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- From: linimon@nominil.lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
- Newsgroups: austin.general,austin.flame
- Subject: Re: TV repair shops?
- Summary: a strong NEGATIVE recommendation for Circle Stereo
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.224852.2762@nominil.lonesome.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:48:52 GMT
- References: <5643@tivoli.UUCP> <1992Nov6.180349.1986@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Distribution: austin
- Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Nov6.180349.1986@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> root@moller3.austin.ibm.com writes:
- >I've had top-notch results from Circle Stereo on Burnet with a VCR.
-
- Then you must have gone to a different Circle Stereo on Burnet than the one
- that I did. If I had remained in Austin, I would have filed a complaint with
- the Better Business Bureau. As it was, I was in the process of moving, and
- simply didn't have time to fool with it.
-
- Originally I simply wanted to get a quote for how much it would cost to repair
- a VCR that was suffering from disuse. I got a continual run-around about how
- much it would cost *just to do the estimate*. Finally, I agreed to let them
- do the work, as long as it didn't run over $100.
-
- Every few days, when I called, I was told that they were "almost ready to
- work on it," and that it might cost more money. When, after two weeks, I
- became more insistent that they work on it (I was to be moving _quite_ soon),
- they tried to give me some kind of story about what they had been told to do
- when the unit was dropped off (untrue, it turns out).
-
- Finally, another week later, I went to the store directly to find out in
- person what was going on. The unit was not ready. Worse, and most
- inexcusably, they tried to tell me that they had only had the unit for
- a week: "It just wouldn't be possible that we would have had it for
- longer". I don't take well to being (implicitly) called a liar, and made
- them look it up. "Oh." So while I waited, they went back in the back to
- "put it back together" (please pardon my skepticism, at this point).
-
- I'm generally pretty easy to get along with, and don't enjoy creating "scenes".
- But this is definitely the rudest treatment that I've gotten at any kind of
- "service" establishment in at least the last decade, and the first time I
- recall having to insist, loudly, that I would be happy just to have the
- equipment _back_, regardless of whatever shape it happened to be in at the
- moment.
-
- These people wasted a lot of my time, at a point where I had none to waste.
- My advice to the net would be to avoid them at all costs.
-
- Mark Linimon
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- Mark Linimon / Lonesome Dove Computing Services / Roanoke, Virginia
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