Microtech computers, do not buy them
regressist <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Sep 2023 00:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi all,=20 this is my very bad story with Microtech I made the huge mistake to buy an e-cube at the not negligible cost of 1012= euro. After 3.5 months I was not able to reboot. At first I thought that t= his was due to an update of Windows even though I never had any such proble= m.=20 Microtech immediately told me to reinstall the OS. At first I refused becau= se I did not want to loose part of the data. With a recovery tool on a USB = stick I tried to remove the last 2 updates: they were both declared success= ful but at the final reboot the pc did not boot. I tried to reinstall a sys= tem image 2 months old with the same result: the pc took 8 hours to reinsta= ll it, it was successful but did not reboot. I asked Microtech a bootable t= ool for HW check but they refused and said the only option was to try their= iso for the fresh installation of the OS, in Italian. When I said I wanted= my original version in English/American they told me to look in internet h= ow to make the system look in English (as if it was the same as a native sy= stem). I downloaded from Microsoft the American version and installed it bu= t again no reboot. Finally I tried the Microtech installation but after som= e checks it was not even able to start the real installation. Microtech recalled the pc for suspect HW failure but after 10 days sent me = the bill for the maintenance. I asked why and they replied that they found = some drivers missing and they successfully reinstalled the OS. Note that they got from me a formatted system, this means the so-called "mi= ssing" drivers were clearly missing from Microtech original installation, b= ut the system was ok for 3.5 months, how is it possible? I replied that I would not pay, that even if I believed the story of the mi= ssing drivers they were anyway Microtech responsibility and they had to con= sider the work in guarantee. Long and extremely frustrating discussion, the= y frequently turned upside down the facts and lied. Examples:=20 - they claimed that I made resistance to their support and did not do all w= hat they wanted (i.e. the simple idiotic reinstallation of the OS), when as= ked what I had not done the expert did not reply - when asked which drivers were missing they said "to identify the missing = drivers is not important" - they tried to blame Microsoft but I had successfully removed two updates = and the problem did not go, so it was not due to the update as thought In the end in view of the fact that I had in my life many computers and non= e had ever any failure (I still have even 25 old pcs and they still work) I= realized that the e-cube is really junk and asked a refund.=20 No reply for weeks, they only woke up when I sent a complaint via a custome= r union and even threatened to sue me because I had said they were lying an= d cheating to force me to pay the maintenance. They offered me to send bac= k the machine for free. But after more than a month of painful work (to inv= estigate), lengthy discussions with deaf and deceptive people, missing pc, = I repeated that I wanted only a refund. The day after they shipped the pc.= =20 At first I decided to reject the parcel and forget also the money, then I c= hanged my mind and took it.=20 Of course there was a surprise, there is always a surprise with this kind o= f people: they had installed version 1909 of Windows 10 pro in Italian inst= ead of the 22H2 in English. According to the European law they have to give= the system in the same conditions as at the beginning. But they do not car= e, with arrogance they said to connect it to internet for the upgrade (I ha= d decided by then to never go on internet with that junk and use it only fo= r some confidential computations), to set the language in English (again, y= ou end up with a system in two languages, the setting is a known bug) or to= ask someone else to do it. They also added in the bill is not specified th= e language of the OS so for them is ok. If you want to see the public part of this wonderful customer care approach= you can read it with automatic translator at=20 https://www.altroconsumo.it/reclamare/i-miei-reclami/dettagli-reclamo?refer= enceid=3DCPTIT01854473-27 After this story you can judge yourself if it is convenient to spend your m= oney with this vendor.