Customer Service Complaint Letter

Evadman

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Clifs:
1. Bought overpriced table I could have built myself for 1/2 the price
2. Table was damaged. Everywhere.
3. The jig used by the manufaterer was built by a blind deaf mute guy who drills with his feet
4. Brian, while helpful, proved that your company sucks.
5. I await your response to my letter.
6. ATOT will spam you to death, so sayith Gobadgers
 

GoingUp

Lifer
Jul 31, 2002
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Originally posted by: Evadman
Clifs:
1. Bought overpriced table I could have built myself for 1/2 the price
2. Table was damaged. Everywhere.
3. The jig used by the manufaterer was built by a blind deaf mute guy who drills with his feet
4. Brian, while helpful, proved that your company sucks.
5. I await your response to my letter.
6. ATOT will spam you to death, so sayith Gobadgers

I knew ATOT would come through for me

I dont have the power tools to make something like this at all, although given the fiasco, I probably should look into it.

Edit: And I'm not lookin for ATOT to spam the guy to death, I'm just lookin for some honest feedback before I send the letter.
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
I dont have the power tools to make something like this at all, although given the fiasco, I probably should look into it.
Ask me to borrow some of my crap. I buy tools just so I can say I have it. I don't keep up with the jones'es, I am Mr. Jones. Keep up with me b!tch!

Sorry.
 

GoingUp

Lifer
Jul 31, 2002
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Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
I dont have the power tools to make something like this at all, although given the fiasco, I probably should look into it.
Ask me to borrow some of my crap. I buy tools just so I can say I have it. I don't keep up with the jones'es, I am Mr. Jones. Keep up with me b!tch!

Sorry.

Yea but your in the flatlands and I'm in Detroit Rock City
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Yea but your in the flatlands and I'm in Detroit Rock City
That movie sucked.

Anyway: what better reason for a road trip!
 

GoingUp

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Yea but your in the flatlands and I'm in Detroit Rock City
That movie sucked.

Anyway: what better reason for a road trip!

LOL to come build me some patio furniture? Sounds kinda creepy, or are you just gonna murder me then hack me up with your band saw?
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Yea but your in the flatlands and I'm in Detroit Rock City
That movie sucked.

Anyway: what better reason for a road trip!

LOL to come build me some patio furniture? Sounds kinda creepy, or are you just gonna murder me then hack me up with your band saw?

Hacking up a body with a bandsaw would be quite the amusing thing to watch.
 

GoingUp

Lifer
Jul 31, 2002
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OK thants enough neffing for everyone! Can I get some honest feedback on my letter please?
 
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Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Yea but your in the flatlands and I'm in Detroit Rock City
That movie sucked.

Anyway: what better reason for a road trip!

LOL to come build me some patio furniture? Sounds kinda creepy, or are you just gonna murder me then hack me up with your band saw?

I would think that he would make a table out of you after he killed you. He has to use the power tools for something.
 

Evadman

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Aww poopie. I don't have a bandsaw. Now I need to go buy one.
 
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Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
OK thants enough neffing for everyone! Can I get some honest feedback on my letter please?

The letter was pretty good.

You could have always gone with the somewhat more elegant woring such as what was used in this British Complaint Letter of the Year:

I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:

My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website?.HOW?

I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived? six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it.

I estimate your internet server?s downtime is roughly 35%? hours between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers.

I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone
will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman?and several other variations on this theme.

Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don?t care, it?s far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustrations in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue.

I thought BT were sh*t, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of god-awful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That?s why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn?t anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order.

British Telecom - w**kers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees.

Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats.
 

TechnoPro

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Generally good letter, although the pictures slam the point home. I really can't see how such a set could be shipped, but obviously their QA department is non-existant. I wouldn't quote the other complaint you found on the net, but that's just my personal style. Good luck with getting it straightened out.
 

doze

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Wow some of those holes are a bit sloppy. Looks like they need some new sharper drillbits too, but cedar is a softwood and can be sanded pretty easily.

The only thing your letter did not address is what you want out of the deal. Replacement pieces, a new set, a refund etc.... I also wouldn't throw in the letter from somebody else you found online, I'm sure the company knows they send out jacked up stuff sometimes, it also makes your letter kinda long and takes emphasis away from your problem. Who cares what happened to some other guy.

 

TechnoPro

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Originally posted by: doze
Wow some of those holes are a bit sloppy. Looks like they need some new sharper drillbits too, but cedar is a softwood and can be sanded pretty easily.

The only thing your letter did not address is what you want out of the deal. Replacement pieces, a new set, a refund etc.... I also wouldn't throw in the letter from somebody else you found online, I'm sure the company knows they send out jacked up stuff sometimes, it also makes your letter kinda long and takes emphasis away from your problem. Who cares what happened to some other guy.

The OP did state what he wanted:

I feel that it is only fair for you as a company to replace my entire order, arrange for shipping back of the defective products at your cost, and issue me a partial refund of at least ten percent for my time and aggravation.

...

I request a response from you by the end of the business day on Wednesday June 7th detailing what steps you will be taking to satisfy me as a customer.
 

doze

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Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: doze
Wow some of those holes are a bit sloppy. Looks like they need some new sharper drillbits too, but cedar is a softwood and can be sanded pretty easily.

The only thing your letter did not address is what you want out of the deal. Replacement pieces, a new set, a refund etc.... I also wouldn't throw in the letter from somebody else you found online, I'm sure the company knows they send out jacked up stuff sometimes, it also makes your letter kinda long and takes emphasis away from your problem. Who cares what happened to some other guy.

The OP did state what he wanted:

I feel that it is only fair for you as a company to replace my entire order, arrange for shipping back of the defective products at your cost, and issue me a partial refund of at least ten percent for my time and aggravation.

...

I request a response from you by the end of the business day on Wednesday June 7th detailing what steps you will be taking to satisfy me as a customer.

That part looked like the other guy's complaint to me... well maybe my critique now is that the letter is too long
 

GoingUp

Lifer
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morning bump and thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll probably pull the other guys complaint out of the letter.
 

kranky

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Get rid of the other complaint you inserted into your letter, and your letter is too long. I think it's unlikely anyone reading your letter will bother to go to a website to see photos, so print them out and include them with your letter, clearly marking each one with the problem it is illustrating. When you mention a problem in your letter, refer to the appropriate picture (number them).

For example:
Both the picnic table and the two 3 foot benches have improper holes drilled. (See picture 4) I can not attach the feet to the legs at all with any of these pieces. One of the legs for the large bench actually has a split that runs the full length of the wood. (see picture 7) There are also numerous large gouges, nicks and discoloration caused by dirt or markers in the various wood pieces. (see pictures 8-11)

I notice they guarantee satisfaction on their website. If the quality is that bad, wouldn't you be better off getting your money back and going somewhere else? I think you're just going to end up in the same boat again if they replace your order with more crappy stuff.
 

Fritzo

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I'm sorry, but for outdoor furnature, I don't see that big on a problem there. That doesn't look like finished wood- a piece of sandpaper should get rid of that in about 20 seconds.

Instructions are poor for ANY furnature. You should have seen the ones for my TV stand (they didn't even ship the right screws).

And, as for building it yourself, good luck on getting all of those holes and notches aligned. A guy down the street sells picnic tables for $200 as a hobby, and it takes him two weeks to make one from scratch (he does 3 or 4 at once, but still...)
 

altonb1

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The leeter was a little long, but otherwise verygood. I agree that you need to PRINT the pictures and include them with the letter.
 

BigJ

Lifer
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Admit it, you've got some Polish blood in you.

I can tell because of the toe.
 

Fritzo

Lifer
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Originally posted by: doze
Wow some of those holes are a bit sloppy. Looks like they need some new sharper drillbits too, but cedar is a softwood and can be sanded pretty easily.

Exactly. Cedar is VERY soft- shipping it is going to cause it to knock around, giving it nicks. If you try to drill it, it's going to give a "fuzzy" drill hole (why does that turn me on?). Anyway, from the pics, it doesn't look like anything out of the norm and if the OP has his panties in a knot about it, $2.00 worth of sandpaper will take care of any of that.

EDIT: Retraction- I only saw the first pic (was expecting a "next" link). OK, those holes and the wood damage is pretty bad. You're justified (See? I admit when I screw up!)
 
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