Tech Support Has Its Price
from the incentive-to-suck dept
More and more often technology companies are charging for tech support (NYT registration blah blah). They claim that this is the only way they can stay competitive, because otherwise tech support calls are draining all of their profit margin. They also say that studies have shown most customers prefer cheaper products over more expensive products that have the price of support "built in". There are a few problems with these justifications. First, it's not clear the price of the products have been dropping. More importantly, the companies that are charging for tech support are charging ridiculous fees - meaning they now have incentive to produce a poorly built product. They can now make more money on all those phone calls to tech support. Also, having had very few tech support calls that have gone well, I would be furious having to pay $30 or so to talk to some nitwit who knows less than I do about a problem. I can certainly understand that there are some moronic users out there who waste company resources - but cutting off legitimate issues unless people pay seems dangerous. It makes it much more likely that I will avoid doing business with such a company since they clearly don't believe their own product works well enough to support it with free tech support.
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it could work nevertheless
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problem with paid tech support...
and if EVERYONE does it...or they have a monopoly...or we got suckered...then boom...crappy products that generate profits for the company.
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