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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: More against BETTER CONCEPTS
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 00:00:10 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <150473@cup.portal.com>
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- <hrlaserDMLLts.1xG@netcom.com> <311E417A.56E4@qed.net>
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-
- >H.R. Laser wrote:
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- >As they say in the Navy: 100 'Atta-Boys' are equivalant to 1 'Oh Shit'.
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- >But you know what? There are some customers that is JUST DOESN'T MATTER
- >what you do for them ... we could DRIVE TO THEIR HOUSE to try and fix
- >the problem with a lifetime supply of chocolates and NOTHING will fix
- >the damage. Some people THRIVE on unhappiness it seems. Believe me, I
- >can produce a list of the 'gratis' goodies I have ALONE (not to mention
- >the rest of the people here) sent out to help quell a problem.
-
- I partially agree here. I work at a new car dealership (service/parts) and
- you would be shocked at what we go thru, BUT we always do our best to make
- sure the customer leaves satisfied. 1 'oh-shit' is a killer nowadays!
-
- >> 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.
-
- Hey! I resemble this remark!! (And many thanks, BTW!) :)
-
- >That is why our programming team gets nothing done. We sit with similar
- >individuals for HOURS helping them install AmiTCP or something else that
- >we have NO OBLIGATION to do, yet we do it.
- >
- >> 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."
- >
- >Most of the time, it doesn't help. We DO do that ... OFTEN.
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- >You make it all sound like it was intentional ... Although I personally
- >wasn't involved with the order, I KNOW the people I work with would not
- >just pick someone at random and say 'ah ha! Here is the guy we are
- >gonna screw over today'...
- >
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-
- I don't really think anyone believes that you guys did anything
- 'intentionally'. What has been done 'intentionally' to rectify the problem?
-
-
- Gary
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