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I know it is the holiday season but I was wondering what the typical response time to a helpdesk ticket is? Basically, my Rifter 68 was not in the mailer that was sent to me so I submitted a ticket on the 27th.

Not sure if they are off this week or not so I thought I would check what other's have experienced.

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Just call the offices.
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Yeah like Josh said. Give them a call and Palladium will take good care of you.
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I have a ticket open since Oct 9th with no response and a second from 15th of Nov with no response so evidence would suggest they either ignore certain tickets or the wait time is approximately 2 months at the moment.
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Thanks for the info. I called and they were friendly and helpful and should be sending out a replacement soon.
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agent_orange wrote:I have a ticket open since Oct 9th with no response and a second from 15th of Nov with no response so evidence would suggest they either ignore certain tickets or the wait time is approximately 2 months at the moment.

As already been discussed, your best advice is to call the office.
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agent_orange wrote:I have a ticket open since Oct 9th with no response and a second from 15th of Nov with no response so evidence would suggest they either ignore certain tickets or the wait time is approximately 2 months at the moment.

As already been discussed, your best advice is to call the office.

If this is the best way of getting this sort of thing handled, why does the Helpdesk exist in the first place - especially if it isn't very well monitored?
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Steve President George W. Bush wrote:
zyanitevp wrote:
agent_orange wrote:I have a ticket open since Oct 9th with no response and a second from 15th of Nov with no response so evidence would suggest they either ignore certain tickets or the wait time is approximately 2 months at the moment.

As already been discussed, your best advice is to call the office.

If this is the best way of getting this sort of thing handled, why does the Helpdesk exist in the first place - especially if it isn't very well monitored?


I'd call the office and ask.
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Carl Gleba wrote:
Steve President George W. Bush wrote:
zyanitevp wrote:
agent_orange wrote:I have a ticket open since Oct 9th with no response and a second from 15th of Nov with no response so evidence would suggest they either ignore certain tickets or the wait time is approximately 2 months at the moment.

As already been discussed, your best advice is to call the office.

If this is the best way of getting this sort of thing handled, why does the Helpdesk exist in the first place - especially if it isn't very well monitored?


I'd call the office and ask.

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palladiumjunkie wrote:
Carl Gleba wrote:
Steve President George W. Bush wrote:
zyanitevp wrote:
agent_orange wrote:I have a ticket open since Oct 9th with no response and a second from 15th of Nov with no response so evidence would suggest they either ignore certain tickets or the wait time is approximately 2 months at the moment.

As already been discussed, your best advice is to call the office.

If this is the best way of getting this sort of thing handled, why does the Helpdesk exist in the first place - especially if it isn't very well monitored?


I'd call the office and ask.

:ok:


That's nothing that anyone should be happy about. It's actually ****-poor customer relations.

EDIT: And if you hyphenate it the way I just did it bypasses the filter.
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The Beast wrote:
palladiumjunkie wrote:
Carl Gleba wrote:
Steve President George W. Bush wrote:
zyanitevp wrote:As already been discussed, your best advice is to call the office.

If this is the best way of getting this sort of thing handled, why does the Helpdesk exist in the first place - especially if it isn't very well monitored?


I'd call the office and ask.

:ok:


That's nothing that anyone should be happy about. It's actually ****-poor customer relations.

EDIT: And if you hyphenate it the way I just did it bypasses the filter.


Of course it is crappy customer relations. I was just using the emoticon to approve of Carl's joke. Sorry if that didn't come through.

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In all seriousness I have no idea how their help desk works. We can't determine if they are just overwhelmed or it's not monitored?

What I do know is that calling will often resolve the problem Immedietly. I called the office a few times before I was a known freelancer and I was always happy when I was done. That's just me.
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Carl Gleba wrote:In all seriousness I have no idea how their help desk works. We can't determine if they are just overwhelmed or it's not monitored?

What I do know is that calling will often resolve the problem Immedietly. I called the office a few times before I was a known freelancer and I was always happy when I was done. That's just me.

Main problem with calling the office is that not all of us live in the same time zone.
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Unless you're in Siberia that's not much of a problem. Call an hour or two earlier or an hour or two later. Business hours stretch a good 8 hours a day.
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From the way Kevin about their work hours I suspect you could call when it's 3:00 am and there'd still be someone around to take the call.
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I would argue Pepsi-Jedi that any company that is willing to trade internationally over the internet should have at least a minimal amount of staff dedicated to answering any web based inquiries. It isn't practical for people in other countries to constantly have to adjust for 5+ hour time differences as well as international phone charges.

That aside the few times I have emailed Palladium I have gotten answers within a week which considering the size of the company I think is an adequate turn-around time for inquiries.

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McPherson wrote:I would argue Pepsi-Jedi that any company that is willing to trade internationally over the internet should have at least a minimal amount of staff dedicated to answering any web based inquiries. It isn't practical for people in other countries to constantly have to adjust for 5+ hour time differences as well as international phone charges.

That aside the few times I have emailed Palladium I have gotten answers within a week which considering the size of the company I think is an adequate turn-around time for inquiries.

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You don't have any argument from me, about answering over the internet. I was just saying that time zones isn't that much a problem. (That said, I meant domestically. I.E. here in the US)

If we're speaking international... well... It might not sound very friendly, but... dealing with a company in another country means you deal with them on their time frame. I wouldn't expect a company in the Ukraine to bend over backwards to deal with me. I'm choosing to give a Ukrainian company patronage. And while yes I'd be the customer, it was my choice to deal with a company in the Ukraine. If I want to talk to them, I call them while they're at work.

I fully agree that if you have an internet thing set up for that purpose, you should check it and answer questions from it.

My post was mainly speaking to people in the US contacting Palladium during business hours.
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Pepsi Jedi wrote:
McPherson wrote:I would argue Pepsi-Jedi that any company that is willing to trade internationally over the internet should have at least a minimal amount of staff dedicated to answering any web based inquiries. It isn't practical for people in other countries to constantly have to adjust for 5+ hour time differences as well as international phone charges.

That aside the few times I have emailed Palladium I have gotten answers within a week which considering the size of the company I think is an adequate turn-around time for inquiries.

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You don't have any argument from me, about answering over the internet. I was just saying that time zones isn't that much a problem. (That said, I meant domestically. I.E. here in the US)

If we're speaking international... well... It might not sound very friendly, but... dealing with a company in another country means you deal with them on their time frame. I wouldn't expect a company in the Ukraine to bend over backwards to deal with me. I'm choosing to give a Ukrainian company patronage. And while yes I'd be the customer, it was my choice to deal with a company in the Ukraine. If I want to talk to them, I call them while they're at work.

I fully agree that if you have an internet thing set up for that purpose, you should check it and answer questions from it.

My post was mainly speaking to people in the US contacting Palladium during business hours.

When I mentioned time zones I meant internationally. I'm from Germany e.g., I'm 6 hrs ahead, makes it doable but annoying.
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palladiumjunkie wrote:Of course it is crappy customer relations. I was just using the emoticon to approve of Carl's joke. Sorry if that didn't come through.

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yeah calling them would be even more of a wast of time. waiting up till an ungodly hour of the morning to spend a fortune on an international call.
It's one of the things that's putting me more and more off this company to be honest. Good customer service is easy to do and worth the effort it takes to achieve. Responding to tickets and emails in a timely manner isn't even GOOD customer service, it's BASIC customer service.
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Is there an email address I could use that will get a response? I have had a ticket for about 7-8 weeks and it hasn't been looked at. I was patient since it was a busy time of year, but now I want a response.
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Just as a matter of curiosity, what country are you calling from Orange?
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I'm in Ireland. different time zone and international call prices.

So far I've opened 3 tickets with the help desk 2 were ignored and one asking about who was handling EU shipping for RRT got a response of "well it was supposed to be these guys but there not talking to us, have you got any ideas for who we could use?"
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agent_orange wrote:I'm in Ireland. different time zone and international call prices.

So far I've opened 3 tickets with the help desk 2 were ignored and one asking about who was handling EU shipping for RRT got a response of "well it was supposed to be these guys but there not talking to us, have you got any ideas for who we could use?"



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Thats a work around not a solution. I actually need to open another ticket to try to tell palladium to stop passing my email address to third parties they only got it for Kickstarter communications from KS and I already unsubscribed from the newsletter they added me to without permission but now they have passed it onto some online RPG store site so they can start emailing me advertisements for something called rifter too.

all in all not exactly a good (or even average) customer service.
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