These MBAs lack the practical experience of a fast food manager when it comes to customer relations and it is reflected on their web sites. There is always a shareholders’ link prominently displayed on the front page of the corporation web site, but you have to work to find the support link. This shows the bias for the stock market over their own market, that the management thinks they sell stock, not the actual product or service they produce.
The “Steve Jobs magic” is talking and appealing to Apple’s customers, not Wall Street analysts.
When you have an outside company talking to your customers for you, you are screwed, because the people doing the talking are interested in their bottom line, not yours. Bad customer service doesn’t generate anger against them, it generates anger against you.
]]>I’ve also told my friend to watch her credit rating witch is/was very good. If it drops, then D&B will get issued a serious ‘please explain in court’ formal legal letter. And my friends name wasn’t even spelled correctly on the claim, and it wasn’t delivered to her current address (where she has lived over a year)! At first, my friends couldn’t figure out if it was even intended for her as as far as she knew… she didn’t owe Telstra anything (She uses a pre-paid plan). Then D&B had the nerve to ask us for her address, as the original claim was sent to her mothers address (which is where she was living 2 years ago and has since moved twice. She has always had her phone service with Telstra, and they have her address.) Telstra apparently wouldn’t give D&B her new address, which I would have thought might have been a clue for D&B. If she really did owe Telstra money, I am certain they would have given D&B all the details.
They are certainly crooks, but they are very incompetent crooks.
My friends just want to leave it and forget it now. Thought I would have been happy to post it at The Consumerist and anywhere and everywhere I could! 🙂
And yeah… the customers are SERIOUSLY pissed! 🙂
]]>And the customers are really pissed.
]]>They have been falling all over themselves the past week! LOL She may get a free phone service for life out of it. They have been trying to have anew phone line installed at the farm they have and Telstra has been giving them the run around. I suggested they fix that pronto! 😉 Telstra shareholders really don’t need any more bad press or legal action.
As for Dunn & Bradstreet, they really need to get their act together for company that was once regarded as a serious player. Next thing you know, they’ll be going to peoples homes with baseball bat’s and lead pipes, if they don’t already.
They should all be taken out and used as shark bait.
]]>When I called, the guy I talked to was totally confused. He refunded the $5 immediately, but couldn’t understand why the long distance fee wasn’t on my Mother’s original bill as she had been paying it for years. I suggested that he just flag everything Whiskey Tango Fox and send it to billing and IT.
]]>If they would just maintain a reasonable rate, you wouldn’t mind an occasional fee, but when they try to use any excuse to jack up the rate, to hell with them.
]]>My brother got nailed with 24% once, because his bank screwed up the automatic payment program, which created a huge mess and all of his credit card rates spiked.
They are loans sharks without the guts to admit it.
]]>I play the game with them. My cards are the “rewards” type that give you points and cash rebates. But I can see how easy it would be for some people to fall into the debt trap. Just try understanding their fine print. Ha.
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