Dear Fido,
I am so deeply disturbed and profoundly aghast at your blatant disregard for a customer’s safety and peace of mind. I am referring to a post made by an S.S. yesterday on Fido’s Facebook Page regarding the level of customer service (rather the lack thereof) she received when she called Fido in distress because of a malfunctioning device that would perhaps, if not caught early enough, caused a building fire and further damages that Fido will have to shoulder.
First, asking the customer to go to a Fido Kiosk or a Fido Store is a mistake. You all know that personnel inside the store or manning the kiosk is more than powerless to deal with customer issues as most decisions are made within the head office. If the first person who responded to the call is indeed a manager, then she should be reprimanded and removed from her post. Her superiors must issue an apology to the customer for not only her attitude toward the incident but also the excess trauma this have already caused the customer with regards to poor human relations and the safety and reliability of technology.
You may claim that the issue rests with Samsung as Samsung is the manufacturer of the Galaxy S4. However, may I point out that Fido is the retailer of the mobile device and is the final point of sale of the device. Hence, Fido has to answer.
Whether the device in question is still under warranty or not is irrelevant to this incident. This incident may have well caused a multi-building fire in downtown Vancouver because of an overheating device that melted the charging port. Will you answer to the countless lives and properties lost if such a scenario were to occur because of your negligence of the malfunctioning device?
A melting charging port is not caused by the battery, it is caused by the charging mechanism within the device itself, maybe it be hardware, software or both.
As a service provider, will you continue charging the customer fees for services availed that are not used because of a device that nearly caught fire? Isn’t this an unfair practice?
Fact: the device malfunctioned and nearly caused a fire.
Fact: The cause is not because of customer negligence.
Fact: this has happened before to the Galaxy S4
Fact: Fido is the retailer of said mobile device and mobile services
Since the dawn of Fido, I have been a loyal customer. Our relationship has had many ups and downs. On issues that were not resolved by your highest office in the call centers, I have received apologies and solutions from the offices of the Vice President and the President.
Fido used to be a customer-centric service provider before Rogers Wireless purchased the company. Will you let the new ownership tarnish your image of being a community-caring company? Or are you just concerned about the bottom line? Milk the customer for the most money without any concern for their well-being while using your products and services?
With a world tuned-in to every social aspect and public image of a company, Fido may as well be pointed to as a company that does not have any empathy for its clients, a company that has caused incidents that have caused fires and accidents, a company that does not stand behind their products and services.
I highly suggest that you forward this message to your highest office and issue an apology to the customer who posted about her distress, then issue her an phone at par with her Galaxy S4 free of charge that will not cause her further trauma with the Samsung brand, and offer her some sort of compensation for all the trouble and trauma she has experienced both with Fido and Samsung.
With this post, I hope you correct yourselves and better train your personnel to be more human, with better listening skills and abilities to resolve issues. If an issue cannot be resolved by Level 1 CSRs, then pass it on to a higher CSR until it is satisfactorily resolved to the agreement of both parties.
You don’t want this to be a court case of Queen v.s. Fido? No? The cost of a lawsuit would outweigh the cost of what you can do for this girl? No?
Please… be human! Please… be a responsible company!
Hi childoftheworld. As you can see in the picture you posted, we have reached out to the customer and are still waiting for her to send us a private message with her information so we can tresolve this situation. We have Different solutions for her which can only be discussed with her.
We understand and appreciate your concern for our customer and we take this situation very seriously.
We can only discuss the issue as well as the solutions with the customer and have already reached out to her and her family to resolve this. We unfortunately cannot discuss this issue further on this forum since it concerns a different customer and their information.
