It seems Simply Mac is a fraud and customers are victims too.
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Apple Reseller 'Simply Mac' Shuts Down
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Really. Simply Mac didn't pay Apple for their repairs and new Macs. Apple cut Simply Macs off and FBI/Secret Service needs to investigate the company's book.
Actually if the bankruptcy court is doing its job investigating Simply Mac's books should be among the things the trustee does. More over why would the Secret Service be investigating anything? FBI does make sense but there are also issues that seem to fall under the domain of the FTC, IRS, and SEC (Cool Holdings, renamed Simply Inc, is a publicly traded company).
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Secret Services do money investigations, especially counterfeit money.
and Credit Card fraud.
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Huh, didn't know the Secret Service investigated Credit Card fraud as what I have seen shows that as the FTC's or DOJ's (who the bankrupsy trustee is supposed to working for) job.
If there were irregularities Simply Mac could be looking at a host of government agencies who want a piece of them.
The USPS' Postmaster General has a 98% conviction rate for those who fight them all the way to trial.
I should have known when they charged my CC up front for a back order. Every other legit business charges when they ship. SMH I wonder if I can make a CC purchase protection claim w/ Amex?
So I worked here in 2014-2016… Game Stop sunk millions into it and expanded to fast. The place was horribly miss managed, we had device serial numbers that didn’t match and small IT issues that support would never fix to the point where the store manager just stuck them on a shelf in the back, extremely low starting wage similar to fast food/bestbuy/autoparts store ext had constantly crazy weird marketing campaigns and sayings. Middle management walked out without warning on several occasions. Two events that come to mind are when they started selling their own protection plan on iPads that covered accidental damage but then Apple got mad we weren’t selling enough Applecare so we had a half off Applecare sale and sold it at a $10 loss to make the quarterly quota (stupid) and another was them buying PeachMac then shuttering less than 2 years later because Florida didn’t allow us to sell our previously mentioned protection plan… they even closed the locations in Georgia…
PRoducts are so low.
Yup real unfortunate they bought 3-4 3rd party Apple store chains that are now nolonger around
You would be surprised, they had to get creative on other ways to make money because retail margins of 1st party Apple
PRoducts are so low.
Weird, they were better when I worked there.
Do you self a favor and avoid BestBuy, just drive to an Apple Store even if it’s an hour away.
Bring and mortar is still needed for repair/support.
This… on a $500 iPad we made $45, for facilitating a warranty repair on a phone we made $15-25…
Apple silicon has nothing to do with it, their margins have always been crap for 3rd partys.
No they heck they are not lol
It’s like 10%, Apple makes a ton but their products are in such high demand they can charge that.
They have some math worked out because they still sell a lot at Best Buy and obviously phones through the phone carriers.
But they did nothing to stop it from happening.
I worked for an Apple Dealer in college, and the games Apple started playing with that company were ridiculous. Delaying parts shipments, delaying reimbursement for warranty repairs, requiring the purchase of 'parts kits' that had to be used in their entirety, even if none of the other parts needed to be replaced. It was kind of interesting and shocking to see the games. Sure, sometimes it worked out, but often customers were left waiting for another parts kit because that dealer had 'used their allotment for the month, and had to wait to be able to order another kit until the next month and then wait for it to be shipped. Yeah, weird paranoid games... It's gotten better, and worse since.
It was still in the days of the II+ and iie, and the easiest thing was for users to connect the floppy drive cables incorrectly. The largest symptom was a cap exploding. Apple's rule was the board had to be swapped, but all it was was that cap. Waiting for boards got to be such an inconvenience, they started recapping the blown boards themselves resulting in a turnaround time of days opposed to weeks/months.
I worked for another company that did warranty work for Compaq and a few other companies, and limits on spares kits weren't a thing at all. You needed 10 boards, you got 10 boards. The differences were striking...
