Very Disappointing and Time-wasting Experience!
Having read all the positive reviews for this company I thought I would get a quote for my iMac. This seemed competitive and would save me the trouble of selling it privately, so I arranged for a collection. As I didn't have any packaging, they have a system whereby they would send a box for me to put my computer in, reseal and use the return label inside.
I was going away for a few days so arranged collection for the next working day, Monday. However, I had an email on the Friday saying DPD would "deliver" on the Saturday to "exchange" my parcel which, it said, must be ready to exchange.
I was at home on the Saturday, as it happened, and when the courier arrived he asked for the exchange parcel so he could leave me with the empty box! I looked in the box and saw packaging but we couldn't find a return label. When I explained that I was meant to use that box for my computer, he said as he only had just over one minute per delivery he couldn't wait. I asked if he could leave the box and he said only "in exchange" for my parcel that was meant to be "ready". I explained that the original collection was booked for the Monday, so he said he'd arrange for that to happen.
I emailed MacBack about this issue on the Saturday, but heard nothing back from them on the Monday. So I phoned them and they said that it was too late for the Monday collection (not explaining why my original booking had somehow ended up on the Saturday, when I was expecting to be away anyway) and would change it for the Tuesday.
The DPD tracking said "being held at xxxx depot" and I had no time slot by 12pm as promised. So I contacted the depot, which was a call centre somewhere, and was told that it would be collected by the "end of the day", which he said was 7.30pm, even though MacBack said their couriers only work between 9am and 5pm.
I called MacBack at about 4.20pm and was on hold for 10 minutes and then cut off without having spoken to anyone. When I tried phoning again, I got the answerphone saying they were closed.
So, having lost all faith, I ended up sending them an email asking to cancel the whole thing, which they did the following day.
Having read some of the negative reviews, I saw that several people had been offered a lot less than the original online quote so I decided I would probably be better off selling my computer privately, rather than waste even more time having my computer assessed and then possibly having to have it returned for that reason.