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- In article <3glej2$1mv@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, stranahan@aol.com (Stranahan) says:
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- >One problem, frankly, is that many people call up to ask questions like
- >'How much should I charge for animation?' or 'How do I model an eagle in a
- >barrel?' - and these non-tech support calls take up quite a bit of time.
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- Hmm, in the past few days, someone called the office in the late
- evening to ask the full site name of the avalon.chinalake.navy.mil
- archive, and someone else would *not* stop asking questions about
- LightWave for Windows, although I'd only answer that I couldn't
- talk about it because it was in beta. You are absolutely right,
- people feel free to chat about anything once they've got you
- on the line. Since Syndesis deals with so many 3D programs, we
- often get the question "Which 3D program is the best?".
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- Or for example, to complain about NewTek's tech support in my
- own way, :-), it's Syndesis' responsibility to provide second-line
- tech support for the TIO and PICT tools in the Toaster. But it
- seems like as soon as the customer mentions those words, the
- customer gets shunted off to Syndesis - even if the person is
- having trouble with CrossDOS, and it has nothing to do with
- TIO or PICT. I understand why NewTek's support people think
- it has to do with TIO, because the customer told them it did,
- but why start believing what the customer said. :-) So we end
- up helping 90% of the callers by telling them how to configure
- CrossDOS or Apple File Exchange. The other 10% are "solved"
- by telling them to re-install their Toaster software, usually
- because they've deleted the "tio.library" from LIBS: and
- they didn't realize it, and the only way to get it back is to
- re-install everything, which always pleases the customer. :-)
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- It's sad, but many company tech support guides say things like,
- when they ask "how are you today," do not say anything at all,
- it only wastes time. Or, "do not volunteer any information."
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- I see parallels between tech support questions and questions
- on the Internet. Some people expect these forums to be magic
- oracles: you shout a question down into the smoky hole, and
- out comes an answer wailed by a friendly spirit.
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