Incompetant support assistance

I apologize but I don't know where else to take my complaint as I can't seem to find any direct email for customer support.

Three weeks ago at the beginning of the semester, my laptop stopped working entirely - it wouldn't turn on despite working perfectly 30 minutes prior. The only thing that I had done to it within those 30 minutes was plug it in to my charger on my desk and close the lid while I went to shower. Came back and found a broken laptop. So I contacted Dell and went through the shipping and repair process (again), and I got my laptop back a little more than a week later.

Unfortunately, the SupportAssist software problems that I mentioned I was having were still unfixed, but the laptop was able to turn on again so I was satisfied. A couple days go by, I'm working on some homework in the early morning, and I close my laptop to go make breakfast. I come back to a broken machine - seemingly for no reason - with the exact same problem(s) that I sent it in to be fixed for a week ago. I promptly called Dell and just asked for a box to be shipped to my house instead of trying to fix it over the phone with a technician.

I'm currently going through the same repair process as before. But this past Friday (2/01), 40 minutes before the Dell center closed for the entire weekend I received an email from Dell stating that, despite the entire purpose of me sending my laptop in was to be fixed,  they needed my verbal permission to actually fix my laptop. Apparently until I give them permission it's going to sit in the shop untouched. Now I have to wait the entire weekend before my laptop will even be serviced, in addition to the time it's going to spend shipping back to me and coordinating a successful FedEx drop off.

I'm a senior college student with a job and most days I'm away from home from morning until late evening. The nearest pickup center for FedEx is an hour away and because I'm never home it's almost impossible to coordinate a successful drop off. The worst part of everything is that I'm a college student and I've been without my laptop (which has all my notes, projects, files and important documents from the past four years) for more than half the semester so far - a laptop that I paid $1,300 for (when I did so I paid for a quality, working machine, not something that I have to spend more time fixing than using). The quality of my product and the type of customer service I've been receiving is unacceptable. I have been a Windows > Mac supporter for years but these past few incidents make me question ever giving my money to Dell again.

I apologize if this isn't the right place to post my woes but I need to talk to a customer service rep and I don't know where else to go.

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