Sep 09 2008
Lesson from AT&T about online behavior and a fan
Here’s an article about Mike Elgan, a blogger at Computerworld, trying to get an iPhone and getting denied.
Here’s the article:
AT&T won’t sell me an iPhone at any price
There are some interesting lessons here:
1) Huge corporations make mistakes
2) A customer who wants to buy continues the buying process online
3) Mr. Elgan quickly discovered that he was in the right
4) No one from AT&T proactively contacted him
I’m not going to side with either party. It sounds like things are getting worked out.
My point - If you are a small business, are you monitoring the online activity of your products? Would you have been able to identify this situation and rectify it?
