Comcast To Customer: Pay Us $0.00 Or We’ll Cancel Your Service

A Reddit reader has received this letter from Comcast informing him that his account is currently delinquent and that his service will be cancelled if he does not pay the amount owed. The only trouble? The amount owed is $0.00.


July 15, 2010

Apple Making Minor Changes To The Genius Bar

According to MacRumors, Apple is looking to make some minor changes to their Genius Bar. The focus will be on an active queue management, employee multitasking and performing more overnight repairs.


July 13, 2010
Mobile

You Are Not Your Phone

Is there anything the typifies the sybaritic complacency of the consumer than feeling personally slighted when somebody criticises your phone? Put away your slings and arrows, mailroom pundits, and remember these fuckers work for us.


June 23, 2010

An Open Letter To AT&T: Why Are All Your Representatives Powerless?

No matter how kind and understanding some customer service representatives can be about whatever issues you bring to them, in the end their companies limit what they may do to help. A reader’s troubles reminded us of just that.


May 28, 2010

Dissatisfied AT&T Customer Shoots AT&T Store Employee

An “irate” AT&T customer went into an AT&T store and shot one of the employees. The employee is in surgery now, but the suspect was shot by an off-duty police officer who was already at the scene.


May 15, 2010

Whatever You Do, Don’t Use Apple Support This Weekend

Basically all of Apple’s support servers will be offline this weekend, so “customer support will be limited to basic troubleshooting,” according to an internal memo. So avoid all forms of Apple tech support, from Apple Stores to Authorised Service Providers.


April 22, 2010
Mobile

Nexus One Bugs No Longer Of Interest To Google

Start pricing up HTC’s Desire or Incredible, Nexus One owners, as Google has put down its hammer and announced “we are no longer investigating further engineering improvements”. You’re stuck with those bugs for good.


April 7, 2010
Computing

Apple Store Goes CODE RED After MacBook Pro Request

Well, what to make of this? A man walks into an Apple Store in Santa Monica, asks for a 2.66GHz MacBook Pro, and suddenly security gets thrown into HIGH ALERT. Beware the “forerunner”, my friends.


March 17, 2010
Computing

JooJoo’s Refunds Smell Awfully Fishy

After the lawsuits and delays, this reader’s experience – asking for a refund – truly puts JooJoo’s reputation on the line. It feels written by a Nigerian scammer, rather than customer support. Here’s their whole email exchange. You’ll be the judge.


February 26, 2010
Geek Out

UPS: Getting Your Packages Into The Bin On Time Or Your Money Back

I’m pretty sure BSMT GARBAGECAN is not where this package was intended to be delivered. But hey, UPS delivered it, and that’s all that counts, I guess.