I spoke with Todd on the phone today and let him know that I wanted to transfer documents from my…read moreold 2008 MacBook to my new MacBook Air. He asked how I heard about him and I told him Yelp. I asked how long of a drive it was from my location to Eagle Point and he said it would be about 45 mins. When I pulled into his driveway he called and told me he had opened a store at Rogue Valley Mall and that he was actually there (meaning I had driven 25 minutes further than I needed to). I drove the 25 minutes back the way I had come to Medford and went to the mall to Smart Help where he now works. I let him know I didn't want to spend too much money and he asked what my budget was. I asked him how much transferring documents and giving me a quick rundown of the new Mac would be. He quoted me $200 to update my old MacBook, $150 for the external hard drive that I told him I was not in the market for, $150 for transferring my documents, $100 for wiping my old MacBook and $100 for a "recorded dock tutorial." In total Todd tried to tell me it would cost me $700 to get documents off my old laptop onto my new one "the right way." I called around and got 2 quotes for what I want at $40 and $45. I dug around in the reviews that are not recommended and others seem to think he is a scam artist. Needless to say I left his store after having wasted time but thankfully not money.

Todd has a lot of knowledge about Apple products. When he is available, he makes it really easy…read morefor you to spend a LOT of money that you might not actually need to spend. I spent thousands before I figured out everything wasn't precisely as Todd portrayed it. If you are going to work with Todd be sure YOU know what you want; he's quite a salesman. He is dazzled by all the bells & whistles that Apple provides. He truly loves their products. AND he tends to oversell in a way that my husband and I consider deceptive. In my case, I am moderately technical. I view my Apple products as business tools. I needed Todd to focus on setting up very simple systems for me to run my two businesses. It was hard to keep him focused on teaching me the basic things I needed to know. Finally I went with Ronald Gehrmann, a CERTIFIED Apple Support Consultant (which Todd is not; check Apple's website for yourself) who greatly simplified the set-up and the processes Todd had given me. The steps went down from 10, for example, to 2 or 3 to get the same result. Now that is exactly what I want: Simplicity that leads to results.