The Apple Retail Store is always about customer experience, and principally getting customers to…read morethe right place and talking with the right agents. I also like that it is their design that customers are never separated from employees by a counter. You are always side by side, making the interaction personal by eliminating barriers. It's a subtle thing, but once you notice it and compare to other places, you can't unsee it. Furthermore, no one handling a customer disappears and goes in back, leaving the customer to stand there alone waiting. It's always a third person bringing a product out from in back to the two of you. Another subtle but important touch. My event today was picking up an ordered iMac (I had a QR code in my Apple Wallet), handing in my older iMac for a trade-in, and getting the Genius Bar (another QR code) to handle the free data transfer. The agent just inside opened the door for me, scanned my QRs, sent me and my old iMac to a back table, where someone else was expecting me. My new one was brought out, the condition of my trade-in was verified, zip-zap-done, and I'm directed to a middle table, where a Genius comes to greet me, generates a work order (another QR code I have now) for the data transfer and lets me know they'll reach out when it's done. My ONLY complaint about the Domain store is common to a lot of Domain stores. If you have anything heavy, there is literally no temporary parking out front to load. There's lots of free parking garages around, but now it's a bit of a hoof.

The Apple Domain store was filled with people yesterday, however, when I walked in an Apple Store…read morerepresentative immediately greeted me. I did not think my transaction would take long so, I parked in 15 minute parking near the store. I told the representative that I needed a charging unit for my phone along with a chord. She grabbed the two accessories in less than a minute. The only decision point was the length of the chord - 3 feet or 6 feet. I asked if the 6 feet chord was about my height. She said no taller than your height. Haha...ok you're right I'm 5'6". I paid for the two accessories and was out the store in about 5 minutes. Though the Apple Store is very busy...always, there process is super efficient. I happy to report that my phone is charging without over heating.

Fixed my son's Alienware. Good stuff. Another company had said they didn't handle my issue, and to…read morecontact the manufacturer... so at first I was afraid Hi-Tech Gadgets wasn't as honest as the other guys. Not the case, though! They were great! Also, bonus: If you go Tuesday through Friday (not sure about the weekends), there are like a dozen food trucks around these guys. I didn't get to try one, but I look forward to heading there soon.

Never replied to my request. Premises were closed in the middle of the afternoon when I visited.read more

My Spectrum Experience -- Why I'm Finally Leaving…read more I've been a Spectrum customer for a long time, but I've reached my limit. Spectrum operates like a monopoly, and my bill has been increasing every few months by $10-$15 with no real improvement in service. It's frustrating and exhausting to constantly pay more for the same (or worse) experience. I was also eligible for their so-called free cell phone service. Here's the catch: the phone barely works. Call quality is terrible -- you can't hear clearly, and it feels like talking on a cheap plastic toy phone because the service is so poor. After the trial period, they expect you to pay $45 a month for a cell service that simply doesn't work properly. I didn't even bother calling to complain over and over again because it shouldn't be this bad to begin with. I'm letting the phone run its course until April and then switching to another provider. Because of all this, I started researching alternatives. I looked into AT&T, Verizon, and others, but many of them operate with the same monopolistic pricing and practices. I finally decided to say goodbye to Spectrum and switch to T-Mobile Home Internet, which is refreshingly simple -- just plug it in and go, with transparent pricing and no constant surprise increases. I'm done being overcharged and taken for granted. If you're tired of rising bills, poor communication, and services that don't live up to their promises, I strongly recommend looking elsewhere.

The internet itself is fine but this spectrum store is lacking efficient service. Everytime I come…read morein here I feel like I lose 3 hours of my time. Go to another store if you need to go to a Spectrum location.

I went in because my battery in my Galaxy S21 was at its end. It was even bulging the case…read more A little expensive, and took a little longer than they said as the seal needed to dry. But it's a very good battery and the in my phone hadn't lasted as long on a charge in many years.

These guys are awesome! Mobile service to my door an hour after I called them. Replaced the…read morecharger port on my phone in less than 30 minutes!

I had a broken lens cover on my iPhone 14 Pro. It was fixed in about 90 minutes for $50. Not much…read moremore to say. This will be my go-to shop for repairs in the future.

I needed repair to the charging port on my iPad. The staff was polite on the phone, were quick to…read morediagnose the problem and they charged a fair price for the service. Couldn't be more pleased.

Save your time, money, and sanity. I visited this store expecting assistance and good customer…read moreservice for my device & home internet. I went in days before my trip to Japan to ensure my device was ready for international travel, especially since I don't speak the language. I knew I would rely heavily on Google Maps and translation apps to communicate while abroad. They sold me their "BEST" plan along with a "3-day travel pass" supposedly designed for travelers. To my surprise, the device didn't work when I arrived in Japan. I reached out to their customer service line for help, but received no assistance. Thankfully, I was able to use my iPad mini with an eSIM I purchased from Klook to communicate. However, when I returned to the states, I continued to experience issues but now with missing signal and calls for nearly two weeks. I reached out to the individual who sold me the plan, as well as to their location, but got no response. I also contacted the store where I made my original purchase, only to be placed on hold for long periods. Recently, I visited another location in Austin, where I finally received help. They managed to get my phone functioning correctly and improved my internet connection by providing the gray tower. I brought the white box back to return it to the original store after waiting in line. I was turned away stating that the that the driver license was needed to make the return even thou I had a photo of my driver license and could verify with a security pin and I asked her if we could call costumer service together to we get them their device back and she simply stated that she can't because she was the MANAGER --- and she said I don't know why that other store would give your another box it's seem like they're were just trying to upsell you and if you wanted that one you could have asked us. Nevertheless I don't think there's an excuse for all the false promise on selling their product & not delivering and no communication.

This was one of the most frustrating customer service experiences I have had with Verizon…read more I am the account holder in Florida, and my daughter is in Texas. After multiple calls with Verizon to resolve a shipping problem involving her phone, Verizon gave us the address of the store at 9705 Research Blvd in Austin as the location to go to for a solution. I stayed on the phone during her visit because I could not be there in person, and as the account holder, I needed to explain the situation directly. That is a completely reasonable scenario when the customer and the account holder are in different states. Instead of listening for even a moment to understand the issue, Angel shut the interaction down almost immediately. He told my daughter he could not help until she was on the account. Whether that was policy or not, that does not excuse the way he handled the situation. He refused to speak with me, even though I was on the phone and available in real time as the account holder. He would not hear the explanation, would not try to understand what Verizon had already told us, and would not engage long enough to determine whether there was any legitimate path forward. My daughter even tried to help move the situation toward a solution by asking Angel whether her dad could speak to him directly on the store phone, since I was the account holder and was calling from another state. Angel indicated that would not do any good. That response made it even clearer that this was not about trying to help within policy. It was about refusing to listen at all. What made it worse was his attitude. When my daughter asked if there was a phone number I could call, I heard Angel respond, "for what," in a snarky and dismissive tone. That response was unnecessary, unprofessional, and exactly the opposite of how a manager should speak to a customer. When she asked for a manager, he said that he was the manager and, in that context, told her, "I'm the best you're going to get." That was an astonishingly arrogant and dismissive thing to say in the middle of an unresolved customer issue. The issue here was not just policy. It was poor judgment, poor communication, and a complete failure in basic customer service. A capable manager listens first, explains respectfully, and tries to help within whatever limits exist. Angel did none of those things. He did not listen, did not offer guidance, did not provide an alternative, and did not show even a minimal interest in solving the problem. So after all of Verizon's shipping issues, all of the time already spent on the phone, Verizon directing us to that specific store, and a trip to the store after work, my daughter left empty-handed and I was forced right back to Verizon corporate to start over again. The entire interaction was dismissive from the start and useless in practice. If Angel is the standard for management at this location, Verizon should be concerned. Customers should expect better than being cut off, talked down to, and sent away without help by the person supposedly in charge. This experience was so poor that 1 star feels generous.