Charlies TV Center

Nothing but a con artist. With all do respect, I have used them multiple times repairing several of my rear projection TV’s and usually had a good standing with them. But today I just got the «bait and switch» con. Talked to a man on the phone with a hard accent and told him I just had them come out and put a new fan and a lamp in my TV and the lamp blew up. He asked for my information and called me back explaining that the lamp was still under warranty and all I had to pay was for the labor. Quoted me $ 40. That’s a good deal, so I scheduled him to come out. So the man came replaced the lamp and asked me to sign the paperwork, it showed $ 80. WTF really?! He said the lamp wasn’t under warranty and I had to pay for the lamp and the labor. Then as I pay the man and explain he will never get anymore business from me he just shrugs and says «OK.» I then told him to get the fuck out of my house. Then he changes the story that the lamp was warranteed, I was paying for a trip charge and labor. Sorry, if that was the case, I would have purchased the lamp from them and installed it myself. It’s not that hard to install, a chimpanzee could have done this job. If my TV breaks down again and needs major work and there is nobody else in the HD that can work on them, I would rather take it in the back yard and light it on fire before I even consider these scam artist’s business ever again.