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09/03/2011, 12:46 PM
#1451
 Originally Posted by fwinst
Call me a crazy customer service kinda guy, but wouldn't it have been a good idea for HP to send out emails to ALL of the SMB customers by now? Some, as we've seen, would be informed that theirs would be shipped in the next 2-3 weeks, and the rest would be informed that their orders would be filled in the next 4/6/8 weeks. Whatever the timeframe. They should have an idea of what that is by now. The information would calm most of the customers, and decrease the call volume to your sales staff (who generally have little or no useful info on our status). I know, I'm a radical.
EDIT: Let me just add to this that we are headed into a 3-day weekend. It's unlikely that any new info will be available until Tuesday. It just would've been nice to have the email that Bryna (Our Twitter HP insider) said we would receive if we met the 8/22, 4am cut-off. I suppose we might still hear something today. I just think (no real shocker here) HP could've handled this better.
If the reason those emails are not going to get to us within the 48-hours is because of the 3-day weekend, so everyone as the weekend off, it's just going to l*I$$ me off even more. Don't post, email, tweet, etc. "We're sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused you", and then not do what ever you need to do to make it right. If that means offering additional compensation to their employees employees to volunteer to work (whatever the compensation needs to be to get it done), then that's what you do.
I'm sick and tired of companies use "...sorry for the inconvenience..." like a get out of jail free card. I understand mistakes and/or the unexpected happen, but apologizing for it without any kind of effort to make it right just sounds like, "Oh well, $h17 happens, now ∫u¢k off".
~ 1 hour to go before end of 48-hour.
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