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Service After the Sale

Does service after the sale mean anything to you?  It certainly does to me and has a tremendous impact on my future purchases. This week I sent three emails to three different vendors regarding their equipment that I had purchased or intend to purchase.  Yesterday (Wednesday) morning I emailed Alvin at Vinshine Audio regarding a question about a Denafrips DAC.  I had an answer early this morning (Thursday) when I woke up.  This by the way has been typical for me when corresponding with Vinshine. I've never waited more than a day for a reply.

On Monday I emailed two other vendors regarding their products.  Today (Thursday) I have not received replies from either one.  Isn't three (3) days long enough to allow for a reply.  These are not small vendors and interestingly are vendors who i've seen favorable reviews about.  That's why I choose to deal with them. I won't mention names, at least not yet.  That's not the intention of this post. I will email both again. I know that small, one or two person operations sometimes may not reply as quickly as you may like.  And then of course there are the people who never reply.

I know there have been several other posts like this on A'gon.  But I think Alvin and Vinshine deserve another shout out. I also know where my future purchases will be directed.  Do you?  

128x128marco1
uncledemp
779 posts
 

If I don’t feel comfortable regarding service after the sale I don’t buy the product. 

soix
9,571 posts
 

I bought an iFi Zen Stream and was initially very happy with it (although I’m not a fan of the 1950’s Jetson’s aesthetics). Then I ran into a technical issue and found their customer support to be basically non existent. I even reached out to the US distributor who, to his credit, tried to help but even HE couldn’t get any help from them. Now, I realize iFi offers relatively budget products, but at a company of that size I find it inexplicable that they couldn’t implement some semblance of product support. I mean, charge a couple bucks more per product and they could well afford at least decent customer support. Well, I’ll never buy another one of their products ever again.

That said, if there’s a high-end product where you can’t get customer support either from a dealer or the company, screw’em. There’s no excuse for that whatsoever.

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akg_ca
2,270 posts
 

Yep ….. MOON by SIMAUDIO is a top service provider.

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oddiofyl
3,887 posts
 

Support is a huge consideration.   I have had overall very good support with the products I own.   

A company who really  impressed me with their quick action is  Cyrus UK.    I had so e problems with updating my new integrated amp and because they are 5 hours ahead my I received a reply more than once before I woke up.   

It was a simple problem and I flashed the firmware easily.   I ended up loving this amp ,  TMR was very responsive too.     

We all hope to never need support or service but honestly when I think back,  some of the best support has been from small companies that ONLY do Hi Fi....

 

 

deep_333
1,444 posts
 

The non-responsive vendors of whom I speak are high end (with expensive products that I purchased new) and one of the reasons, at least in my opinion, a timely response should be expected.

@marco1 , this is precisely why i don't touch any of the high-end obscure/elusive companies even with a 20 ft pole ever anymore. It is basically a guy or two (skeletal crew) tinkering in their garages and eeking out a product months after taking your money. Their priority is certainly not fixing something under warranty when crap breaks. When they do close shop and move to the Carribean abruptly, you're sht outta luck.

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