All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Does honor still exist when a host makes a mistake?
I recently signed up with a new provider to send a storage server to. I initially signed up for a single package at norm. price. I submitted a ticket after ordering with a couple questions which they never followed up in over 48H, so I gave them a ring. Upon talking to someone on the phone and being assured this isn't the normal procedure I paid the invoice and looked at what my expansion options were for pricing through the WHM.
Well, when I was playing around with the numbers I found a 49% off coupon listed on their site. I decided to use it, and order a couple more packages. I still kept my initial order in there and had no plans to cancel it. I was informed by their support that I could combine these packages with no problem. OK.
I paid the orders and submitted the ticket to have the packages combined when I woke up the following morning. I did not receive a response until the middle of the night by someone who clearly didn't speak much english, and also didn't do anything I requested. (invoices were also showing as not paid causing me to get spam daily.) At this point, I was over the company already and ready to cancel regardless of the price.
I reached out to a couple members on WHT through skype who seemed eager to fix the problem, and fed me everything I wanted to hear. From there I was told that I couldn't combine my packages, that my pricing wouldn't work, and that the coupon I used wasn't for colocation (it actually is under colo).
I don't really care that it didn't happen. The coupon is still online and working. With support / pre-sales that bad I am far better off but, it also made me wonder. How would most providers handle a situation like this?
Comments
Well I would hold up the honor system as if I gave you my word on some promotion or something I will keep it as I am a honest provider.
Name and shame? Did you ask for a refund?
Decent providers honour mistakes they have made, but if you are going cheap then you get what you pay for :P but yeah most decent providers will.
Bad customer service aside mistakes can and will happen. Honouring that mistake very much depends on the impact to the provider. If it means a smaller but manageable margin many would be ok with that, if it means they have to put money in to break even then probably not.
A gesture at least would be appropriate if it's a case of the latter over the former.
As Lee said there is a line, personally I would work you out a deal even if that meant a loss for a period of time, if it meant a permanent recurring loss then I would try to work something else out as obviously that is not practical.
I would rather make a loss for a few months to keep a customer for a few years than refuse to compromise if the mistake was mine.
I agree with @AnthonySmith that is the right thing to do.
You could still give a fixed amount off (it can be small) on a future order as compensation for the mistake. Rather it would be nice if you did.
That is what I was implying yes.