Customer Service In Ireland

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More great customer service - Zappos

22 October 2007 no comments

Not an Irish story for sure, but this amazing customer care deserves as much attention as possible.
When I came home this last time, I had an email from Zappos asking about the shoes, since they hadn’t received them. I was just back and not ready to deal with that, so I replied that my mom […]

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On George Hook Show at 1630 - Consumer Helpline tips

18 September 2007 1 comment

I’m on the George Hook show at 1630 today talking about consumer issues and people waiting for up to 11 minutes on consumer care lines in Ireland.
I’ll hopefully be able to give some of these tips for dealing with your consumer issue:

Have a pen and paper ready for the call.
Note the time when you dialed […]

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DHL go above and beyond for customer service

27 August 2007 1 comment

This is an interesting story about a guy who rang DHL to complain about his package being late when it should have been delivered earlier that day. First, they reimbursed the money they charged for delivery and then they conferenced him into a call with another local rep to see where the package was and […]

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Vodafone Ireland show how not to do customer service

30 July 2007 no comments

Via Pat Phelan from Roam4Free is his story of woeful customer service from Vodafone Ireland. First they greet him as “Pat” and then bounce him to someone else who calls him Mr. Phelan who demands the same information he already provided to informal droid number 1 and so forth. As well as the bouncing Pat […]

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Sony - one rule for Ireland and another for the UK

18 July 2007 no comments

My camcorder (DCR-TRV19e) gave up the ghost the other night - when recording instead of the normal image of what was being recorded a distorted image was displayed. A google showed that this was due to a faulty CCD chip which Sony had owned up to :
http://fon.gs/sony-announcement/
So I rang the relevant support number […]

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The move from “customer care” to “caring for the customer”

16 July 2007 no comments

JP Rangaswami noted what might become the norm for customer service. He made a blog post and mentioned in an aside that he could not get an application to work for him properly.
The post was timed at 11.36am local time. At 4.39pm the same day, a Saturday (!), I received a message from Mark Hall […]

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