RE: Stay away....

FlyBoyMark

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RE: Stay away....

'snatcher...I'm gonna fill your speal with swiss cheese holes.<br />First off, any business that deals with the public SHOULD have people that know how to deal with irate customers. In my circumstances, I have NEVER failed at modifying a customers attitude with PROPER COMMUNICATON. This is the key to success and keeping people from bad mouthing your business. The responsibility of this falls on the managers or owners of any business.<br /> And in response to Basic Power, they have failed in this respect. We don't know the response time on the phone, hearsay by the employee to the manager or any other factors that may have exacerbated Homerr's attitude. Rather than saying: "I'm sorry Homerr, we had an inexperinced employee handling your sale, what can I do to rectify our problem." Instead they chose to be confrontational to him and on this forum.<br /> I have MANY different credit cards with different mailing addresses and phone numbers(very easy to forget which is which because nothing is printed on them). The Employee should have been SKILLED enough to explain this to Homerr or better yet explain that he did not understand what a virtual number is....<br /> This NOT a bash of Basic Power, I am sure they are very fine company but a communiqué of their failure to handle this situatuion properly.
 

steve forsythe

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Re: RE: Stay away....

I 100% agree that the spicific circumstance of Basic Power and Homer is one where the business could have handled it better. My point was that the customer is NOT always right, and should NOT be treated like they are always right. Anybody that runs a reputible business knows that there are MANY customers that will never be satisfied, no matter what you do for them, and will take advantage of businesses that have liberal return polices or 'always make things right(free)' for the customer. These same people would ask for their money back at the movies because it was bad. Or if a restaurant is crowded and a little understaffed, they would stay and eat then complain later to everyone they know about bad service instead of going somewhere else in the beginning. I personnaly expect good service and demand it, but i am not likely to demand it unless i have paid good money for it. I dont demand good service at Burger King or Walmart because i know what it must be like for those employees to have to deal with customers like you that demand it...even there.
 

Admin5

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We try to not delete anyone's postings unless we have to (and haven't in this instance). One of the things that have helped these boards has been the following and until now unspoken rule:<br /><br />Threads are very rarely closed around here but when they are, please do not continue them on a new one. They were closed for a good reason.<br /><br />If anyone disagrees with this rule it is probably because they still want to bash and/or have the last word. Please visit other boards for those activities. No, we are not trying to quiet people in their opinions of marine businesses (please remember that the complaints were against a competitor of ours), but we will take action when things just turn plain nasty and doesn't help anyone fix their boat or enjoy the water this weekend. Thanks for understanding and if you have a problem with this please email me at boards@iboats.com.
 
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