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Customer Service, Anyone?

My personal blog has almost been dying for the past few weeks, “thanks” to the intermittent internet connection from myDestiny. I have tried everything to get them to either give me my installation refund or fix my problem but their customer service hasn’t been very helpful. They’re just not the kind of tech support that are customer oriented. I even had a case when the woman who answered my call just stopped talking to me when I told her my name. Maybe she knew I called to complain again.http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Internet_map_1024.jpg/300px-Internet_map_1024.jpg

This afternoon, I was contacted by Paypal to participate on a survey they conducted to assess if they’re doing an excellent job serving their customers. I was only too glad to join the survey because in my experience, Paypal has been very quick to help me whenever I ask them about anything. The first time I emailed them for support, the answer came in less than twelve hours, giving me detailed explanations about my question. When I got my reply, it felt like they can be trusted with my transactions.

The difference between the two companies lies on the way they handle customers and their willingness to communicate. Communication builds trust. It gives us the impression that they are serious about their business, that they are credible, dependable and safe to do business with. Whereas Paypal was willing to know how their representatives were actually treating their customers by asking about their support experience, myDestiny did not even bother to reply to emails. I find this to be totally ludicrous. Why would people bother to be in a business when they’re not willing to talk to customers with valid concerns?

I have no idea. But I guess that’s what made Paypal great in the first place. They know how to listen. As for my “dear” internet service provider, let’s just say I’m tired of whining. I just want to talk to their elusive manager and get my money back. Soon!

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Why MyDestiny Internet Is the Worst ISP in the Philippines

destiny blog1. Internet is always down at night time. Nobody tried to explain that to me why my connection is always cut off at around 5pm or 8pm EVERYDAY. Whenever I call customer service, I always get the same answer, “I’m gonna make a report about your case. In the mean time, keep resetting your modem.”

2. They have around 50 phone numbers to dial when you need to contact them. The problem is that they never told their subscribers who are on duty at what time. For you to talk to any one of them, you will have to dial each number until you find one that actually rings. If you’re lucky, you will have to dial all 49 before you get to the one that is active.

3. Their “call center agents” are home based. That means that most of them are not in their “professional mode” when they talk to you. Sometimes you hear dogs barking and babies crying  while you’re talking to an agent.

4. They have a website but there isn’t a single page where you can see an email address by which you can contact them. In their “Contact Us” page, you can see all the telephone numbers I mentioned earlier. Is it even possible to be in the internet business and not have one working, fully functional email address?

5. When I was asked to provide screen shots of my cmd page, they didn’t receive my email even after I sent them on three different ocassions using Yahoo, Google and my own web mail. Interestingly, the email address of their technical support is still a yahoo account, not a mydestiny webmail.

6. After my three failed attempts to send them email, I finally talked to their office-based customer support but Miss Leah told me that I have to send my complaints through email so their manager could read what I was trying to say. Didn’t I just send three emails that never reached their inbox? Why was she asking me to “send another email?”

7. I did send my fourth email and Miss Leah told me to wait for “three working days” before I would hear from them again because the manager is kind of busy at the moment, that is, he was having lunch. It’s been more than a week and nobody called me to explain.

8. Their technical team visited my residence four times in the course of one month to check on my internet settings. They couldn’t find anything wrong because they always come at daytime. As I mentioned earlier, my connection is always cutoff at around 5 or 8pm.

9. Whenever I complain about my connection, their representatives always tell me not to worry because they could simply re-compute my bill so that I won’t have to pay for the days when their was no connection. I’m guessing that none of them really understood that it’s not the bill, as important as it is, that bugs me all the time. It is their inability to fix a simple problem and their poor way of handling valid customer complaints.

10. These problems started on the same day they installed internet in my house. Until today, I’ve never had a decent signal for one straight day.

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