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Dell customer service was unusable for me
I thought that I would buy a laptop from Dell PC. I have two already,
but the experience has been so horrific that I have had to back out. Yesterday I placed an order through their internet site for a laptop. That night my credit card company rang up, and said that they had decided to block the payment as it 'looked fraudulent'. I reassured them, and they told me to ring up Dell and get them to attempt the charge again. Today I rang Dell customer service. I get a robot. I follow the options and end up in a dead end. I try again. I get an Indian woman who asks for the details, so I tell her that I ordered it through the website yesterday. She then asks if the laptop has arrived! (Obviously she didn't understand anything that I told her). I query this, and she starts demanding aggressively that I tell her if it has arrived. At that point I put the phone down and ring again. This time I get another Indian, who asks for the details. She then transfers me to another Indian who asks for the details and transfers me to another one who does the same! By now I am getting rather frustrated, but -- I have played before -- I remain calm and state my queries calmly and clearly. I'm then put onto someone who clearly isn't an Indian, but tells me that the order will have died and that I will have to reorder the laptop again. At this point my survival instincts kick in -- these people are so disorganised that I could easily end up with two! She passes me to a saleswoman -- another Indian -- who tells me that I want to make an order. Of course I don't, so she passes me back to 'customer service' -- the same gang as before. The next one to come up asks once again for all the details of my order. This time I refuse, and say that I want to make a complaint. I am transferred to yet another Indian, who tells me that she is placing a complaint for me, but refuses to allow me to say what my complaint is -- she clearly doesn't understand what the word means. At this point I snap. I've been in this nightmare for almost an hour now. I want out. I can't even determine what the state of play is. So I ask, calmly and clearly, for the order to be cancelled. This does seem to be understood, and I am told that I will get an email in 24-48 hours confirming the cancellation (this never arrived). Paranoia now in full operation, I use the form on their website and request a cancellation, and write a letter which I send by special delivery with 'cease and desist'. Of all these, only the website form produces a result -- an email of cancellation. It seems that Dell are good, so long as nothing goes wrong. If you need customer service, you'll be thrown in the snake-pit. (At least they didn't sink to the level of British Gas and start trying to bait me into a rage so they could slam the phone down) |
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Dell customer service was unusable for me
I bought my first and last Dell in 1995.
This is how Indian call centres work (or not) http://www.callcentermovie.com/ . If you watch in IE, you will find the film in the cache and you will need to get a flash viewer (many around for free) to play it. -- Cheers, Guy ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights ** out of someone who richly deserves it. |
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Dell customer service was unusable for me
I had the opposite experience with Dell, last week.
I bought an Inspiron 9400 laptop about 7 months ago. Since I got it, it's never booted from the battery, only from the mains. I finally got around to informing Dell, via a web-chat interface on their site. The Indian chap I spoke with, took control of the laptop remotely, ran through some diagnostic checking, and then said an engineer would call 2 days later (and had offered next day, but this was not convenient for me). The engineer called before arriving, replaced the motherboard and battery, and the machine has been fine since. I received a call from the same Indian chap, asking if all was well. All in all, I thought the service was excellent. |
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Dell customer service was unusable for me
"Keith" wrote in message
ps.com... All in all, I thought the service was excellent. Hi Keith - may I ask, what warranty do you have on the laptop? Am thinking about buying a desktop through their business section (seems much cheaper, even with VAT and postage?), but not sure how the warranties compare. |
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Dell customer service was unusable for me
On Oct 30, 7:07 pm, "BluePlanet" wrote:
"Keith" wrote in message ps.com... All in all, I thought the service was excellent. Hi Keith - may I ask, what warranty do you have on the laptop? Am thinking about buying a desktop through their business section (seems much cheaper, even with VAT and postage?), but not sure how the warranties compare. Hi, I bought the laptop from Dell Outlet, with a 3 year on-site warranty. Specced up through the Dell site, the laptop was coming in at over £1600 (fast processors, 2Gb Ram, and a good graphics card); delivered through the Outlet site including VAT, it was £820. I bought my last laptop through Outlet too; and again had a good experience when I needed to use the warranty. Cheers, Keith. |
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Dell customer service was unusable for me
"Keith" wrote in message ps.com... snip Cheers Keith, much appreciated. |
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