{"id":222443,"date":"2010-01-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5455740"},"modified":"2010-01-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T18:00:00","slug":"the-nook-and-barnes-nobles-super-polite-absolutely-awful-customer-service-nook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/222443","title":{"rendered":"The Nook and Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s Super-Polite, Absolutely Awful Customer Service [Nook]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_500x_ebook-hammer.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/barnes-noble-is-unfailingly-polite-while-breaking-promises-to-customers.html\">Consumerist<\/a>, as always, is right on top of Barnes &#038; Noble&#8217;s recent Nook-related failings. Yes, people are still without their Nook, and yes, customer service woes are still running rampant at the fledgling eBook retailer.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5430364\/you-get-100-if-your-nook-doesnt-arrive-by-christmas\">$100 gift cards<\/a> promised to customers if their Nook did not arrive by Christmas? That&#8217;s good customer service. However, those $100 cards have yet to arrive in many cases. That&#8217;s bad customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Worse still, blogger Jesse Vincent has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fsck.com\/2010\/01\/dont-buy-a-nook.html\">writing dutifully about the cards and more<\/a> since the holidays, and things haven&#8217;t gotten any better. Broken promises, vanishing orders&mdash;all there, and all indicative of a retailer that grossly underestimated demand for its savvy e-reader and overestimated its ability to sell them.<\/p>\n<p>The silver lining? B&#038;N customer service is super polite when they tell you your order has been canceled or disappeared or whatever. So there&#8217;s that, although I&#8217;m pretty much with Kat when she says these thing will <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5423233\/why-i-hate-ereaders-and-doubt-theyll-ever-hit-the-mainstream\">never truly hit the mainstream.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/barnes-noble-is-unfailingly-polite-while-breaking-promises-to-customers.html\">Consumerist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=2e955d64a7ada3f92770d7b2975fb209&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=2e955d64a7ada3f92770d7b2975fb209&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KFmC-fqtaIc:SVV0npUH3PU:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KFmC-fqtaIc:SVV0npUH3PU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KFmC-fqtaIc:SVV0npUH3PU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=KFmC-fqtaIc:SVV0npUH3PU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KFmC-fqtaIc:SVV0npUH3PU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=KFmC-fqtaIc:SVV0npUH3PU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/KFmC-fqtaIc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumerist, as always, is right on top of Barnes &#038; Noble&#8217;s recent Nook-related failings. Yes, people are still without their Nook, and yes, customer service woes are still running rampant at the fledgling eBook retailer. You see, the $100 gift cards promised to customers if their Nook did not arrive by Christmas? That&#8217;s good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}