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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: >>An example of Dell's product
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.165401.5220@rwwa.COM>
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- Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
- References: <BrKM6r.656@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Jul18.142650.24227@virtech.u>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:54:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul18.142650.24227@virtech.u>, cpcahil@virtech.uucp writes:
- | That isn't what was said. What was said was [...]
-
- Sorry, but that *isn't* what was said either.
-
- What was said was:
-
- | Bull. [...] your complaint is unjustified. We're familiar with your
- | problem - even in development we've heard your whining, [...] IT'S NOT
- | DELL'S PROBLEM that someone else's printer and cable doesn't work with
- | our machine/software. We have no obligation or commitment to make your
- | particular (and peculiar) setup work [...] I *personally* wish you would
- | find out what Compaq is selling these days.
-
- and
-
- | Give us a frigging BREAK! [...][Dell] sales people are notorious
- | for knowing little about software and quick to dispose of callers
- | who waste their time asking about it.
-
- I don't care who is right or wrong on the technical issue. I
- don't care whether the customer is an asshole or not. I don't care
- whether dell has any obligation to make *anything* work.
-
- What I care about is what the vendor's representative said (publicly)
- to a *customer*. (And BTW, his disclaimer is meaningless, considering
- he was talking about a *business* issue concerning Dell and a *customer*.
- In this topic, he *is* acting as Dell's representative. It is reasonable
- to take his statement, lacking any authorative denial, as Dell's position
- on this issue. If this is *not* Dell's position, then I think Dell should
- tell us what their position is.)
-
- In my company, some things you *never* tell a customer are:
-
- 1) Bull. Your complaint is unjustified. (even if it is).
-
- 2) Give us a frigging BREAK! (even if that is what you really want).
-
- 3) We're familiar with your whining. (even if we are).
-
- 4) It's not our problem. (even if it isn't).
-
- 5) We have no obligation to make your system work (even though you don't).
-
- and especially
-
- 6) We hope you go to the competition (even if you do).
-
- I have very little sympathy with those in this forum who attempt to
- appologize away these sentiments. That is because I suspect that these
- same people are the first to complain when a sales person is rude, or when
- a product fails to perform, or when *their* complaints are poorly handled.
-
- --
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- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA 01907 USA
- Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
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