Why to choose OttoMations over Best Buy's "Geek Squad",

Circuitcity's "Fire Dog",

 Walmart's "Solution Station by Dell",

Costco's Installsinc,

Sam's "Geeks On Call"?

 

 

Believing that you did not have another reasonable or probably affordable choice, you may want to learn more about their services.

For example Costco's Installsinc will install a flat panel TV for $300, is not expensive, we charge the same, but consider this... The $300 won't get you far, it does not include hiding the AC cord or the low voltage cables inside anything but a "standard frame wall". Sorry if you have "any other obstruction" behind the drywall it goes without saying that won't mount a TV above a fireplace or on brick walls.

Those $300 do not include cables or mount and if the tech arrives and you don't have the needed stuff, neither does it includes the connection of anything but a set-top box and don't expect the tech to program a remote.

Geek Squad charges $800 for a "Premium Home Theater Set-Up and Mount". For this the company estimates "more than 6 hours" kind of like 7 hours, after the math is like $114/hour for a low level technician, they will mount a TV and install a 7.1 surround system including the install of in wall speakers "within standard wall frame".

The Geeks will connect the TV to a single existing source and "integrate up to seven components". It's unclear what that means since the description of services indicates that Geek Squad will integrate "existing networked components connected to existing network (additional charges apply for adding to-be networked components to new or existing networks).

Who know what the real stipulations are?

Do you want to risk all those hidden charges?

And if you want a remote control that operates your system by the press of a button? Geek Squad will "program" the TV manufacturer's remote with the component codes, but the integration stops there.

 We are professionals. and our goal is your satisfaction.

WE DELIVER WHAT WE PROMISE.

 

This is just a part of an article that was published in NY Times.

Schwartz's July 3 column, called "Smart Gadgets Acting Dumb, as an Upgrade Goes Awry," went something like this…

 

A platoon of installers arrived right on time: one to unpack the monitor; one to calibrate the TV functions; another to take care of the remote; and another whose sole purpose was to ensure that my dining-room chair did not levitate out the window. The first guy plunked the monitor on the stand, peeled back the protective cellophane and vamoosed as the others cajoled the TV into functioning properly.

It did, to an extent. I had never seen "No Signal" in such splendorous HD (or its much-anticipated sequel, "Component 2"). Images appeared in a range of aspect ratios - from 16:9 to 4:3 to something so distorted that even Picasso would have shuddered. Geek No. 1 was downright befuddled - he fiddled with menus, submenus and more on the TV and cable box before deciding that, naturally, the Time Warner box was to blame. "Good luck with that," he cackled.