1. Just like http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=UGin9.8879%24lV3.819782%40newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net&output=gplain ???
2. I have not found that losing my temper (not writing you did) ever helped. Email is not good enough. Paper mail, certified and to the right places (Carly Fiorina)
3. For me, I've resolved my issues in just a few phone calls. ALL the HP, IBM, Acer, Toshiba, Dell support has been stellar. But I always make sure I have a legitimate gripe/failure and am in the warranty period. Sony has been my noteable exception. The fallout with Sony is that I tell my story and do not buy their products.
4. Spyware. Sadly, this is today's Achille's heel of all the makers. The owners don't want to know that such cripples the machines as well as all the makers are blissfully unaware to the problem. This doesn't apply to your DOA. But imagine the phone calls for support and the delloid's answers about spyware...
Item 4 is resulting in returns so I mention it.
On your part, you didn't reveal the model. It's important since some get the fire breathing P4 desktop replacement and then complain about battery (non)life.
Bob
Customer Care! Nishtgutnicks. All of them. I feel opgenart, I really do.
I'm no kvetch, but HP sold me a real piece of ****.
So this is what happened. I bought a computer from them in January. Since then, it has been nothing but trouble. Four times it has been repaired! Three times replaced! The last replacement? Dead on arrival. This is how they do business?
I'm an old man (trapped in the body of a 26 year old writer), who needs his computer. I like to look at the girlys, you know? On the Internet? Oy, they get me so...(Really it's my main work tool.)
For my sanity (fading fast), I need to find some good in this. What would Moses do? I don't know. Me, I want to make a guidebook on how to deal with HP "customer care." Not only for myself but for the many who still suffer. It's a mitzvah, really.
I want to compile a contact list of mid to senior level HP
customer service executives. Access is power.
HP is spread out all over the world. They guard their phone numbers
and email addresses like their lives depend on it. I have even had techs refuse to tell me what city they are in.
I need names, email addresses, phone numbers, locations
of HP Customer Service Execs and Senior Case Managers. Anyone who cares and has power rectify situations that have legitimately gone wrong.
We need a better way to make HP take responsibility for their sins. This is not about revenge, but understanding. I want them to understand what their dreadful customer service has cost me and so many others.
If there are any bitter ex HP techs out there who want to enlighten me about how HP streams their callers please email me. Confidentiality will respected.
Feel free to repost this message.
trevorhughdavis@gmail.com
-Trevor

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