Rosario M.
Yelp
Apple should not allow such stores to sell their products and use their name.
The "Apple" employees are not very competent (to say the least) and mostly not interested at all on your issues. They are BADLY unmotivated and do not have any affinity to customer support.
Besides other major issues I had I will describe just the worse, as I don't have enough characters available.
I bought a Mac Book Pro with Retina display.
It had the popular ghosting issue with its display. So I arrived back from holidays on the exact 14th day of Apple warranty, the guy proposed me a screen replacement instead of the option to get a brand new MBP (Apple within 14 days replaces your product no matter what reason). So I told him of the full replacement, and he, almost disappointed, acknowledged. Thanks god I did my research in advance.
Before to give my Mac I had to backup my data, and had an hard drive partitioned in NTFS. Any AVERAGE user (not even talking about a supposed expert that should help you) knows that NTFS can only be read BUT not written (at least not by default without additional third party drivers installed). Again the guy had no clue and no interest (was doing other stuff while I was trying to backup). I had to find ALONE the answer. With my own cellular data connection (yes they didn't allow me to use their WiFi either).
The quicker and safer solution was to buy an external drive to format and use as backup. I bought it (100€ ) and started my Time Machine backup, again by myself with him meanwhile doing other stuff beside me and acknowledging my steps.
The process was taking some time and I asked if I could leave and come back in an hour, his answer was -uhm.. I wouldn't suggest so- he didn't wanted to take responsibility for the laptop being there (it was in the middle of the shop) and I had to keep an eye on it.
The best is yet to come.
After about 30 minutes I was standing in front of my Mac waiting for the process to finish, I started hanging a bit around in the shop, the guy suddenly reached the Mac and after doing some clicks on it, told me -ok backup done-. From my estimation I would have expected at least another 10/15 minutes, so I said -really?!- I went over quickly and he unplugged (quicker) the drive without using the safe removal option! I arrived just in time to see the red alert error message that he tried to close before I could see it! Unbelievable and unacceptable, he could have damaged the drive I just bought.
Therefore I asked him to show me how much of the drive was full, it should have been 50.7 GB. He opened the information, and guess what?! Was 42.4 GB. I was so shocked of the situation that I couldn't believe it, I clicked on the Time Machine icon and the software recognised the backup, but I didn't spent time to thoroughly check if everything was there. I just wanted to go away, as I was really uncomfortable with the whole the situation.
If I have lost any data, it's my own problem, because I have signed a release letter that confirms that any data loss, it's my own responsibility.
Despite me being the customer and having paid over 2500€ cash for all of it, they still managed to make me feel unwanted in that shop!
I think this is the worse treatment I have ever received on a computer shop.
I will never ever buy anything in this shop because of these guys in the Apple department, I can't say anything about the other department.
By now you might wonder why 2 stars and not only 1? The shop is quite well stocked, you can find cool stuff in there, if you DON'T need/expect ANY support at all, it's perfectly fine to buy there.
This is my personal experience and opinion which I will send in much more details also to whom may concern at Cyberport and Apple, I don't expect anything to happen but I need to share it. It ruined my day, and possibly the next couple of days.
I work hard for my money and in my job I give my blood for the client. I expect that if I pay so much for a product, I receive also proper customer assistance.
