I dont see any point ban those shops anywhere...
the problem is the people not the shop. somemore the turnover rate should be high in these shops.
You can blame those who did wrong, but you cannot complain the shop.
Get their boss awareness on this issue. you may get something out from it

well....

u from startec?

i'll sue them if i kena con

I still buy from Startec but I too had a bad experience with them. Bought a P3 600MHz EB from them few years back and they confirmed that it will work with my MB. Went back plugin, nothing works. Return and wanna top up for P3 700MHz non EB but was told that restocking fees is 20% of the item value. WTF!!! Walk across to Compuzone bought a new mobo and it runs just fine. They are really a bunch of non friendly staffs, thats it. Nowadays I only buy stuffs like RAM, DVDRW etc that doesnt really require compatibility check and drivers, ONLY WHEN THEIR PRICE IS REALLY CHEAPER THAN OTHERS.

goldfries in the earlier part ask so many smart quesdtion....where the fcuk is he now??????????!!!!!....


if u cant offer any sympathy, then fcuk off lah, dumbass goldfries!!!!!~~~


idiot!!~~

bro, calm down. not only TS had bad experience like this. try PM (goldfries) him if u thing this is really emergency case to u. otherwise take back ur words,

respect..

This post has been edited by atomik: Jul 2 2009, 11:48 PM

Sad story you got there but your mistake is saying yes for them to format your PC. The technical level of technicians in lowyat have the mentality of solving problems by formatting. Rules number 1 is never allow them to format or leave your PC overnight there. Especially if you have important data in your HDD.

Your story might not have much credibility (as pointed by goldfries) but it does seems real. The reason is a lot of people agree with the description of the services Startec is providing.

But I also agree with goldfries to take this kind of story at it's face value. It could always some exaggeration and putting all the blame on one side.

Just take this as a lesson not to leave your important hdd with computer shops. As for banning Startec, I have not done it but this is the last shop that I am going to buy items from if others does not have stock.

As a pc troubleshooter, they should got ethics. They should treat all customer pc as their pc. So in that case, when it comes to a situation that they need to do something related to the hard disk, they should do backup first.

In this case, we cannot blame TS due to she admit she know nothing regarding pc. So the one that claimed they KNOWS (the shop) but do a 'cincai' job like this is totally unacceptable.

Peace

hope the shopkeeper get A(H1N1)

most of the technicians are just Form-5 graduate or Form-3.

This post has been edited by gerykhkc: Jul 4 2009, 06:15 PM

LOL....of cuz lah...form 3 and form 5 dropout and dun even know any english word...but wanna become technician konon!!!...lol...

such a moron....LOL...

wait till you hear them speaks in Malay. "kalau tulun halga saya makan tahik lor".

but as Darren said, i will still buy from them those small items if their price is the cheapest but so far other shops beat them to it.

There's another to avoid: atom PC or something... Writing and uploading photos now. I'm sure you guys will WTF!

hangat ni...must choose carefully the shop after this

probably u can try search software called "Recover My Files", it will definitely help u to recover back all your data.

I've done this before.

Remember, it will take a long time to recover all data.

Wow.. kind of bad men.

first time in my life see this type of pattern. anyway you should have backup important stuff before sending it over.

hmmm, bad workmenship. Without customer, they won't have business at all.

too bad...dun worry.
they will get punisment..

p.s:dun ever do like that to lady..

+1

yeah ... you should NOT give your hard disk to anyone ....... remember Edison Chen case?



but i do pity TS .... such cases seems to happen everywhere .... ppl with no pc experience tends to get "Baptize" by these unscrupulous ppl ... why cant the owners hire more reliable ppl?

pity u ts

i think since u r a lady they tried to cheat u

but format ur d drive is something that i can nvr understand for a gc some more

ban the shop from now on

dont blame each other anymore, if they r expert so much they wont work they anymore. they just a normal dealer and seller ok. we buy hardware coz we r familiar or expert to configure and maintain all those staff.