Where can I file a formal complaint about bad tech support

[andy64]

the support rep, "Ken" refused to tell me where I could file that complaint

[ngufra]

the support rep, "Ken" refused to tell me where I could file that complaint

You could call 611 again and ask the person answering --probably not Ken-- about where to file your complaint.

[dane]

You could email support@sonic.net and ask that a supervisor review your message.

[andy64]

Dane, I think you are the CEO. I've been a customer since 2002, that's 20 years. The last 2 years of interaction with Sonic support have been universally horrible. Horrible. In the 18 years previous, they were all wonderful. Has the company been sold to someone else? Has it gotten so big that you don't have quality control anymore/ or enough training? I would have already left except it takes so much time to switch everything over. I'm profoundly disappointed.

[ec]

Hi Andy -

I'm sorry we disappointed you yesterday.

In all truth, I think you are feeling dissatisfied with our support because our focus has changed.

Wordpress has never been formally supported, but in the past we had people on staff that had some personal experience that could give informal suggestions and would bend the rules by providing some phone support.

Today, we are completely focused on access products, and the people we have on staff generally have no personal experience with Hosting, or Wordpress.

The complaint process was a miscommunication, and I apologize for that. My rep thought you were appealing for a higher level of support with the Wordpress problem, which is not supported, and that is why he sent you here. He did not understand that you only wished to file a formal complaint regarding the lack of support.

We can still provide support, but it's best to email support@sonic.net so we can assign the ticket to the right resource.

Thank you,

- Eli Caul

Director of Customer Care
Sonic.net, Inc

[andy64]

Eli, I really don't have a lot of time to deal with internal managememnt issues at Sonic. Your analysis is incorrect. Please go back and LISTEN to my convo with your rep. "calls are recorded." The guy was clearly either a. stonewalling or b. not that good at following very very basic logical trains of thought. I have spent decades as a teacher, both in ESL settings and as an instructor (of computers) in a homeless services center, where clients came in with multiple diagnoses of mental illness and were often drunk or high. I am extremely good at making things clear. I was utterly unable to and wasted 30-45 mintutes of time. Again, listen to that call. When I asked where I could lodge a complaint, how could I speak to a supervisor, which I did at least three and as many as five times, he just told me to go to this forum. It was not a miscommunication. I have been a client of sonic since 2002, that's 20 years. and I always stayed with you because phone support was smart and accurate and helpful. 2-3 years ago, that started going steeply downhill, but that call I'm referencing was literally the worst ever, by a power of ten. Don't write back to me please, I've got other stuff to do, but please clean up the mess. I'll be leaving sonic just as soon as I can make the time, but for other customers' sake, go back to how you used ot hire and train tech support.

[dsw]

I just had a similar very bad experience with customer support.

I have a server in the basement of the house of a friend of mine. It has always had a static IP address so I can log into it using ssh from my home. We both have Sonic. You are moving him to fiber, so my machine will no longer have an externally-visible static IP address. This is a problem for me.

About 3 days ago, I called your customer support a few days ago and I was told that he could configure his router using "IP passthrough" and that would continue to me to use static IP.

My friend expressed skepticism about this and so I called back the next day and the second customer support rep said that would not work and I would have to use dynamic DNS, which turned out to be correct. I complained that the first person had given me the wrong answer. He said he would look into that and into any other options I might have and call me back. He never did.

I called a third time and asked about having dynamic DNS set up. I was told that Sonic does not provide this service (you in fact do provide this service: https://public-api.sonic.net/dyndns ). He suggested that my friend could call me on the phone every time my IP address changes. I started yelling at him, saying that this is not a competent thing to say to a customer, as it is not. He asked me why I was being "aggressive". I pointed out that I am not being aggressive, his response is not competent and I hung up.

I recommend you listen to all of those calls; why are you recording them otherwise?

(1) I agree with the other poster on this thread: your customer service has gone way downhill from the past.

(2) You need a way for us to report these problems that we KNOW has NO chance of going to the original person about whom we are complaining. They could spy on our email or do who knows what to us.

(3) It is not our job to deal with internal incompetence at Sonic. We are PAYING YOU. You fix it.

[amayfield]

Thank you for the feedback, we'll be reviewing your recent interactions with our support team to identify any training opportunities and take action where necessary.

Regarding your specific issue, I'm sorry our support team wasn't consistent in providing guidance there. Echoing what Eli talked about earlier in this thread - what you've been asking about isn't strictly supported, which means our team isn't trained on it. We do give our representatives the agency to attempt to assist folks with unsupported issues, though we ask they communicate when an issue is unsupported. That is something we will be looking out for when we review these interactions.

If you are curious about what does fall under the umbrella of support you can find that on our knowledgebase here - https://help.sonic.com/hc/en-us/article ... ort_policy

I would ask you refrain from yelling at our representatives. It is understandable to be frustrated and to vent those frustrations but we ask that interactions with our support team remain courteous.

Thanks again for the feedback, it's appreciated.