BIG hole in the support process

farss wrote on 7/31/2005, 6:49 AM
Lodged a trouble ticket on 28/6/05 to which I never received a reply, not even an acknowledgement. Just checking through my account and I see that the support request did finally get logged and it's solved!
Well blow me down, fortunately on my own I managed to solve the problem by myself and in the process help out another Vegas user.
So how did Madison decide it was solved?
Well seems they sent me an email saying they were snowed under but please ring them (bit hard from this distance) however if it's not convenient to ring please reply saying so and the trouble ticket will be dealt with in normal rotation.
Well, as the copy on the support page doesn't give an email address to reply to and I never received the email obviously that left a bit of a black hole now didn't it but not to worry, just treat it as solved!
Simple rule of customer support, a problem isn't solved until the customer says it is. If you haven't heard from the customer there's only a few possible explainations. he's dropped dead, he's given up on your products or he doesn't know you're expecting a response. All of those possibilities warrant some action, be it condolences, finding out what you did to loose them or trying to contact him some other way.
Bob.

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/31/2005, 8:45 AM
Strange... you don't get an e-mail when sony responds to your requests? I logged a ticked around that time, got the e-mail & replied back and they are helping me out.

I've seen worse though. One time I logged a support request with a company. Then, 4 months later I got an automated reply saying that were backlogged & deleting my support request.

That's supprt. :)
farss wrote on 7/31/2005, 2:15 PM
Well I just logged another request and this time I did get an email.
Given the issue a few days ago of some receiving dozens of newsletters by email and some (like me) getting none it's quite likely they have gremlins in their email system
Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/31/2005, 2:52 PM
I NEVER get newsletters at my e-mail... I get them for e-mails I said I don't want news letters. But, ironicly, I got the vegas upgrade discount e-mail to my normal e-mail.

Go figure.

You had an account problem a little while back too, didn't you?
farss wrote on 7/31/2005, 4:49 PM
Not so much an account problem, just trying to register for the NAB classes. Even that got mixed up, I registered myself and my wife, when we got there they only had the wife registered.
Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/31/2005, 6:10 PM
sounds like nobody belives you exist. :)