I posted a much more in depth explanation but the mods killed my post because they said I was looking for tech support which I wasn’t. I made clear in my post I went through tech support and samsungs support ended with, 'Live without a phone for an indefinite amount of time while you mail in the phone and maybe you’ll get a phone back or not which I said was unacceptable. I am not expecting any tech support in this thread. I merely want people who are considering a samsung phone to know that if your phone is defective, samsung expects you to mail it back to them for an unknown amount of time during which you will have no phone for them to decide if they will fix it or give you a refund. That is all. I am in no way expecting anyone on this sub to solve my problem. I merely want people to know what samsung does to support their products.
So, like every other cell phone company today? It’s not like Apple has kids behind the counter wielding soldering irons to replace BT chips on the boards.
Although better than virtually every other company, Samsung has service centers damn near everywhere for same day service. Don’t even have to wait for a replacement to be sent to you.
Apple repairing my iPhone took 1 week, Samsung repairing my Fold took 3 Months. And thats not even including the incredible hassle to get them to do it under warranty.
Either way - you were without a phone for a period of time with both companies, which seemed to be OC’s big point. Though I suspect there were options offered, but OC was too busy throwing a temper tantrum to hear them.
It also seems a bit strange that you had to wait on your phone with Apple. The several times I had to have warranty work on an iPhone, they sent me a replacement before I sent them my phone, so I was never waiting on them to repair my phone anyways…
What were you expecting to happen instead? Are they supposed to fix your phone remotely? Drive to your house? Give you a free phone without even laying eyes or hands on yours, first, to confirm it’s actually broken?
Seriously, I am non-rhetorically asking you to explain, in detail, how you expected this to go, step by step, from start to finish, and list out everything that didn’t happen that way and why you expected it to. Explain what you wanted to have happened. I’m curious.
What, exactly, is the perfect customer service experience you were expecting?
If you can get it repaired in person, that may be faster than shipping it in.
Otherwise, you could actually look for support and possibly figure out and fix the problem yourself.
My guess is that OP lives in a region where Samsung Support Centers dont exist. The last time I had a problem with my phone (battery replacement), I was able to walk in to the support center, give them my phone and come back hours later to pick up the fixed phone. And when I had bluetooth issues with my S-Pen, the guy behind the counter went through all the trouble shooting steps with me to figure out it was a dead S-Pen and nothing wrong with my phone.
My nearest samsung experience center is an hour drive away. We tried scheduling an appointment via the web site but the web site was broken. We called 6 times over 4 days during business hours and left voice mails every time and never got a callback. So we finally gave up and did the hour drive only to be told we had to have an appointment and we couldn’t just wait for a tech. We asked to schedule the next available slot while there in person and were told we had to use the web site. I opened my working samsung device and showed the person the web site wasn’t working to schedule the appointment and asked him if I was maybe doing it incorrectly. He said no it looks like the web site isn’t working and I need to call the tech support number that instructed me to go to the samsung experience center in the first place. It’s a hall of mirrors. (This is the Stanford CA location. Insanely staffed)
The key mistake we made was talking to tech support to begin with and following their instructions. We should have immediately returned the phone within the 14 day return period when we noticed Bluetooth was defective on the device instead of following tech support. Lesson learned.