My wife and I brought in a fully functioning Apple iPod Touch 6th generation with a cracked screen to your Decatur, IL. location on 2/13/2019.
We had not received a call after a couple of days, so stopped to check on it and was told it would be done in a couple of hours and they would call us. No call again, towards your end of the business day, so we called you. Was told it would be done and ready to pick up in 1/2 an hour or we could get $10 off to wait and pick it up the next day. We opted to pick it up the next day, guess what, a different person again and still not done. Was told again it will be done be done shortly and they would call. Again no phone call, so we stopped by the store again and awesome it is done, nope forgot the screen saver we had asked for when we first dropped it off. No problem, put on the screen saver and we are good to go.
I mentioned the $10 off you offered and was told, sure it has already been taken off. We paid the bill, just ready to get out of your store, checked the bill later, guess again, no $10 off! No big deal we have our iPod back and done with the aggravation.
No no, not yet, got it home and the camera will not work (my wife's favorite feature).
Back to store, drop it off, same story, we will call.
Give you three days, still no call. My wife goes back to your store and is told it is all ready to be shipped to Indianapolis to be soldered for the camera not working. This being set up without our knowledge and never even a phone call!
Another customer comes in looking for her phone that has been sent off also and promised back weeks ago. My wife says wow, I have been through enough, give me my iPod and a refund. Which this different clerk, again, is happy to do and be done with us.
Guess again, my wife turns on her iPod and now it has lines running up and done the screen, clerk tells her this is no big problem, it just was not snapped back together properly. He takes it for a quick fix, brings it back all fixed. Nope, lines still there, he says that it all because of a faulty new screen. Well guess where the screen came from and who put it in. That is right, you iMechanic...
Now, we are both reasonable people and can communicate and understand things happen.
But none of that was reflected on your side or even attempted.
My wife takes really good care of her things and is also very understanding. She was heartbroken that she brought a fully functioning iPod with just a crack in the glass and now has a useless piece of equipment.
She feels so bad and blames herself for bring it in to a scam and a scripted set of answers that are only delivered when returning to the store or calling. THIS PISSES ME OFF.
Oh, it gets better. iMechanic calls us after the fact (never once called us about our repair) at our home phone number after your normal business because they are trying to put the refund through on their system. Said they found us, when my wife gave them our last name. Why wasn't this done while she was there?
I took the iPod to a completely different repair facility (not another iMechanic, NO WAY), told them what was going on.
His diagnoses, was yes he could solder, but there was a good chance with the lines running through it, that it was damaged and opening it up again might be enough that it would get worse or not work at all. read more