Poll: Who has the worst customer service?

Chad

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With my recent frustrations, I was wondering what everyone thinks is the worst customer service. My vote... Abit. No doubt about it. Click on the poll icon and cast your vote.

EDIT: Although Thrustmaster certainly comes close.
 

Wah

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my experience (a few years ago) w/ thrustmaster was pleasant. The joystick didn't work, I called them and they crossshipped a new one... no questions, no hassle.
 

GregMal

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Oct 14, 1999
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The Department of Motor Vehicles is the worst. Whether you're trying
to transfer a title or get a driver's license, they're terrible.
Greg
 

potz

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PACIFIC BELL DSL!!! I've been put on hold for almost 2 hours before.
 

madthumbs

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Oct 1, 2000
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Hey now, M$ replacing their Intellimouse Explorer's just for calling in the serial number has got to be admirable! Give credit where credit is due. How many other companies would do that?
 

Bleep

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Oct 9, 1999
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Currently Yahama. I have a bad CD burner and cannot even contact them.
In the past Canon they absolutly refuse to do any warranty I bought a new canon printer and the Printhead was absent No way were they going to even sell me one at cost. Never again either one. I dont understand the rational of these outfits that go out of there way it seems to make unhappy customers, dont they realize that 1 unhappy customer can mean the loss of many potential sales?
Bleep
 

IamDavid

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Sep 13, 2000
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Toshiba.... Took more then 6 months to get a DVD drive repaired.. Then it broke again so I said "byebye"..
 

GT1999

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Oct 10, 1999
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Sony. Took me over 2 months to get a replacements 17" monitor. 2 "repairs" later, and 2 entire months. Their support sucks.
 

Zeeliv

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Oct 10, 1999
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Indeed, Microsoft's superb hardware support makes up for any problems you might have had with their software support.
 

Topochicho

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Microsoft... I returned a MS Mouse and they sent someone out to kill my family, set fire to my house, blew up my car, raped my dog, scattered my trash on my lawn, made fun of the way I dressed, then spent 2 weeks showing up at different places and making faces at me and taunting me with insults from Monty Python movies.

AND they took almost a week to replace the mouse.
 

j@cko

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Feb 13, 2000
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Crawfordmicrosystems!
They complained in front of my face when I returned the motherboard!
If they don't like it, CHANGE their OWN policy!

WWW.crawfordmicrosystems.com

ADVISORY: IF any one is from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada area, don't never ever deal with these people!
 

madthumbs

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Beat this one; Creative!

-After tons of wasted CDr's, time, and wear and tear on the 4224e cdrw, I called customer service. They told me that the drive shouldn't have any problems backing up Playstation disks, and that her freinds had been doing it with theirs. So, more money, time, and wear and tear were wasted. In the end; the burner is incapable of doing it properly, and it quit burning in less than a year. No response to emails btw, I had to call them long distance to hear them lie to me!
 

jagr10

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I second the CREATIVE complaint!

For a huge multimedia company they should have a Toll Free number, but instead you have to pay long distance! Plus when my Creative 4/2/24 burner stopped working (after 6 months) I phoned them and they said to ship it to their warehouse and I had to pay the shipping! THey sent me another refurbished burner and now that one's stopped working and it's past the waranty!

THey have some nice products when it comes to video cards, sound cards and speakers and all, but the customer support sucks!
 

rickn

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Oct 15, 1999
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I vote for logitech and Sony. I had logitech trackball, and one of the little balls fell out (the big marble ball rolls on 2 small beads) and the buttheads wanted to charge me $6 + shipping to ship me 3 little beads. I told the CS guy where he could put them and hung up on him. Needless to say I no longer own a logitech product. And it was still under warranty
 

esung

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Oct 13, 1999
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PBI's DSL support is bad, probably due to they actually contract out the work to 3rd party.

rickn: what trackball are you using? I have a trackman marble, and I have to say it's an excellent piece of work.. it's optical tracking, and there's no little beads (not sure about the current model though..) had it for a long long time..
 

rickn

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it was the trackman marble + or something. The red ball actually rests on two little beads, one of them fell out and it is so small it got lost
 

road

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Ok all you guys are right. :)

Add this to the list of bad customer service:
Ubid and UPS. Bloody sucky customer service, and their customer service agents must be eating Barf Balls, they can't even talk or email straight. Just plain bad bad bad bad.

BTW Memory4Less.com has wonderful customer service and so does Microsoft hardware.

Peace..
 

Zorba

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NEC: I bought a brand new monitor from them 2.5 years again, it was FUOA. So I got it replaced, cross-shipped (had to pay return shipping). The new one was a refurb. It lost its focus two years after I got it. So I call them up, sent them a copy of my receipt. Then when I gave them the numbers they said "That is a refurb with only 90-day warrenty, sorry." Upon hearing this I lost it, told them they sent me that in replacement for my brand new monitor. Gave them the old RMA number and everything. After an hour of bsing me, they finally agreed to take it.

They gave me the address, and I asked for an RMA number, which they told me that the reference number was my RMA (I didn't really believe that because it was much different from my older RMA #.). Well I sent it in, and caled two weeks later to find out where it was. At which point they told me I was given the wrong address and that my # wasn't an RMA number (even though two different people gave me that address). The lady said she'd it get it taken care of, and it should be back to me within a week.

Well 1.5 weeks later I called again, they told me the samething "Wrong address, wrong number" (acting like it was MY fault for sending it to the wrong place). The guy said he'd get it taken care of, and should be at my house in a week. Two weeks later I called again, told the guy I wanted to talk to manager, he wouldn't let me, but went and talked to one himself. He told me they were going to "rush" a new one out to me the next day. I made sure he had the right address for me, he did, and I hung up. Two weeks later, I still don't have my monitor and I am about to call them up again. If I don't get my monitor by next week I am calling the BBB, FTC, and writing a report for the news paper.

[/rant]
 

stingbandel

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Definetely GTE Visa, Took me months to remove the charge that I didn't make... made me so frustated with them...

Darno