HP Warranty service poor - costs to the customer is excessive

Hello HP
I have always used HP products, But due to recent service warranty events I may never purchase or recommend an HP product.
I recently purchased a laser jet printer Model CM1321NFI MFP. It failed within 30 days of use. This sometimes happens.
I used your tech line to help. They could not solve the problem. I sent it to your warranty approved repair facility. They did thier best but HP would not allow them to repair the printer. The printer was down aprox 24 days at this point. HP insisted the printer be returned to HP for repair at my cost. Shipping including packaging from Alberta to Ontario is $100.00.
As you can see the issue is the down time and expense. As a small buisness owner we can not afford your internal politics. If this was the USA, they would have replaced my printer.
What will the down time be when this is finally finished. I could not afford the down time and was forced to buy an additional printer while HP plays thier game. Again the cost of owning an HP is soaring. I thought this was a warranty repair.
I am now sorry that I continued with HP. I am also sorry for your lack of customer concern.
for your info pls refer to case 4609880804 and new case 4610902418. You could also contact your repair facility in Edmonton. Printer World International [text removed for privacy] order 69732.
Richard Van Grinsven

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When you mean warranty, where is that updated in the system? In any master data or Z table?
Usual practise is basing on the serial num of the material. From the serial num, users will be able to back track from which sales order this material is initially delivered to the customer. The info is stored in standard tables (for eg EQUI)
One way of doing this is to define a 100% discount condition type in your pricing. Thsi discount will apply only when the customer is in warranty. For this you will need to write a code in teh requirement routine for that condition type in V/08. If warranty is stored in a Z table, then call that Z table & compare it with your sales order. If yes, only then 100% discount will apply & repair cost will be zero. Else, repair charge will be billed to customer.
It depends how your business will monitor repairs. If they raise a service order, then you will need to define a service pricing procedure in which you will include the 100% discount. In this case service order is always referenced with ref to a sales order.
Regards,
Sivanand

Poor follow up from Customer Service

Customer Service has very poor follow up. Multiple times I have called with phone not properly working and the initial person was not able to help. After an hour of being on the phone with him he said he would have to have someone else call me back. About 6 months later I called back and this time I waited until they could get me to the right person, but it took another hour plus, however, this time they helped.
The thing that brings me to this comment however is the fact that I called last month when I noticed my usage was going over and tried to get them to up my usage plan. The customer service lady said that because the billing cycle was closed they could not. I know they have done this before and why I went over my minutes when within the prior year I did not even come close baffled me. We discussed the issue with no resolution and finally I just hung up on her. She called right back and said that she emailed her supervisory and that her supervisor will be getting back with me. Yep, you guessed it, no follow up from supervisor. Bill went through, I paid a ridiculous amount for overage and have become a very dissatisfied Verizon customer. Trapped now that I have new phone, but in 2 years I will be gone from Verizon after being with them for over 10+ years. Guess sometimes the little guys get lost. Good luck all!

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Really let down by the customer service today.....

Hey Best Buy,
I called the 1888 number but I'm not sure if it will get to corporate or not. And like others on this board I've read that a lot of corporate members patrol around these boards so I wanted to let everyone know my story here. Me and the fiance recently moved to Carbondale, IL for her first year of medical school. While moving we have been planning about big purchases to make to "spruce up" the new living space. When we moved we had gotten a 10 percent off coupon from best buy and thought "wow that would be perfect to buy a new tv with in the future". Long story short while moving I was dumb and left my Tivo remote back at the old place, So i coulddn't control my tivo box at all. We had gone to Best Buy to browse Tivo Remotes only to find out they didn't carry them any longer but had Universal Remotes that would work. We found the Harmony 650 that was priced at 79.99, as we went to the counter my fiance stated we could price match amazon for 59.99. So we decided to do that and then use our 10 percent off coupon to help offset the cost since the tv down the road.
Well we got home and the remote didn't work with the tivo box as well as we wanted, so we ended up purchasing a new remote from tivo online. The problem came on our way back to best buy. After looking over the reciept we noticed it had said "12.00 off price match and 8.00 off coupon". So basically we didn't need to use the 10 percent off coupon because it used that coupon within the price match. I pointed this out while we were returning it and stated, I really wish I woulda been informed of this when we were ringing out, because we used the coupon for nothing and I woulda used it for a tv down the road (reason we are not buying one now is becasue we are waiting for vizios version of the 4k tv) So after the nice lady who did our return stated she wasn't sure what to do and she understood what we were saying, she got her team leader "Brandon" and Brandon pretty much told us "Well yeah we dont get those very often so we didn't know" and im thinking "you dont get coupons often. Long story short he was extremely rude to us, giving off a manner of "I really don't care about your problems" I can't believe best buy has someone in a leader position who has an attitude like that. My fiance just looked at me after he went to get his GM like "wow does he really work for best buy". The GM Paul stated that he couldn't reissue us another 10 percent off coupon because its marketing that does it and not the stores. But said the coupon is only valid for small appliances (which i later found out is not true) I called the 1888 number and voiced my problems from a nice lady who said she would let the complaint go through the chain of command and offer me a 10 dollar gift card. Which I appreciate and is nice. But it doesn't help the fact that I'm out a 10 percent off coupon that I could of saved almost 100 dollars off a tv. That a team leader was extremely rude, the GM told me the wrong information about the coupon, or the fact that the cashier never warned me about not being able to use both at the sametime therefore I was basically throwing my coupon away at the time.
Sorry for the long drawn out message.... I moved from Edwardsville, IL and the Best Buy up there always gave me good service and never misled me like the one down here in Carbondale, IL. I'm disappointed in Best Buy, as a rewards member and someone who holds a credit card with them. I'm having doubts about making future purchases there. Maybe its time to stick with Amazon... I dunno.... :/

Hello bluesfan1700,
Congratulations on your new home, and welcome to the forum!
As exciting as moving into a new place is, it can be stressful when you’re trying coordinate everything just right. Having just moved myself, I know that you can’t always plan for the unexpected and sometimes you find yourself wanting an item that you never even realized you needed until you’ve settled in, so it’s nice to hear that you had a 10% mover’s coupon in case that happened. It’s disappointing though that something went wrong during your purchase causing it to not add properly, and I’m sorry for the frustration you’ve endured while trying to work this out.
As I’m sure you know now, our Low Price Guarantee does have some exclusions and this includes all coupon offers. This means that as you chose to price match your new universal remote with one of our online competitors, this would disqualify your purchase from your mover’s coupon. It sounds like something went wrong though if our associate applied both, so I looked through your account using the email address located on the forum. I see that you have an open case with Jessica from our customer service team and she’s actively acting working with local management to see what options we may have available from here.
Please know that I’ve contacted Jessica and let her know that you are looking for an update. She should be in touch with you soon, but if you don’t hear from her, please don’t hesitate to let me know and I’ll be glad to help.
Best wishes,
Alex|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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A Complaint to the Customer Relationship Unit and the Think Service Centre

Dear Sir/Madam,
I'm a customer of the X60 notebook product. Yesterday (Jan 20) and today (Jan 21) I've been visiting twice the Think Service Centre in Quarry Bay in the hope of repairing a defective part on the casing.
The result has been that I was told that "the engineers" has talked with Ms Maggie xxxxx of the Customer Relationship Unit and they finally turned down my request, giving me the reason that the damage is due to ''improper use'' of the product. I was unsatisfied about the incomplete explanation and further chase Ms Maggie xxxxx, on a phone conversation, to answer why they are so sure i've been ''improperly using'' my laptop, but I was answered that I "might have exerted too much force to open the cover". I asked her to confirm whether she meant that "opening the laptop cover" is an "improper use" but she refused to answer me.
Thus, seeing that she refused all my requests for an explanation, I asked to talk to her supervisor to solve my issue, but she refused once again, insisting that it is the company's "internal policy" not to allow any customers to talk to the supervisors! I thus have no idea but can only assume she being the only person (or maybe together with the Think Service Centre, the support section, because Ms xxxxx claimed that such decision has been made by both parties in the telephone conversation) would take the whole responsibility for the Lenovo Corporation's opinion that my laptop is damaged due to "improper use" (but still without any explanation given at all).
I'm yet to see any proper answer from the Lenovo Corporation to the following:
1. Can you give me a proper explanation why the defect happening on my laptop cannot benefit from the warranty service?
2. Can I assume the decision that Maggie xxxxx's making is the same opinion that Lenovo is making as well?
3. Is it really the company's "internal policy" not to allow any customers to talk to the supervisors? If so, I doubt whether the company is trying her best to protect the rights of the customers should they need help while some staffs just cannot help.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Kenny Yu.
(serial #: LV xxxxx)
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Message Edited by andyP on 01-21-2009 09:35 PM

Just wanted to let you guys know that I still haven't received my MP3 player... Creative has had the MP3 player for 73 days now and they still haven't sent it back. Since last time I wrote here I got an e-mail from Creative saying they got the MP3 player on the 5th of the November and that somehow the status wasn't updated. Well, it's been 73 days now, care to send it away? I sent them and e-mail yesterday where I wrote that they could just send me the cash for it or a new MP3 player.
If I don't receive my MP3 player in a near future I will contact "Allm?nna Reklamations N?mnden" (a Swedish "Consumerist"-like government sponsored organization that deals with people vs company legal cases).
Again, I strongly advise everyone to not buy any more Creative products. Once they break you won't get the help you need.

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