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- 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
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- 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>
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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.
-