Cheapest HP Pavilion G60-230US 16.0-Inch Laptop

No support, October 9, 2009
By Stan Tomberg (Hendersonville, NC) - See all my reviews




On 1/01/09 I called customer service (that is what they call it). I told the tech my internal lightscribe drive would not burn label's. I am not a not a novice and I went through all the steps - uninstalling the drive and reinstalling the drive, etc. I told the the tech that my external lightscribe drive was working fine so it had to be the drive. He had me duplicate all the steps I Had already done and after 1:05 he said he would send me a new drive it was under warranty got my credit card info and he put me on hold. After 10 minutes (1:15 total time) I hung up.

I called back after I cooled down and got a tech who saw what was done, bur insisted to let him take over my PC. He assured me it take only 20 minutes and I agreed. An hour and 35 minutes later I told him just take of ordering the drive (it seems the first tech did not it. Hr agreed and then after being on hold for 5 minutes he told me the system was down and I would have to call back on 11/2/09.

Both techs had bad attitudes and treated me like a dummy. I wasted two hours and 40 minutes of being insulted and talked down to!

Price can not overcome lack of service Get more detail about HP Pavilion G60-230US 16.0-Inch Laptop.

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I recently bought a Toshiba laptop and within two days of receiving it, it crashed on me. I have had it for three months and it has crashed three times! It has been in the hands of Toshiba repair being "fixed" for half of the time that I've owned it. Customer service was friendly but they would not help me. I demanded a replacement computer the last time I had problems and they said the best they could do was send it to another repair center to be "fixed". I called Amazon and I was taken care of immediately! They helped me where Toshiba would not and I will definetly buy another computer from them.... just NOT a Toshiba!Get more detail about Toshiba Satellite A505-S6967 16.0-Inch Laptop - Black/Grey.