{"id":151,"date":"2011-02-18T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-02-18T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T02:06:15","slug":"how-to-lose-a-customer-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"How to lose a customer in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  I just got off the phone with Jason at HP printer tech support who has to have been the rudest tech support person I&#8217;ve EVER worked with, and I&#8217;ve dealt with a lot of Chief Customer Officers who run many of the Fortune 500 call centers.<\/p>\n<p>I called to follow up on a ticket I had opened way back in April of 2010 that had never been followed up on.  I&#8217;ve spent countless hours in workarounds since then.  In short, the Mac bottom margin is 0.46&#8243;, and the PC bottom margin is 0.13&#8243;, so all my footers are clipped when printing from my Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Jason&#8217;s words were: &#8220;We don&#8217;t have to make printers work on the Mac.  All we have to do under warranty is make sure that it prints on the PC.&#8221; to which I replied that I&#8217;m only trying to get the printer to print to the advertised specs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re comparing apples to oranges. What works on a PC may not work on a Mac. We&#8217;re not responsible for all the different settings and configurations.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m simply trying to get it to print to specifications&#8211;this isn&#8217;t an issue of arcane configurations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, you&#8217;re limiting yourself by using a Mac.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Are you telling me that you don&#8217;t support Mac?  Full bleed printing works just fine on my Canon printer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t expect us to copy Canon drivers. We don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not expecting you to copy Canon drivers, I&#8217;m only expecting you to support the advertised specifications on your printer.<\/p>\n<p>I asked for a supervisor, and was denied.  I asked for his employee ID number and was denied. I asked for his last name and was denied. I threatened to escalate to Ann Livermore, with whom I&#8217;ve had previous discussions and he said, &#8220;You just go ahead and do that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>HP, I used to love you. A lot. But now I&#8217;m not so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I just got off the phone with Jason at HP printer tech support who has to have been the rudest tech support person I&#8217;ve EVER worked with, and I&#8217;ve dealt with a lot of Chief Customer Officers who run many of the Fortune 500 call centers. I called to follow up on a ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtisbingham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}