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- From: elric@tnp.com (Jeff Barr)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: More against BETTER CONCEPTS
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 06:39:28 GMT
- Organization: Abest Networking, Inc. [ISP] (718) 651-5010
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- On 11 Feb 1996 13:05:41 GMT, cpalmer@parsifal.nando.net (Cory Palmer)
- wrote:
-
- >> 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
- >
- >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:
-
- Umm, I may be off a bit on this, since I haven't seen a US Amiga mag
- (and the ads within) in quite some time, but isn't "Better Concepts"
- the outfit formerly known as "Grapevine Group", moved down the road a
- stretch and renamed to avoid creditors and pissed off customers? If
- they're located in Nyack, then that's them, and boy, "Grapevine" was
- one group that Amiga users were glad to see leave the scene (until
- they surrepticiously snuck back in). NOTHING but complaints from users
- about delayed shipments, incorrect shipments, never receivbed
- shipments, and when you called them, they always had some cockamamie
- excuse that never held water, IF you ever managed to get through.
-
- Flat on my back in the middle of the Information Superhighway
-