Every interaction with Apple support is a fight, swear to god...

XS Max has a rattle and Apple Pay does not work, was told (after verifying location) I could walk in to my local apple store with little hassle and get my phone swapped out.

Well, every bit of that was apparently a lie and I forgot how much the support sucks at my local apple store, guys are absolute cocks. Now im waiting a few days for Apple to send their replacement... Heres hoping the manager at the store is reasonable and offers me SOMETHING for wasting a total of 4 hours of my life and 60 miles worth of gas. while also giving me a massive migrane. Not to mention the same thing happened to me back in 2016 with a Macbook Pro...

Been a user of apple products for 15 years, my decision to give them as little of my money directly as possible only gets more reinforced by the day.