Apple support OUTRAGEOUS complaint

Can anyone help me with an email address for Apple Support at HQ, USA?
Apple Australia have reneged on replacing my Macbook Pro, despite it being less than a year old, AND despite them appraising it and finding screen was faulty, and logic board needed replacing.
Unable to get a clear answer or any real help out of Apple Support Singapore [Azlan], so apparently I have to wait for a repair [they've had the computer since 15th January]

Axe
Yes, as the previous poster said, you must "escalate" your problem to the next level or tier at Apple Customer Services - this is Apple's term for the process.
Make sure you note the date, time and name/position of the person to whom you are speaking, and make notes of what they say to you. Have all your documentation to hand. I assume you have a case number - if not, get one.
If the next level cannot solve the issue there and then, ask them to call you back within an agreed timeframe and with an agreed action plan.
If they say they cannot help at all, ask to be escalated to the next level/tier.
For your information, all calls to Apple from Europe (UK, Italy, Switzerland, wherever) are going to Apple's European call centre in Ireland, in or very near to Dublin.
Good luck!

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Apple Support ignores me completely, there is no way I can complain about lack of feed back and I even have paid for a protection plan!

I have paid for an extended support through the Apple protection plan. Frankly I do not understand what I´ve paid for as there is no support and no plan, except ignorance and waiting time.
I have had and still have serious problem with my Mac Book Pro, and spent loads of money on phone charges with mainly negative results. All I have "achieved" is wasted time. I just wonder if it is only me who feel totally helpless as the Support People are not really helping. I´ve spent approsmimately 200 USD in phonecharges on their support phone, so far. But that is nothing compared to the hours spent waiting for answer and listening no absolute nonsense. Finally I went to an Apple store who sent the machine in for repair, and one fault was the motherboard. However I could still not connect with my Time Capsule and Aperture seemed to have lost all my photos. This all happende after upgrading to Mountail Lion. Also the cable network isn´t working. I can easily see on the net that I am not the only one with problems. I´ve ended up with solving most of this myself, except the network connection. It is still not working.
I am actually deeply dissapointed with Apple and I cannot find any way to even forward a complaint. Not that I believe it would help, but at least I´ve tried. I also think it would be fair to to get my money back for a product I´ve paid for which obviously isn´t working, namely the Apple Care Protection Plan.

Hi, so you suggest I should be grateful for getting what I have paid for? Sorry but that's only getting what I paid for. Add to that, that this has been against the phone support I've used a lot of time and money for! I don't feel anything but hopelessness for the total lack of customer support. An expensive Mac Book Pro shouldn't fail after 2 years in the first place! But failure may of course happen with the best products, and Apple as well. The real fault however is Apple's arrogance and failure to fix it! Instead of getting help and guidance to a solution, I used hours and lost days of work, and was made to pay a lot for total unusable "assistance". I was even adviced to hold back on taking the Mac Book Pro to a store, as I was told the support person a senior, would figure it out. Well Apple definiately squezzed the lemon! Since the Time Capsule/Time Machine system didn't fuction I was also in a stale mate as I needed assurance that My files wasn't lost when delivering the machine for repair. I was adviced that could happen. Quite a deadlock wasn't it! As an expert on Quality Assurance I was also suffering lost revenue in my work for clients. I finally had to buy a Samsung Ultrabook as working machine and backup, a neccesity as Apple obviously cannot be trusted when needed. Bill Gates and Windows has one advantage over Apple, they know things can go wrong and hence have much better support. Apple support is a maze were only the strongest and most persistent get through. I am one as I didn't accept being treated like that. That's the only reason I finally got a repair. However the machine is still not functioning as mentioned. I have a case number, a phone number and mail address to a senior support person, whom I've been trying to contact for more than a week, He has still not responded to my mails or phone calls. I cannot even figure out how to contact Apple to complain about such ignorance. Note by the way that here in Norway I must pay to call support and more often than not there is more than half an hour waiting time. I might spend hundred of dollars in that "game" without even knowing that I will get the support I've paid for and only keep paying even more for wasting my time! This is simply not good enough, it is no less than arrogant and wrong! I frankly think Apple is doing a big mistake with such por treatmen of their customers.

Created an app not able to see it on iPhone Apple Support is REALLY POOR

My company created an iPhone application about 2-3 months ago. It has been accepted by Apple Online (where you submit it) but it is not viewable in any iPhone. When you ask apple support they just send you a reply back with a link that does NOT help.
You will not believe I have sent approximately 20 emails to ALL of Apple's support email and even rang them a couple of times but there is no one who knows what they are doing. No one helps, everyone replies back with that link in the email. Even if you tell them what you have done and ask them for what else is requored as the link is not able to help us they will still reply you back wit the same email.
I was hoping that with such a big company like Apple they would have hired some educated people who know what they are doing or at least reply you back with some helpful solutions.
For the past 2 months they have given me a run around and no help at all. Does anyone know where I can complaint about Apple? Or does anyone know who can help me out with this type of a problem. I mean come on, the application was developed by my professional IT team who has been in IT for over 10 years and have developed numerous applications.
Please someone help me out on this one. This is very important. I am very tired of emailing Apple over and over again and getting EXACTLY the same reply back all the time. I mean do they even read your emails or do they just send you back like a ROBOT what is already in the system i.e. Automatically Set Emails.
I am sorry If I am rude but even the director of the company had a good run around because of this. Is this really professional of apple support team?
I am asking again please help me out check our account all the codes are absolutely perfect we have checked over 100 times or at least tell us what else we can do to improve this. It's urgent now!

This is what you get from them ALL THE TIME. Exactly the same reply:
Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request.
Follow-up: 1299**1
Dear Kevin,
Thank you for your email. To find more information on this issue, you may refer to the iTunes Connect Developer Guide: <https://itunesconnect.apple.com/docs/iTunesConnect_DeveloperGuide.pdf>. Should you require additional assistance, please contact iTunes Connect Support by accessing the Contact Us module in iTunes Connect : <http://www.apple.com/itunes/go/itunesconnect/contactus>.
Best Regards,
Yana
iOS Developer Program
I have told these guys in my every email that the link is not helping please look into it and tell us what is the problem as there are no issues from our end. My IT team has looked over it about 100 times!
Please help me out already!
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HT202696 What happens if Apple Support expires for a product? Does it mean there is no more help available and you are on your own just because you have an older Apple product?

We have a family of Apple products at home, and with every new one, we learn a new aspect of the Apple Life. After switching to iPhone 5S and struggling between some applications, I've decided it is time to upgrade rest of my older devices requesting an IOS Upgrade to 8.1.2 for weeks.
My older iPhone 4 didn't have an upgrade, which was not advanced enough anymore to carry a new software, this I understand. The upgraded iPod Touch and iPad Mini don't seem to have any problems with the recent changes so far. However, the older iPad (2) we had is messed up, just like many other people's as mentioned on the pages of these discussion groups. According to these user comments / complaints, it is obvious that upgrading to IOS 8.1.2 was not the right option to older version iPads just like it was not for iPhone 4; actually it shouldn't be an option in the first place.
On my previous problems with iPhone 5S, I've come to realise the practicality & functionality of the Apple Support system when contacted directly, instead of going through many discussion pages of people with same or similar problems where everybody is asking but just a few is replying. So, I wanted to give it a try to find a solution to my recent problems with iPad, but this time Apple Support pages replied with "Technical Support & Service Coverage are both Expired" message.
First, I did not know that Apple supported its users personally, and I loved it. Maybe this is because I didn't have previous problems with my old iPhone and iPad. Especially the Apple Support - Chat option I preferred, where I got help step-by-step from Apple operators. And then, I did not know that this service support was only for my devices until an expiration date, and this did not please me much.
Can anyone enlighten me on how to receive any response from Apple about what to do with problems of an old Apple device?

And as far as paying for phone support, here are a few tips:
If you call your carrier first and then they route you to Apple, you usually don't have to pay for phone support.
If you are talking to Apple and they ask you to pay a support fee, ask if you can get an exception this time. That usually works once, but they keep track of the times you've been granted such an exception.
If you still end up paying the support fee, that fee only applies if it's not a hardware related issue. In other words, if it can be fixed by just talking over the phone and following Apple's instructions, then the fee applies. But if your device is deemed to have a hardware failure that caused the issue, then the fee should not apply, and you can ask for it to be waived after the fact.
This forum is free, and almost all of the technical support articles the Apple tech advisors use are available on this website. Literally 99% of what they can do over the phone is just walking you through the publicly available support articles. In other words, you're paying the fee to have them do your research for you. It's like hiring a research consultant to go look stuff up in the public library so you don't have to. You're capable of doing it; you'd just rather pay someone to do it for you.
It's like Starbucks. You know how to make coffee. Everyone knows how to make coffee. And Starbucks coffee isn't any better than what you could make at home for far less. But you want the convenience. So you're really paying a convenience fee. Milk is more expensive at 7-Eleven than it is at the grocery store... because it's a convenience store.

Problem with apple support , help me plz !! don't remove my thread plzz

hello all first of all please accept my apologies for my bad english language .I'm an American who lived outside of America since childhood. i hope you understand me . i am one of the apple fans that many times i contact with apple support team for solving my itunes problems, some of supports were great But on other side there are many employee in the apple company that they just give us some PREPARED answers without thinking about what i ask them !
i want to report my problem here to get rid of those useless persons and ofcourse those weak answers in the apple company. before of explaining my problem , let me tell you a short thread:
some months ago i bought one microsoft XBOX live CODE to charge my LIVE account , i bought that from a retail store at France. Code was redeemed before i buy that , that was obvious that seller had decide to scam me with a used voucher ! and he did not accept my words and he just needed proof. so i go to microsoft.com on support section then i start talking with online chat support
please help me to solve my problem , please tell me that how i can report some one on apple?
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hi bleach i explain whole the story in the post 1 but the forum moderator removed that and this time he EDIT my thread.
i bought 3 iTunes code and i want to know the date and time of redeeming, this issue happened to me manytimes in the past and each time apple support answered me with the time of redeeming of the code.
but some times some persons in apple support they don't help me and they don't give me date and time of redeeming ! and they just give me some prepaid and Irrelevant answers.
all i want to say is that many persons in apple are useless really, and we have report their weak support.
yes you are right we are all users but what we have to do when a bad person support us on the apple ?
yourself just send me a link for this matter :www.apple.com/support/contact
what i have to do on that link ?
where i have put my complaint ??
hey peoples , many support persons in apple have no any Creativity to solve our porblems . what we have to do againts of them ??
many times apple support employees tell us "I do understand how important it must be for you to know the details, but I do apologize as I won't be able to provide any more details regarding your concern."
is it giving the date and time of redeeming so hard? Why he/she can't give me more details regarding my concern BUT others can do ??

HELP!!! APPLE SUPPORT won't ReSPoND!!!

Having difficulty purchasing music or having account issues!? Apple ITUNES has NO SUPPORT & will NOT respond to EMAIL within 24 hours with a solution. ***!?

Here was my response and complaint......maybe this helps?
Sir,
I am beyond frusterated with APPLE support and have taken my complaints to the discussion boards for ITUNES. It appears that there are SEVERAL other upset ITUNES customers dealing with these SAME ISSUES. Here is what I posted to the forum so that you may understand exactly to what lengths I've gone to in order to resolve these issues from my end. For your information, I just again tried to purchase these songs, and again they didnt download at all, nor did I receive any type of error message. It would be helpful to speak to someone live regarding this issue, as email is obviously not an effective way to resolve these issues, here is what I have tried to do:
When I go to purchase a song, both yesterday and today, after inputing my password and other account info for purchasing, I am unable to download the songs Im trying to purchase and keep getting kicked out of the system as if going in circles. It's maddening to say the least. HERE is what Ive done to exhaust my efforts in resolving the issue...and with minimal support from APPLE:
Ive also tried downloading via wifi on my ITOUCH. Still nothing.
I've emailed apple support and havent received ANY response within the promised 24 hour period. Ive also CALLED them twice unsuccesfully to get this issue resolved.
Ive also tried establishing another new account cadehpeterson at gmail . com to see if this issue could just be with my original account...still nothing.
Ive also tried reinstalling ITUNES on my computer and doing a system restore to resolve the issue & STILL havent resolved it.
Im ****** OFF THAT APPLE doesnt provide better support or live support for ITUNES issues. Ive bought hundreds of dollars worth of music and this kind of service is unacceptable!!!
Sir, PLEASE RESPOND TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE.
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:34 AM, iTunes Store <> wrote:
Dear Elizabeth, Greetings from iTunes Store Support team. My name is Raj and I am glad to assist you today. I understand that you are concerned about the purchases that you made through iTunes Store on 5/11/11. It is essential for me to be able to provide you with the right information for your issue, and I will do the best of my ability to help you resolve your issue. Elizabeth, I have reviewed your purchase history and I noticed that on this date you have only downloaded a free application "TwitVid". It appears that due to some reasons this purchase did not went through. If you wish to review your purchase history, please follow the steps provided below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2727 I have also reviewed your account information and I noticed that everything is clean from our side and you should be able to make purchases. I will request you to re-try purchasing those songs, if still you are unable to do so, please write back to me so that I can further investigate this issue for you. Resolving your issue is important to me, and I look forward to your reply. Thank you for your patience while we work together in resolving this issue. Have a nice day! Sincerely, Raj
iTunes Store Customer Support I work on Monday to Sunday, 07:00 AM - 04:00 PM CST Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to assist you. You may receive an AppleCare survey email; any feedback you provide would be greatly appreciated.
Customer First Name : Elizabeth
Customer Last Name : Peterson
email :
Web Order # :
Support Subject : iTunes Store Account and Billing
Sub Issue : Billing Inquiries
See additional info below
OS version: Windows Vista
Country: US
iTunes version: iTunes 10.1
Apple ID:
Specific request: I have another question (explain below)
Details:
What are the details, including any error messages, related to your question?
I've tried purchasing a few times today and have gone through the typical verification process, including inputing my password, entering the security code and verifying the county, etc...I have not received an error message, however the songs I purchased do not appear to download nor do they show up in my library...what do you suggest? Is it an error with the download or an error with the payment processing? Please help. Thanks. TrackID: 14743125
Liz Peterson

My new macbook pro (Mountain Lion) will not log into my 1and1 server to connect to my e mail. My snow leopard macbook does not have this problem - Apple support say it is a 1and1 problem! do I have to wait for an update of Mountain Lion?

My new macbook pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.1) will not log into my 1and1 outgoing mail server. ( It will receive mail - but does not send)My old Snow Leopard macbook does not have the same problem ( server settings etc. are identical) . Apple Support say its a 1and1 problem , 1and1 say it is an operating System prob - I have tried changing port numbers.

My eyes just glazed over...Please in the future break down each of your issues with paragraphs separated by two carriage returns. It would be much easier when trying to address your issues.
Go to Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Mouse
And edit your mouse settings to do what you want it to do.
Secondly, this is not the place to vent. If you have a complaint, there is:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
or http://www.apple.com/contact/
We are just end users here helping other end users.
Third, from my understanding, it would appear you are concerned about the noise the hard drive makes when it falls asleep? Why not put your machine in screen saver mode instead? Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Energy Saver turn off all Energy Saver settings, or set them to run Never.
Fourth, if your machine was purchased just a few days ago, you may still be able to get an exchange from the store, quicker than you can get a repair done. You may want to look into that possibility.
Fifth, it does appear you found the Logic forum. I would persist in asking there how to solve your technical issue with Logic regarding the audio. It may be you don't have to do anything special to the hard drive. Remember audio can be transmitted by wire, avoiding ambient sounds.
Good luck!

Does Apple have a complaint department for Resellers?

macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Does anyone know if there is an email address or phone number to lodge complaints about Resellers? I have been all over the Apple Support site and I can't find one.
I bought a MacBook Pro on 5/14 (1.83GHZ) and on 5/16 they started offering the 2.0GHZ for the same price. I tried to return it to the reseller (Connecting Point Medford, Oregon) which posted a 7 day return policy and they refused to take the return saying Apple will not allow them to return computers unless they are defective because Apple will not take returns on registered products. BTW, as we all know you have to register you Mac when you first start it up - there is no option to skip registration when you start it up the first time.
Also, the Apple store has told me if I had purchased from them they would have accepted the return. Anyone have any ideas?

In addition to the advice from Rajesh have you contacted an Apple Store in the area? My original MBP was a 15" I purchased from CompUSA. But when I had an issue with it AppleCare made me an appointment with the local Apple Store in the area to speak with a genius. They acknowledged the problem and swapped it out for me in store even though I did not purchase it there. They also allowed me to pay the difference to upgrade to a 17". I was very pleased with that. They gave me a receipt for 17" purchase at full price with the 14 day return and all. Just like that I was an Apple Store customer instead of a CompUSA customer.
YMMV since your issue is not actually one of a failed unit, but you never know what they may be able to do for you until you ask.

HT203793 iTunes Radio subscription plays commercials and has no Apple Support

Is anyone else as frustrated as I with the iTunes Radio subscription service. I continue to receive commercials, and there is no Apple Support to fix the problem or allow me to cancel the service.

To add to my earlier complaint: I can't even use their Support Call process because it requires a product serial number, and there isn't one for iTunes Radio.

Unable to capture DV to FCE, apple support told me a PC is the way forward!

Hi there
I recently bought an apple imac with a view to editing DV footage taken previously.
I had captured some of these tapes on to a PC before buying an imac. These files I was able to edit on FCE and imovie (once I had transferred them from the pc hard drive). HOWEVER although I could control my DV camera through imovie and FCE none of my old DV tapes could be captured to the imac. An error message states that the frame rate is incorrect.
I have apple care protection and have spent ages trying to get support for this only to be told by apple support that FCE and imovie will not capture my old DV tapes! The support person told me that I should go back to a PC if I want to do the job properly!
Unfortunately I have just spent thousands on this very nice looking imac (and FCE) that is apparently unable to do the most basic capturing. Does anybody have any ideas (other than going back to pc) for getting my DV footage captured?
Needles to say I have found all this incredibly frustrating as a new apple user. Are these sorts of issues common to imacs?
cheers
rupert

Hey Rich,
thanks for getting back to me,
I shot tape previously (in 2000) on a sony mini DV camcorder set to SP. I have since bought a new sony mini DV camcorder (DCR-HC40 NTSC).
With the new camera and a PC I was able to capture my 2000 tapes and edit them. I was also able to edit the earlier footage I had transffered from my PC hard drive to the i-mac on i-movie and FCE.
Unfortunatley everytime I have tried to capture my old tapes directly onto the i-mac I have had the message "preview disabled" from FCE and the following from i-movie:
"The camera is sending half-sized frames, which iMovie can’t accept. Check your camera’s record mode (this is the setting that affects recording quality, which determines the total recording time on a tape). The mode must be set to “SP” or “LP.” If that doesn't help, try removing all the cables and batteries from the camera, wait a minute, replace them, and then reset the date, time, and record mode."
I have spent weeks on the support site and found a thread that recommended re-installing quicktime etc but nothing has worked.
I connect to the i-mac via firewire and am able to control the camera, capture my newly recorded miniDV's (so it is not a problem with the proprietary software application etc) but nothing seems to work for my old tapes.
Apple support told me that apple doesn't do older miniDV's and that a pc would be the only way I could capture my tapes. I couldn't believe it! Unfortuatley I no longer have access to my old pc.
Any ideas? Is there any other way of getting DV onto my i-mac?
And thanks for your interest in my problem here
regards
rupert

I have a problem with wifi in my iphone 4s, i already try everything and download latest version 7.1(11D167) but wifi switch is not working, its my humble request to Apple support team that pls resolve this problem as soon as possible because

I have a problem with wifi in my iphone 4s, i already try everything and download latest version 7.1(11D167) but wifi switch is not working, its my humble request to Apple support team that pls resolve this problem as soon as possible because its a prestiage of Apple Company.
Pls inform me how can i resolve the problem of wifi.

You have to go to autherized iPhone agent.

Apple Support for FCE HD - $200 per call???

i had what was probably a minor issue with editing in final cut express hd today. So naturally, i called applecare. They told me that it had been past the 90 days given to us for support from the point of purchase. Fine. However, the apple support representative went on to tell me that Applecare does NOT support pro applications and that i have to pay $199 per incident? I paid $299 for the product itself! Last i checked, i-pods were selling pretty well and i don't think steve jobs needs that money! Is apple serious? Where do they get off charging $200 for a ONE TIME PHONE CALL? Just because FCE HD is a "pro" application, apple can't assume that everyone who purchases this product is a "pro" from the start!
Where else am i supposed to get phone technical support for FCE HD??

These forums are here to give you technical advice. Admittedly it is not over the phone but it is FREE and lasts for ever.
Also you will have the collective knowledge of numerous people not just the one "expert" you happen to be speaking to.
Ian.

Can too much memory lead to a kernel panic on a MacBook Pro? specs 2.4GHz intel core i7 16GB DDR3 RAM late2011..My laptop began suffering from kernel panics 3 mos ago first noticed using public wifi. Gone thru apple support all the way to engineers

Can too much RAM memory in a late 2011 model macbook pro lead to kernel panic? That is what I was told by a senior supervisor from apple support who troubleshot this issue.First noticed this problem in Dec 2014 while using a private wifi at a relative's home. Did not occur again until Feb1 using a public wifi at a hotel. Never happened on my private wifi network until last night attempting to use airplay. ( have used airplay before without issue). Late 2011 MacBook Pro running 10.9.5; 2.4 GHz Intel core i7, 16 GB DDR3,AMD Radeon HD 6770m 1024 MB graphic card. The laptop came with 8GB RAM and I installed 8 GB about 2 years ago for some reason I cannot remember... probably because I thought the system was slowing down a little. I know that sounds silly. I do not run multiple programs at a time except I leave 6-8 website tabs open simultaneously. I don't photo or video edit. I would describe my use as "light" based on reading these blogs.I had purchased apple support and spent hours on the phone with them in early Feb moving up through support and senior support to sending logs to the "engineers." Of course lots of things were done some of which I am sorry to report I cannot recall their technical definitions. Deleted 3rd party apps/programs; re-worked start up menu; re-installed operating system; reset " this, that and the other" using acrobatic simultaneous key strokes both in and out of safe mode..Anyway the results from the engineers came back and they suggested that if it happened again I was to remove the 8GB of RAM I had installed as the system was getting confused as to which chip to use.( that is my interpretation of what was said..prob dumbed down for me)...Anyway 1 day after these pronouncements came down I read that Apple had agreed to fix graphics cards in some late model 2011 MBPs. I felt this was unlikely to be the issue given all that had been done including an extended hardware test but called the Senior Support Supervisor I was working with to ask him to make sure. He never phoned me back. Should I go to the trouble of removing 8GB of RAM from my laptop? Of course I will try it as the alternative is a new computer.Blogs read that this model can support 16GB but Apple didn't test for it. Senior Supervisor claims this is my trouble. Does that make sense? Not to me....but it is clear to all my level of knowledge. Can a malfunctioning graphics card be missed by an extended hardware test? I appreciate comments.

The RAM needs specs as shown below.
Maximum Memory
16 GB (Actual) 8 GB (Apple)
Memory Slots
2 - 204-pin PC-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM

Hi, I got an Error 23 when trying to restore my phone. Apple support centre says its a hardware issue without doing anything to come to this conclusion. They will not tell me how to escalate this case. Please let me know if there is a way to escalate.

One day when tried to restart my iphone 4, I got a screen asking me to connect to itunes. Itunes asked me to restore my phone. When I tried to restore, I got an Error 23 saying it cannot be restored. I tried the phone support. They asked to contact the service centre. I then tried the service centre guys. They clearly did not know what Error 23 was. They asked to contact the apple support again. After 2-3 guys tried to blow me off saying it is a hardware issue, I asked for a senior analyst. Apple support assigned a senior guy who said he will contact the engineering team. After 2 days, I was told that the engineering team has confirmed that this is a hardware issue.
What I am surprised about is that no one seems to have done any analysis or debugging to figure this out. How do they decide that this is a hardware issue?
The first time I tried it from my laptop and got this message. The support guy told me that my laptop may have an antivirus software which may be causing this issue. So I took it to the service centre. They tried the same restore from their machine and got the exact same error.
The senior analyst that was later assigned to my case, again asked me to restore from my machine. I got the same error.
Basically what they had verified in all these activities was that I was getting error 23. I dont know how they decided that this was due to hardware issues?
Online documentation on Error 23 is vague. It is bunched long with other error codes. There is no clear explanation of what Error 23 is.
But most importantly It says 'In rare cases, this may be a hardware issue'.
So if it is a hardware issue in rare case, how was my case deemed to be a 'rare case'?
When I asked them to escalate this, they said that there is no way to escalate.
I have had a horrible experience with Apple support. Till this point I used to think of Apple as a class apart. But now I am totally disillusioned.
My phone was about a year and a half old. I dont mind it if it actually turns out to be a hardware issue. I will take it as my bad luck.
But I dont see how the support guys decided that this is a hardware issue. I need to know.
And secondly I am shocked that Apple has no escalation path.
Can anyone please help?

Hi @imobl,
You sound like an Apple support guy who hasn't been able to answer my questions.
To respond to some of the points you made,
- I did not ignore Ocean20's suggestion. If you has read my post, you would have known that I took my phone to the apple service centre where they tried this restore on THEIR machines. I am assuming that Apple guys know how not to block iTunes. So I actually do not understand your point about me trying the hosts file changes on my machine. Do you not believe that apple tested this issue with the correct settings?
- you also give a flawed logic of why the issue is a hardware issue. You mentioned that If I thought that the issue was with the software, i should try a restore and getting it to work. The problem is that my error (23), and many others comes up when the restore fails. And you would be astonished to know that not all errors are hardware errors. Sometimes even software errors prevent restores. Funnily enough Apple itself mention that 'in rare cases, error 23 could be hardware related'.
- all Apple has done so far is replicate the issue. I don not know how anyone can conclude that the issue is a hardware issue.
And by the way, I am not certain that this is a software bug. Again if you read my Posts, you will notice I only want a confirmation,/proof that the issue is hardware related as they mention..
Please refrain do. Responding if there is nothing to add.

Apple support "We're sorry. We are unable to process this topic. Please choose the topic again." Why?

I am trying to report a different problem through apple support but keep getting sent around in circles as whenever I make a submission for a response by email, I get the message in the title. I have tried submitting under different topics and it makes no difference.
Alternatives: start a chat online? Wait time only 2 minutes? Or by phone, wait also only 2 minutes? Blatant lies.
What on earth is going on? How can they get away with this? At best it's a farce, at worst it's malicious.
Can anyone offer me some enlightenment?
By the way, my real problem is to do with my Apple ID being disabled, an issue I am given to understand through research that many others are struggling to resolve, even if they can submit the problem in the first place.

They are having high traffic due to the launch later today. That could be the issue. On a side note, if you Apple ID is disabled, you have done a password reset and it is still showing disabled, you will need to call Apple to have them enable the account. 800-694-7466 or https://www.apple.com/contact/

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