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September 2, 2014
Question

Can adobe customer service be less helpful?

  • September 2, 2014
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This is what happened when I went to adobe for assistance with my account.


Thank you for contacting Adobe.
A representative will be with you shortly.

Thank you for your patience.

While you wait, you can try our community forums where experts are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are still assisting other customers, thank you for your patience. You can also try ourcommunity forums, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are still assisting other customers, thank you for your patience. You can also try ourcommunity forums, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are still assisting other customers, thank you for your patience. You can also try ourcommunity forums, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are still assisting other customers, thank you for your patience. You can also try ourcommunity forums, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are still assisting other customers, thank you for your patience. You can also try ourcommunity forums, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are still assisting other customers, thank you for your patience. You can also try ourcommunity forums, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are still assisting other customers, thank you for your patience. You can also try ourcommunity forums, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

You are now chatting with Abhinav.

Abhinav: Hello! Welcome to Adobe Customer Service.

Abhinav: Please allow me a moment to search for the information.

Abhinav: We have not heard from you for some time.  Do you wish to continue to chat?

Abhinav: You can go ahead and purchase Acrobat pro.

Abhinav: Since we have not heard from you for some time, we will now end this chat.  Please click to chat with us again if we can be of further assistance.

William Terrance: You have never heard from me before


I had been waiting, went to check on other stuff while periodically checking back on the computer, then was told that it too ME too long to get back to them. The last line from Abhinav came through AS I was typing my response.

Furthermore, I have never contacted adobe before, I am a new customer.The third line really confused me, "We have not heard from you in some time." Hence my initial response that I have never contacted them, why would Abhinav have expected me to have been heard from ever?

I realized when the second post regarding my lack of rapidity responding that Abhinav apparently expected that my response time would be light years faster than Adobe's.


I know that Adobe has representatives on this forum. I hope this example can be used in some type of training that allows people, who have been waiting for a while, a goodly amount of time to respond. Perhaps I am distracted by the forums or have gone to clean some dishes...poor show.


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    2 replies

    Participant
    October 21, 2014

    You are lucky. I don't even get to CHAT

    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    October 21, 2014

    bagtay wrote:

    You are lucky. I don't even get to CHAT

    If you want any assistance with Adobe products, then your best bet is to use these forums.  You are very likely to get help here then anywhere else unless, of course, the problem relates to payment and other Adobe account queries.

    These forums are very active when it comes to providing solutions to something you want to do in Adobe products.

    Phillip M  Jones
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2014

    You'd be wrong. It would be surprising if other than the person eventually in charge of all the forums might be a Adobe employee. Other than him/her, I is my doubt if adobe even knows that these forums exist.

    The reason it took you so long to connect is, all phone and Chat support is done from India. From people that barely know how to speak English. Typically they are give scripts to read and they scan over their notes  and pick out one, or two that may fix you issue. If the notes they read don't help you situation you get a song and dance routine, noting they will escalate to a higher power most of the time it forgotten.

    These are User to User to Forums and odds are you will get help, more help, and better help, from the volunteers here, than from the so called support. But don't get angry. Many software and computer companies with the notable exception of Apple doing almost the same thing. Sadly Adobe and Intuit vie for last place for support. Sometimes Intuit ranks better. I have several Adobe products, Acrobat, Reader, Photoshop 5.5, Latest Photoshop Express, Lightroom 5, DreamWeaver 5.5 and others. Yet I get most help fro these forums Most of the time I fly by seat of my pants, as being a Mac User, I get little support. (Turns out I know more than most and I from time to time answer Mac adobe product questions.)

    pwillener
    Legend
    September 3, 2014

    Phillip Jones wrote:

    From people that barely know how to speak English.

    There is no reason to be insulting!  I have used Adobe chat support a number of times, and I never had any difficulties

    1. being understood
    2. understanding the answers given

    The reason why the o/p's chat session was terminated is that s/he never replied to any of the prompts given by the agent, e.g. "We have not heard from you for some time.  Do you wish to continue to chat?" - a simple "yes" would have been enough.  I do not even know if these prompts (and the decision to end the session) are done by the agent himself, or by the chat software.

    Phillip M  Jones
    Inspiring
    September 3, 2014

    Well you've been lucky. Sorry if I seemed insulting.  My experiences have been the opposite. And its not just Adobe, it other companies as well. I know some people from Poland that have very heavy Polish accents (they run a Local Hot Dog place). I Know two Austrian Women through their husbands. One ran a Key and Lock Shop locally, and the other, her and her husband ran a TV shop. Sometimes I would visit the people that ran TV shop. Both had heavy accents. The one that ran the TV shop we would go somewhere to eat and I would end up telling servers what she wanted. Because they couldn't understand her accent. So its not like I can't deal with accents. But the ones I ran into on phones.  Even I couldn't understand after trying to get across two simple sentences after 20 minutes I gave up.

    As I said Adobe is not the only company doing this. I don't care who is manning the phones. They could be Martians. I am not prejudiced, wasn't brought up that way. And, when I worked for school system I got along with all. But companies before putting people on line should teach fluency the the language of the people they would be serving and should require them to take and pass diction classes, before they would be allowed to take up a Phone.  Sorry for my cynicism.