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- From: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz)
- Subject: DON'T USE GATEWAY'S E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR TECH SUPPORT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.074431.10452@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 07:44:31 GMT
- Organization: Illinois State University
- Lines: 72
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-
- Just thought I'd post a warning to the net.users who have Gateway's e-mail
- addresses and actually thought they could get some tech support help
- through the net. DON'T! We recently purchased two 486 systems, standard
- configuration, from them... one of them doesn't work until you switch it
- off and back on for 15 or 20 minutes! So I think, OK, problems happen in
- the computer industry, I'll just get it to their attention and see what
- happens. So I post to their e-mail addresses a note describing the problem
- and a description of the system. I also began calling their tech support
- line (like oh sure, I'm going to get through...!) This was one week ago.
-
- What I got by phone was this: NOTHING. Not ONE call back, even though I
- must have called them six or seven times (and counting).
-
- What I got by e-mail, after 2 days, was this:
-
- ----------------------------------------------
- From: gateway@aol.com
- X-Mailer: America Online Mailer
- To: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
- Subject: Re: TO Tech support
-
- Eric ...
- I will give your email to our network techs and engineers and see if we can
- figure out what the problems are. It may take me a day or two to get back
- with you. ^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Cynthia Lloyd
- Online & Onsite Services
- Gateway 2000
- ----------------------------------------------
-
- A day or two? That would have been fine. It wasn't till a week later
- that I received:
-
- ----------------------------------------------
- From: gateway@aol.com
- X-Mailer: America Online Mailer
- To: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
- Subject: Re: HELP!
-
- Eric ...
- I handed your first letter over to our tech support folks and our
- engineers. There recommendation is that you call tech support as working
- this through by mail would be much to complicated.
-
- Cynthia Lloyd
- Online & Onsite Services
- Gateway 2000
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- Well, fine, but GOD DAMMIT! Why did it take them so long to get back to
- me with THIS SIMPLE MESSAGE? Why did I have to mail them so many times
- before I got the above blow-off? And how the HELL am I supposed to "call
- tech support" when they WON'T RETURN A WEEK'S WORTH OF PHONE CALLS?!?
-
- I'd heard that Gateway's tech support was bad, but I didn't think it would
- be THAT bad. I could handle waiting a day or two for a solution...but to
- get blown off for an entire week? Unacceptable at best.
-
- I am now going to try them by FAX. Hell, I'll try anything just to talk
- to someone other than an operator!
-
- -Eric
-
- PS. The above, BTW, is NOT "Gateway-bashing." It is a legitimate complaint
- about some *seriously* messed-up priorities in a very big company (IMHO).
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- + Eric J. Huppertz | Disclaimers: | Signature virus mutation: I will copy +
- + ejhupper@ilstu.edu | the usual | MYSELF into your .sig!! Mwa ha ha... +
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