1. Is this a customer service problem? Why or why not?
a. Why is this a customer service problem?
It is a customer service problem because ultimately it is reflecting poorly upon the company and providing customers with poor and inadequate customer service. The distributors are lying to customers to inflate sales. The distributors are not rendering adequate customer service all of which whether direct or indirect is associated poorly in the customer’s reflection and association with Handy Andy’s product (the trash compactors)
b. Why is this not a customer service problem?
It is not a customer service problem because this is service associated with the distributors. The distributors are not in house. They are not part of the
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3. What should Handy Andy’s marketing vice president do? Why?
Handle the situation and do not let it get any more out of control than it currently is. This sounds the brewing of a perfect storm for customer service and relations. It is ultimately reflecting poorly upon the company. The V.P. should make the distributors and retailers know that this behavior is unacceptable and Handy Andy does not endorse this kind of business in relation to its valued customers.
4. In the case is the statement, “The factory distributors in these few cities indicated that they, not Handy Andy, Inc., stood behind the one-year warranty.” Is this a problem for Handy Andy? Why or why not?
This is a problem. It is not the distributors issuing the warranty. It is Handy Andy’s warranty given to the customers as a testament to stand behind their product. This is not a third-party warrant that is sold at say a used car lot. Again, this reflects poorly on Handy Andy and how they value their customers.
5. Bixby, Booher, and Ortega recognize that Handy Andy needs a better way to learn about the buyer’s installation experience. One alternative is to add an open-ended question, dealing with the installation experience, to the warranty activation form. Another alternative is to e-mail a brief survey about the installation experience within three to five days of receiving a warranty activation form. Which of these alternatives should
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2. In addition, under the rules of UCC § 2-315, (Fitness for Particular Purpose) any cooperation or business that violated an implied warranty of fitness shall be responsible for: At the time of contracting knows a buyer’s particular use (and the buyer relies on the seller’s expertise or judgment in choosing the product) then an ‘implied warranty of fitness has been created.
The mutually agreed upon contract was to build a 20,000 square foot (sq.ft) parts warehouse at 1265 E. 20th Street in Chico, California. The constructed tilt up building was built and equipped with all the newest and latest technology. The plans and specifications were prepared in collaboration by the architect, Ellerbe Becket (referred to herein as “AR”), and the engineer, Degenkolb (referred to herein as “ER”) and provided to GCA by FORG. ER was founded in 1940 and has a long history of engineering many different projects including hospitals, high rises, and concrete tilt ups. AR was founded in 1909 and has a very good reputation in the industry of designing quality structures all over the country. This project was open to all bidders that were able to meet the prequalification requirements. All prospective qualified bidders were able to view all plans and specifications on the website www.box.com, (referred
If I were Dinah, after talking to my manager and getting a response that he/she was not going to do something about the matter, I would have gone to another manager in the company regarding the issue. This would have allowed them to come up with a strategy to communicate the error to the customer, have a plan on how they could fix the problem and keep the relationship with the customer in tact while also not affecting the existing customer base.
In some instances customer service staff will not be able to resolve the complaint at this level, in which case the complaint will be escalated to the Manager.
Common Actions: The misfortunes a customer may have supported as a consequence of the matter included can't be recouped through disciplinary procedures. On the off chance that the whining individual has endured a budgetary or property misfortune, that individual's rights must be implemented by normal lawful systems, (for example, a common court activity) against the individual in charge of
WGC’s disclaimer does not suffer from the ambiguity deficiencies of the unenforceable disclaimer in Dorman. The text states “THE MANUFACTURER (“WGC”) MAKES NO WARRANTIES AS TO ANY OF ITS PRODUCTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY.” Exhibit A. No reasonable person who took the time to read this text could mistakenly believe it means anything other than that there are no warranties on WGC’s products. WGC’s disclaimer is clearly valid since it fulfills the requirements of conspicuousness, contains the word “merchantability,” and is unambiguous.
When you have all the details about the complaint, ask the customer how they would like it to be resolved
The pro would be that Handy Andy, Inc. would no longer have to service the customer warranty. This would fall under the responsibility of the licensed retailers and the warranty they offer to customers. Besides that, they will also be able to get discount for 9% of the unit’s wholesale price, half paid by the licensed retailer that had made the sale and half paid by Handy Andy. However, the con in this situation could be that Handy Andy, Inc. imposes a manufacturer’s warranty, in which case they would have to settle on services of Handy Andy, Inc. Thus, anything regarding the services including problems after the services also need to done by factory distributors regardless of extra payments.
During research on this final project, the author found an example of Wal-Mart's communication in backing customer service. A Wal-Mart customer returned a completely thawed turkey including all the fixings for a dinner because her relatives could not make it due to car trouble (Now That's Customer Support, 2006). Wal-Mart returned the customer's money which was $19 plus some change and the customer returned the complete turkey dinner which included two boxes of stuffing, some cranberries, stuff to make pumpkin pies, green beans and a package of rolls (Now That's Customer Support, 2006).
The issues encountered can occur on both the company and customer side, among them are the
The customer service is the process of customer satisfaction with a product or service to ensure. Customer service may take the form of an in-person interaction, a telephone, self-service systems to
Last week while at work I encountered a conflict with one of my client’s whose business is transitioning. The company will be transitioning from being part of one company to its own standalone company and this requires a great deal of preparation. Since I am doing the preparation work, one of the steps is to make sure that all of this client’s direct customer base has set up their new vendor id numbers for the new standalone company. I am responsible for making sure that each customer will receive the information that they need to set this vendor id up by providing the customer managers with all of this information to send to their customer. Before the customer could set up their vendor id numbers they needed to be notified that they would have to start sending their purchase orders for batteries and purchase orders for health and beauty care on separate purchase orders. This would need to start happening by August 1st. The reason for this is because in a couple of months battery orders will begin to ship by themselves on dedicated trucks and health and beauty care products would no longer be shipping with batteries as before. I did in fact send notification of these changes to each customer manager so that they could transmit this information to their direct customer. Well unfortunately one of the customers didn’t receive this notification because the customer manager was transferring into another position and didn’t do his due diligence to make sure that the customer
which, for payment of £350, the car would have been guaranteed in respect of all defects for a further two
Complaints also tell you that the customer still wants to do business with you —Most customers don’t complain — they just take their business elsewhere, because they’ve given up hope of getting what they need from you.