I agree this job did meet our usual timescales for which I apologise and have personally already apologised to you for on the phone.
However, as discussed, the repair you needed was an electrical board repair to the power switch (Not freezing up as you post states) and these repairs not carried out on site. These repairs are quoted as an approximate 3/4 week turnaround (subject to parts availability) and on this occasion it took 7 weeks. (26th November 2020 – 12th January 2021)
There were several things that contributed to the delay in your job:
• The period of your repair covered us being in the 2nd UK lockdown, moving to Teir 4, going into the 3rd UK lockdown and Christmas.
• We lost a week at the beginning – after the first week of not returning our calls you advised us you do not listen to your voicemails – we then changed communication methods and communicated with you by text if we could not get you on the phone and did not leave you any further voicemails.
• The repair was finished in the workshop on 17th December 2020 and was being sent back to the shop for your collection. Due to courier issues, we did not receive it back until 12th January 2021, it was checked and tested inhouse on the same day and you were made aware it was ready for collection which you did on 14th January and saw the machine working prior to payment.
With regards to updating customers, our policy is to call when there is something new to inform you or the initial period of time between stages of a job needs to be changed. On reviewing the notes, this we did.
As I explained to you personally, with regards to the laptop not being delivered by the courier, until it has not arrived for 30 days the courier company will not provide us an update or consider it missing (this is quite usual practice for couriers). We were tracking it every day and every day the online system would state todays date for delivery until it got to around 3pm when the status would change to tomorrows date. Given this occurred over a very busy Christmas period when the courier company was struggling with short staff due to Covid sickness there was nothing I could do unless it reached the 30 days, which fortunately it did not.
With regards to the cost, you were charged the quoted price and did not pay until you saw the machine working.
If the machine is indeed having the same issue again with the power then you are covered under warranty which we will happily look at for you but you will need to make appropriate communication.
Heather Lloyd
Managing Director