about the Chicken nuggets being located so close to her iPhones that are soon to go repaired... but I was a first time customer waiting for her response.
I did, however, cautiously warned her about the soda, that was an inch away and slanted over an iPhone.
When I proceeded to ask her about the battery charge and why exactly she charged me she said that the battery was dead, completely negating the experience we had the day before.
After leaving the store, an email was sent to me regarding the invoice. Surprised, I saw that there was a battery charge for $25,even though we specifically agreed that only the screen would be replaced according to the Groupon price.
The next day, at around 1:20pm I came into the store. I asked her what had happened with the repair, and also why she charged me for the battery replacement.
She went onto insisting that the battery was COMPLETELY dead ...
$25 is $25, but when you have a brand new iphone since February, and the store is claiming you need a new battery ....
When I finally received both of the iphones, took it back home, and started to charge it
The iPhone SE touch screen was not responding at all... It was as if, she didn't test the iphone at all. It wasn't working.
The iPhone 6s was working... with many constany glitches. Sousan did replace the screen, but the new screen display was placed about 1mm above the enclosure of the iphone casing. Basically the screen was popping out.
-Even worse, the shattered display was now replaced with a noticeably different display.
The viewing angles were terrible, and the pixel density was far from an Apple replacement-part. the quality of the parts she was using from her vendor source was nowhere near on-par..
I understand that these repair shops don't often use the most credible parts, as they are not AASP certified. However, there should be a level of quality when it comes to repairs or replacements. ..
Well, that's just bad business.
Update: 2 days later, both of the iPhones don't work ... when trying to call Sousan and her shop, she hangs up on us and threatens to contact the police . I simply responded by asking her, "we paid for the battery replacement and the screen and almost $200 later it's still not working..".
Sousan insists that we pay an additional fee to repair the "motherboard"...
So now, the new "battery" she replaced with on a 4 month old iphone is not working due to "hardware" issues ...
-clearly there is something more going on here ..
Sousan yelled at our family during our 3rd visit to the store, cursing us out with vulgar explitives.. she does not really know how to repair phones fully ... and she is not to be trusted on a verbal customer-to-business owner level...
It truly saddens me to have experienced this. In 2018, where we should be expected to trust our local small businesses and tech companies. Instead they seek to prey on the weak and uninformed by charging for replacements that were not mentioned and required at all.
The worst part is, both phones are still broken and we paid over $190.
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