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Acer - bad products/service

In mid-August of 2007 I purchased an Acer laptop from Circuit City in Wayne, NJ. The laptop came with a 1 year factory/manufacturer's warranty.

Approx. 3 months later keys started falling off of the keyboard. I called Acer who logged the complaint and said they would call me back.

A few days later, a new keyboard appeared in my mailbox.

I am not a technician and have no idea how to remove the old keyboard and install the new one.

However, I have a friend at work who works in the IT department and he replaced the keyboard for me. All was fine.

Naturally, Acer tells me they have NO record of this ever happening.

Then, in June of 2008, about 2 months before my warranty was about to expire, the laptop started acting up.

USB ports wouldn't work. The laptop would not recognize anything plugged into them (printer, jump drive, iPod, etc.).

I called Acer tech support and they walked me through a few steps to try to resolve the issues.

I had to uninstall and reinstall drivers and while I was on the phone with them, the laptop seemed to respond a little better.

At least it recognized my printer and 1 of the 3 USB ports.

As soon as I hung up the phone with tech support, the laptop started acting up again.

Then the mouse stopped working (it plugs into one of the USB ports).

Then the built in mouse/touchpad stopped working.

The built in web cam stopped working.

Then the laptop wouldn't even turn on. Couldn't get it to boot into Windows.

Called tech support back and they said I needed to send the laptop in for repair. This was on/about June 29, 2008.

I asked them to send me a box to ship it in and to provide me with a prepaid shipping label for FedEx, UPS or similar.

They refused.

They said the laptop was covered, but shipping was my responsibility.

I argued that if their laptop was defective, then they are responsible for shipping charges. They flatly refused.

It cost me just under $50 to ship the laptop to them via UPS Ground Service.

About 3 weeks went by and I didn't hear from Acer so I called them. They advised the motherboard was defective and they had to order a new one.

However, the motherboards they use come from Taiwan and they weren't expecting another shipment until on/about Sept. 15th!

I asked them if replacing the motherboard would impact the contents of the hard drive because in actuality, this laptop was purchased for, and belongs to, my 14 year old daughter

and it contained all her schoolwork, digital photos and downloaded songs, which she paid for.

Acer replied that sometimes the hard drive had to be wiped out and other times not. No way to be certain.

Then they proceeded to lecture me about how I should have backed up my hard drive before sending it to them for repair.

I reminded the technician that their defective product crashed on me so how did he expect me to back up my data before shipping it to them?

Upon reflection, he agreed. (Don't you hate it when you know more than they do? Very scary.)

It was at that point that the technician said if I didn't want to wait until Sept. for a replacement motherboard, Acer will send me a refurbished laptop as a replacement.

I said I bought a NEW laptop and I don't want someone elses broken/fixed laptop.

I also said since all the data on the hard drive belonged to my daughter, I had to check with her to see what she wanted to do, wait for it to be fixed and take a chance her data wouldn't be lost, or accept a used model that assured us her data would be lost. I told the technician I would call back tomorrow. Went home, spoke to my daughter and she said she'd wait for her laptop to be fixed.

When I called Acer back the next day and spoke to them again, this new different person said they would pull my hard drive out of my laptop and send it to me so I could take it somewhere and copy the contents of the hard drive. The only catch...if they didn't get the hard drive back in 15 days, they'dd charge me $150.00. I was forced to give them my credit card number, but agreed.

A few days later Acer sent me a hard drive and they even enclosed a prepaid FedEx shipping label so I could send it back at their expense. Miracles do happen.

So I took the hard drive to Circuit City and asked their Firedog department to copy the contents of the hard drive onto a portable hard drive I brought in with me.

This they agreed to do for $107.00 I went back to Circuit City 2 days later and picked up my laptop hard drive and portable hard drive. Went home, hooked up my portable hard drive and NOTHING was on it.

It was empty. In my opinion, I don't know what hard drive Acer sent me, but I don't think it was the one that was in my daughters laptop.

Now I had to go back to Circuit City, spend 45 minutes talking to all different managers who finally agreed to refund my $107. What a nightmare.

The next day I packaged up the laptop hard drive and shipped it back to Acer. I kept the tracking number and made sure the package was delivered and signed for.

It must have gotten to the right place/people because Acer never billed me the $150 they said they would.

Now it is nearing the end of July, or maybe it is early August. I come home from work and guess whats at my door, a note from FedEx saying I have to go to their Facility to pickup a package.

We weren't expecting the laptop until mid to late September, but there it was! My daughter was sooooooooo excited.

We plugged it in, turned it on and ERROR messages come flying out all over the screen. The laptop was not fixed!Totally USELESS. Daughter was hysterical.

I get on the phone with Acer and their technician tells me to send it back.

I tell him Acer sent me a broken laptop so they need to send me a prepaid shipping label. He refused again and again and again. It was like talking to a wall.

I asked to speak to a supervisor...sorry, they've all gone home for the evening. So Ace's support staff work, unsupervised, for hours at a time. Nice company!

I hung up the phone and called back the next day. Got a supervisor who immediately gave me a code # to bring to FedEx and FedEx would print out a prepaid shipping label at Acer's expense, so off goes my laptop back to Acer. 3 weeks goes by and back FedEx comes with my laptop...all fixed, right? NOT! Completely useless. Same error messages on the screen. Won't boot up. Daughter in tears!

The next day I take the laptop to Circuit City (guess I didn't learn my lesson the last time). They quickly determine the reason the laptop isn't working is because there is NO hard drive in the laptop.

Basically, Acer received the original hard drive back that I shipped them, but the Acer genius technicians never put it back in. According to Circuit City, they have a way to test laptops booting them off of a cd-rom if they can't boot them off of the hard drive. So I go home and call Acer the next day. Must've spent 45 minutes on the phone with one of their supervisors who tried to tell me I never returned the hard drive so they kept sending it back to me without a hard drive. What idiots! Another 15 minutes on the phone and his research determined the hard drive was returned, but they discarded/destroyed it upon receipt...so all my daughter's data is lost afterall. He gave me a new code to bring to FedEx to have my laptop sent back to them and they will install a new hard drive and (allegedly) all original factory installed software and the operating system (I don't believe this will happen for a minute).

So my laptop is on it's way to Acer for the 3rd time. Meanwhile, they've had my laptop since the end of June, my daughter has nothing, lost everything and the warranty expired with our laptop in their hands.

I filled a complaint with the BBB weeks and weeks ago. Got a call from Sarah with Acer 2 days ago. She apparently responds to complaints from the BBB (Sarah's # is 800.845.2237).

I explained everything to Sarah and asked her the following question. If Acer replaces the motherboard, why does Acer only warranty the motherboard for 90 days? It is brand new, just as if I bought a brand new laptop. Acer needs to cover it for a year since the original one died after only 7 months so clearly 90 days isn't long enough.

On top of that, my manufacturer's warranty expired in the middle of last August while Acer had it for nearly 3 months now. Sarah steadfastly refused to compensate me for this loss of time on my warranty as well.

She said, I'm sorry, we don't do that. She repeated that same mantra no matter how I explained it. She made it quite clear she couldn't care less that because of Acer my daughter lost all of her precious digital photos, songs and school work. She was very good at apologizing and then refusing to take responsibility or action on my behalf. I told Sarah that for our trouble and aggravation, I expected nothing less than a complete bumper-to-bumper factory warranty for another year on our fixed laptop. She said no. What I really want and what Acer should offer my daughter is a brand new, upgraded laptop. That's what a reputable company that stands behind their product should step up and do.

I have a file documenting the shipment of my laptop back and forth to Acer as well as all of Acer's service request numbers. Although this case/issue has been ongoing for 3 months, apparently Acer needs to confuse matters further by assigning a new service request number each time I call them to discuss the matter.

I strongly suggest to anyone reading this that they do not purchase any products manufactured by Acer. I've also filed a complaint with Circuit City letting them know that selling poor quality products that manufacturers don't stand behind is a poor reflection on them.

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Steve Dwyer
Langhorne, US
May 30, 2009 5:07 pm EDT

I bought a 24" monitior from this "Nightmare" of a so called company back on 8/13/2007 it is supposed to have a 3 year warrenty. It broke 19 months later.

Ok, no problem, things do break, But I figured its under warrenty. Well ACER Obvioulsy is telling their workers to do anything to AVOID fixing their crappy products.

They have so far put me through over 2 months of back and forth e-mails, they ask for the S/N I give it to them. they say its wrong! How can it be wrong?

It's the one thats on the back of there peice of crap monitior. I told them maybe its because they are using an ACER computer and that would explain them not having a good reliable machine to pull S/N from on their own products.

Better yet, I think it is "just" a delaying tatic to frustrate a paying customer. If they play these games with me long enough I will just give up and go away.

But Ahhhh they are wrong and I told them so.
I will go WAY WAY out of my way to show the
public and hopfully media just what a "HACK"
company we are dealing with.

As far as I can see and with my own personal
experince with this "PIRATE" type company
they are HEADING hopefully OUT OF BUSINESS
SOON! NO, company can hope to stay around
for a long time when they play these games.

Build CRAP stuff, LOW price points and ZERO
customer service. I am going to file complaints
with EVERY one I can find the BBB, BEST BUYS
where I paid $ 400.00 dollars for their piece of
crap ACER 24" monitior.

Of course the moment these business "ROACHES"
Gets the MEDIA and PUBLIC SPOT LIGHT on them
they will swing into DAMAGE CONTROL and try
to salavage their CRAPPY REPUTATION and will
I am sure close ACER BUT MORF into some NEW
company with a new name BUT the same old CRAP!
as so many do. STAMP OUT THESE TYPES NOW!
UNITE against this stuff. We as cunsumers have the POWER if we just get together and SPEAK UP!

Thanks
Steve Dwyer ..sdwyer21@aol.com

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Oct 23, 2008 5:57 pm EDT

Addendum:

I fixed it myself.

I am a medical professional - a genius in a non-tech field. BUT I fixed the computer myself.

The keys go back on very nicely.
The computer is working.

BUT I WILL NEVER PURCHASE any other Acer product. I will never purchase any Acer service or warranty. I will never call Acer for help.

I will rely on myself or a local REAL and SMART person who can fix computer stuff.

If you absolutely MUST call Acer, call for Frances in Texas at [protected] x 4483
and totally avoid all the bad people in San Jose and all the disgusting tech folks in Tulsa.

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Oct 23, 2008 5:50 pm EDT

I found this page about Acer's poor customer service while - of course - searching for something that may explain why I've gotten such horrible customer service from them today. Frightening actually.

Here's my story in brief: while working at my laptop, cat jumped up and vomited on the keyboard - a lot; I turned it upside down to let gravity take first crack at solving this slimy problem; wiped the remnants off with a paper towel; called Acer while still holding keyboard upside down; tech who did not ID self said to take keys off; I took 3 keys off & told him what I was doing; he LAUGHED maniacally and said that even though I can take the keys off - it is IMPOSSIBLE to get them back on without sending computer in to Acer (for a huge fee) for repairs...

The tech was a jerk. He was no help. He had no name. He was typing - AUDIBLY and at length - and not responding verbally to anything I said. Hmmmm... I asked him some questions and he never responded except to keep clacking his keyboard... THIS WAS AN EMERGENCY - so I hung up to take care of biz.

Called back, talked to a woman at:
Acer America Corporation
333 West San Carlos Street
Suite 1500
San Jose, CA 95110
[protected] – Phone

Appatrently a phone answerer, she was nice. Said she couldn't help me but would transfer me to Customer Care. She did. I talked to a very nice woman names Frances (the ONLY person at this company who is worth a HOOT!)

Frances was kind, patient, had a great sense of humor. She made a service request number for me, even though I did NOT want any service from these people! Then transferred me to Tech Support (the same jerks from earlier.)

I got a man named Bob. Since the first idiot did not ID himself, I asked if this is the only Bob there. Bob said, yes amazingly I am the only Bob here. I told him the story. He was NOT good at listening AT ALL. He was NOT good at helping AT ALL. Though he was nice enough I guess. He said that the first horrible tech, "could not possibly be in this department." I told him the number I had called earlier: End User Technical Support and Service (USA only)
For end user technical support, spare parts and service: 1.800.816.2237

And Bob said, "Oh, that IS here." So the JERK is indeed at Bob's location.

Bob was of NO help. But he did give me useful info: you may NEVER take a key off of ANY laptop EVER for any reason because this makes it never work ever again. The only recourse is this: send the whole computer in to him - at a huge price INCLUDING some sum (it had an official name - I can't remember the official name - but the meaning was something like a retainer in the REAL business world.) I said NO OF COURSE NOT! I just want to know why the first idiot told me to take keys off - then laughed and said they CAN NEVER BE PUT BACK ON - and then just sat there typing... PSYCHO!

Bob just kept EXPLAINING at LENGTH to me about all this crap that I had no interest in... I want to know: 1. WHY can't keys be replaced (in reality they CAN be - so Acer folks are big fat liars), 2. WHY laptops are "ruined" if you take a key off, 3. WHY there is NOTHING protective in between the keys/my fingers/the outside world and the innards of the computer with "ALL LAPTOPS" - as BOB informed me.

This is what I think:
1. IF Acer & Bob were telling the truth - then NOBODY should EVER purchase or use ANY laptop of any brand,

2. Acer & Bob do not know what they're talking about and are big jerks,

3. They just say all kinds of scripts to get more money and give you nothing usable,

4. The lady named Sondra who answers the phone in San Jose is a jerk with such a low IQ that she should not be working ANYWHERE at all - especially not in the capacity of speaking to people who are PAYING CUSTOMERS!,

5. Bob and all the tech people should NEVER be allowed to talk to human beings because they cannot interface with real people,

6. Bob and the Jerky Tech Guy with No Name should learn that ONE DOES NOT JUST SIT THERE AND NOT REPLY WHEN PAYING CUSTOMERS ARE SPEAKING AND ASKING QUESTIONS - THEY BOTH SIMPLY SAT THERE AND DIDN'T RESPOND - EXCEPT FOR TYPING LOUDLY AND BOB DID SAY SOMETHING THAT SOUNDED LIKE A SYLLABLE MORE THAN A WORD AND I STILL HEARD HIS ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS BUT HE WAS JUST MENTALLY ABSENT,

7. Sondra the Phone Answerer also - IF NOT FIRED INSTANTLY - must learn that you do NOT ask a question of a caller, and then slam them onto hold with NO explanation while they are answering her question!

Frances is cool. Amazingly I got her again when I called back to complain about Bob the idiot.

ALL Acer tech folks are social ###s and are no help - do NOT call them - it is NO use.

ALL Acer phone answerers are very stupid and are worse than no help - do NOT call them - it is WORSE than NO use - they will make your head hurt and you will never get what or who you need.

Frances cannot do everything.

DO NOT PURCHASE any Acer product of any kind no matter what!

Their customer service is appalling.

Buyer beware.

You have been warned!

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Acer - defective lcd screen

In November of 2007 I purchased a Acer Aspire notebook with Windows Vista Home. Which really sucks by the way and hangs and freezes almost constantly. I prefer WinXp Pro any day over Vista.

Since the purchase of the unit there was a clicking sound coming from the LCD monitor every time I closed the unit. I thought it was just a feature of how the notebook closed every time, so I thought nothing of it. After taking it to Wal Mart, they agreed with me that it was a normal sound from the locking mechanism since the unit worked fine, other than the hanging and freezing. In May of 2008 I closed the LCD screen as always and this time, no clicking sound, but when I opened the screen to do some work the LCD screen was half gone and there was a crack in the glass cover of the screen starting from the same hinge that the clicking sound came from. I contacted Acer and told the problem to which they send in the unit for evaluation. The female that took down my information made a comment that she would put the clicking sound in the evaluation request. I was contacted by email from Acer when the unit arrived at their repair station in Temple, Texas. So I called to see what was the situation was. I spoke an Acer agent that agreed that the clicking sound coming from the LCD screen hinge could cause the screen to crack. He them proceeded to forward me to tech support. Once I reached the tech support departement I was told that there was no note about a clciking sound coming from the left hinge of the unit by any of their agents, and that they WOULD NOT fix the screen because it was not a manufacture's defect. After trying for several minutes to get the tech support agent hear what I was saying about the clicking, tech support said they could fix it but it would cost $649.00, the same price I paid for the unit in the first place. After making threats of a lawsuite, tech support came back and said they would fix it for only $350.00. Needless to say I was extremely upset that first their agents DO NOT take good notes, if any at all, and when I asked for the agent I just spoke that agreed it could be the hinge that broke the glass cover and damaged the screen, then said they could not do that. I said when I called the recording said that the calls are monitired and/or recorded for quality control. I guess that was not the case with my call, because NONE of ther agents knew who I spoke to last before transfereing to tech support. So after all the "passing the buck", I finally said I need to speak to coporate customer care. After being transfered to Frances at [protected], and I explained the whole situation all over again, wasting my time, energy and money to do this, I was told the same thing by her, with ZERO resolve. The only note Frances could find where from tech support saying that they would fix it for $350.00...that's it! They would do no more. The damage to the LCD comes right from where the clicking sound was at the left hinge. There is not one scratch or mark on the notebook, anywhere. The crack is not at the corner where a crack might be if the unit was dropped... and the crack is not in the screen center anywhere, where damage could have occured by getting hit. It is very obvious the crack started from the left side hinge where the clicking came from, which any logical thinking person could deduct.

We will see what happens when I take this up a notch or two and bring in in the FTC and other consumer agencies. Wish me luck!

Jeff Louis - RF Tech

So now I am left with a $750.00, brand new Acer Aspire notebook that I cannot use at all. This laptop was purchsed for business purposes, and after spending hour loading software and getting this unit ready for travel and business, I am left with a useless piece of plastic.

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Feb 16, 2011 12:38 am EST
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Feb 16, 2011 12:37 am EST
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I have a acer extensa 4420 I bought 3 years ago. After 2 years the left hinge broke completley off, the left hand corner of the lcd back cover broke off too. After disassembly the hinge snapped in to two pieces, back lcd cover broken at the lower corner, right hand lcd bracket bent and cracked. I ordered these parts from ebay and replaced them at my cost.

The hinge design on these laptops are not engineered to handle the hinges that come attached. The actual hinges are very very stiff and difficult to move. All the stress is on the lower corners of the plastic lcd back cover. With constant use, these units were designed to self destruct after one years of use. I tried to buy a back cover on ebay, and none can be found. It seems that many many acer owners have the same problem. I have 2 older thinkpads and the hinge design is fall superior to acers design. I am still looking for a low cost replacement for this unit, until then, I used glue to repair it. Am afraid to open and close this unit, it will probably break soon.

beandrive@yahoo.com

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Vicky401
Spring Lake, US
Jun 10, 2010 4:27 pm EDT

i have an acer aspire 4315 and the screen is constantly white! if anyone knows of a class action lawsuit PLEASE CONTACT ME @ PreciousMaX2@hotmail.com

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Krishna
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May 28, 2009 4:40 am EDT

I have recently bought ACER 17 " LCD monitor (V173W). and after 3 days, I noticed the right below corner is producing cracking sound when i touch at that area. I did not know how severe will be this defect. And the part of this LCD monitor seems fragile. I wanna know whether this problem exists in my monitor only or all other ACER Monitors.

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nuttiebud
Cincinnati, US
Mar 13, 2009 11:55 am EDT

Same problem here, Acer Aspire 4315 - anyone with an issue of the screen going white or defective, email me at nuttiebud@aol.com

I think Class Action lawsuit needs to be compiled! Collecting names & email address with contact info.

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Justin
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Jul 21, 2008 8:01 am EDT

Basically the same thing happened to me. I never had a clicking sound but I went to use my ACER 2610 one day and there was a mysterious crack in it.It never left my house and there wasnt a scratch on it.I am the only one that uses it. I was treated the same way by ACER here in Canada. They wanted almost 700 to fix it. Definitly a defect in the material. They know noone wants to spend the money to prove nthem wrong so they get away with it.

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Merton
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Jul 08, 2008 6:35 pm EDT

I have an Acer Laptop with the same exact problem. The areas at the corners are cracked at the hinges. IThe inside right corner where the screw is insereted is cracked to the point the scrfew will not work anymore. It seems to me that the mechanism used to support the LCD screen is too weak to support the weight of the screen and cover. I have a tech support request in about this product manufacturers defect. I smell a class action lawsuit here! I have read oterh forums with the same issues as mine.

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