The Battery Saga. Use PayPal***.
The main point: customer service are courteous and professional, but very very unhelpful (in some regards). I bought a new battery for a customer's device. The website said it would be 2-4 weeks. 4weeks passed, no update on the website: "order processing". The replied to say they still hadn't arrived, give it another 2 weeks. 2 weeks pass: "order processing". Another email. "It will be with you in two weeks." In total I waited over 2 months for the battery to arrive, all the while reassuring my customer that it would be "another 2 weeks," and looking like a total moron.
That being said, and angry (now happy) customer aside, when the parts did ship, they arrived quickly (though I only knew that they had shipped due to FedEx, and not their website). The parts themselves ARE official Asus components. Battery life on the customer's laptop went from 4h to over 10h.
The main issue I have is not the length of time taken, if they had told me it would be over 2 months, I would have passed that info on to my customer, so that HE can make the choice whether to wait, or go somewhere else/ get a new laptop. Instead I feel like I have strung him along for months, for which I have apologised profusely and given him a discount for being so patient.
As for the website, it's temperamental at best. I had to request 2 password resets, despite writing the password down both times. The reset link also didn't work, and had to request by email. Once an order is placed there is no cancel button, or way to alter the order (I suspect you would also have to do this through email). Finding the actual parts is fine, as long as you have the machine's model number.
They do however answer emails very quickly (within a day, two at most, outside weekends) and are (mostly) helpful.
Overall, I can say that the company IS legit, the parts ARE legit, they ship quickly and the staff are (mostly) helpful. But I can also say that it can be slow as hell, frustrating, and the website is terrible.
Buy using PayPal! I was considering cancelling the order over email, and if not filing a dispute literally two days before it arrived.
If the team is reading this, and I suspect they will know who wrote it based on the contents of my repeated emails, I feel this review is fair. If you can't tell who this is, then that is even more problematic.
You need to do a better job of ACCURATELY announcing expected delivery windows, need to make the delay message on the website at checkout clearer (I almost missed it), and if you don't know when the parts will be in, give a wide estimate or SAY YOU DON'T KNOW, so that we can pass that information onto OUR customers.
I dislike sending follow up emails, or hassling support (god knows I didn't get paid enough when I used to do it), but everything I said in this review is reasonable.
I would buy from them again, but when my customers ask when the parts will be in, I will tell them "I don't know," and maybe show them this review.
May 16, 2022
Unprompted review