Complaint on Italian Customer Support

Hello,
I would like to complain on how Italian Customer Support is dealing a technical issue on my new Lenovo AIO B750 bought in October 2014. After only 2 weeks it started to turn off the screen and changing between PC/HDMI mode by itself ( I guess the problem was a touch sensitive control panel in the lower right corner of the screen). I phoned the Customer Service and was then subsequently contacted by Medion Italia. They were very quick to organize a TNT courier who took away my computer on November the 3rd. Unfortunately since then things have started going wrong. For over a month now I haven't received any feedback from Medion and on my repetitive calls to Lenovo Customer Service they keep on saying that they are still waiting for a spare parts. They also advised me to write a letter of complaint to Medion, which for me is strange as I bought a Lenovo computer, with Lenovo warranty and Medion is only a "third party" company for me. Anyway, they haven't answered me yet, neither.
I would like to ask you an advice who should I write/call now to get my computer back?
Kind regards,
Andrzej Bet
P.S. My client number is 500337157

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Complaints for iPad 2/Customer Support

Please bear with me, I am new and extremely dissatisfied/frustratedwith Apple’s hardware, software and customer support.
I received my apple iPad 2 the day before yesterday (orderedthrough AAFES). I am abroad working inKuwait with the military. I charged thedevice (of course with the supplied charger and cable), plugged it into mylaptop, which has the most recent iTunes, registered my product and powered iton. After less than a minute of checkingthe device I noticed a dead (not misfired, but dead) pixel. My first reactive step was to reset the ipad,hoping that would help. Reset was successful, but did not correct the dead pixel. I then connected to the net through my wifi router and d/l a couple basecolor photos to see if this would show some reaction from the pixel, the pixeldid not change… it’s dead.
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I’m sorry to all you die hard Apple lovers if you areoffended, and I’m sorry if I’m naïve or maybe a little ignorant to the “Appleway of life,” but if Microsoft did this, everyone would flip out. Heck, they got sued for adding extra stuff totheir OS; but, it’s ok for Apple to make their devices so minimalistic that it’shardly better than a word processor with web browsing capability and a couplecameras? I like my Kindle a lot more, it’san ebook, advertised as an ebook, works as an ebook, and they added some cool extras like text to voice and web browsing.
Ok, I’m done for now. Can anyone please give me some information on how I can get this POS replaced with a brand new, in the box, sealed and fully functional (lol, well,as functional as the iPad 2’s come, out of the box)? If not, how can I spread my complaint as farand wide as possible? And with that,does anyone know the buyer’s remorse policy on electronics? (oh, AAFES won’t give one ounce of supportfor Apple products, normally they would give a 15 day, but for Apple, becausethere have been SO MANY issues, they no longer assist, as a matter of fact,when you buy an Apple device from them, you have to sign a paper saying thatyou understand that if the device is defective or inoperable in any way, thatyou will not ask AAFES for help… at least in the local PX’s here.)
PS I appologize for the typoeees, I cut and pasted all this and for some reason it smushed some of the words together.

I’m not quite sure what you’re referencing as“misinformation” or “ridiculous statements,”
I was referring to these:
The iPad 2 Safari browser will not natively allow one todownload… anything.
Not true. It can download PDFs and Images. iOS apps are downloaded through the AppStore. But not allowing you to download just any old files is what keeps iOS free of viruses and malware. It's a security feature.
pay Apple $5 to buy their Safari downloader.
Not true. Apple does not make and charge for any Safari Downloader app.
In order to download “FREE” apps from iTunes, you MUST enter your creditinformation…
Not true, as the link posted above proves.
So I tried to reset through iTunes.
No you didn't. You can't reset the device through iTunes. You can restore it, which means re-installing the OS, which of course requires an internet connection to download it.
if one were to have their device jailbroken (yup, Apple, you lost in court, so deal with it…
Not true. Apple didn't lose anything in court. They never even went to court. It was the Copyright Office.
MULTIPLE countries sued you and found your tactics unlawful
Not true. No countries have sued Apple.
You cannot natively test your video, audio or microphone quality.
Not true. iPad is designed to be synced with iTunes, which is where your music and video is stored. The AppStore has many easily downloadable free apps that use the microphone. Videos and music can both very easily be played in the web browser.
they could have put a couple songs, videos, pictures or games on there.
Why? Your iTunes Library should already have songs and videos in. Pictures are easily obtainable, and so are many free games. People would complain like crazy if Apple put loads of crap nobody asked for on their iPad from new like you get on a Windows PC.
don’t just advertise and trick the end users into believing that they will have a nifty device right out of the box.
The iPad does everything it is advertised as doing right out of the box. But you will need videos, music and games to put on it. Same as a CD player plays CDs out of the box, but you need CDs to play on it. A car will take you on journeys, but you need gas to put in it.
Do you other users actually pay the extra couple hundred dollars for your programs like Apple wants?.
Of course people buy apps for their devices. There are hundreds of thousands of apps available. You expect Apple to provide you with every app ever made for free, pre-installed? Get real! People also buy applications for computers and other electronic devices, like they buy CDs for their CD player, DVDs for their DVD player. Nobody expects the manufacturers to provide them for free.
it’s ok for Apple to make their devices so minimalistic that it’s hardly better than a word processor with web browsing capability and a couple cameras?
If you had read reviews of the iPad and read the product info pages on Apple's website, you would've known EXACTLY what the iPad comes with in terms of hardware and software. It's all there in black and white.
I like my Kindle a lot more, it’s an ebook, advertised as an ebook, works as an ebook
The iPad does everything exactly as advertised - if it didn't, Apple would be in trouble with advertising regulators all over the world. Millions of people like the iPad, but if you prefer the Kindle, why buy an iPad? That makes no sense at all.
I have seen and read dozens upon dozens of reviews on the iPad and iPad 2…
Hmmm... somehow I doubt it. If you had, there is absolutely no way you could've had so much misinformation and misconceptions about what the iPad is, does, and comes with.

I wish to make a formal complaint about when i called through to your customer support department.

I never make formal complaints but i feel really compelled to do so right now because I was so upset by the service I recieved I wasted 2hours and I even broke out in hives I was so fustrated. It was really annoying when I was speaking to the lady because she kept going away from the conversation after I was answering a question. I would answer her request/question then sit there waiting for her to communicate back and the line was silent after approx a min I would say "hello?" and she then would continue with the conversation. Or the line would go silent for ages and after sitting there I would say "is anyone there?" and she would again continue the conversation. I felt like she was very very distracted as she still didn't seem to understand what i wanted after 24mins!!!! I was thinking maybe she's talking to someone, maybe shes trying to have lunch or maybe she's reading a really good book at the same time??? What every she was doing she wasn't helping me and she wasn't listening to me. My problem was a relatively easy one. I just needed to get past the "Adobe Acrobat Trial" popup as it didn't find my installatiion of my new purchased Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
After listening to your hold music till I wanted to scream I hung up and continued to try and solve the problem myself online. Luckily I found the "Live Chat Help" a customer service officer (I think his name was Punhub- something like that) assisted me with professionalism and quickly. He made me feel maybe it will be ok to continue to purchase & use Adobe products, as after speaking to the girl on the phone I wanted to never use any Adobe products ever again.
This ended up to be a 3 hour ordeal instead of a 7 minute product installation and a 10min max customer support assistance (even though of course it would have been better if I didn't need to use customer support and my installation to have worked right, but i understand sometimes things happen).
I just want the customer service offices that are on the phone to pay attention to us (their customers) and actually listen/understand our problem, instead of taking a nap during the process.
Sincerely, your customer
Kristal Johnson

An added comment to extend graffiti's info a bit, your experience is similar to how many of us ended up here looking for answers. In that sense, why not ask your question here and see if you get an answer. The response time will not be immediate, but it is often more directed to your need from other users that have either experience the problem or have seen the problem from someone else. The long term knowledge here is rather large as a result and often is more than calling Adobe. Of course, there are some questions we would still refer you to Adobe for an answer since they are not related to using the product.
Welcome to the world of other users.

How to file a formal customer support complaint?

I have been a VZW customer for over 10 years and have never had a problem with customer service until today.
I upgraded both phones on my account (on-line) and during a chat with a VZW customer service rep, was told that to have 1 of the phones shipped to my daughter at college, I needed to complete the order (both phones on single order) and then call customer service to have one of the phones shipped to the 2nd address.
Long story short, this doesn't work and there is no way to ship phones on the same order to different addresses. I was misled and the result is that I now have to reship one of the phones after I receive it resulting in additional expense for me and an additional delay in getting both phones activated.
I'm not a happy camper today!
There doesn't seem to be a way (on the website) to contact customer support with a complaint about service. I guess that's one way to cut down on the volume of customer complaints!
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I guess the answer to your question depends on what you expect to gain by "filing a complaint".
By posting on this forum, you have ALREADY filed a complaint where at least someone from Verizon will see it.
What you expect to gain, though, that is another question.
Do you expect to receive the additional shipping expenses in recompense from Verizon? Probably not going to happen.
Do you expect to get the phone to your daughter any sooner? Definitely not going to happen.
Do you expect the CS reps to take note and correct the mistake in the future? Probably not going to happen.
Are you just trying to find an outlet to let Verizon know of your displeasure. Already done by posting here.

Worst ever Customer support in my life

Hello Team,
My Name is Anish Mathew and you can reach at my number xxxxxxxxxxx).I would like to report one of the worst customer support I have ever experienced in my life. I am not sure which email address I should be sending this,so marked on all addresses I got from the internet. Please forward this to the right people as I didn't find any escalation point.
The story begins around last week of June 2013 when my laptop(Lenovo thinkpad edge xxxxxxxxx doesn't detect my battery. Since it was out of warranty I went ahead and bought a new Lenovo genuine battery thinking that my battery is corrupt. But the laptop didn't detect the new battery. As a next step I reached out at one of your Authorized service center in Bangalore below.
Caddons Computer Services
No.3350, KR Road,
BSK II stage,Bengaluru-560070
Tel-26762986/87/88
As per the call with the technician I took my laptop to the service center. The initial response itself was pathetic. The problems seems like the chip that is supposed to detect the battery is no longer working. As per Lenovo we cant replace the chip instead we need to replace the Mother board which would cost me 14k. Rahul told me that he will extend the warranty and get the mother board replaced under warranty which would cost me 8k. We agreed this and gave the laptop on 29th June 2013.Attached is the service report copy with the dates for your reference.
Guys Today is 21st Feb 2014 and you know what still nothing has happened. Wont you get frustrated?. Since today I would have made like 100 calls atleast 1 in a week. Every time I call they would say " we will get back to you sir" and thats it. Today when I called Rahul he says Sir be patient it seems. Are you joking?. I have been showing patience for the last 8 months and in a couple of months we will celebrate 1 year(Anniversary). What would you expect me to do at this point?.I will never ever recommend a Lenovo product to a anybody that I know.Please close such pathetic service centers which frustrates your customers. I need an answer ASAP or planning to go to consumer court for Justice. I still expect positive outcome.
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Your complaint is with the computer store that you took the computer to. Go back to the store in person and get your computer back. They've had it long enough for you to know they are never going to fix it. Then call the Lenovo customer service number on this website (for India) and work with them.
This is a user forum, not a Lenovo customer service forum. By all means take the computer store to court (if the Indian court system is anything like the US system, you are wasting your time), but they are not lenovo..
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Does Apple Canada have the worst customer support ever?

Yes! Ask me why...
I'm posting here a) to warn other Mac users what to expect if you ever need customer support and b) because there's no where you can actually e-mail comments to Apple, and trying to contact customer support has been fruitless (see below).
Here's what happened to me...
I bought my iBook just under three years ago - a few weeks ago, the logic board went. Now, because I purchased the computer less than three years ago, that's covered under the extended warranty for iBook logic boards (see here: http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/).
Simple, right? Well, I took my computer in to my local authorized service provider about three weeks ago. They confirmed the logic board was the problem... copied my receipt for the iBook to prove date of purchase... agreed that it was covered by the warranty.
However, when they sent all this to Apple, their reply was that it was NOT covered because it was manufactured more than three years ago (although Apple's own website says it's purchase date - not manufacture date - that's important).
I called Apple last Monday to find out what was going on. Spoke to a nice fellow named Kevin who said he'd look into it, and call me back the next day.
Next day passed... no call. I called Kevin back left a message, and indicated I'd like to know what was going on.
Wednesday passed... no call. By this point, I'm getting anxious - the service provider can't move ahead without authoriztion from Apple, Apple's not returning my calls (or the service provider's) to grant authorization.
I tried Kevin again on Thursday. Left another message. No reply.
Tried back on Friday morning. Left another message. Still no reply.
Called customer support again Friday night. Antoine puts me hold for a half hour. I call back, explain that I've been on hold for half an hour, ask how long the wait should be. Antoine says two or three minutes. He puts me on hold again.
For another ten minutes.
I call back. Antoine explains that the reason I'm on hold is probably because customer service is closed. So why was I on hold for nearly an hour listening to terrible music? That's one of the mysteries of Apple customer support...
So here I am, with a computer that's been in the shop nearly three weeks, that can't be repaired because Apple won't honour its warranty, and no way to even find out what's going on, because Apple's customer service is such an unnavigable maze.
The sad thing is, I usually like Apples. I was even going to buy a new one this summer.
Now - not a chance.
The moral of the story? If you own an Apple, pray nothing ever goes wrong with it. If you expect your computer to ever need repairs, I'd suggest getting rid of your Apple now.
If you're considering buying an Apple - consider again.
As for me - from now on, make mine Microsoft.
iBook G3 700 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Does Apple Canada have the worst customer support ever?
I doubt it.
Seriously, would you like some help?
Call back, and don't mess around with Customer Service. Immediately ask for Customer Relations. These are the people whose job it is to make an unhappy customer happy again. They aim to please.
A polite, but seriously disappointed tone of voice is what you need, so take some deep breaths until you can achieve that.
There was an article in the February, 2005, issue of Reader's Digest called "How to Complain." Please read these tips. Then call and tell Customer Relations your sad experience with Customer Service.
How to Complain
You call customer service to complain about a product, and you hang up angrier than when you started. That’s customer rage, a feeling experienced by millions of people with a major complaint, says Scott Broetzmann, president of an American firm that tells companies how to offer the best customer service. His secrets to getting good service:
Have a goal
If you want your product repaired, say so. Want an apology? Speak up.
Keep it short
Focus on one problem, and be succinct.
Stick with it.
You have to invest the time it takes. Don’t get what you want? Ask for a supervisor.
Skip ultimatums
Don’t threaten not to do business with them again. Why should they help you if you won’t buy from them in the future?
Plead your case
Many companies have information such as how much money you’ve spent with them and how often you complain. If you’re a good customer, they may be more willing to help.
Be nice
You’re unlikely to get what you want if you’re rude.
Good luck!
(P.S. Microsoft doesn't make computers; just the crappy OS that goes on them.)

Literally the worst customer support experience I've ever had to deal with -- Why don't they let their customers speak to supervisors on demand?

Call 1: I spoke to them to see if I was eligible for an upgrade. It turned out they had accidentally counted a temporary phone switch to an old device as an upgrade. The representative was extremely slow minded and took over an hour to read through my notes and process what I was saying happened, consulting with his supervisor multiple times. He claimed to have noted everything and told me I had to go to a verizon store to verify in person that I was still using my original phone, and that then I would be able to get an upgrade immediately.
Trip to the store: Drove an hour only to be told by the store rep that there were NO NOTES on my account about the issue and there was nothing he could do to help me and that I'd have to call customer support again. The store was closing in 20 mins and customer support seems to take 45 minutes minimum to resolve anything, so I left.
Call 2: Asked a woman to speak to a supervisor about the guy who wasted 2+ hours of my life and gas money. She put me on hold for a long time, came back and said they were all busy right now, would I like to leave my complaint with her? I said no thank you, I will keep waiting. She said ok, and proceeded to hang up.
Call 3: Asked a different woman to speak to a supervisor, she put me on hold for a long time and then told me that since I wasn't an authorized user I could not speak to one... lol ok. Had a family member call and authorize me.
Call 4: Asked a guy to speak to a manager. He insisted on taking the complaint himself. Why would I trust someone to take a complaint about their colleague possibly sitting a few desks away when many of them have proven to be incredibly incompetent already? It sounded like we were making progress... then he hung up too.
Call 5: Asked yet another woman to speak to the manager. She demanded a reason, I told her it was to make a complaint and she told me about a dozen times that the managers would just tell her to take the complaint. I insisted, she refused... finally I threatened to close all of our accounts unless she let me speak to a manager. She said they couldn't right now since the office was closing soon, but that one would call me within 24-48 hours. I'd bet my life savings that never happens. At that point I tried to talk to her about the original upgrade issue, and she said her system had suddenly crashed and that I'd have to call back the next day... Seriously???
Absolutely unreal how horrible their customer support is. Will be switching to T-Mobile immediately.

Having worked in customer service, I have some experience with this kind of situation. Reps are typically trained to make all attempts to handle complaints by themselves, because there are obviously many more reps than supervisors. They're usually REQUIRED to fully authorize the account and to get the whole situation from the customer prior to referring you to a supervisor. One of the biggest problems is that many customers think that demanding a supervisor is a way to guarantee you will get what you want. If the reason for your request to escalate isn't a valid one, the supervisor won't give in to you either.
There are plenty of times in my own experience, especially as a brand new rep out of training, that I took a long time to research and get an understanding of the issue. Yes, I wasn't moving at light speed, but that doesn't make me an idiot. It means I was trying to gather as much info s possible to try and deal with the issue. But I had plenty of customers tell me I was stupid and to transfer them to my supervisor, simply because I took longer than their patience could tolerate to get all the details I needed.
I have never had a job that I executed flawlessly day in and day out. Maybe you have and that's why you can't tolerate a person taking a little longer to wrap their head around the issue, but I'd rather doubt it.
I also don't think you will find reps who work at light speed and utilize a magic wand to fix people's issues at T-Mobile, either, but I guess it never hurts to try.
Just to clarify: I do not work for Verizon and never have. I worked for a residential phone and internet company.

Total conquest? Worst customer support ever!

I been trying to play total conquest game for a while now and I seem to be contacting their customer support team more often than I actually play the game. Its full of bugs and issues. Two weeks ago I got banned for no apparent reason and tried to contact support yet again, I got the usual automated reply saying i am very important to them and so on and that a reply would come in up to 3 days. HAH! I got a reply after 6 days asking me to show proof of purchase. I didn't buy anything and answered right away. Waited another 6 to 7 days for another reply from a girl called Elena saying they made a mistake and have unbanned me. Well it's now over 21 days and I am still banned! The very nice customer support team seem to have vanished again! Bloody useless bunch of people there. Now, my question here is, where can I file a complaint on stuff like this?
Thanks guys

Hello Zneek
If you have an issue with the app that was downloaded from the App Store or any other of Apple’s online stores, report it to help resolve the issue.
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBooks Store purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1933
Regards,
-Norm G.

How to address poor customer support

In January, I ordered a Yoga 2 Pro. The laptop arrived and met my expectations. Approximately 4 weeks later it refused to boot up. I called Technical Support.
Technical Support was less than helpful. They had me try a couple things via phone, then told me the laptop was “dead” and Lenovo would replace. I inquired about the files I had stored on the computer and was told they were impossible to retrieve.
I called Customer Support, armed with this Technical Support Ticket Number and spoke with Nxxx. She was extremely helpful. She processed the Return Order and the Replacement Order. I discussed with her my desire to retrieve personnel files and she provided local Lenovo Support Centers and advised I call them. I did call. All Support Centers advised they could not open up this laptop and it had to go back to the factory.
The next day, I logged the order number and received the below status from Lenovo’s web site:
•   Order Date 2014/02/26
•   Estimated Ship Date 2014/03/10
•   Estimated Delivery Date 2014/03/12
Sometime between March 10th and 12th, I ran the order number again on Lenovo’s web site. To my surprise, the Ship Date had changed to 3/24 and Delivery 3/26. I called Customer Support to inquire. I was advised by the agent there were “parts issues”, thus the delay. I again attempted to discuss my frustration at the lack of Technical Support’s interest in pulling the files from the defective laptop. At the end of this conversation, I went to Lenovo’s web site and wrote a complaint regarding the situation with my lost files. To date, I have never received acknowledgement from Lenovo regarding this web site complaint.
Prior to March 24th, I again called Customer Support to verify the laptop was shipping out as planned. After much frustration with the agent, I requested to speak to a supervisor. I instead received a Lead, named Pxxx. I discussed the situation with Pxxx. He was very apologetic. He promised he would look into this situation and call me back the next day. He never did.
March 27th, I ran the order number again on Lenovo’s web site. To my surprise, the Ship Date had changed to 3/4 and Delivery 3/8. I called Customer Support to inquire. The agent who spoke with me apologized. She did research on your system and advised me the laptop would ship in 24-48 hours. I questioned why Pxxx never called back. She promised to send a note for Pxxx to call me back. He never called.
March 31st, I called Customer Support. The agent advised the Ship Date was 3/4. I requested to speak with a Supervisor. He advised a Supervisor would call me back before 21:00 EST. At 20:30 EST, Lxxx called. We discussed this issue. She apologized. I expressed my frustrations having to wait 6 weeks for a replacement for a defective laptop Lenovo sold in the first place. She promised to take this up with the factory the next day and call me to advise of the results. She did not call back.
April 1st, I sent an e-mail to Lxxx requesting status. I took a screen shot from the Lenovo web site. Ship Date 4/3. Delivery 4/7.
Today I again called Customer Support. I spoke with an agent who advised Ship Date 4/9. I asked to speak with a Supervisor. I was passed to a Lead named Pxxx. I asked him if he was the Pxxx who promised to call me back two weeks ago and never did. He neither confirmed nor denied that was him. He did not apologize for not calling. He did state he was the only Pxxx in the office. I expressed my frustration. I told him I spoke with Lxxx Monday and she never called me back. Pxxx passed me to Lxxx. I asked why she did not call me back as she promised. She apologized and stated she was busy. I asked if she received my e-mail yesterday. She admitted she was behind on her e-mails and did not know if she received it or now.
I am extremely frustrated with Lenovo for 3 reasons.
1.   The laptop sold me was defective. After it died, I did some searching on the internet and it appears this is a common problem. I am shocked Lenovo has not addressed this.
2.   Technical Support ignored my requests for assistance retrieving the files from the defective computer. The made no attempt to help. I can only assume the computer has been wiped and the files are gone forever.
3.   Your Customer Support system is set up to lie to people. I do not think the people at Customer Support deliberately lied to me. They were merely repeating the information available to them. This information is set up to give false shipping data based on a 2 week window. Two weeks does not sound bad. Surely you can wait 2 weeks. On February 26th , I was lead to believe the computer would be in my hands no later than March 12th. If Lenovo truly ships the computer on the 9th (current estimate), I will have waited 7 calendar weeks. I am confident, someone knew back in February this would take longer than 2 weeks. Had Lenovo been transparent from the beginning, I would not be as upset as I am now.
I would like very much a conversation with someone at Lenovo who can address these frustrations. To date, I have spoken with agents, leads and supervisors. It is clear these people are only repeating the information available on their computer screen. They do not have any ability to contact the projection facility or technical support to research the true answers for my questions.

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What customers can expect from BT customer support...

(In reply to the email at the bottom of this post. I am happy to discuss this with other members but please familarise yourself with the post first. I know its a long one, but I tried to make it as detailed as possible)
Hi Samia,
I don't want to give the impression that I like complaining, so I'll keep this factual until the end:
I signed up for infitiy 2 package with phone line in the first week of July. After purchasing the product online I called to arrange an engineer to visit who would install the product. During this time I asked about the £50 Sainsburys voucher promised at the time of signing up and was assured that they would arrive automatically within several weeks after my product was activated. The broadband went live during the 2nd week of July. One of my parents in a seperate address went through an identical (please understand the meaning of identical) process in all regards and after 4 weeks had not received the £100 Sainsburys voucher promised to her. So I started to contact the customer support team.
I was told by Ravi Prassad on the live chat support that the vouchers would arrive within 5 days for both addresses on Wednesday 9th October - 8 Days ago. There is a full log of this chat included after this email, people can jump to it by searching for reference "Appendix.1".
I was unhappy with his manner during the chat log, it was lackluster, using words like "okay" and "yeah" to answer qualitative questions I posed to him. So I contacted both phone support and the online live chat support again. I was speaking to Harold from accounts on the phone and Mudassir Ali on the live chat. After requesting it, both of them assured me that a manager would contact me, specifically by phone, with my mobile telephone number provided at the time. The time frame was to expect the telephone call from a manager within 24 hours. I did not receive a phone call of any nature on Thursday 10th October. The chat log with Mudassir is also available below entitled "Appendix.2".
On the morning of Friday 11th October I contacted the phone support, this time getting through to a male customer service agent by first name Kin, he had an american accent. Kin apologised for the unprofessional service that I had been given and assured he would rectify the problem. He himself was professional in his conduct and convincing with his words. His exact words were that he had sent an email off to the "corporate office" requesting that I be telephoned that same day as a priority, in light of what had happened during the previous 24 hours. I did not receive a phone call of any nature on Friday 11th October.
On the morning of Saturday 12th October I contacted the support team again by phone and eventually got through to Niscive. He and another colleague tried to further assure me by raising what they referred to as an "Enquiry Confirmation Number" ticket (******-******) and I was once again advised that I would receive a phone call on either Monday or Tuesday.
After this I left it until 6pm on the night of Tuesday 15th October before contacting support again. I got through to a CSA agent who told me over the phone that it was his 2nd day answering calls. I was put on hold often however had told him not to worry about doing so, I simply wanted the issue sorted. After confiding in his colleague several times he assured me me that the vouchers would arrive in 2 days, on Thursday (today, 17th October). He repeated this statement several times before saying that he would personally sort it out if there were any further problems. I then re-raised the question of why management had not contacted me. It took several attempts to get this question through his limited teaching and it was a frustrating experience. In the end he advised me that I could expect a phone call from management with an explanation for the events that has happened. He said the managers name was "John" and I was to expect a phone call within 30 minutes. I received no phone call of any nature on Tuesday 15th October.
I was getting pretty tired at this point, I had spent an estimated 6 hours on the phone to BT trying to solve both problems (lack of vouchers and unsatisfactory customer service) so I decided to wait until today (17th october) to see if the vouchers arrived. Unsurprisingly they did not arrive with this morning's post. Then at 11:30am I receive this email from yourself (at the bottom of this post) explaining that I have to wait a further 3 weeks (15 working days) and you attempt to give me permission to re-open the enquiry after 14 days if unsatisfied, but your wording suggested I was unable to do such a thing before hand. Well this email will be getting posted, in full, on your public forums, as well as printed off and sent to BT head office and Sainsburys (BT are tarnishing their image). I might even pop in to Belfast in person to visit the BT-tower on the Laganside with a copy to hand in in person. I will of course blank any of my own sensitive information when posting this on the forum.
During the various phone calls I experimented with different options. There is set of options on the phone to go through to a complaint line. When selecting these options you get warned by a pre-recorded voice before being notified about being placed in a queue the following; "We are very busy at the moment and it may take considerable time before we can answer your call" as opposed the message you receive on the accounts holding loop "We are very busy at the moment and apologise for the delay, your call will be answered as soon as possible". It is also worth mentioning that there is never a wait on the sales team line at all.
Time for an opinion because this service is nothing short of a joke, and completely sub-standard in compairison to my previous ISP, Virgin who always took their customers very seriously and treated them with respect. BT seem to treat theirs as if they already own the person's credit card and pin code and there is nothing the person can do. Direct debits are not so hard to cancel, so it is within BT's monetary interest at this stage to ensure I don't have wait any longer than 5 working days for the vouchers to arrive. If your system is too slow to process things that quickly perhaps one of the amazingly lazy managers can get off his/her backside and personally purchase and post out the promised voucher to this disgruntled customer.
Appendix.1

All of my personal details were omitted from the original post when the moderator >heavily< edited it removing all of the proving information of what has probably been my 2nd worst customer service experience with a company so far. All of this 5-6 working days stuff is utterly useless too. I want the vouchers sent out as promised by your own customer care team SEVERAL freaking times. I'm going to go off and see if I can find more public methods of name-and-shame because BT and the majority of its employees are completely unwilling to be accountable for their actions.
Oh and the very fact that a moderator has had time to come in and EDIT my original post but not provide support on it, is another joke to add to the book of "BT GOT YOUR MONEY FOOL HAHA".
Just look at these links:
Guardian Newspaper:
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/sep/28/bt-broadband-missing-sainsburys-voucher
-I'll be emailing them the transcripts, with all names & codes omitted to respect privacy, but everything else intact.
£100 Voucher not honoured:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=63426257
Waiting for 158 Days!!!:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3940163
-Atl least we can enjoy the fact that this is a legal breach of contract and thus all "18 month" terms are out the window.
It's in the post:
http://community.bt.com/t5/Bills-Packages/50-Sainsbury-Voucher-in-the-post/td-p/494455/page/13
Still Waiting:
http://community.bt.com/t5/Bills-Packages/Sainsbury-s-Voucher/td-p/457413
The Wrong Side of 50:
http://wrongsideof50.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/why-you-want-to-avoid-sainsburys-gift.html
These problems have been plaguing customers for over a year.

Dreamweaver customer support woes...

Hoping that someone at Adobe might actually read customer letters...
Bill Curry
Box 44, Port Maitland
Nova Scotia, Canada   B0W2V0
July 22, 2009
Shantanu Narayen
President and Chief Executive Officer
Adobe Systems, Inc.
345 Park Avenue 
San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA
Re: Dissatsfaction with Adobe Service
   Case 0202204015
   Case 0303346809
   Case 0202270349
   Case 0181023140
I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with your product, your licensing structure and more particularly your customer service.
I am unable to run my copy of Studio MX 2004. I have attempted to install the software on my Mac Book Pro laptop, and the software returns an error code indicating it “has been activated too many times”. I can no longer run the software, and attempts to contact Adobe customer support over the last month have not yielded a response which would enable me to use the software I own, and have owned for some time. Currently this product is non-functioning and is of no use to me.
This problem has not been resolved.
At the same time as I tried to install this software, June 23, 2009, I called Adobe sales and was told by a customer service representative that I was eligible for an upgrade from Studio MX 2004 to a stand alone copy of Dreamweaver CS4 for the price of $199 US dollars. I agreed this would be easier than re-installing Studio MX 2004, and so placed the order on my credit card. I have since been charged $294.45 Cdn, which is the cost plus tax, shipping, duty and conversion of funds to Canadian dollars. When I received the copy of Dreamweaver CS4, I attempted to install it, the serial number returned a green checkmark, but the software then asked for the old serial number from MX 2004, and when I entered my serial number from my MX 2004 software, Dreamweaver indicated this was an invalid number. I called Adobe on July 9, 2009 and was informed that the original customer service agent had erred, and that my copy of Studio MX 2004 does not qualify for an upgrade to a stand alone product. I asked about returning the Dreamweaver product I had purchased, and was informed of your Letter of Destruction procedure, and the process to follow. I have followed your instructions to the letter.
I have returned your product Dreamweaver CS4 via the LOD and expected repayment of monies under your return policy. I contacted your company about returning your product but I have gotten no response regarding this issue other than the fact you have received my LOD, it has now been almost a week since this last communication.
I have made four complaints to date through your Customer Service Portal.
On your website you advertise a 24 hour response time. Two of my claims
have been open since June regarding the installation issue of the Studio MX 2004 software, and have simply been unaddressed other than to tell me to call Technical Support, which I have done with no resolution – and twice after being on hold for more than an hour I was disconnected. Two of the cases have been opened by Adobe staff in order to respond to my issues, but I have now been waiting over a month to have someone give the proper code so I might re-install my copy of Studio MX 2004. I find this a completely unsatisfactory response time.
I have telephoned your company eight (8) times since late June. During those
eight calls I have been placed on hold for an unreasonable amount of time.
During my calls I have been disconnected numerous times.
I have called Adobe Corporate Headquarters twice. When I called headquarters I was placed on hold each time, routed through to customer support and my problems were still not resolved.
When I contacted your first agent, on June 23rd, they assured
me that I would be upgraded from Studio MX 2004 to stand alone Dreamweaver CS4.
I have since been informed that this was promised to me in error. I expect
that this promise be fulfilled as I am currently unable to run Studio MX 2004.
I used to be very impressed with Adobe products having owned Photoshop 3 and
having upgraded from PS 3 to 5 to 7 to CS 3 to CS 4. Up until now I have had
no complaints. However, this experience has caused me to reconsider my
loyalty to your products.
While my complaints with your products are of a personal nature, my
experience will affect the use of your product at my place of employment.
As Director of Tri-County Regional School Board in Nova Scotia, Canada,
and formerly as Technology Consultant for the Board, I make major decisions
regarding software that is run in all of the English speaking elementary,
middle and high schools in Yarmouth, Shelburne and Digby counties, Nova
Scotia, which encompasses over 8000 students.
The School Board currently owns hundreds of copies of Adobe products, and I personally own a 50 license copy of CS3, which I use when in-servicing staff.
If I do not receive a prompt and satisfactory remedy from your company I
will recommend that all of the schools under my care cease using any Adobe
products. I will report my experience to the Nova Scotia Department of
Education and recommend that all schools in Nova Scotia cease using Adobe
products.
As I have not yet received any response from your company about my
complaints, I have contacted the Better Business Bureau regarding customer service issues and VISA regarding the Dreamweaver CS4 purchase and return via LOD.
In conclusion, I am seeking the following remedies from your company:
1. A written apology for poor customer service
2. an upgrade from Studio MX 2004 to stand alone Dreamweaver CS 4
3. Monies owing from the return of my original purchase based on your agent’s representation in the amount of $294.45 Cdn.
I hope that this matter can be resolved promptly and in a satisfactory
manner. If it is not, I will stop using any of your products and recommend
they be pulled out of the schools in my board and throughout the province.
I look forward to your immediate response.
Sincerely,
Bill Curry
By Fax: 408-537-6000
Cc
Ann Lewnes
Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Communications
Kevin Burr
Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Communications

Bill,
I don't want to imply in any way that you have not been treated badly, because you have been. I hope you won't really take steps to deprive the students of your district the opportunity to learn Adobe applications which are industry standards and arguably the best available for many tasks.
I noted that your problem started initially with an Activation issue. Did you see an option to call activation support (activate by telephone) on the error screen? I've not had to do that with Dreamweaver, but I have with InDesign, and the experience was not unpleasant at all.
It is important to note that the activation number is a separate call center, not connected to "customer service" in any way (though it, too seems to be located in India). I think it's been about two years now since I had a problem (hard drive replacement, as I recall), and I called the number. The representative asked me for my serial number and why I needed to have my activation reset, and I was up and running again in five minutes. I've heard other customer service horror stories, but never any about the activation center. The only reason I can imagine for not receiving help with activation would be a pattern of excess activations in a short period that might be considered fraud. Is it possible you have been switching the activation between machines on a regular basis (not to commit fraud, but to allow you to work with properly licensed software in multiple locations)? Again, I don't know anything about the MX suite, but InDesign has a "soft" limit of, I believe, 20 activations before you must call and explain yourself. That counter resets automatically after a (unknown to me) period of time to allow for things like hard drive failures and system upgrades.
Again, there is no excuse for what you have experienced, but I'm not entirely surprised by some confusion about the different licensing criteria involved with pre-acquisition Macromedia products (which I believe Studio MX would be), and post-acquisition versions. I'm not entirely sure anyone knows what is allowed, what versions can be upgraded to what other versions, etc. It's possible to find conflicting information, I think, on different pages at Adobe.com, and the rules are even muddier outside the US. I agree, though, that if a representative promises you that you are eligible for an upgrade, the company has a responsibility to provide you with a working product at the upgrade price, even if it means shipping a full retail version.
I wish you luck.
Peter

Whitelist issues...company emails, customer support emails, transactional emails all blocked

Hello,
We just migrated to a brand new email server with 5 brand new IP addresses.
Our emails to people with verizon email addresses have been blocked from the start.
When trying to get on the whitelist, I get message for each of the IP's we try to whitelist:
"After investigation, Verizon Online Security has determined that e-mail from your IP address will not be allowed access to the Verizon Online e-mail domain due to one or more of the following reasons:
Your IP has been blocked because of spam issues or because your ISP indicates that it is dynamically assigned"
I checked with our ISP, and they assure us that these are STATIC IP's...which they are.
On our newsletter we send out, our spam complaints are EXTREMELY low and our email sender score is 99 across the board for all IP's...
Customers with Verizon email addresses are not even getting their transaction emails and customer support emails.
I'm not sure what to do, so I figured I'd post here and try to get some help? I see others have been helped here.
I thank anyone on the staff in advance for helping me figure this out?
Thanks so much.
Dan Eggertsen

Your issue has been escalated to a Verizon agent. Please go to your profile page for the forum, and look in the middle, right at the top where you will find an area titled "My Support Cases". You can reach your profile page by clicking on your name beside your post, or at the top left of this page underneath the title of the board. you will find a link to the private board where you and the agent may exchange information.
To ensure you know when they have responded to you, at the top of your support case there is a drop down menu for support case options. Open that and choose "subscribe".This should be checked on a frequent basis as the agent may be waiting for information from you before they can proceed with any actions. Please keep all correspondence regarding your issue in the private support portal.
If a forum member gives an answer you like, give them the Kudos they deserve. If a member gives you the answer to your question, mark the answer that solved your issue as the accepted solution.

MBP 17" A1189 battery fail – please help access Apple Customer Support?

Seven Steps to a “Help Me, Please?” Plea for Assistance
[1] 2009 – Apple creates global, free-of-change, battery replacement program: ‘MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Update 1.2’ Exchange and Repair Extension Program – for their design-flawed Apple A1189 battery’s dead-&-bloated failure mode. [kudos, respect due]
A typical design-flawed Apple A1189 battery in dead-&-bloated failure mode – swollen cells crack open the battery’s casing
[2] 2011 – My A1189 battery fails, dead-&-bloated: Apple replace it free-of-change, as per [1], and my MacBook Pro is up-&-running again in no time. [perfect Apple Customer Service, as usual]
[3] 2014 – My A1189 battery fails, dead-&-bloated (and takes down power adapter too): Apple now wants ME to pay THEM for the replacement parts needed to repair the damage caused by THEIR design-flawed A1189 battery failure to MY Macbook Pro!
Erm... surely some mistake? I think NOT: intolerable Apple[don’t]Care injustice is intolerable – “So, we bust your computer, eh? Fuggedabahdid! You give us money, we fix your computer, capiche?”
[4] Wed 28 May – My ‘Apple UK Complaint’ is tasked to Apple employee.
[5] Fri 06 Jun – After 12 emails over 9 days, our complaint resolution progress STILL EQUALS ZERO –
[6] Sat 07 Jun – ‘Help Me, Please?’ shout out goes out to the Apple Support community.
Many thanks in advance for your assistance,
Dalinian
[Loyal 6-Macs-over-21-years Apple customer, pining for the days of perfect Apple Customer Support]
<Personal Information Edited By Host>

Hi Melophage,
Happy, Happy Day! With only the opposite of help from Apple Inc., and in reality thanks to the assistance and encouragement of my BFF IRL and your good self, my grand old MacBook Pro Kallisti has risen from Hades once again, and sprung back to life – and this reply is coming at you from her very own keyboard and net connection.
My non-Apple replacement battery and a second-hand power adapter from TheBookYard.com in Liverpool arrived on Tuesday, and with the swapping in of an unblown 3A fuse, all is as well again as it was before Apple’s design-flawed A1189 battery killed Kallisti for the second time.
What I’ve neglected to mention so far is that in early 2014, the screen began to fail intermittently, then with increasing frequency, until only via a DVI-HTML cable to my 50-inch TV could I see what I was doing at all. Yesterday the screen was working again initially, but only for a couple of hours, before failing to black again.
Seems this is yet another well-known and well-documented fault with all the MacBook Pros that use the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor – see, eg: Apple’s (also prematurely terminated) ‘MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues’ » http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377 . I’ve a shed load of reading up to do on this issue from all over the web, including what appear to be some possible DIY fixes. I’ll most likely not waste any more time or energy on expecting Apple to take any responsibility for yet another well-known and well-documented fault with their MacBook Pro, since I find their naked contempt policy for Mac owners who fail to buy a shiny new Mac when the old one breaks down to be utterly revolting (not to mention environmentally unethical and unnecessarily destructive).
Re: you yourself being of the Yanqui petite bourgeois persuasion – on the two occasions I’ve been fortunate enough to visit the USA, I’ve been genuinely impressed by the admirable attributes of the Americans I’ve met and stayed with: heartwarmingly generous with their time and attention, welcoming with an effusive hospitality, helpful, friendly, and compassionate. Yet there’s a world of difference between the esteem in which I can hold individual Americans, and the contempt in which I can hold the ruling class social institutions of any country, including especially the USA and my own, the UK: greed-centric corporations, brutally repressive police forces, mass-killing-focussed foreign policy initiatives, etc., &c. Rest assured, from what little I know of you, you’re certainly in my highly esteemed American individuals category.
I don’t know how useful my advice was, since it wasn’t sufficient to convince the store manager at the Regent Street Apple store to provide you with a replacement battery.
I’m pretty sure nothing short of physical torture (which is obviously and repellently obnoxious) would convince that heartless, hard-nosed SoB to break with Apple’s iron cast built-in obsolescence policy – listen up and listen good: your Mac’s so old it’s ‘vintage’, so screw you, buddy – if you ain’t gonna buy a new Mac, or buy from us the parts needed to repair the damage we did to your old Mac with our known-to-be-faulty components, you can can just get the **** out of our shiny, shiny Apple Store, coz respecting your fancy-schmantzy ‘UK statutory consumer rights’ is only gonna put a dent in our bottom line, and getting to be filthy rich off of the likes of youse is what Apple’s really all about these days, capiche? I have GOT TO End This Conversation NOW!
There’s plenty of free web-based help and advice on reporting dodgy traders like Apple to the Trading Standards authority, and pursuing reparations from such lawbreakers through the small claims track in the civil courts. So now I’ve Kallisti back up-&-running again (albeit with a dead screen), on which to document my anti-Apple legal research, I’m taking my time to ensure I’m following due process, and relishing the irony of developing a suitable regulatory/legal punishment for Apple on the very ‘vintage’ flagship MacBook Pro which their offending policy has all but written off as obsolete. Plus, since it turns out its “Super”drive won’t eject a freshly burned DVD-R, I’ve ordered an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32-bit DVD to do a fresh unibooting install on my 2001-design backup PC notebook, to add some non-Apple computer robustness to my resources, until such time as I’ve saved up enough for to buy a purpose-built touch screen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS notebook, such as the System76 Darter UltraTouch (» https://system76.com/laptops/model/daru4 ); and that leaves plenty of time ahead to compare the long-term customer support reputations of potential Ubuntu PC manufacturer companies, to ensure that I don’t get taken for a fool by another Apple-like mobster-type corporation.
Time to begin investigating coconutBattery, I think. Many thanks again, Melophage – with zero support from fellow Mac users, I’d most likely have given up and thrown in the towel some time ago, but you’ve helped me to find the self-motivation to persist in perusing a just solution, despite my beginning this process by being sunk in the depths of an episode of severe clinical depression. I must admit, I’d no idea that contending against Yanqui corporate fascism could be so therapeutic!

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