Sue, I have followed your saga with great interest and continue to await the arrival of your new Dell. I guess I have been pretty fortunate overall, in that I have used e-mail to get answers to problems with HP, Epson, or whoever. Usually get a detailed step by step response for fixing it. I don't like to use the phone and resort to that only if my PC is totally inoperable. I might add that I nearly panicked when my e-mails were bouncing and I had trouble getting to G-Man on the list to help me out! That turned out to be a problem with my ISP and I did have to make a phone call or two to him. This is the first I have heard of the Geek Squad. Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzanne Dunlap" <sdunlap3@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:01 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- First Experience With The Geek Squad > You've all heard about my problems with getting my Dell computer replaced. > I thought you'd enjoy this story about my first experience using The Geek > Squad from Best Buy, where we bought a HP computer several days ago. > My husband has been complaining about the 19" widescreen monitor not > looking > right - it was kind of elongated The blue circles with the "back" and > "forward" arrows were oval instead of round. I kept telling him to read > the > Help section and see if he could find the answer, but he's a typical man - > can't ask for directions! Finally I called The Geek Squad at Best Buy to > ask them about it. They gave me an 800 number to call - I called it, > talked > to one tech and he said he'd transfer me to a different dept. Same thing > with that tech - she said I had to start with the "Mission Control" > department so they could set up my "new account". When I explained the > problem to this last girl, she said that a tech could remotely make this > adjustment for > me for a charge of $49! I told her no way - I just wanted the tech to > walk > me through the adjustment and I'd do it myself! Well, she said that also > would cost me $49 - I came close to really losing my temper after what > I've > been through with Dell support the last few weeks! I asked her just what > the heck we had paid for with the 3-year warranty that we bought. She > said > it covered hardware, power surges, etc. but not software problems. I got > so > mad I just told her to forget it and > called Best Buy again and this time talked to a salesman and explained > what > was going on. He told me he'd transfer me to the in-store Geek Squad > again > and when I explained everything to the tech that I talked to, he > reluctantly told me that all I had to do was change the resolution to 1440 > x > 900 - the resolution it was set at was for a square monitor! Can you > believe those jerks - oops, I mean Geeks, would not even tell me this > little > tip without charging me $49! I think maybe we've jumped out of the frying > pan into the fire - Dell might not be so bad after all! Evidently, the > Geek > Squad doesn't do the diagnostics over the phone like Dell does. You have > to > take the computer to them, I guess, and they fix it in the store. That's > okay if it's a hardware problem, but I've called Dell lots of times and > had > minor problems fixed right over the phone. Just another rip-off, it looks > like! > > Also, I've been using Vista since Monday and I don't find it hard to use > at > all. I was so worried because I'd heard so many negative remarks about > it. > I don't see that much of a difference, but I probably don't use it for the > same purposes that you advanced computer experts do. > > Next week I should be getting my Dell replacement computer - I'm curious > to > see if it is going to have everything on it that my old one did, including > the floppy drive that I need for my machine embroidery system. The tech I > talked to said it would have the same specs as my old one, so we'll have > to > wait and see. > > Sue in Bridgeport, Mi. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and > everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. > > To unsubscribe or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: > pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1404 - Release Date: 4/29/2008 > 6:27 PM > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. 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