Every time I get my phone fixed it ends up a disaster. Last time my bank decided to freeze my card over a 40 dollar online purchase without notifying me, and the guy treated me like a criminal trying to scam him when I asked him to try punching it in manually when it declined (wouldn't have worked anyways, but he was a dick about it and refused, and things only went downhill from there).
This time, I could say something positive about this place, but I can't. I showed up after dropping my phone at the gas station next door, and was relieved that there was a place next door to fix it fast. First problem was their posted store hours were wrong, his real hours were online, open until 6, but his store said 8. This was around 4:30, and he said he could have it done in an hour. Cool, he didn't mention they closed at 6, so I thought I could handle my other business at a place did close at 6, then go there afterwards to pick up my phone. He just assumed I'd be there around 5:30, and that I knew his hours from the internet. It was irritating, but understandable, but real complaint was the glass. He neglected to tell me BEFORE fixing my phone that the tempered glass for my model wouldn't be there until Tuesday. It was the holidays, and I didn't have time to get there next Tuesday, but when I did over a week after then, my defenseless screen had already cracked, and this is when it went from 'bad' to 'unacceptable'. He wasn't there, but the woman who was told me THEY STILL DIDN'T HAVE THE TEMPERED GLASS FOR MY PHONE, OVER A WEEK AFTER HE SAID HE WOULD HAVE THEM, AND THAT IT 'SHOULD' BE THERE NEXT WEEK'.
Since then, I haven't bothered going back or calling, but phone's screen has continued to crack slowly, and it's gotten pretty bad to the point of affecting functionality. The time thing was bad communication, but understandable and somewhat compensated for. The tempered glass was just bad business to not tell me beforehand, and the fact that he still hadn't stocked it 10 days after he said he would is just unbelievable. Now I'll be going somewhere else to get my phone fixed, again, because I'm not going to waste my time driving across town to deal with this business, again, in what will probably ultimately result in an argument and blame game over prices because my phone is cracked, again, for the sole reason that the screen has been entirely unprotected for almost a month. That's assuming he ever got the tempered glass for my phone at all. Seemed like a nice guy, but how he handled the necessary tempered glass issue is unacceptable, he shouldn't be offering services he can't deliver.
Guess I'll go to Geek Squad, some chain, or an overpriced store in the Galleria area. I'd rather support local business, but so far that hasn't worked out well for me so far. read more