Susanne’s recent customer experience <\/a>post i thought i share as well<\/p>\nI was told that an enginner would visit the\u00a0house, if he couldn’t repair it they’d take\u00a0it\u00a0away\u00a0and i’d get it back within a week. The engineer came and took the TV away on the 18th September. I had no comunication from them so when the following monday came i\u00a0thought i’d give them a call<\/p>\n
The answer i got back was “we had to wait for the cost of the repair to be authorised, now it’s been authorised we’re waiting for parts. They are being ordered today and we’ll call you to let you know what’s\u00a0going\u00a0on”<\/p>\n
I was annoyed i hadn’t been kept in the loop but the story sounded plausible.\u00a0By\u00a0Wednesday i hadn’t heard anything\u00a0so i rang back<\/p>\n
“We’re waiting for parts”<\/p>\n
I told her this was the same thing i’d been told on Monday. She fobbed me off and\u00a0said they would ring with an update<\/p>\n
It’s now\u00a0Friday\u00a0so i called again this morning.<\/p>\n
“We’re still waiting for parts”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WHAT???<\/p>\n
“The\u00a0parts arrived but they were faulty, so we have ordered some more. The last set took about three days to arrive so\u00a0that’ll be Tuesday or Wednesday”<\/p>\n
So IF they turned up on Wednesday by the time they have fitted it, tested and got it back to me it will have been three weeks<\/p>\n
I told her\u00a0i wasn’t impressed, especially since i\u00a0didn’t have another tv<\/p>\n
“We can loan you one”<\/p>\n
I asked how much this would cost…. “No cost, thats free of charge”<\/p>\n
Why wasn’t i offered this previously?<\/p>\n
“We didn’t know that you dont have another tv”<\/p>\n
Shocking! (I do have another tv but it’s about 20 times smaller than the main on in our living room)<\/p>\n
So the loan set is supposedly being dropped off on Tuesday<\/p>\n
I was so angry when i put the phone down. However, there is one simple thing that could have stopped\u00a0all this from the very start<\/p>\n
COMMUNICATION<\/p>\n
It would have taken a couple of minutes for someone to call me (as they promised to do!) during each stage to keep me informed. If they had communicated better and asked if i needed a loan tv they could have taken months to repair it and it wouldn’t have cared!<\/p>\n
The same applies with your customers. If your doing something for them make sure they know what’s happening. It’s incredibly frustrating being kept in the dark<\/p>\n
Even if something hasn’t quite gone to plan make sure the customer knows the situation. Most people understand that sometimes things out of your control can throw a spanner in the works but if they don’t know about it you get unhappy customers<\/p>\n
If your working on something for a customer at the moment and you haven’t given them an update drop them a quick email or phone call….go on, do it now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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