pcandmacrepairs.co.uk Reviews 

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TrustScore 4 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good old -fashioned excellent customer service.The came within 45 mins of my call, to my home address. He sorted out my email problems in a trice.I couldn't believe how good his knowledge was. Total... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Jon did us a favour by coming home and working on it rather than taking it away. Also, he diagnosed the problem correctly and found the quickest solution under the circumstances so that we could use t... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I recently had a fantastic experience with pcandmacrepairs.co.uk. Jon, the engineer, arrived promptly after my request for help. He quickly fixed my Mac and provided clear instructions on maintenance... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Jon at PC & Mac repairs was excellent, I called him at around 5.30pm explaining the issue around the iMac I have and he was able to troubleshoot. Within an hour he arrived and made the fix necessary,... See more

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  1. Computer Repair Service
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  3. Computer Hardware Manufacturer
  4. Computer Store
  5. Computer Support and Service Company
  6. Data Recovery Service
  7. Used Computer Store

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We have over 25 years experience fixing any PC or Apple Mac problem in homes and business premises.That means we've fixed over 40,000 computers so far! We provide a mobile, visiting service only. Our callout fee includes one hour of labour.After the first hour we charge by the half hour, or part of. All materials supplied are charged at cost price.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

John saved my life

John saved my life, after a drink was spilt on my Mac book I rushed it to Apple, to then be told it was a 2-week wait for all repairs. So I went on Google, called John. We met over the weekend, I had a coffee and he nipped away for 20 minutes with my laptop and now it is fixed perfectly (and probably for a fraction of what Apple would have charged me)

Thanks John, any more drinks get spilt, I will certainly be calling you again

July 21, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely superb service

Absolutely superb service. He fixed my email problem remitely in very quick time. This was a problem which 3 other firms had failed to cure.
I will be using Jon for all my computer problems in the future.

July 18, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Incompetent, Arrogant and Rude

The problem with this one man band company (run by someone I'm not allowed to name) is not just the obvious weaknesses with his so-called "expertise" but also that he is too arrogant to accept that he still needs to improve his processes. And also that when he makes a mistake he should do the decent thing and provide a refund.

I paid him £150 to have Win10 reinstalled on my laptop *and* to have my data restored. He didn't bother checking that my data would need to be recovered from my hard drive via specialist software before starting to do the re-installation of Win10. He therefore over-wrote disk sectors that had my data on it. When he realised this, it didn't stop him from downloading Chrome and Diskfrag to the same drive (thereby further overwriting disk sectors), he then also downloaded the wrong version of the data recovery software (Stellar Phoenix which is for Windows 7). It took a couple of long days for me to work out (with Stellar tech support) what was going wrong with the attempted data recovery using this software. It turns out he downloaded the software from an old re-seller site and not the official Stellar site which is just incompetent/lazy.
I called him to have a polite objective discussion about this and to ask for a proportion of my money back and he became aggressive, and demanded that I provide every kind of proof under the sun and then "he would think about it". He's already lost me nearly a week and I'm not wasting any more of my time pandering to this guy's ego. He knows what he's done, and judging from the other recent bad reviews, it's clear his skill set is basic, and out of date, and he doesn't want to learn or accept responsibility for the consequences.

Reply to his reply:
Rubbish. Stellar (who have far longer and deeper expertise than you), confirmed the data would have been recoverable if you hadn't over-written it with your cowboy procedures (which you've designed for the most basic use cases that anyone can do for themselves without getting ripped off by people like you). You were paid a good whack to handle a standard situation and you failed miserably because you couldn't be bothered to take the one extra step required. Embarrassing... And taking nearly two years to reply says it all really.

July 16, 2021
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Reply from pcandmacrepairs.co.uk

Afraid this man is talking nonsense.We have over 25 years experience of reinstalling Windowes 10 and retaining data.We do it literally every day. Unfortuantely in rare instances, due to prior corruption or a virus, after installation the "windows.old" folder doesn't contain the "Users" folder, and so the data is not recoverable.Ask any competent PC technician and they will confirm ths fact.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Serious issues resolved

Problems began with our 8 year old PC when it lost wifi contact with the BT Hub. My attempts to rectify the situation to no avail I called out the experts. To re-establish the link Jon needed to uninstall Windows et all but having done that and having installed new software it became apparent that a hard drive that was getting slower by the hour was lining up problems for the future. A new hard drive was the solution. Foolishly I had failed to back up the data, some of which was extremely valuable and irreplaceable (lesson learned). Extracting the data from the old hard drive was not going to be simple but drawing on his long experience Jon retrieved the data that is now sitting happily on my refurbished PC. The cost of a new hard drive plus a charge for two hours work was I though very reasonable.

But that was not to be the end of our PC problems. After a couple of weeks we experienced the dreaded Windows Blue Screen of Death. Jon returned. The usual remedies for dealing with this issue not succeeding, he fitted another hard drive - it seems that Windows can be ultra sensitive when hardware is replaced. Thankfully Jon still held the data extracted from our original hard drive which he emailed to me to install on the new drive. All this charged at a single call out rate which I thought again very reasonable.

Excellent service.

June 6, 2021
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Reply from pcandmacrepairs.co.uk

This is a venal individual whio, frankly, is talking rubbish.
Her Macbook has 4 individual RAM solts, each of 2gb (making 8gb in total). We replaced the one faulty RAM chip, and the machine was then working perfectly.She agreed to this as she was able to inspect it before paying for the work.
Clearly what has happened is one or more of the other 3 RAM chips has now gone faulty. She is trying to blame us for this, which is patent nonsense.
We have explained this to her many times, but she'somne of those awkward people who won't accept what is patently obvious.
We pride ourselves on our honesty and trasparency, which is reflected in our excellent Trustpilot rating.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

A professional and efficient service

Jon did us a favour by coming home and working on it rather than taking it away. Also, he diagnosed the problem correctly and found the quickest solution under the circumstances so that we could use the machine without having to wait to order parts. Also, he gave some sound advice about backing up the machine, so overall a good service was provided.

June 4, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Reliable.

Have used Jon on numerous occasions since he saved me at a very late hour when believe it or not my Mac exploded and caught fire. I have always found him reliable, efficient and pleasant.
Always make him my first port of call when I have problems.

May 21, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have said that I wouldn't give this…

I have said that I wouldn't give this company one star. The recent reviews and responses from them proves it.
The number of negative views continues to grow. I know they said I am not justified in my complaint and refuse to speak to me. Those reporting make my case. OK Jon still not accepting my calls?????

May 17, 2021
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Reply from pcandmacrepairs.co.uk

We have asked the customer for more information and there is no response
We have flagged this to the TRUSTPILOT team and they are unable to share any information.
Unfortunately without any more information we have to assume that the review is not genuine and one that Trustpilot is happy to be complicit with.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not a pleasant experience

Not a pleasant experience. A engineer just came round to look at an issue with my PC screens not turning on. He said his callout charge was £80 but thats all I would pay for him to fix it (except parts). He was here for 20 minutes and we agreed the motherboard was faulty and I should go back to the company I bought it from. He said I had bought an hour of his time so he can hang around and chat if I wanted. And thats after he pulled out the pc without unplugging the microphone and bent the plug - it doesn’t work now. Whilst in theory he has every right to charge me the full £80, but for 20 minutes and no fix maybe some level of compromise. I'll leave you to figure out if this is good or not. Just left a rather sour taste. I definitely should have been charged but was the full £80 right ? Anyway, lots of others people who offer the same service locally.

May 17, 2021
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Reply from pcandmacrepairs.co.uk

We can agree on one thing: this was a most unpleasant experience.

We were asked to diagnose why he had no output to his monitor from either the onboard graphics, or the graphic card in the PCI slot.

We reseated the card, changed out the ram, but still no display on the monitor. Clearly there was a problem with the motherboard.We offered to repair it (we'd obviously have to take it away to do it in our workshop). We estimated £100-150.
He refused this offer.He said the board was under warranty, so it made sense to get the company he bought it from to fix or swap out the board.(why did he call us out in the first place if this were the case?)
We made clear before attending we charge £80 callout fee, which gives UP TO one hour of labour.Any sensible person would realise this means whether we were there 5 mins or 59 mins, we would charge £80.
This customer doesn't seem to have that sense. He was also arrogant and rude.
I would advise any trader to avoid dealing with him

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Problem with MacBook

I had some issues setting up my MacBook and called "pcandmacrepairs" and got it fixed few hours later.
Very happy custome and impressed by the service.

May 13, 2021
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Reply from pcandmacrepairs.co.uk

Thank you.
It was a pleasure to meet you. We are always at your service.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Disaster from the start

The title doesn’t do it justice... turned up an hour late without phoning...we are not on GMT anymore... the guy didnt wear a face mask... asked a few simple questions, answered with the just the basic knowledge, from knowing what was wrong to being un sure, then back again... no confidence whatsoever with any questions I was asking him. To top it off, kept talking about how much it would be and being very pushy... definitely wouldn’t recommend. Doesn’t even have the latest operation system on his laptop...

Updated… 13th May.

I don’t need to give or show you evidence that I’ve been mixed up with another company… look at your poor review comments. They are relating to the same issue… you are a fraud J. Maybe you should retire,
Updated April 2023
still to this day ripping people off in 2023 - 0 stars! Don’t use this guy!!!
Update May 2023,
This guy has not asked for any information on evidence of repair work, if you look at the trend, whenever he gets a bad review he always states to have not interacted with this or that customer, a complete lair and never to be used. Fraud man. They should do a watchdog about him!

April 25, 2021
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Reply from pcandmacrepairs.co.uk

We have asked the customer for more information and there is no response
We have flagged this to the TRUSTPILOT team and they are unable to share any information.
Unfortunately without any more information we have to assume that the review is not genuine and one that Trustpilot is happy to be complicit with.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

pcandmacrepairs in Hither Green are…

pcandmacrepairs in Hither Green are extremely unreliable, they cancelled a repair with me twice while not having the decency to message me that they had cancelled. I took a day off work twice to make sure I'd be home for the repair. Poor customer service and I'm not sure they even had knowledge of how to repair aio cooler before accepting the job.

April 22, 2021
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Reply from pcandmacrepairs.co.uk

This customer has confused us with another company.We did not have a booking for this person and we don't cover Hither Green area..If we had, we would always inform ahead of time if we could not make an appointment. We don't repair coolers anyway, so she's definitely made a mistake.

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