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Complaint Review: Best Buy - Fox Point Wisconsin

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  • Reported By: dpcltd — Fox Point Wisconsin USA
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  • Best Buy 8755 N Port Washington Rd, Fox Point, WI 53217 Fox Point, Wisconsin USA

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institutional indifference - no customer service & don't care
1/9/17

I purchased a Garmin GPS today, December 20th at Best Buy but was not offered an extended warranty - today, December 20th - I called the store to ask about an extended warranty and only got useless menu options frustrating me and putting me off from ever returning to a Best Buy - why should I?

It was insulting when trying to telephone the store, getting only an unresponsive menu selection and a complete inability to speak to a human being. I called the 888' number to complain and try to find a human to reply to my complaints which took multiple menu options, hold options and call-back from a representative. It is dehumanizing to have my time trivialized and spent like it matters little.

The call-back option person was in the Philippines; useless and uninformed. She told me to call the store if I had a problem - my problem was in calling the store, the menu options were useless. I asked to be transferred to the USA. She refused and said there is no option to transfer my call. I asked to be transferred to Minnesota; she refused saying there are no options to transfer to Minnesota and to call the store. It was a useless call, a waste of my time and failed of its essential purpose:

I. To talk with a human being about my dissatisfaction with a useless menu system;
II. To complain about how customers are treated including routing my complaint to the Philippines to someone uninformed and unintelligible;
III. To find out if I have an extended warranty option of what I just bought.

I wasted over an hour on this and your customer disservice and [Best Buys] astonishingly self-defeating system called customer service. I will shop elsewhere and only at Best Buy as a last resort. I was going to get a DVD player as a gift for someone which I will now buy [& everything I need] elsewhere.

What a monumentally stupid system Best Buy has adopted. It is a target-rich consumer environment out here, lots of online sellers and competitors who value customers. I have enclosed a reprint attributable to Sam Walton - your customer service personnel [including those in the Philippines] should read it and quite possibly adopt the philosophy.

I have sent this to your Best Buy, Minnesota as a courtesy as well.

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#4 Author of original report

asi es la vida, Such is life

AUTHOR: - ()

POSTED: Tuesday, January 31, 2017

I was impressed with your wielding of insults [ample rump & “pops”] woven in with such tight logic on the purpose and goal of customer service.  I also liked your all-American approach to spelling - not being a slave to conventional wisdom or the dictionary, you have your very own personal way to spell words. However, I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain it any further to you.  I am reminded by you of a few writings:

  1. Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
  2. When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser – attributed to Socrates and others

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw

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#3 General Comment

Or....

AUTHOR: Tyg - (USA)

POSTED: Tuesday, January 31, 2017

 Or just admit that YOU just didnt want to get off that ample rump AND GO INTO THE STORE!!!!5-6 days BEFORE xmas and YOU wonder WHY they cant answer the phone. Sorry "pops" but at that time of year they MUST take care of the people in front of them GIVING THEM MONEY!!! If this was so important then YOU should have grabbed the item and your reciept and went into the store. YOU CHOSE to attempt to use the phone system during thier busiest time of year. It sounds like YOU have a problem with expectations. SO YOU have NOT been ripped off and its actually understandable WHY they didnt answer the phone. But people like YOU who have SERIOUS self-entitlment issues just cant understand when the SERVANTS dont respond to YOU. Lets address YOUR complaint right now.

1. Exactly WHAT do YOU expect that the lowly employee is going to be able to do about the automated system other then apologize? Even if every employee went to thier corporate masters and complained, Corporate WILL NOT change what THEY have put into place. So YOUR complaint is that YOU want someone to yell at.

2. Routing your call to another country IS NOT A RIPPOFF!!!! Its BUSINESS!!! Once again the self-entitlment that ALL America shows just wont let YOU get past NOT being able to speak with someone who speaks english BETTER!!!

3. If YOU did not purchase the extended warrenty AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE then YOU dont have an extendeed warrenty, YOU only have the manufacturers warrenty. I dont even work for BB and I can tell you this.

So YOU got your answers now go away because YOU have NOT been ripped off in ANY WAY and just want something to b***h about.

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#2 Author of original report

read more carefully

AUTHOR: - ()

POSTED: Monday, January 30, 2017

Maybe you should re-read the complaint; it was about a failed customer service paridigm, that is,

  1. menu system answering calls to the store that fails to connect the customer to a person;
  2. a call center located in the Phillippines that is uninformed and unintelligible
  3. and systems designed to defeat rather than deliver customer service.

The customer service "system" is circular and delivers no service.  Most consumers complain about menu systems, poor service centers and "off-shore" call centers who deliver little or no support or service to customers.

You, Sir, are the exception and would rather drive back to a store than simply call it on the phone; I would not.

So long as you accept poor service without an objection, you deserve the service you get.

-dpc

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Do we have this right?

AUTHOR: Robert - (USA)

POSTED: Monday, January 30, 2017

So if we get this right. This ENTIRE "RipOff" is that you "wasted" a little over an hour in trying to talk to someone at the store. Keeping in mind that we don't know what time of day you did this and it was 5 days before Christmas. So you weren't out any money, and actually they lost a sale since you weren't able to give them what is basically free money to them because you couldn't buy the extended warranty.

That's it..right?

If this was such a key and important item for you, why didn't YOU inquire about it while you were at the store? It appears you are in the same city as the Best Buy. So how come you didn't go back to the store itself to register your complaint? If your answer has anything to do with it being busy..think about that for a minute and see if you find a flaw in your "complaint".

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