{"id":6276,"date":"2008-03-06T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2008\/03\/not-really-a-canon-update\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T08:25:00","slug":"not-really-a-canon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/03\/06\/not-really-a-canon-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Not really a Canon update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you say about Canon and Canon products and services, taking a week to not answer an email of complaint\/support request is indefensible. I sent my email last Thursday. So far, I&#8217;ve had nothing more than an automated &quot;we&#8217;ve had your email, here&#8217;s a reference number&quot; response.<\/p>\n<p>The impression I&#8217;ve received so far from Canon is that any problem with their product must be the result of something I&#8217;ve done wrong or a problem with another (third party) piece of hardware\/software that I&#8217;ve installed. The possibility that the problem could be with their product or software does not seem to have occurred to them or even be part of their psyche.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, surely if a customer has a problem (and thinking about what I was taught in college by the CIM), the first thing you do is bend over backwards to help your client in order to retain that customer and turn them into a corporate ambassador (people tend to remember problems that were solved quickly and helpfully more than things that went right in the first place) and also to identify a potential product fault and rectify it in a future product revision (perhaps by issuing a software\/firmware patch in this case, or at least by giving support staff information to help them identify a similar problem with another customer).<\/p>\n<p>But this doesn&#8217;t seem to be part of the Canon culture, based on my experience from the three tech support people that I&#8217;ve spoken to and my use of tech support areas of their website.<\/p>\n<p>And it is this, even more than the failure of the product itself, that irks me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you say about Canon and Canon products and services, taking a week to not answer an email of complaint\/support request is indefensible. I sent my email last Thursday. So far, I&#8217;ve had nothing more than an automated &quot;we&#8217;ve had your email, here&#8217;s a reference number&quot; response. The impression I&#8217;ve received so far from Canon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}