KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to KrK
Re: Does This Make Union Employees Happier? investors love contractors because they save money. listen to calls from customers wanting service in the cable industry and they will ask many times for an in house tech and not one of those contractors again.
says lots about contractor work.
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | said by Kearnstd:investors love contractors because they save money. It always comes down to the bottom line. Every industry would love to either contract out, or offshore the work for less, even if they know the quality is poor.
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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| Exactly.... and in an anti-competitive enviornment, they can get away with the lower cost/poorer service. When people have few or many no other options, well, they may not like being shafted, but they have to take it anyway.
However, if competition is widespread, they cannot afford poor quality service. They lose customers. When you see AT&T making moves like this they are basically saying "We don't care, we know it won't harm us."
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 jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL
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| said by KrK:However, if competition is widespread, they cannot afford poor quality service. They lose customers. When you see AT&T making moves like this they are basically saying "We don't care, we know it won't harm us." Your analysis is outdated. Companies learned long ago that it isn't worth spending the money to keep all customers happy -- it's better to just let them leave. Because, the competition is doing exactly the same thing, so by default some of those unhappy customers will end up back at the first company. It's the natural evolution of the marketplace.
Mobile phone providers have been demonstrating this for years (most notably when Sprint fired their customers who were being a pain in the ass). Churn is fine as long as it's spread across the market; everyone loses some but gains some back from the competition too.
The customer is not always right.
Some customers are not worth keeping. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | The problem is they don't have to try at all. Don't like Tech Support in India? Tough... |
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