Major scam.
My father (who doesn't know much about current technology) bought a computer here a number of years ago. He paid around 1.5 times to twice what I could have built him a (better or equally capable) computer for. The extra cost seems to have been for a "lifetime warranty". Well, I helped my father bring the computer in recently because he was saying that he was having some issues with it (it was slow, etc...). They said that they would take a look at it, but that it was old and they asked him if he had thought about upgrading. So, he got a quote, but it was way more than he could afford.
The guy that he was talking to was giving him every reason to buy a new computer. Including, "well, Windows 7 is going to be no longer supported in a few months, so you will need to upgrade anyway". Really? Windows 7 is supported until Jan. 2020. This was the most blatant BS from the guy we talked to, but there was some other things he said that were just flat out wrong. These guys are seriously full of shit.
So, he ended up leaving his computer there to be looked at by the techs there. The guy we talked to said that they would defrag the hard drive, blow out all the dust and do some other things (I don't recall what the other things were, or what else could even be done).
Guess what? They didn't even do what they said they would do. They didn't defrag it or clean it out, they did, however, install a new version of Java and some version of flash. The Java that they installed was some beta version, that caused problems with what my father uses his computer for. The version of flash that they installed was some really old version that had no business being on his computer. He ended up not being able to use his computer until I could come and fix it for him.
Previous to this, my mother's computer was having issues. It kept blue-screening and I was working full time and taking classes at night, so I was too busy to look into it. They claim to have a "free diagnostic" service (but it's really just a front to try and get you to buy a new computer). So, we brought it in to see if they could look at it and find the problem for us.
The first time they called us in to pick it up, they said that it was fine and to come get it. It was still hooked up and they wanted to show us the results of some test, but the computer had froze. Apparently this was news to the tech, and he said they would have to keep it for longer. We ended up wasting our time going out there that day.
The second time we went out there to pick it up (after a week or so of them having the machine), they again were totally befuddled about what the problem was, but instead of giving a solution, they tried to sell us a new computer.
I ended up being able to take a look at it myself after a few days, and after a few minutes of googling and testing things out, I was able to tell that the only problem with it was that one of the RAM sticks was bad. Really? They couldn't diagnose a problem that simple? So, I replaced the RAM and the machine is still in use to this day.
The techs here don't seem to know what they are doing and will lie to your face to get you to buy a new computer. They don't seem to hire people who are actually good at working with computers, but rather salesmen who will use the customers ignorance against them in order to line their own pockets. read more