Customer Support Complaints

This cluster centers on complaints about poor or nonexistent customer support from tech companies and SaaS providers, where paying customers struggle to get help without publicizing issues on platforms like HN or Twitter.

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vb-8448 • May 14, 2025 • View on HN

So you need someone on HN to get hit by your post to get a decent customer support?!?

Rob1979 • Feb 15, 2011 • View on HN

I thought this goes against 37signals advice to get actual real people doing customer support?

nnurmanov • Feb 16, 2023 • View on HN

I used to work for a big enterprise software company and believe me, their support is the same. Unless the issue is highly escalated, there is no way that the support engineers pay enough attention to it. I used to say, that the best customer is the customer who knows the answer. You are all by yourself most of the time:) But you have to pay support fees without any delays.

api • Sep 17, 2023 • View on HN

It sounds like the typical thing of these companies having no customer support unless you are a big fish.

Genmutant • Sep 12, 2014 • View on HN

It's not about free support, but the ability to contact them at all.

bphogan • Feb 12, 2016 • View on HN

I would very much be surprised.Some personal examples:For years I've worked with Microsoft products. The company I worked for paid big bucks for Microsoft enterprise support. Tried to use many times, always same results. "We'll send this to engineering." Never a response.Same with Apple. Bought an iMac that repeatedly ejected USB disks. Known issue. Apple support forums have hundreds of unanswered, unresolved threads on this issue. Yet Apple support had "never

IsmaOlvey • Oct 24, 2016 • View on HN

Anyone have any experiences with their support?

cal85 • May 14, 2022 • View on HN

I’m a paying customer. They do not like to provide support.

fakedang • Oct 22, 2020 • View on HN

To be expected of a company where you get better support from their cloud service employees on reddit rather than on their actual website or emails.

magic_man • Jul 30, 2023 • View on HN

Who exactly do you trust. Seems like none of the big tech companies provide much customer service