Most of the services were completed but the series of hard drives didn't work and had to fix that myself.
Description of Work: Installed a hard drive, motherboard, video card and Windows and reconfigured.
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
2.0
value
3.0
professionalism
3.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
5.0
$400
Larry B.
02/2013
2.0
computer repair
+ -1 more
from something more important and he and I were the only ones in the store/shop. It works, but I can't say much for their service attitude or customer service skills. The left hand doesn't seem to know what the right hand is doing. I personally would look at other places before I would take one back there. My advice to the owner is good luck in building your business because with your lacking social skills, you're gonna need it! That is an outright lie about me calling the same day I brought the computer in. I didn't call the first time until after it had been there 4 business days. I agreed to pay the additional fee because they knew they had me over a barrel. They had the computer for a week. I don't fault the tech, I fault the people running the store. Their communication skills stink.
Description of Work: They tell you $65 diagnostic fee and a turnaround of about 1 business day. This computer wouldn't boot at all, not normally, not into safe mode, not into DOS. I waited 3 business days before I finally called them. One guy tells me his tech is just finishing and it will be another 2 hours and one of them would call me. No call at all that day. I called the next morning and it was a different guy and different tech and he says he is about to look at it. I was like wth. Then he calls me back asking me what the computer was doing because he says it boots up fine. He hadn't talked to the tech from the day before. Before we know it we're at the end of the day again and this guy says he wants to run some more tests just to make sure it's not the hard drive. He says it won't be more than another $35, but puts me on hold and comes back and tells me it will be another $75. Now the thing is that when they ran the initial diagnostic test, it actually fixed the corrupted OS file. So I kind of argued that the price should stand at the original $65. There are two Josh's there. One is a tech and the other is the owner. So the owner Josh gets on the phone with me and proceeds to tell me that he can hang up the phone and call me back and tell me it will be $125 because that is what they charge per bench hour and that they already had more than an hour having worked on the machine. My argument was you didn't call me to tell me it was going to cost extra and the diagnostic process fixed the problem and I paid the diagnostic fee is a flat $65. Then he says "LET me tell you how our business works". I can tell this is a young p*** with no customer service skills. Then he tells me they can roll back the changes and give me the computer back, so he knew he had me over a barrel. He was going to charge the additional $75 whether the tech performed the additional hard drive test or not. So I bit my tongue and agreed to pay the extra $75. He said it would be ready to be picked up at 10 the following Saturday morning. Oh and they kept making excuses about how long it took because they were all working on some big website. I was thinking to myself I don't really care what else you working on. By now it had taken all week since I took it over on a Tuesday. So I go over to pick it up (10 miles round trip), pay, and pick it up. Got home and it wouldn't boot up. Called them up and the guy suggested that I could take it apart and look for loose cables or bring it back. I took it back because I didn't want to be accused of doing anything wrong. Some cable was left unconnected. They claimed it probably just came loose after the fact. The guy Sean (who is not a tech) wasn't the least little apologetic, as a matter of fact he acted annoyed that I was keeping him
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
3.0
value
2.0
professionalism
1.0
responsiveness
1.0
punctuality
1.0
$140
Response from SpaceCenter Systems
Our typical diagnostic turnaround time is approximately one business day; this is not guaranteed unless priority service is added. The customer began calling for updates the same day he brought in his computer; the office manager had informed him of the wait when he dropped off the computer for service so he was aware of our workload and wait time. Joshua was the tech assigned to your project, and he had begun working on it the next business day. The customer called us for updates multiple times, and we had told him that we are currently diagnosing the issue and would call him back. He called at times where people were at lunch so he did talk to different people but they all told him the same thing. Our diagnostic fee does not apply to the repair; it simply pays for us specifically figuring out issues with a machine. We had two different items to quote out for the full fix, and the confusion was when he had 2 different technicians quote him two different things that needed to be fixed. A repair install was needed, a service that we usually charge $129.00 for, and a registry clean needed to be done, and we charge $35.00 for that. The customer at that time did not want to go with what needed to be fixed. Our tech did spend a good few hours on the machine; we simply want to be paid for our time for the repair, so I offered the fix for $75.00 which is discounted from our regular bench rate of $125.00/Hour. I believe offering a discounted rate for work we usually charge more for is aiming to please our customers. I did offer to have our techs roll back the fix, as we make a backup before starting diagnostics, but the customer declined and agreed to pay the fee. The computer was on and working when Shawn arrived as it was running an overnight test to make sure there were no issues. The customer called him at around 10:45AM and he shut down the machine and prepared the machine for pickup. The customer called a little while later after picking it up asking about boot issue, which is difficult to figure out over the phone, so Shawn suggested making sure nothing came loose inside the case or you could bring it back and he could check it out. You returned it and he found that there was a loose cable, he plugged it back in and showed you that it was working. He also restarted it to show that it would not do it again. Cables can occasionally come loose while driving so I am thinking that is what happened.
Steve S.
06/2012
5.0
computer repair
+ -1 more
Space Center Systems are real good. Very honest people. Space Center Systems fixed various computer problems. When the repair did not require parts for replacement and only required some software reconfiguration I was not charged. Space Center Systems were referred to me through word of mouth.
Description of Work: Space Center Systems repaired my computer.
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0
Yes, I recommend this pro
02/2006
5.0
computer repair
+ -1 more
We thought we had lost several very important files, but their technicians retrieved all of these. They were extremely helpful in explaining the cause, and what we could do to protect ourselves in the future. All of our household finances, and tax records were almost lost. Space Center are life savers. They also showed us how to make back up copies of all our important electronic documents. They showed a great of patience in this because we are barely computer literate.
Description of Work: Space Center Systems removed the viruses from our PC. The system had been infected by over seventy different viruses, and would no longer function.
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FAQ
SpaceCenter Systems is currently rated 3.8 overall out of 5.
Sunday: Closed
Monday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
SpaceCenter Systems accepts the following forms of payment: Check,MasterCard,PayPal,Visa
No, SpaceCenter Systems does not offer free project estimates.
No, SpaceCenter Systems does not offer eco-friendly accreditations.
No, SpaceCenter Systems does not offer a senior discount.
Yes, SpaceCenter Systems offers emergency services.
No, SpaceCenter Systems does not offer warranties.
SpaceCenter Systems offers the following services: COMPUTER HARDWARE, ELECTRONICS, COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE, OFFICE SUPPLIES,