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Article #11832Re: Gateway service problem (was Re: Nightmare experience with "Programmer's Paradise")
From: Paul Botts
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:04
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:04
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In article <downs.62.727498154@helios.nevada.edu> downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes: >>I have been a fan of Gateway 2000, but my fandom is waning. The >>shipped some software to me that, apparently, UPS lost. My beef is >>not with them using a second-rate shipping service (this is not >>the first time I've had problems with UPS), but rather with the >>fact that I can NEVER get through to their customer service >>personnel. > >You might try their customer support on GEnie. Seems a shame to have to >subscribe to a commercial BB$ just to get tech support but I have seen a >number of situations in which a customer tried repeatedly to get through to >someone at GW2000 without success (in one case, all he wanted was a simple >jumper for one of his boards & was told tech support had to verify that he >was really missing the jumper first!), and after posting a message got >_immediate_ results from the GW sysop. > >Sigh. Probably the wave of the future. > I have had endless problems with their tech support, both in getting through and in getting a correct answer (!). I have tried posting on their own bbs, but apparently nobody at the company actually reads anything on there - my onlyresponses were from other customers.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!netsys!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!machine!chinet!prb From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) Subject: Re: Gateway service problem (was Re: Nightmare experience with "Programmer's Paradise") Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Distribution: na Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:04:25 GMT Message-ID: <C1E8rE.8xp@chinet.chi.il.us> References: <1993Jan15.141252.20981@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <C1248s.HE8@cdsmn.mn.org> <downs.62.727498154@helios.nevada.edu> Lines: 23