You have 14 days after the opening of your local Apple Store to return an item bought during the shutdowns. The poster said this has not happened yet. So, no, they’ll get $600 back when they return it.
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Apple Not Expecting U.S. Offices to Return to Normal in 2020, Encourages Retail Staff at Closed Stores to Work Remotely
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You have 14 days after the opening of your local Apple Store to return an item bought during the shutdowns. The poster said this has not happened yet. So, no, they’ll get $600 back when they return it.
Unfortunately historical trends are may not be indicate of the future. As witnessed for instance here in California.
Agreed, but if the product needs to be physically returned to Apple for servicing, I much prefer to bring it in myself rather than ship it back-and-forth.
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You must have misread my post. I stated I was reluctant to make an Apple product purchase in the foreseeable future. And if I wasn't satisified with Apple products then I wouldn't be an Apple customer!
You just slammed 90% of the US. lol...
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Same scenario where I live. The worst part is that the measures were essentially keeping the staff safe, but not any of the customers waiting outside (and there were more customers outside than people in the store). We had lines with no social distancing whatsoever and mall patrons walking well within 6 ft of the customers waiting. It was pretty much a cluster**** and I, like you, also wish I hadn't gone and also felt horrible for the staff.
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Just laying out the facts... 😄
- Didn't learn from China.
- Didn't learn from Italy.
- Didn't learn from New York.
Because it's trusting their employees to do the right thing. Like thousands of employees in Victoria, Australia right now. I've been WFH since 16 March.
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A majority of the comments about are about, "Oh, woe is me!" It's systematically what is wrong with the US right now amid the pandemic, rather than thinking about everyone.
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Your'e suggested that the US has brought down infections and deaths?!
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I'm just talking about New York. I updated the screenshots to make that more clear.
The problem is that the states they are closing stores are spiking because the public and even leaders refuse to acknowledge the seriousness of this outbreak. Dealing with crowds of people who don’t get it and believe it’s a political hoax puts their employees at risk.
Pretty much. Here in California I saw <30% mask wearing when I went out and about. Personally got to witness several near fights due to mask issues outside of stores. People don’t care. And now California is shutting down again.
I just order my iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch through AT&T when they become available. They show up and I turn them on. I do have to go through the sign-in process, but that's just about it. One of the main selling points of Apple products is that you don't need direct assistance for many things'. Even when I managed to gag my MacBook with coffee, I called AppleCare, and they shipped out a prepaid box, and it was off to Texas for Depo repair.
Besides, I never really liked the swap-meet store layout, with folks in milling around like a herd of grazing cows.
Besides, I never really liked the swap-meet store layout, with folks in milling around like a herd of grazing cows.
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Thank you for the much needed laugh.😂🤣😂 Hope to book a flight on the S.S. Orchard before it abandons earth.
Seriously, if I worked in Apple retail, I would be thrilled with a work from home set up.
As someone employed with another famous company, known for their brown boxes with smiley faces on them? I can tell you we're in the same situation, except it's mandatory for us to do online chat or phone support, even if we were recently hired to provide in office/local I.T. support instead.
Honestly, how enjoyable vs. horrible this is depends almost completely on how the company opts to manage it. If Apple takes a lax attitude of "Do as much of it as you're comfortable doing." and "We don't really track or enforce metrics on your number of calls completed a day, minutes spent per customer, etc."? I could easily see people wanting to volunteer to help out with it.
Unfortunately, in our situation, it seems as the support queues keep growing from all the employees working from home? Management is trying to figure out just how much they can push everyone in I.T. already on payroll to grind through as many of them as humanly possible. You can look at the "bright side" I guess, which is the reality a lot of people are getting paid more than they'd ever normally pay for a helpdesk job like that. But the downside is the micro-managing of every minute spent working and demanding people multitask, trying to help 2 or 3 customers simultaneously.
No, I even called them and they won’t let me return it via mail. I wanted to exchange for a 256 GB 8 Plus but they had discontinued it... so I had to hurry and buy a refurb to get what I wanted. So I literally have the payment for this phone just sitting in a box and can’t do anything with it.
Just wear a mask when you venture outdoors and you will help decrease the spread. It is that simple....I just don't understand why this simple rule is so difficult for some Americans to follow...
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Rushing to reopen everything between spikes has certainly been shown not to be an answer either.
If this whole corona thing would have been approached scientifically and methodologically it would never even have started. Maybe a few scientists would take about it in specialist lectures about flu and flu like diseases. But for everyone else it would have never been more than the seasonal flu.
This scam will run as long as people "behave", play along with the lie, wear their mask and obey.
When COVID is over, someone will look at who got paid and worked, and who got paid and didn't work. Who do you think will keep their job?
If it isn't safe for corporate offices to be open and numerous Apple retail store employees ending up with COVID-19 instead of closing some stores with positive cases while others remain open it would be best for all stores to close to keep employees and customers safer instead of unknowingly passing it from person to person.
Thats what we do here in the USA we moan, whine, complain and get offended really easy.
Can we all take a moment and appreciate that fact that Apple(and other companies really) are releasing new iPhones, new iOS, new OS, and doing a mega transition into ARM processors in the same year they can not do as much as open a retail store?
I am quite thankful for all companies that continue to provide products and services under these circumstances.
I am quite thankful for all companies that continue to provide products and services under these circumstances.