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    <title>topic VAIO support - world's worst? in PCs &amp; Accessories</title>
    <link>https://community.sony.at/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-support-world-s-worst/m-p/217716#M42057</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi godonnell,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I believe a repair has been arranged for your Vaio, I hope all goes well..:smileyhappy:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:17:12 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Thalamus.</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2011-05-12T19:17:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VAIO support - world's worst?</title>
      <link>https://community.sony.at/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-support-world-s-worst/m-p/217714#M42056</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; PADDING-RIGHT: 8px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; PADDING-TOP: 8px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;Definitely the worst customer service I’ve ever come across, in my lifetime, with any company.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;Sony repaired my Vaio in December 2010, but when I got the laptop back after 6 weeks, it rebooted every time I touched the the right-hand half of the casing.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;Support offered to collect the machine and rectify the problem, but I refused as I expected another 6 week delay, and I needed the machine to work.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;I begged support to send me a technician instead and suggested if the problem was my fault, I’d pay the cost of the call-out, otherwise Sony would pay.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;Sony support refused.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;I tried again a month ago – Sony collected the machine, telling me I’d have it back within 10 working days, but I would need to pay for the repair of the repair.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;3 weeks later, a courier returned the machine - nothing fixed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;I got an email asking me to send the problem details to support again to arrange ANOTHER courier to collect it and send it to the repair centre.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;Why didn’t Sony support send it directly to the repair centre? Why keep it for 3 weeks and do nothing?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;So, still no resolution to the problem. The machine is unusable since the repair in December 2010, for which I paid Sony €900.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;I’m €900 lighter, and my machine has travelled the globe in order to come back to me in the same state it has been in since December 2010.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;If Sony cares about its customer base, it needs to improve how the VAIO support desk deals with mishandled repairs.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"&gt;Update 26/5/2011: Got the laptop back from Sony, motherboard replaced again, no charge.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Case numbers: 590152, 392034, 5142340, 346840, 379766.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Message was edited by: godonnell&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 12:41:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.sony.at/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-support-world-s-worst/m-p/217714#M42056</guid>
      <dc:creator>godonnell</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-05-26T12:41:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VAIO support - world's worst?</title>
      <link>https://community.sony.at/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-support-world-s-worst/m-p/217716#M42057</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi godonnell,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I believe a repair has been arranged for your Vaio, I hope all goes well..:smileyhappy:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:17:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.sony.at/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-support-world-s-worst/m-p/217716#M42057</guid>
      <dc:creator>Thalamus.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-05-12T19:17:12Z</dc:date>
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