
Originally Posted by
HarryS
I'd like to point out that we are only hearing one side of the story, and will never hear the other side.
I'm sorry that one night you were inconvenienced out of your 90 day trip. Sucks that it happened on your last day.
That being said, I deal with customer service issues in my job and let me just say that while the impression must be given that the customer is always right (at least in the USA) that is far, far from reality.
For example:
My most recent customer service issue involved a young lady who came to one of my stores to purchase an iPhone 6. We ran her credit to ascertain her eligibility, and in the time it took to run her credit, we sold the last one.
Her story was we lied, we cheated, we bait-and-switched, and then destroyed her credit. She made threats around 1 star reviews online, and complaints with the BBB and FTC. She asked for people to be fired. My team tells an entirely different story about the interaction.
I speak with the woman, and of course she's as sweet and calm as can be. We make arrangements to go above and beyond for her, to the point of essentially giving her a top-of-the-line device for nearly free, and no contract, none of that. Hand-delivered to the location of her choice.
She got what she wanted.
Then we pulled the videotapes.
She was nasty, screaming, cursing, and causing a scene. Dropping F-bombs in front of little children and their parents. Making threats at my staff. My staff offered to accomodate her with a credit, promising to hold a device from the next shipment, getting one from another store the next day, but her demands where that she gets an iPhone NOW, or heads will roll.
The takeaway? There are ALWAYS TWO SIDES TO THE STORY, and customers don't always give accurate descriptions! Sometimes people just don't take their own behavior into account.
Is this what happened here? Probably not. But there are always two sides, and I wonder as to her behavior when she discovered things would not go as planned.