{"id":6654,"date":"2008-03-14T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T20:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/email-customer-service-complaints.html"},"modified":"2008-03-14T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T20:38:44","slug":"email-customer-service-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/email-customer-service-complaints.html","title":{"rendered":"E-Mail Customer Service Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few things annoy me&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/angry_smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> as much as poor e-mail interactions with companies I either purchase from or am thinking of purchasing from. I am sick and tired of companies who send me an auto-response e-mail and then never follow through with the promised e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the situation is improving but it is still far from perfect and there is a long way to go before online customer service gets to the point where I would call it great. One of the reasons Amazon does so well is that they have really focused on customer service and it shows.<\/p>\n<p>TMC&#8217;s David Sim&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/columnists\/columnist.aspx?id=100005\">articles<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/telecom-crm\/\">blog<\/a>) addresses this very issue in a quirky post called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/telecom-crm\/2008\/03\/14\/newtons-law-of-email.asp\">Newton&#8217;s Law of E-mail<\/a>, which as you might imagine discusses how every e-mail has an equal and opposite e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>I am told this law has some applications in other fields as well. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things annoy me&nbsp; as much as poor e-mail interactions with companies I either purchase from or am thinking of purchasing from. I am sick and tired of companies who send me an auto-response e-mail and then never follow through with the promised e-mail. Generally, the situation is improving but it is still far from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}