lol, luckily i never bought a mac from machines.. only bought a pair of headphones only

i've accompanied sum1 buying an iMac at Czone at lowyat plaza, surprisingly they entertain us very good. much better than most apple resellers about service i dunno lah

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Added on April 17, 2010, 9:31 pmwow if i get RX8 for my 19th birthday i sure brag kaw2 one wahaha

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Apr 17 2010, 09:31 PM

well about the 'judging people' part i think all of us did that at one point or another..

i remember once i saw this high school kid i think...arnd that age lah. his style very 'kampung' one.. worn out clothes, tshirt with stupid graphics, dirty jeans, worn out slipper, hanging out with similar folks like him... then some1 called, and from his pocket he took out an iphone

i think my clothes all more expensive than him, but i still use a SE dumbphone.. haha

and the worst thing is, u cant just get any logic board, has to be from the same generation of ur old mac as well. so spending 4k today for a 3-year-old spec (was it? forgot ;p) is a very very bad choice!

no lar..depends on how much of a trouble for a person to get a mac i think. rich ppl, morning decide wanna buy mac, afternoon can go buy. less rich ppl, today decide wanna buy mac, read reviews and follow forums etc and after 6 months baru buy

staff lack of technical knowledge i can forgive, we cant expect all the staff to be as pro as an average mac user in this forum. plus, some of them do part time only, so sure the managers malas wanna train byk2. but if zero knowledge but act very smug, different story lah. even IF u consider apple to be high-end, luxury product....there's nothing luxury about working at machines with less than 1k (i think?) salary, how to be smug? unless they personally own all the products there maybe can la~ same goes to those salesperson working in designer boutiques, some tend to judge people not afford to buy their products, but i dun think they themselves can afford one

no la, i get his point. juz bcuz some1 is from a country that has higher per capita than us, doesnt mean that individual person is richer than us. per capita is just an average. so if average salary is rm3k in malaysia, but in singapore is $3k...doesnt mean everyone in malaysia the salary is 3k and singapore is $3k right? what about malaysians with rm30k salary compare to singaporeans $2k salary?

yea yea, if me i'd rather buy from online store..can get education discount summore

but then dunno how will i feel when i buy MBP next time with my own money lah haha

yalah, im still student, part time job also cannot buy MBP lol. looking forward to my 1st hard earned MBP

^ HAHHAHAHAA

that one memang suka hati hentam laa!!!

one story from my gf. went to machines KLCC with her MBP...a malay staff treat her like she's some random poor kid lost in a 'premium' store. even after she took out her MBP also still treat like that. then he saw her wallpaper, a picture of her vacation in london...suddenly treat so nice +_+

any notebook same case... all-in-one im not sure

they do represent apple though. they have the 'premium reseller' badge, which apple awarded (am i right?). so bad experience in their storees = bad impression on apple inc.

the only time i see machines staff become friendly is during discoveryweek

agreed. i think i need to rephrase. wut i mean was since machines, epicentre, switch etc got the premium reseller badge, i guess ppl would think their service are 'approved' by apple. if they give bad service, ppl would think "lousy service also apple can approve?". something like that lar i guess.

i thought someone mentioned here if we get bad treatment, can complain to apple?

there are some PC stores selling macs... Czone for instance

anyway it's true though... i've worked at an apple reseller myself... when orang putih buy macs they never ask if got freebies got discounts etc. well maybe that's because they're rich la

nothing wrong with PC user working at machines. not ideal of course, but if dunno anything about macs but stil want to be smug, problem la dat

oh really? didnt notice that

we fiddle2 fondle2 but the staff keep staring at us with "you wont afford that" face not nice also...

^ shud be:

Bought few stuff from Machines.
1) MBP cos got 50% off from my maybank treatpoints
2) 2 3gs casing
3) coffee for cute machines staff

yeap so far i get good treatment from epicentre.. even if i ask something they dunno also, they'll go find someone who knows, n get back to me. the stuff they have are better imho...better choices.

if one day i can afford buy mac pro.. i'll wear tshirt, shorts n slippers... go see see accessories 1st, then ask got mac pro in stock or not.. haha. i wonder how they respond

screw is cheap, n easy to do anyway, so no problem. we're talking about installing RAM or formatting here. any shop will charge you, they wanna make money ma. maybe if u buy RAM or OS from them, they can install for free. if that's the shop u bought ur computer from, yea maybe they can do it for free too, in the hopes that u'll come again for ur next purchase

any business need to make profit. installing RAM or formatting costs time and effort that could've been directed at somewhere else. you'll have a bunch of computers waiting for be repaired and paid for, no way u format some strangers computer for free right?

maybe in overseas it's different lah, i dunno, but we're talking about malaysia here. wanna get a salesperson to treat u nice also very hard... wanna get someone to install RAM or format for free...aiyo

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Added on May 2, 2010, 1:56 amoh ya wanna add... that's why it's always a good idea to buy ur stuff from a place that gives good service can always come back later n they may help u with something for free. the place i bought my MBP from even teach me how to change HDD etc

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: May 2 2010, 01:56 AM

^ no experience doesnt mean dunno how to treat customer nicely that's the main issue here i think... technical issues they dunno nevermind, we have apple byte

well, no matter if this thread is going to boycott machines or not... i'm just glad we have a 'warning' here in apple byte. i always thought im the only one who hates machines staff n really like epicentre...found out that i'm not alone .

n very true...when an average customer see machines branch everywhere, that person would simply assume machines is the best in the business. but when he/she get bad treatment from machines, he/she might assume that other apple resellers are worse

in miri, the only apple reseller (optiprimus) only the manager actually knows about macs. the rest of the staff are very clueless. but so far none of them are snobbish etc. if they dunno, they will find the manager 1st, if cannot they try to google or find out some other way, until they really try they'll say they dunno. somehow i appreciate that

so did they check or not? what i know is this indicator is like a sticker inside the ipod (most phones n laptops got this thing too). it will change colour when it comes into contact with water. this is so technicians can determine whether ur gadget is faulty or it's the user's fault. so i guess we can say that in order to check, they need to open up ur ipod 1st. if they didn't, probably they didn't check at all

but i rmember someone mentioned earlier that due to malaysia's humid weather, the indicator sticker can still change colour even though u never dropped it in water or got it wet by rain before

EDIT: i'd like to add that im not familiar with any other kinds of moisture indicators

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: May 4 2010, 10:22 PM

ah yes, there were complaints about that as well

wow, sorry 2 hear that astard. however u're very lucky that the other person decided to return ur 32gb ipod. he might have just ran away with it

i bought a screen protector from machiens during discoveryweek last time. i asked if they can apply for me, they said they would (for free) but cannot guarantee no bubbles. to me that's a good answer

but then i prefer to do it myself anyway lah. i dun like strangers touch2 my mbp hehe

nimrod is correct. imagine u bought SP, asked them to do it, but they didnt do a good job. since u paid for it, ofcourse u want them to compensate for you

any reseller (im msia at least) wouldn't want that to happen. so "i can apply for u but i cannot guarantee anything" is a better answer than "no i cannot do for u" or "ok sure no problem!"

so if u want them to apply for u... juz dun be so strict la. sometimes u do ur best also still got bubbles etc. juz accept it