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- From: wwm@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (William Meahan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell Unix..
- Message-ID: <Brqnrn.KAt@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 12:23:47 GMT
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- : In article <Brov7I.8tF@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>, wwm@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (William Meahan) writes:
- :
- : |> I no loger have a question about Dell UNIX - I simply will NOT buy it!
- : |>
- : |> An attitude like that indicates that Dell has gotten the old "the customer
- : |> be damned" attitude that has almost killed DEC, did grevious harm to the
- : |> American auto industry and generally has allowed the Japanese to take over
- : |> much of American industry.
- :
- : If you are dropping a vendor because they sent you the wrong
- : literature, be glad you are only buying one system, because the rest of
- : the vendors hire mortals, too!
- :
- : Anyone who would buy something because they like the salemen, or avoid
- : it because they didn't get perfect communication in a trivial
- : transaction, is not a very astute consumer.
- : --
- : bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- : It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- : understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- : continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-
-
- Sorry, bill, you miss the point:
-
- 1) I'm not the guy who got the SCO product literature from Dell although
- I have been having trouble getting product literature from Dell even
- after explicit e-mail to info@dell.com. I was sent a response from
- the automated response generator that gave year-old prices and a pure
- marketroid press release. Not too comforting.
-
- 2) Several threads in this newsgroup have made similar points about Dell's
- great products but lousy support.
-
- 3) My direct response had nothing to do with competence but with ATTITUDE.
- Nobody expects a vendor to support every conceivible hardware/software
- combination, especially in the PC arena with literally thousands of
- suppliers. Nevertheless, it IS fair to expect to be treated COURTEOUSLY
- and with RESPECT, even if wrong. When an employee of a company rants
- and raves ("Bull...", "Give us a frigging BREAK...") and implies that the
- customer is, shall we say of low IQ, is not good. That this
- occurred in an international public forum with no hint of apology from
- others at Dell simply cannot be excused. Customers can be a pain in the
- butt and dead wrong but should be dealt with directly.
-
- Technical competence is great, and Dell should be commended for the fine
- work they have done in providing a highly polished SVR4. BUT, if customer
- support is not top-notch as well, a company can expect to see their sales
- evaporate.
-
- I wish also to personally apologize to all for my own overheated comments.
- I had just gotten reamed for not responding quickly enough to a customer
- myself (and I responded with a smile - just a few hours later than expected).
- --
- Bill Meahan |EFHD Information Systems Staff
- Technical Consultant |Ford Motor Company
- wwm@ef2007.efhd.ford.com | +1 313 487 6122
- ...!fmsrl7!ef2007!wwm |I'm not paid to speak for Ford!
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