{"id":99,"date":"2007-09-12T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2007-11-13T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:09:43","slug":"outsourcing-customer-support-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing Customer Support Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a  transcription of my customer service request to a  leading software testing tool company&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Product details have been omitted)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me :<\/strong><br \/>\nNeed Physical Media &#8211; <em>Product X<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have requested physical media for <em>Product X<\/em> multiple times and still<br \/>\nnot received the CDs. Could you please mail me the physical media to<br \/>\nthe address included in my Support profile? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Them :<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Matt,<\/p>\n<p>I am going to reassign this issue to License team and they will assist you regarding the <em>Product X<\/em> License.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nJust to clarify, I don&#8217;t need a license, I just need physical media.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Matt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Them:<\/strong><br \/>\nHello Matt, <\/p>\n<p>I found your SR&#8217;s with your upgrade requests for <em>Product Y<\/em>. I can not ship Cd&#8217;s, they are shipped from overseas. I can send links. Please resond to your SR&#8217;s for your CD shipments.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Note : They&#8217;re pointing me to the service request I opened to get CDs for a different product.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Them:<\/strong><br \/>\nHello Matt, <\/p>\n<p>Here are the download links for Product X.  If you need the physical CD, please login to support and click on the &#8220;submit upgrade request&#8221; link on the right hand side, as physical shipment requests are handled overseas now.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Note: The reason I opened the service request in the first place is because the &#8220;Submit Upgrade Request&#8221; link didn&#8217;t get me any CDs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nThanks for the download link. I have downloaded and installed <em>Product X<\/em>. However, I still need physical media. I have requested the physical media several times using the method you described with no success. Please look into this. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Them:<\/strong><br \/>\nHello Matt, <\/p>\n<p>These are your SR&#8217;s for your CD&#8217;s. I will send a email to the person that ships these and see if he can get to these sooner.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Note : At this point they&#8217;re pointing me to the service request I opened to get CDs for a different product, AGAIN.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t need <em>Product Y<\/em> disks. I need <em>Product X<\/em>. I don&#8217;t understand why this is so difficult. I just received 2 <em>Product Y<\/em>, and it is not what I requested. I need <em>Product X<\/em> media.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Matt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Them:<\/strong><br \/>\nHello Matt, <\/p>\n<p> I found your CD request for <em>Product Y<\/em>. Alex replied to you with the links and stated if you needed  CD&#8217;s to reply back. I don&#8217;t see a reply from you. I can send an email to have him send the CD&#8217;s to you as soon as possible.  Unfortunately I can not ship CD&#8217;s from this location they are now shipped overseas.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Note: AGAIN, they are talking about a different Service Request where I asked for <\/em><em>Product Y<\/em> CDs. I&#8217;m trying to get <em>Product X<\/em> CDs in this request.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe title of the ticket is &#8220;Need PHYSICAL MEDIA.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t asking for the download links in the first place.  Please read the entirety of this service request. ( I asked for physical media and the service representative thought I needed licenses. I corrected the Service Representative, and then received download links for <em>Product Y<\/em>, which isn&#8217;t what I requested. I then got download links for <em>Product X<\/em>, and was instructed to use the &#8220;Submit Upgrade Request&#8221; form. The whole reason I opened the request is because I&#8217;ve tried the &#8220;Submit Upgrade Request&#8221; form multiple times and have never received the CDs I requested.) If I can&#8217;t get CDs by using the online form (which I&#8217;ve tried several times) and you can&#8217;t send me CDs, how am I supposed to get them?<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this INSANE?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a transcription of my customer service request to a leading software testing tool company&#8230; (Product details have been omitted) Me : Need Physical Media &#8211; Product X I have requested physical media for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-1B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=21","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s like comparing Apples and Apples","author":"Matt","date":"March 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple Corps (the Beatles' record label and tax shelter) is suing Apple Computer for a third time over the Apple trademark. 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