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   Message 603 of 2,222   
   CSowers to Will-Lee-Cue   
   Re: Dissatisfied Customer's Message to B   
   06 Jul 06 01:23:40   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.os.windows-xp   
   From: cadgroupllc@adelphia.net   
      
   "Will-Lee-Cue"  wrote in message   
   news:gciNf.59020$7y1.39254@tornado.texas.rr.com...   
   >   
   >> victimizedbyms@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>> Dissatisfied Customer's Message to Bill Gates:   
   >>> Ineffectual, rude, and insulting tech support will send MS customers   
   >>> to competitors!   
   >>>   
   >>> It is bad enough that Windows XP Professional has many problems and   
   >>> that Microsoft takes away jobs from qualified Americans through   
   >>> outsourcing. With all due respect, to provide rude and ineffective   
   >>> technical support, as I have just experienced, not only adds insult to   
   >>> injury; it provides motivation to buy anything but a Microsoft   
   >>> product!   
   >>>   
   >>> As a result of a defective Windows XP Professional operating system   
   >>> that MS has been unable to repair so far and a never kept call-back   
   >>> appointment by a technician, I got a call from Microsoft where a man   
   >>> who identified himself as Douglas Mullen, Manager of Microsoft in Nova   
   >>> Scotia, was rude, obnoxious and insulting. He refused to let me speak   
   >>> to his supervisor and even made a disparaging remark concerning the   
   >>> Pope before he hung up on me!   
   >>>   
   >>> I am having multiple problems with Windows XP Professional retail   
   >>> version that I recently installed on a new hard drive. The worst is   
   >>> that my MICROSOFT optical mouse (and other types of mice) freezes up   
   >>> the os. After spending hours on the phone dealing with a   
   >>> difficult-to-understand accent and poor telephone connection and with   
   >>> a technician from India who apparently did not have either the   
   >>> knowledge or ability to resolve the problems, I reluctantly   
   >>> rescheduled an appointment with Microsoft for yesterday, 2/19/06 at   
   >>> 2PM eastern US time. I never received the call, nor did I get any   
   >>> email - even one saying that the tech was unable to call, unable to   
   >>> get through to me or had to reschedule.   
   >>>   
   >>> Instead I was woken up by Microsoft today on Sunday. When I asked to   
   >>> speak to a supervisor, I got Mr. Mullen, who insisted that I had been   
   >>> called back yesterday and an email had been sent to me saying that the   
   >>> person could not get through. He got very rude, obnoxious and   
   >>> insulting when I insisted that both my wife and I were here at the   
   >>> scheduled time, I have call waiting with caller ID, voicemail when the   
   >>> two lines are busy and I never receive any email from MS yesterday or   
   >>> so far today.   
   >>>   
   >>> Mr. Mullen refused to address the fact that I was not called back   
   >>> yesterday and did not receive any emails from MS.  He would not let me   
   >>> speak to his supervisor. He did not answer my questions about who was   
   >>> in charge in his office or country. He said "Yes I am rude but I am   
   >>> the only one you will speak to" and "I do not care if you write the   
   >>> Pope." He insisted that I had a "one-time only offer" to get a call   
   >>> back "take it or leave it!." Although I answered that I did want it,   
   >>> he only offered it on a day when I would not be here and rudely hung   
   >>> up on me with out making an appointment.   
   >>>   
   >>> It is bad enough that Windows XP professional has many problems, that   
   >>> Microsoft takes away jobs from qualified Americans. But to provide   
   >>> rude and ineffective technical support with "a take-it or-lave-it"   
   >>> attitude not only adds insult to injury; it provides motivation to buy   
   >>> anything but a Microsoft product! Are you listening Mr. Bill Gates or   
   >>> is the only way you will get the message is when MS loses substantial   
   >>> sales?   
   >>>   
   >>> Thank you,   
   >>> victimizedbyms@yahoo.com   
   >   
   >   
   > Ya got two choices, bub.   
   > Stop computing or buy a MACINTOSH.   
   >   
      
   Both above options give you the same end result. You 'stop computing'.  ;-]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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