Archive for December 9, 2007

Cybersonic

The road of the on-line retailers is littered with wrecks of customers mistrust. Though, e-tailers are flourishing as it was predicted a few years ago. Apart from Amazon and eBay which is the major Internet forum for purchasing and selling, most of the largest web retailers are not Internet start-ups but regular store or trade groups. And earlier everybody was saying that the Internet would steal sales from stores. But the opposite is happening: multiways retailing is the reality today. And many classic retailers actually started to make money on their on-line operations and to bring their investments and famous brand names to bear on Internet shopping. But does this boost public confidence? Let us study the case with Cybersonic.

On-line trade. This on-line trade is offering consumers new ways to shop. They may research and order their purchase on-line and get the purchase delivered. Or they may have it delivered to a nearby shop to avoid delivery charges. Cybersonic, for example, offers about 200,000 items that can be delivered to customers; homes. But on-line world is now facing heavy investment and some tough choices. They should choose whether to run on-line operations themselves or outsource them, to use the same sourcing model from the same factories like usual retailers or not. And here comes the question: do they build a very nice customer experience? If everything is so smooth and easy, then why there are so many Cybersonic complaints?

Cybersonic complaints. The system is actually working very well and some customers may shop for years with Cybersonic. But when it comes to customer service, it really has to be mentioned that it poor and unprofessional. It is easy to conduct business when everything is great with the devices and other products. And when they just break or malfunction, it turns out to be very difficult to receive some refund or even replacement. Their customer service representatives are rude and all they may say is that you will receive your delivery very shortly. And they actually fail to do this.

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