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OK I have had just about all I can take of the outsourced support.

I seriously tried to give these guys the benefit of the doubt... but seriously... There is a major communication barrier when your support goes to non english speakers. They just aren't customer oriented or understand the demands/needs of the american consumer like another american would. Not to mention the fact that by agreeing to this I am supporting another company who is outsourcing jobs... My job could be next one day.

Besides all of that I am completely dis-satisfied with the support I have received from Dell. I have to call several times before I find someone reasonably competent to speak to. On top of that.. each and every time an indian or south american call center answers the phone... the tech takes FOREVER to look up my account info. I swaer.. just to check simple things like the status of a service call it takes about 20 minutes on the phone with the tech. I just don't have that kind of time.

Does anyone else here feel similar?

A.F.
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You get good techs and you get bad techs. It is kind of unfair to generalise that all Indian or South American techs can't do this or that or take too long. Myself for example, I called up yesterday to arrange a service call to replace my video card and it was totally painless. I spoke to a very polite Indian woman who looked up my system prompty, listened to my troubleshooting patiently and offered a few suggestions... after none were successful she transferred me back to someone in Australia to arrange the service call.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is don't generalise and label them all generically.
But one point I do agree fully with you on.... tech support in recent years has fallen far from its once lofty perch. This is due to more reliance on scripted responses and less rigorous training of personnel I suppose, so it is luck of the draw sometimes whether you get a good tech or a bad tech regardless of origon.
stu
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OK I have had just about all I can take of the outsourced support.
I am compleatly with you on this, and i dont think i am over generilizeing. All of the indians i have talked to have been extremely polite and nice people, they are just several thousand miles away from anyone who can actually help me. Unless it is the sort of question you can answer your self at the dell website, they flat out will not be able to help.
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