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I found when you actually talk to Support, to try and get something done or to actually fix a problem, it's the usual level of large company support; what you s
by casenmgreen 4y ago
I found when you actually talk to Support, to try and get something done or to actually fix a problem, it's the usual level of large company support; what you say is ignored, the questions you ask are ignored, the boilerplate replies do not in fact relate to the actual situation, you get a different person every time, and no one ever reads the prior conversation, so it's impossible to build up any understanding and every support agent makes the same mistakes and misunderstandings, again and again and again.
I found I was getting small compensation payments, which I did not want and had not asked for, where the agent had not understood what was going on, but was actually just pushing that small-compensation button by habit and reflex.
Any high-level support manager who thinks support can be provided by routing each email to an arbitrary support agent is utterly incompetent and should be instantly fired.
As it is, I stopped using Amazon a few years ago, because of how they treat warehouse staff.
- toast0 4y agoAs with many things Amazon, it seems like they're very good at optimizing, but they don't optimize for what I would want to be optimized. For customer service, they seem to be oriented towards 'make the customer happy' rather than 'fix the problem'. So they end up in about the same place as most corporate customer service; the agents have no agency to get problems fixed, although at least they've historically been able to try to make the customer happy.
- casenmgreen 4y agoExactly. It is of course entirely straightforward to make customers more happy by making small payments, than it is to create actual meaningful functional customer support.