Skype's New CEO "Interview" - He Still Doesn't Get It!

Editor's Comments:  Good read, I love it when people take crusade against bad customer service.   With us being part of this free market economy you really have two options, vote with your dollars (or euro if your into that) or take up the issues and not let the corporation get away with bad service and not hear what you have to say.  Sometimes is takes a blog post, phone call or letter but make sure you get through to someone who can do something. 

Skype has just published a so-called "interview" with their new CEO. First, rather than face the press and public, and possibly have to answer some hard questions from people who have (miserable) experience with Skype, he chose to hide behind a pseudo-interview with his own publicity manager. Second, even with every softball question possible being served up to him, it is obvious that he still doesn't get it.
 

The biggest problem with Skype today is their disgraceful "Customer Support". It is not simply lacking, it's worse than that, it's counter-productive.
 
When someone is trying to set up or use Skype to talk to loved ones who are far away, to show Grandma the new baby, or to conduct important business, and it doesn't work (which happens all too often), first, they want to be able to contact Customer Support quickly and easily.
 
Not through some obscure web page, which even makes it difficult to submit a help request, but by telephone, or at the very least by email. They want a response in a reasonable amount of time - and that is measured in hours, not days or weeks - and they want a response that is intelligent and has the potential to solve their problem, not something that is so patently ridiculous that they either laugh or cry over it.

The second problem that absolutely must be solved at Skype is their habit of blocking users' accounts for no apparent reason (supposedly for the users own protection), and then taking days, weeks or even months to answer pleas for help and explanation.
 
 

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