D-Link offers very bad customer service.. my experience

J

John Dalberg

I have to say that D-Link the makers of routers and other network hardware
offers one of the worst tech support a company offers.
Yesterday I wasted two hours trying to get some help. I spoke with 4
different "tech" people who were totally useless, 3 of whom disconnected me
on purpose!!
Everytime I call in, I had to wait for at least 20 minutes before someone
answered. Their system can't tell you how long you'll be waiting.
You keep getting a message about their heavy volume of calls and yak yak
yak about their products nonstop ntil you're fed up with their pitches.
They need to improve thier phone system.

The first person took some information from me, I explained my problem..
tech person told me to hold .. ok.. then I was disconntected. I guess he
can't help!

Second support person told me that my D-Link DCS-900W wireless camera is
not a webcam and it's a security camera which can't be used over the web.
WHAT!!?? So I asked him what webcam camera can I use. He told me he doesn't
know and gave me a presales phone number. This is one clueless person that
D-Link hired. What kind of a tech person who doesn't know what his company
offers and his job is to support the products!!? I mean at least he should
know the wireless category of products because that's what I chose on the
phone system.

The third person was a female tech support. She took some info and when I
tried to explain my problem.. she rudely says WHAT!. Puts me on hold.. Then
I find out I am back in the waiting queue, WTF!!!!! Waited for another 20
minutes.. the fourth guy comes up.. here we go again.. the same
routine...asked me if I called before. These guys might have tagged me or
something in their database or something, so I said no I didn't call
before, they guys asks for my phone number so I give them my cell number
just to start fresh and the guy puts me on hold and I get disconnected. I
couldn't believe it. They did it again. At this point I AM FURIOUS. What's
going on is no coincedence.

These people lack the basic communications and technical skills to offer
proper help.

To D-LINK: You're an aweful company. I hope you go out of business due to
very poor customer support skills. I am going to return your products to
the store... and hopefully this will increase your costs and I hope many
people do the same. I will never buy anything from you again and we'll
shop for Linksys even if they are more expensive.

D-Link.. I hope people do not buy your products and I truely hope that you
lose some potential customers due to my posting of this bad experience on
the web. I wasted hours and you caused me stress and frustration and this
is my payback to you.

You need to put more resources on customer support. Your big volume of
phone calls must be due to bad products and support.
Hanging up on people like this is rude. You probably hire low paid tech
people who have no interest in providing any support and they are going
through the phone calls by disconnecting people.

John Dalberg
 
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Toolman Tim

John Dalberg said:
I have to say that D-Link the makers of routers and other network hardware
offers one of the worst tech support a company offers.
Yesterday I wasted two hours trying to get some help. I spoke with 4
different "tech" people who were totally useless, 3 of whom disconnected me
on purpose!!
Everytime I call in, I had to wait for at least 20 minutes before someone
answered. Their system can't tell you how long you'll be waiting.
You keep getting a message about their heavy volume of calls and yak yak
yak about their products nonstop ntil you're fed up with their pitches.
They need to improve thier phone system.

The first person took some information from me, I explained my problem..
tech person told me to hold .. ok.. then I was disconntected. I guess he
can't help!

Second support person told me that my D-Link DCS-900W wireless camera is
not a webcam and it's a security camera which can't be used over the web.
WHAT!!?? So I asked him what webcam camera can I use. He told me he doesn't
know and gave me a presales phone number. This is one clueless person that
D-Link hired. What kind of a tech person who doesn't know what his company
offers and his job is to support the products!!? I mean at least he should
know the wireless category of products because that's what I chose on the
phone system.

The third person was a female tech support. She took some info and when I
tried to explain my problem.. she rudely says WHAT!. Puts me on hold.. Then
I find out I am back in the waiting queue, WTF!!!!! Waited for another 20
minutes.. the fourth guy comes up.. here we go again.. the same
routine...asked me if I called before. These guys might have tagged me or
something in their database or something, so I said no I didn't call
before, they guys asks for my phone number so I give them my cell number
just to start fresh and the guy puts me on hold and I get disconnected. I
couldn't believe it. They did it again. At this point I AM FURIOUS. What's
going on is no coincedence.

These people lack the basic communications and technical skills to offer
proper help.

To D-LINK: You're an aweful company. I hope you go out of business due to
very poor customer support skills. I am going to return your products to
the store... and hopefully this will increase your costs and I hope many
people do the same. I will never buy anything from you again and we'll
shop for Linksys even if they are more expensive.

D-Link.. I hope people do not buy your products and I truely hope that you
lose some potential customers due to my posting of this bad experience on
the web. I wasted hours and you caused me stress and frustration and this
is my payback to you.

You need to put more resources on customer support. Your big volume of
phone calls must be due to bad products and support.
Hanging up on people like this is rude. You probably hire low paid tech
people who have no interest in providing any support and they are going
through the phone calls by disconnecting people.

John Dalberg


Gee, my experience with them was just the opposite. I had an RMA in moments,
and shipped my NIC in, had it back in about 2 weeks. Fixed. Still using it.
 
J

Jerry Polyak

John Dalberg said:
I have to say that D-Link the makers of routers and other network hardware
offers one of the worst tech support a company offers.
Yesterday I wasted two hours trying to get some help. I spoke with 4
different "tech" people who were totally useless, 3 of whom disconnected me
on purpose!!
Everytime I call in, I had to wait for at least 20 minutes before someone
answered. Their system can't tell you how long you'll be waiting.
You keep getting a message about their heavy volume of calls and yak yak
yak about their products nonstop ntil you're fed up with their pitches.
They need to improve thier phone system.

The first person took some information from me, I explained my problem..
tech person told me to hold .. ok.. then I was disconntected. I guess he
can't help!

Second support person told me that my D-Link DCS-900W wireless camera is
not a webcam and it's a security camera which can't be used over the web.
WHAT!!?? So I asked him what webcam camera can I use. He told me he doesn't
know and gave me a presales phone number. This is one clueless person that
D-Link hired. What kind of a tech person who doesn't know what his company
offers and his job is to support the products!!? I mean at least he should
know the wireless category of products because that's what I chose on the
phone system.

The third person was a female tech support. She took some info and when I
tried to explain my problem.. she rudely says WHAT!. Puts me on hold.. Then
I find out I am back in the waiting queue, WTF!!!!! Waited for another 20
minutes.. the fourth guy comes up.. here we go again.. the same
routine...asked me if I called before. These guys might have tagged me or
something in their database or something, so I said no I didn't call
before, they guys asks for my phone number so I give them my cell number
just to start fresh and the guy puts me on hold and I get disconnected. I
couldn't believe it. They did it again. At this point I AM FURIOUS. What's
going on is no coincedence.

These people lack the basic communications and technical skills to offer
proper help.

To D-LINK: You're an aweful company. I hope you go out of business due to
very poor customer support skills. I am going to return your products to
the store... and hopefully this will increase your costs and I hope many
people do the same. I will never buy anything from you again and we'll
shop for Linksys even if they are more expensive.

D-Link.. I hope people do not buy your products and I truely hope that you
lose some potential customers due to my posting of this bad experience on
the web. I wasted hours and you caused me stress and frustration and this
is my payback to you.

You need to put more resources on customer support. Your big volume of
phone calls must be due to bad products and support.
Hanging up on people like this is rude. You probably hire low paid tech
people who have no interest in providing any support and they are going
through the phone calls by disconnecting people.

John Dalberg

LOL!

Did these people have an accent strangely resembling the clerk's at your
local 7-11? Or was there a nice quite hum of the sitar for their on hold
music? Welcome to outsourced, over sees, good for nothing, pay them 1/8 of
what it should cost, Welcome to India leave our cows alone tech support
 
T

TT

Jerry said:
snip...

Did these people have an accent strangely resembling the clerk's at your
local 7-11? Or was there a nice quite hum of the sitar for their on hold
music? Welcome to outsourced, over sees, good for nothing, pay them 1/8 of
what it should cost, Welcome to India leave our cows alone tech support

You mean Welcome to India, the Al Quaeda alternative to Tech
support-and we will kill all Westerners through there Registry entries...
 
O

one_red_eye

John Dalberg said:
I have to say that D-Link the makers of routers and other network hardware
offers one of the worst tech support a company offers.
Yesterday I wasted two hours trying to get some help. I spoke with 4
different "tech" people who were totally useless, 3 of whom disconnected me
on purpose!!
Everytime I call in, I had to wait for at least 20 minutes before someone
answered. Their system can't tell you how long you'll be waiting.
You keep getting a message about their heavy volume of calls and yak yak
yak about their products nonstop ntil you're fed up with their pitches.
They need to improve thier phone system.

The first person took some information from me, I explained my problem..
tech person told me to hold .. ok.. then I was disconntected. I guess he
can't help!

Second support person told me that my D-Link DCS-900W wireless camera is
not a webcam and it's a security camera which can't be used over the web.
WHAT!!?? So I asked him what webcam camera can I use. He told me he doesn't
know and gave me a presales phone number. This is one clueless person that
D-Link hired. What kind of a tech person who doesn't know what his company
offers and his job is to support the products!!? I mean at least he should
know the wireless category of products because that's what I chose on the
phone system.

The third person was a female tech support. She took some info and when I
tried to explain my problem.. she rudely says WHAT!. Puts me on hold.. Then
I find out I am back in the waiting queue, WTF!!!!! Waited for another 20
minutes.. the fourth guy comes up.. here we go again.. the same
routine...asked me if I called before. These guys might have tagged me or
something in their database or something, so I said no I didn't call
before, they guys asks for my phone number so I give them my cell number
just to start fresh and the guy puts me on hold and I get disconnected. I
couldn't believe it. They did it again. At this point I AM FURIOUS. What's
going on is no coincedence.

These people lack the basic communications and technical skills to offer
proper help.

To D-LINK: You're an aweful company. I hope you go out of business due to
very poor customer support skills. I am going to return your products to
the store... and hopefully this will increase your costs and I hope many
people do the same. I will never buy anything from you again and we'll
shop for Linksys even if they are more expensive.

D-Link.. I hope people do not buy your products and I truely hope that you
lose some potential customers due to my posting of this bad experience on
the web. I wasted hours and you caused me stress and frustration and this
is my payback to you.

You need to put more resources on customer support. Your big volume of
phone calls must be due to bad products and support.
Hanging up on people like this is rude. You probably hire low paid tech
people who have no interest in providing any support and they are going
through the phone calls by disconnecting people.

John Dalberg

Netgear comes highly recomended.
 
V

*Vanguard*

"Toolman Tim" said in news:[email protected]:
Gee, my experience with them was just the opposite. I had an RMA in
moments, and shipped my NIC in, had it back in about 2 weeks. Fixed.
Still using it.

RMA'ing their products isn't more difficult than anywhere else. It's
getting tech support to fix their product WITHOUT returning it that
turns into a fruitless waste of time. Anytime I have ever asked them
anything by e-mail that requires even a newbie's level of intelligence
results in a canned response of "we're too stupid to answer your
question via e-mail and you will have to call our tech support". So
just who is opening their e-mails? Obviously tech support e-mails are
not getting read by their tech support folks; otherwise, they would have
proffered a real response right in the e-mail. I mean, when I asked to
to clarify their priority of the firewall rules in their router, their
response was "call us". Like I'm going to believe that they are so
extremely stupid when reading e-mails that suddenly they will become
intelligent when wasting my time on the phone with them. I have no
complaints about the quality of their products that I have used, but
their service is so horrendously anti-productive that I won't bother
with their stuff again.
 
A

Anon

I have had occasion to call D-Link support 3 times. Each time, the problem
was caused by my own ignorance, and each time I was impressed with their
patience and knowledge.

Al
 
W

Walter Roberson

:> I have to say that D-Link the makers of routers and other network hardware
:> offers one of the worst tech support a company offers.

:Netgear comes highly recomended.

Netgear has multiple product lines, some using newer technologies
than others, and some pretty much OEM'd instead of being developed
in-house. It seems to me that for the very new products using
OEM'd technologies, that one's support experience might end up
completely different than if one had been asking about one of
their older lines that they have more familiarity with.

I would suggest that anyone who is considering a Netgear product
that might be considered "expensive", that before ordering,
one ask careful questions of the potential vendor as to what
the return policies are, If those return policies involve
an RMA number to get a refund, then I would suggest that one further
ask where, hypothetically, the RMA number would have to come from
in order to get the refund, and I would suggest that one continue
up any chain of command until one finally reaches an organization
that is willing to say "Yes, we do issue RMA's for refunds on
that product, and here are the conditions under which we will do so."
You may perhaps find the conditions for a refund.... uh, "interesting".
 
A

Alan White

I think DLink provides good support.
It sounds to me as though you were cut off because of your own rudeness.
The racist comments about foreign workers is outrageous by those responding.
What a way to get the world to love us here in North America!!!
Take it easy, talk pleasantly and slowly and DLink will provide as good tech
support as any out there.

I think you complain too much.
 
T

Toolman Tim

Alan, thank you for your kind, rational comments...I too believe that North
America is a great place to live, but it is only one place in the world. And
this world we live in is filled with *people* - all kinds - all of which
deserve our respect.

Okay...I'm off my soapbox now <g>
 
M

Michael

I have to say that D-Link the makers of routers and other network
hardware offers one of the worst tech support a company offers.
Yesterday I wasted two hours trying to get some help. I spoke with 4
different "tech" people who were totally useless, 3 of whom
disconnected me on purpose!!
Everytime I call in, I had to wait for at least 20 minutes before
someone answered. Their system can't tell you how long you'll be
waiting. You keep getting a message about their heavy volume of calls
and yak yak yak about their products nonstop ntil you're fed up with
their pitches. They need to improve thier phone system.

The first person took some information from me, I explained my
problem.. tech person told me to hold .. ok.. then I was
disconntected. I guess he can't help!

Second support person told me that my D-Link DCS-900W wireless camera
is not a webcam and it's a security camera which can't be used over
the web. WHAT!!?? So I asked him what webcam camera can I use. He told
me he doesn't know and gave me a presales phone number. This is one
clueless person that D-Link hired. What kind of a tech person who
doesn't know what his company offers and his job is to support the
products!!? I mean at least he should know the wireless category of
products because that's what I chose on the phone system.

The third person was a female tech support. She took some info and
when I tried to explain my problem.. she rudely says WHAT!. Puts me on
hold.. Then I find out I am back in the waiting queue, WTF!!!!!
Waited for another 20 minutes.. the fourth guy comes up.. here we go
again.. the same routine...asked me if I called before. These guys
might have tagged me or something in their database or something, so I
said no I didn't call before, they guys asks for my phone number so I
give them my cell number just to start fresh and the guy puts me on
hold and I get disconnected. I couldn't believe it. They did it again.
At this point I AM FURIOUS. What's going on is no coincedence.

These people lack the basic communications and technical skills to
offer proper help.

To D-LINK: You're an aweful company. I hope you go out of business due
to very poor customer support skills. I am going to return your
products to the store... and hopefully this will increase your costs
and I hope many people do the same. I will never buy anything from
you again and we'll shop for Linksys even if they are more expensive.

D-Link.. I hope people do not buy your products and I truely hope that
you lose some potential customers due to my posting of this bad
experience on the web. I wasted hours and you caused me stress and
frustration and this is my payback to you.

You need to put more resources on customer support. Your big volume
of
phone calls must be due to bad products and support.
Hanging up on people like this is rude. You probably hire low paid
tech people who have no interest in providing any support and they are
going through the phone calls by disconnecting people.

John Dalberg

Linksys also has a very fragile support structure.
I called them about my Linksys firmware and after three
days I am still left without it.

They have a multi level support system where the 1st level
who you originally talks to only seems to be a receptionist.

I would NOT call their 1st level, Technical Support.
It irks me to see such a large subsidery company have a lanky
technical support.

Linksys Technical Support doesn't seem to have a decent database
either that or the tech support reps were too lazy to put my cases
into the database.

I am amazed at how critical intervewiers are when applying for Tech jobs,
yet to find people like this on the other end.

This was just my experience., sheesh

Michael
 
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Malcolm Knight

Netgear comes highly recomended.

I have just binned a week old Netgear DSL router because I found no way to
get it working and neither could their Indian support centre. They blamed my
ISP for the setup Wizard failing, but it's been (and is) OK with Draytec and
Siemens routers.

Only difference to Dl-Lnk is that they answered the phone immediately the
two times I called.
-
Malcolm
 
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The OTHER Kevin in San Diego

I have just binned a week old Netgear DSL router because I found no way to
get it working and neither could their Indian support centre. They blamed my
ISP for the setup Wizard failing, but it's been (and is) OK with Draytec and
Siemens routers.

Only difference to Dl-Lnk is that they answered the phone immediately the
two times I called.
-
Malcolm

Not sure if you can do this, but have you tried reflashing the
firmware? Several months ago, I had a Linksys BEFSR41 go nutty on me
and Linksys tech support basically told me to go buy a new one. For
giggles, I "upgraded" the firmware and it's been working ever since.
Might be worth a shot.
 

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