hey Sue, I am not at all surprised by your experience with geek squad. a co-worker came to me with her Mom's computer, saying that they [geek squad & best buy] told her that the pc was a goner and sold her a new one. all she wanted was her files off of her hard drive, to which the said that her hard drive was gone... not so... I was able to pull off her files with no problem. as with both Gman and SirTroth, I give alot of my services away when the problem is a simple fix and also always follow up with my customers [both work related and side jobs] to be sure that they are satisfied with the work performed as well as to see if they have any questions. it's not time consuming and leaves a good impression... which most of these big companies do not! I just don't get it... keep us updated with your new Dell... I'm very interested in what happens! ~s ----- 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! --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------