Go Chiefs! Otterbox Defender Cases coming this week!

Hello everyone –

Your requests have been heard and your wish is granted! The full protection cases you desire are coming to Mission Repair this week! I’ve secured a U.S. vendor that has all the great accessories you prefer to protect your device and bling out your smartphone or tablet. The Chief’s fans will love the new iPhone 6 case from Otter with the official licensed Chief’s logo on the back. Now it’s easier than ever to show your team spirit for the upcoming 2016/17 season!

GO CHIEFS!!!

This is just one of many colors and style choices arriving this week in our Lenexa showroom. We will be adding Spigen, Griffin, Speck, Belkin and many other name brands at competitive prices. Picking up your phone from a recent repair? Ask about our in-store specials and receive a discount on your accessory purchase. Cases, chargers and tempered glass all in store and ready to go!

Look forward to seeing you in our Lenexa store!

Jeff

Kansas City customers- Mission Repair’s website is for you!

Hello friends, thank again for stopping back by the blog this morning.

We’ve been operating for the better part of a decade now, and Mission Repair started out primarily as a “mail in” repair center. We are in the middle of the country, with a huge technician floor, with room for expansion at our fingertips. We’ve often thought that we’d never go into the retail business (See: Mission Repair Express) nor we would actually cater to or offer a streamlined walk-in customer experience.

Boy was I wrong!

We of course have opened our first retail spot in Mission, Kansas and we have also reset and expanded our front office at our main headquarters with a customer waiting room, vending, television and showroom. This gives our waiting customers something to do rather than waiting in a small dingy crowded office space that used to be our front lobby.

What else have we done for our local customers? We’ve taken our website one step further and added “Customer Dropoff” and “Customer Pickup” to our shipping methods when placing an order online. This makes it easy- if you place your order online, there’s no need to wait when you arrive to fill out the necessary paperwork at our location.

You can place the order, pay for it, print it out and just drop it off at one of our locations if that’s what you choose. It makes for a much more efficient customer experience and you can even enter those coupon codes that you might have online before you ever arrive! Everyone loves a good sale!

Now there’s no reason to “pre-place” your order, but if you do, you’ll be a step ahead of the game when you arrive at our location. Thanks again for stopping by!

Take care, Ryan

It’s prom time, and Casey isn’t immune.

Hi friends, do you remember going to prom? I do…

Here’s my son Casey and his girlfriend at his Junior Prom last weekend, the pictures just came through on the prom website. Is he going to “love” that I posted this here on the Mission Repair blog? Nope. I will certainly hear about it tonight…but it’s not intended to make fun of him or to in any way demean the experience; my prom(s) were memorable and exciting!

It’s that time of year – that time that the “tuxedo guys” are doing some great business and all of the hair stylists are booked up on the weekends.

So Casey, good job buddy – you’ve just made an excellent life memory. You will look back at this picture and laugh at your hair, or your tux, or your something else…I guarantee it. If I had the guts I’d post a picture of my 80’s Junior prom, but I don’t. I’ll keep that to myself but all I have to say is “mullet” and we’ll leave it at that!

So to honor all of the prom goers that are out there this month, we’re going to run a 15% coupon today through Easter Sunday 4/20/14 at Midnight on our Mission Repair website. Just use coupon code “casey” when checking out online or when calling in your order. If you walk into one of our locations, print this blog and hand it to your sales representative for an instant 15% savings on your new order. This coupon cannot be combined with any other coupon. You’re going to need that iPhone to take pictures!

Get that boutonnière ordered!

Take care, Ryan

Case Of The Mondays (Screen Protector Edition)!

Hello M:R Nation… and happy Monday?

Happy or not, we are going to discuss a product today that  I have been testing for the better part of 2 weeks. While it is not a case, I hope you will let me stretch the rules here for just today.

The Spigen GLAS.tR SLIM Premium Tempered Glass has been an interesting accessory to have on my phone to say the least… It is a piece of precision cut, 0.4mm glass that adheres to the screen of your iPhone. The purpose is 2 fold in my opinion… #1. It’s oleophobic coating really reduces the finger prints that is usually left on phone screens and #2. It absorbs the shock if you happen to drop your phone.

Here is a shot of the packaging

When I opened the package to start my install for my iPhone 5, I found a few different items that impressed me to my core. First, the instructions are very simple to follow. It seems like a hard concept nowadays for companies to make easy to follow instructions, but Spigen has passed this test with flying colors (granted, its a pretty easy task to install this piece of glass). Second, Included is all of the components you need to actually install the piece of glass (you’d be surprised by how many screen protectors require outside tools to install). Last, they include a choice of 6 raised home button stickers that will accommodate the 0.4mm that you just added to your screens thickness.

Here are the insides all laid out

The install was very simple and took about 5 minutes. I chose black for my home button and started to live my life. The first thing I noticed about this product is the lack of finger prints that it picked up and how nice it felt to the touch. It attracted 100% less prints than the original iPhone 5 glass that is on it. In fact, the only time a print was left on this glass is when I intentionally tried to leave one on it. I did have  a smudge here and there, but for the most part, it remained clean and clear!

An attempt at a close up to see the thickness when applied

I accompanied my Spigen screen protector with the Spigen SGP iPhone 5 Case Ultra Thin Air that I reviewed last week and the extra thickness was not very noticeable. Even when I took the case off, the extra thickness was manageable. Take a look at the (not so great) image above! After having this screen protector on for 2 weeks, I really got used to it. It became a part of my iPhone 5 and I really miss it. Why do I miss it? Because it did what it was born to do and protected my iPhone 5 screen after I dropped it!

Ouch!

There I was, walking out to my garage to grab my son a juice box and I suddenly received a text message. When I went to respond to said text message, I tripped slightly over a broom that was placed unceremoniously in front of the door. My iPhone slipped right out of my hand I just knew this wasn’t going to be good. Fearing the worst, I picked my iPhone and sure enough, a nice large crack was staring me in the face… Lesson of the day “Never text and walk to your garage for a juice box”.

As I started to assess the damage, I remembered that I had this screen protector on my iPhone. I started to swell with hope that it did its job and protected my screen. I slowly peeled the protector off (which came off cleanly and not a shard of glass to be had) and sure enough, it worked!  My iPhone screen was as flawless as ever and my mind was at ease.

If I had to rate this product from 1-10 I would most certainly give it a 10! I am confident in its ability and I am confident to offer it to our customers. So with that, you can place your order for your very own Spigen SGP iPhone 5 Screen Protector GLAS.tR SLIM Premium Tempered Glass right here with Mission:Repair or walk-in to our location and let us install it for you. There is no possible way to completely protect yourself from breaking your Smartphone, but this will give you a fighting chance!

Cheers, Troy

 

Cases, Cases And More Cases!

Hello M:R Nation –

It’s Troy here coming to you remotely from the Harris residence. Its currently nap time and I now have a free moment to breath and talk about our newly added cases that has everyone around the office buzzing!

We have added Spigen, UAG and have greatly refreshed our Otterbox offerings! As you can read from Monday, my iPhone 5 is currently donning this Spigen SGP iPhone 5 Case Ultra Thin Air Metal Slate and I am still loving it! I am currently putting the Spigen SGP iPhone 5 Screen Protector GLAS.t SLIM Premium Tempered Glass through its paces and will have a review on that shortly.

Ok, that’s enough with all of the links… Now that we have a renewed sense of what it is to offer some awesome accessories, we have got to put the Mission Repair spin on it! Every accessory that we offer will be shipped to you for free! Thats right, why pay more than you have to? Don’t go to Amazon or eBay and pay the random sellers there a dime for shipping!

If you are have had a device repaired with us, are currently having a device repaired with us, or know someone that is just clumsy and needs a case, we are here for you! We will continue to add new brands on a weekly basis and if you have any requests for a certain case or accessory, email lennie@missionrepair.com and he will be happy to help!

Cheers, Troy