Archive for August 12th, 2008

$100 Fine for Bad Customer Service »

I've written about good customer service in the past, highlighting my excellent experience with L.L. Bean. I've postulated that quality customer service is actually free, because the incremental sales more than make up for "excessive" talk time and refunds/credits granted by your customer service representatives. Here's a trivially-observed example of what lousy customer service will cost you. In this example, from Verizon, it's a minimum of $100.