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- From: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3000T motherboards, where are they made now?
- Message-ID: <53048@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 21:12:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.191119.585@kas.helios.mn.org>
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- In article <1992Sep5.191119.585@kas.helios.mn.org> rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes:
- >...a friend on "Gold Service", you know the "next day" service, lost his
- >motherboard and when he called Gold Service to have it fixed they basically
- >told him there were no more motherboards available but they'd get ahold of
- >him whenever some more were made. That was 3 weeks ago and he's still
- >waiting for "Gold Service" to make good on their "next day" service...
-
- Gold Service and the A3000T simply don't get along. For the first
- few months I owned my A3000T, Gold Service admittedly had "no parts" for it,
- and "no servicepeople" who had been trained to repair one.
-
- For my "next day" service, I was given the option of taking the
- computer to my dealer (100 miles away) or using Commodore Express (Federal
- Express to Commodore). I chose FedEx and had my machine back in 6 days,
- which wasn't too bad. But I paid for "on site service" to avoid these kinds
- of delays!
-
- I wrote an angry letter to Commodore's VP of customer service about
- this, and got a friendly response by telephone from the VP himself. His
- explanation was that CBM hadn't trained Gold Service people to fix the
- A3000T yet, so they were having them all shipped to CBM for service. In
- addition, he extended my warrantee because of this hassle. (Although he has
- never sent me written confirmation of this....)
-
- >I guess Commodore uses a definition of "next day service" that I've never
- >heard of before...
-
- Note -- they don't guarantee "next day" in writing, at least on my
- contract. They say that "most" problems can be handled by the next day.
- But they do guarantee on-site service. Huh.
-
- Commodore obviously made a promise that it is unable to keep:
- timely, on-site service for A3000T's. As one CBM employee said to me back in
- May: "You bought one of the first 500 A3000T's." No wonder A3000T service
- isn't foremost on CBM's mind. But you'd think they'd want to take better
- care of their highest-paying customers.
-
- DISCLAIMER: all this happened several months ago. Maybe things are
- better now. For all I know, Gold Service now has a crack team of 10,000
- A3000T service people, sitting around and waiting for service calls.
-
- Dan
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