My friend of a friend is thinking on buying a Fairphone, but he’ve heard that apparently their support is kinda bad.

What is your opinion on this? Is it true?

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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    6 hours ago

    I wrote them once because one of the plastic clips on the back cover of my FP5 broke off.

    I got a response after 3 days and a replacement part 2 days later. So pretty decent I would say.

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    18 hours ago

    I used to work on a support desk for a big company. I had a bunch of friends in similar roles at other companies. Fun fact: there are no good support desks. The incentives are all skewed. If a support desk makes the customer happy, it’s giving refunds out. If it’s giving refunds out, it’s costing the company money. If it’s costing the company money, someone in finance or accounting will “fix the problem.” In the case of my company, the fix was: 6 minutes per call, no more. Every call is a sales opportunity, no exceptions. So, people would call in with big, complicated problems, and before I was allowed to help them, I had to try to sell them shit, which pissed them off, got them ranting. This ran out the clock, so then we “accidentally” disconnected. Leather, rinse, repeat. Now, my company sucked, but even the best companies need to limit churn and refunds and deal with a lot of entitled assholes on the support line, so it’s never going to be a great time.

  • HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    I’ve spoken to them twice, no issues and very happy with the service both times.

    First time was due to a website bug when the FP4 was released and 16 orders went through and were charged to my card. All cancelled and refunded with no delays.

    Second time was due to an issue with a fairbud, which had to be sent away for repair, and again was very easy.