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- From: cpalmer@parsifal.nando.net (Cory Palmer)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: More against BETTER CONCEPTS
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 13:05:41 GMT
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- In article <hrlaserDMLLts.1xG@netcom.com> hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser) writes:
- > Craig (craigr@icc.com) wrote:
- >
- >
- > : Obviously, Brian, you obviously don't realize that we are one of the
- > : last standing complete Amiga Source for (almost) anything Amiga. I'm not
- > : saying this should fix anything between us & David but mistakes
- > : sometimes happen and in this case several. Of course the story is not
- > : complete from david and you are only hearing his side, but we are still
- > : to blame and are not refting that. If someone like yourself can't
- > : appreciate us being 100% amiga and supporting it to death by writing
- > : software for it, providing technical support for anything Amiga,
- > : carrying almost anything for it and making a mistake then don't think of
- > : us, don't look at our ads, don't enjoy our software, because we don't
- > : need people like you, in fact, people like you drive people like us into
- > : the PC market and then all Amiga users will suffer because you wont be
- > : able to buy SHIT in this country for your Amiga. If this ever happens,
- > : we will remember to thank you.
- > : BCI Rules :>
- >
- > The point is that the damage has been done, because someone screwed up.
- > Wasn't careful. Wasn't paying attention. Or didn't care. Now you're
- > here doing damage control. Wouldn't you rather be sending thank
- > you notices to people who post flattering articles about your service
- > than doing damage control because someone got mad enought to post
- > to a newsgroup that millions of people can read? (And that tens
- > of thousands probably _do_ read).
- >
- > The problem is that people have short memories. All your good deeds
- > can be wiped clean from a person's mind when they read a horror
- > story as the original post relayed.
- >
- > Now who the hell am I to butt in here... well besides being
- > an Amiga user from day one, I previously spent 15 years in the
- > freight forwarding industry, shipping all kinds of shit by
- > sea and by air all over the world from and to companies who had
- > 1 to hundreds of thousands of employees. I took great care in
- > the way I did my job. Because my employers hired uneducated
- > morons to work in the warehouses, I found myself sitting on a
- > forklift plenty of times loading an ocean container because
- > the guy hired to do the job was too stupid to know not to put
- > the heavy stuff on top of the light stuff. I could write a
- > book about this segment of my life.
- >
- > But the point I'm trying to make is that the customer is king.
- > And the customer has friends. And he's one of your best sources
- > of referrals to other customers. If I'm satisfied with a company
- > in the way they did business with me, people are gonna hear
- > about it. And that company's gonna make some money from it and
- > everyone's gonna be happy.
- >
- > I take this attitude with my Amiga Zone customers on Portal.
- > I've spent countless hours on the phone with clueless newbies
- > who didn't know which side of the mouse is up, helping them
- > install comms software, getting connected, downloading files,
- > using the net. I could shrug them off but that's not gonna
- > get good word of mouth. One cannot just put one's company
- > on auto-pilot and expect every transaction is gonna be smooth.
- >
- > And it's important for someone in a position of authority to
- > not only take blame if something goes wrong, but to fix it
- > and make it right. Even if it involves shipping out another
- > product gratis, just to say "Sorry for what you went through.
- > Please accept this token as our apology. We want to earn
- > and keep your trust."
- >
- > It's not good to see Amiga-supporting companies go away, of
- > course not. It's also not good to read horror stories of
- > problems that could have easily been resolved had someone
- > in authority stepped in and made good quickly.
- >
- > Harv | "Do you recognize the
- > harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- > http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- > hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
- >
-
-
- I totally agree with you Harv. I normally don't slam companys unless
- they really screwed up the order or are just totally rude on the phone
- like software hut. The companys that I have NEVER HAD A PROBLEM with
- are Vison Soft, Safe Harbor Computers and Select Solutions. None of
- these 3 companys have ever told me something was in stock and wasn't.
- They all have said it was out of stock and would be in around xxx date.
- I normally deal with Saft Harbor since they are the closest to me, only
- 2 days for ups, but if they are out of stock on something I want and don't
- want to wait I will call the other 2 companys. I have not had a problem
- with Select Solutions but I call them last since the will only ship
- credit card orders to the billing address and I always have the stuff
- sent to my work since I won't be home to get the stuff if it sent to my
- billing address. But you can call UPS and have them reroute the package
- to your work but it takes an extra day. If you want honest people, great
- service and people who can answer most questions order from:
-
- Safe Harbor Computers
- Vision Soft
- Select Solutions
-
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-
- Cory Palmer
- cpalmer@nando.net
-
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