Oh (d)Hell…

Dell hell comes to an end…

My Dell Hell has come to an end. The outcome is not entirely what I had hoped for, but at least the issue has been resolved and I understand what has beeng going on. Thanks to John who took the time to follow through and look at the information that I had posted on this …

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Dell Hell Ireland (and other flavours) on Google

So for shits and giggles I decided to google Dell Hell and Ireland. (The wife is out for the night, I’m bored, it seemed like a good idea at the time). http://www.google.ie/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLF_en-GBIE226IE228&q=dell+hell+ireland To increase the sample size, I removed the reference to “Ireland” and instead googled for “Dell Hell Information Quality”… frack me, there I …

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Dell Hell – a slight return

It was announced yesterday that Dell are cutting 100 jobs in Ireland. Hmmmm… Dell is a company in trouble that is desperately trying to reinvent itself. However, my experience is that Dell is a company that is also deluding itself and incurring potentially large amounts of avoidable costs through poor management of processes and poor …

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What the Dell… an actual response… from a human!!

What are the odds? In the week that scientists tell us they have discovered a planet that might support alien life, I got a response from a live person in Dell. And not in their off-shored outsourced Call Centre neither… this one was from ‘Dell Central’. Rick (for that is his name) reached out to …

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Another example of Dell not connecting the dots

The Register has this story about a fault in Dell Laptops. What is interesting about the problem is that it seems to expose some ‘failures’ in the passing of information internally within Dell, not least about their Direct2Dell website. Some interesting comments are made about UK trading standards. I’m hoping to have a post up …

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Oh Dell (the return)

The DVD drive on my Dell laptop failed (again) over the weekend so I requested a replacement as per their warranty. The technician requested my address and an alternate delivery address and also asked for details of my availablility over the 48hr period from Tuesday. I provided my home address (Wexford) and the address of …

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Oh D(H)ell… a slight reprise

got this email from Dell yesterday Dear Valued Customer, Thank you for contacting Dell Customer Care on 27/03/2007 with a question or need for Dell. We appreciate the opportunity to assist you and are interested in your feedback concerning our performance. Dell has asked TNS Prognostics, a customer satisfaction research company in the IT industry, …

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Oh D(h)ell… an update

Dell Technician came to my office today. This was after a techie had called to my home last Thursday. When I was in London presenting at an Information Quality conference (does 2 speaking slots count as a keynote?). The fact that I was going to be away had been clearly communicated to Dell’s support people …

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Oh (d)Hell, here we go again…

So, prompt and efficient, Dell Post-Sales Customer Support shipped me the graphics card for my laptop -the one they should have put in while it was still in the factory. It arrived this morning at 11:00am as promised. It was shipped from their factory in Limerick – a city and County I know well. About …

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