My son dropped his phone yesterday, so I took it to the local phone fixing shop. We have several, but every single one of them also sells vapes, one got busted last week for selling vapes to kids. Another one, my late husband got shut down because he traced his stolen iPad there, phoned the police and they raided it, but it opened again under a slightly different name a week later, and the third one, while we were in there, a guy came in with a bag and said “I’ve got six 17s”, the guy behind the counter said come back in a bit, and nodded at us.
They all just feel a bit sketchy and as if you are in the middle of a crime scene.
Why hasn’t one of the big companies cornered this market? My local Tesco has everything from shoe repair to a dentist, so why isn’t there a Tesco Repair or something?
Apparently Timpsons fix phones but you have to send it off and who has time for that? I’m not implying that every phone repair shop is dodgy, but I don’t know how to work out which ones are and if the prices are fair etc, parts are OK etc. I was charged £100 for a new Galaxy A16 screen. Is that good, average, what? What’s the benchmark?
For what must presumably be a much needed service, why isn’t anyone else cashing in on it?