I took a functional PC to PC Girls in to get a hard drive replaced and ended up getting my PC back with the new hard drive - but the PC no longer functional.
The technician called me at one point and told me the PC died while on the bench. No details. He wasn't sure if it was the motherboard or CPU.
Their solution was to buy a new PC with a slower processor, charge me full price for that, and put the hard drives in that new machine.
Having lost faith in their ability to repair as well as a lack of realistic decision-making skills, I opted to cut my losses and pay them for the data transfer and new SSD. Now, I have a non-functional PC but with a couple of new hard drives in it.
Sadly, although I have had positive experiences with PC Girls in the past, our relationship is now over. I guess it's one of those relationships that, once over, I see clearly that the other has different values and morals than me and I hope to be happier with someone new one day.
In this situation I can't definitively say that the breakup is completely the fault of the other, but after this experience, I feel confident that the responsibility for the breakup would have best been shared between us both. It was not. There should have been a discussion and closure. There was not.
I wish nothing but the best for PC Girls. I hope they learn and grow from this experience and their next relationship is built on mutual respect.
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Since first posting this review, I emailed PC Girls through their website - telling them I was not happy with this situation. They replied, acknowledged that the situation was not satisfactory for either party and subsequently refunded my entire bill.
Although this was a good thing, I still have a non-functional computer, they ordered something for my PC that was not compatible, and at the time of paying for the "repair" they acknowledged that I was paying for services that were essentially useless to me.
This is something that could have been resolved the first time I showed up to pay for their service. There could have been a conversation about this and there never was, not even as the refund was issued.
The fact remains that they messed up in many ways and, because of their service tech and problematic customer relations, our relationship is over. We are never, ever, ever getting back together.