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    <title>e dot dot dot  02 2011</title>
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    <title>Geeks Mobile Review: Stay Far Away From These People</title>
    <link>http://www.jamesraposa.com/index.cgi/2011/02/10#Geeks_Mobile:_Stay_Far_Away_From_Them</link>
    <description>On 2/9/2011 I called Geeks Mobile to send out a technician to take a look at my Dell desktop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It had mysteriously powered itself off a day earlier, and when I went to power it on, it did this crazy thing (it hadn't ever done before), where it started to power-up, stopped, and then continued like it was going to boot up, but never did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I described the problem to them and they said they'd send out a &quot;technician&quot; the next day.  Sounded good to me, so I agreed to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day the technician showed up, tried a few things for a total of ten minutes, and then suggested I buy another computer because, as he said, &quot;You could probably get one for 200 bucks somewhere.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He then told me I owed Geeks Mobile $119.95.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infuriated, I told him it was outrageous considering I wasn't any further along than before he showed up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After speaking with his &quot;manager&quot;, I was told that I could get someone else to come out (which considering the quality of who they first sent out, I was not interested in doing), or I could get a 20% &quot;discount&quot; to end the matter right away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, I wrote out a check for $96 dollars just to get these people out of my life forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lesson from all this... NEVER CALL GEEKS MOBILE FOR ANY KIND OF SERVICE! EVER!</description>
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