DAMAGED AND STOLE PARTS FROM MY IPHONE. HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE. DO NOT GO HERE.Please keep reading it only gets worse.. I can't stress this enough this business is a scam and they are not qualified what so ever to repair smartphones. I recently took my IPhone 10r to be fixed here after I dropped it and the entire back glass shattered. I have Apple Care and could have sent it in to be repaired, however, I thought that going to this business would be convenient given how close it is to where I live and my father had done some business with them in the past. So, I thought I could trust them with the repair and that was my biggest mistake. After dropping my phone off for them to repair it took about 3-5 hours to fix and then I came to pick it up with my father. The guy we dealt with was Sam and right away when he handed me my IPhone I knew something was wrong because the edges around my ENTIRE phone were peeled/scratched off by whatever tool they used to take off the shattered back. When I brought this to his attention he said "I am not Apple" I was clearly concerned and not a satisfied customer but he did not care. I questioned whether Apple would accept my IPhone now if/when I decided to get a new one and trade in the old one. Sam said "they will take it and if they don't come back to me" that didn't sound promising to me at all. Before paying him for this disservice I wanted to make sure my phone could do the basic functions at least like faceID, pictures, videos, sound etc. everything seemed to check out besides the appearance. The following days I came to find out that my microphone was damaged because when I used facetime the recipient could not hear me this happened as well on phone calls when I tried to use my speaker. My father returned to the store with my phone and brought this to Sam's attention and he said "I can fix the damage or give you a new phone" neither of these were options because he lost our trust and no one in their right mind would have the business that damaged their phone then "fix"it that would probably only result in further damage and a new phone was not an option given that it is most likely not from Apple since they are not an authorized dealer and therefore wouldn't be under my name or have my IMEI number. My father calmly told Sam that he wanted him to do what was right and refund us our money. Sam said "let me talk to my partner and i'll give you a call" Did not hear from him ever. I decided to take it to Best Buy to see if they could fix it and they were not able to given that it was obvious someone unqualified opened the phone and TOOK PARTS OUT! They said since it was opened by someone other than Apple my Apple Care could not be used and the cost to fix it would be $400 (Whole Unit Replacement)
I had Best Buy formally write out what parts were missing, how much it would cost to fix it, and the technicians ID# & phone number. After finishing at Best Buy, my mother, sister and I took this information to this store and this time it was a women and a teenage boy behind the counter. The boy was helping another costumer, so we dealt with the women we told her the situation and she said she was familiar with it because Sam told her and she then says the same exact options that Sam told us. We said they were not reasonable options and that they should pay for the damage they caused ($400). The boy jumps into the conversation trying to say that they did nothing wrong. They never even asked what was wrong with my phone they just started defending like they had done this before and just by looking at the reviews they've had plenty of practice scamming people. The customer that the boy was helping started defending them as well and they allowed him to converse in a conversation that had absolutely nothing to do with him and he was saying awful things towards my sister and I. They refused to pay for the damage they caused, but were willing to give me an IPhone that we all know costs far more than $400. Doesn't sound right. They had no interest in doing what was right, so they decided to call the police (my mother, sister and I were calm we were angry of course but we were not physical or hostile AT ALL) They called them because they knew they messed up and we were probably the first customers to call them out on their shady business. After telling the police our side of what happened it was clear to everyone that we had been scammed, however, the only things we could do was consider filing a claim in small claims court or file a civil suit against them. After all of this these people now start saying they will at least refund us our money for the original repair that caused all the damage and consequent escalated issue. We knew that was about as good as it was going to get, so we accepted the refund and vowed to never return, and to be sure to let our community know our experience through a review. read more