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- From: T104244@r3vm.dsd.trw.com
- Subject: TERRIBLE SERVICE FROM ALDUS...BEWARE
- Message-ID: <168BF946E.T104244@r3vm.dsd.trw.com>
- Sender: news@gumby.dsd.trw.com
- Organization: TRW Electronic Systems Group
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:33:18 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- Hi,
- I'm usually a very reasonable person, but I've just had the worst experience
- with ALDUS CUSTOMER RELATIONS AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT. I just bought Aldus
- Pagemaker for Windows and ran into a bad install disk. I call the number
- on the registration card, wait about 15 minutes (non-toll free number)
- to get through to CUSTOMER RELATIONS (which the card says to call for
- replacement disks if defective)...they say that I have to talk to technical
- support first to confirm that the disks are bad...come on guys ...I got a
- abort, retry, fail...if that doesn'' tell you that the disk is bad, you better
- go back to school...so the guy transfers me to tech. support where I again
- have to wait...then I get through, tell my story...and the guy puts me on
- hold for another 10 mintues (all being charged to my phone bill)...what
- do they care right?! Then the guy says that they're coming out with a
- new version of pagemaker in January and that he suggest I upgrade (which
- of course will cost me another $99) and where he will have to transfer me
- back to Customer relations to do...do you get the feeling that I'm getting
- the run-around? Now I've been on the phone over 30 mintues. I'm sorry
- I just hung-up at that point because the call probably cost me $30 to
- washington and it was apparent that Aldus was NOT going to give me any
- real support.
- BEWARE in buying any new Aldus products..they're support is TERRIBLE...
- maybe I'm going overboard, but I'm pissed off! Let me release
- my steam over the internet..worldwide. at least that's satisfying
- even though I still have a non-working copy of Pagemaker.
- Anyone out there interested in a copy of Pagemaker for Windows with a
- bad install disk..I'll sell it cheap.
-
- Ernie
-