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- From: someone@nando.net (Doug Nadel)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: US Robotics: No customer support???
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 02:21:55 GMT
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- A WARNING to anyone considering purchasing USR products.
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- US Robotics has, it would appear, completely abandoned costumer
- service. If you don't think you will ever need to contact them, buy
- their stuff, but if you ever do need ANYTHING from them, you will not
- get it.
-
- To wit:
- I have been trying to get ANYONE to contact me since January of
- 1996. Many times I've left messages on the BBS, called on the
- telephone, and sent e-mail on a daily basis. I've called the sales
- group to tell them that my 33.6 upgrade order was incomplete. They
- tried several times to get me to wait 1/2 hr on a long distance line
- for TECH SUPPORT TO FILL AN ORDER !?!?! Finally I said 'you sold it
- to me. If you don't think it is your job, take my name and address
- and find out who's job it is and get them to do it.' The result...
- absolutely nothing.
-
- They even have 2 email links on their web page. One for sales, which
- will respond with... nothing, and one for tech support which will
- respond with... nothing! Once, I received an idiotic list of codes
- to put in the subject line for an automated response, but it said that
- if you want to contact a human use the address... you guessed it...
- the same address!
- (actually it said include 0000 in the subject line, but that gets you
- ... nothing).
-
- After I resorted to bombarding their system with mail, someone sent me
- a note promising to complete my order (I'm only asking for a 35 cent
- chip puller!). And the response? Need I say? ... Nothing.
-
- So sales people think that filling orders isn't their job. Tech
- support can't even stick a chip puller in an envelope, there is no way
- to contact a human via the web, their BBS, or apparently via telephone
- (at least for less than the cost of the product you are trying to get
- fixed). I've asked them to have manager contact me with an
- explanation, but, well ... nothing.
-
- Be forwarned. US Robotics is a complete disaster when it comes to
- trying to get customer service. You may get a fast modem, but there
- is no point trying to use it to contact USR.
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- Doug Nadel
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