As someone who's worked in a call center never underestimate human stupidity. Also 3 stars to ASUS was way too generous in my opinion.

@simoncaspa

10 ай бұрын

For me to. That's a one star support...

@navb0tactual

10 ай бұрын

I don't know what happened with them, my first experience was great and the rest were just outright meh or wtf (I guess some employees wfh because there was a SCREAMING TODDLER in the background lmaooo)

@ColJonSquall1

10 ай бұрын

agreed, that's more like 1 star on the part of Asus, lol.

@Michael-wo6ld

10 ай бұрын

To be fair to Asus, they had to fix a technical issue rather than some shipping damage. That's a lot harder to train support personnel for.

@jadespider7526

10 ай бұрын

@@simoncaspa Nah. LTT's experience here was definitely 3 star. Wish I could ever get that from them. My personal 1 star ASUCKS experience involves a motherboard RMA, lost in shipping, tracking number errors, a pre-approved RMA for a known defect being returned unrepaired, send in a second time, and being told it's now out of stock, and being given (without consultation) a "free equivalent upgrade" to a different CPU chipset that was not compatible with my system.

Can't wait till Dennis does a full secret shopper on LTT and Linus one day.

@sjoerdvanbavel6043

10 ай бұрын

Oh man, that would be so awesome. Didn’t they kill channel super fun though?

@pixelmaster98

10 ай бұрын

I think it would be funnier if Dbrand decided to do a secret shopper on LTT xD

@Ash-wt2fn

10 ай бұрын

​@@sjoerdvanbavel6043they did??

@grimtides

10 ай бұрын

I thought Dennis was just on vacation. though he would need to hire someone cause there is no way the staff don't recognize dennis

@JohnS-bi7tx

10 ай бұрын

That could be good

Rolling my eyes at the score you gave ASUS. Support was completely incompetent until they were basically given the answer. For such an expensive product, that level of support is just unacceptable.

@grandetaco4416

10 ай бұрын

Linus offered some kind of explanation on Wan show for it, but sorry they had to be told the solution by the caller, how often is that going to happen?

@logosrule

10 ай бұрын

​@@grandetaco4416I would really love to hear that. It would have to be *some* explanation to excuse this level of BS.

@Tarets

9 ай бұрын

A sponsor is a sponsor.

@alexbvv

9 ай бұрын

Tbf the score is not as important because he showed everyone what they can expect from Asus so you can draw your own conclusions

@P.W.R.

9 ай бұрын

Having knowledgeable support staff over the phone is always a bonus, but I think it is also important for the caller themselves to not be a dumbass. Like come on, what are you expecting from an outsourced call center? Just because they are tech support doesn't mean you get to sit there and do nothing. A support call is a mutual exchange. You need to help them help you. LTT purposefully went in circles to give their support a hard time as type of test. The likelihood of this happening organically when someone just wants to plug in their GPU to the power supply properly isn't going to deliberately give them the run around to get it fixed. This by no means excuses ASUS from the poor customer support knowledge. It just seems counter-intuitive to have an exchange over the phone like this (nearly an hour and two separate phone calls for a flippin' PCIe power connector) to get it properly connected to the PSU/GPU. Even for a layman that knows nothing about computers shouldn't take an hour to plug it in. Eh, what do I know? There probably is some schmuck out there that can't tell his foot from his ass about computers so I guess a situation like this could happen. Just seems unlikely. As for the rest of the other products, LTT was more scathing so I think it offsets his "rating" on Asus. You can give constructive feedback without resorting to the "damn you to hell for your insolence" type of condemnation. It is possible to be critical and fair at the same time, but I forgot about today's black & white era. Its heretical to have a middle-of-the-road opinion without getting shouted at by everyone around you.

I feel like DBrand can afford that next-level customer service, because their product is generally not expensive to make, so they have huge profit margins.

@mihalis1010

9 ай бұрын

What they can afford to do, and what one should expect a company to do are two different things, and I think d-brand did more than what could be expected.

@hamcha

9 ай бұрын

Never take anything for granted, Dell Alienware also has insane margins and their support is the worst. Just because the margin can afford the extra support doesn't it's there.

@Vysair

9 ай бұрын

@@hamcha more like if they have more profit that means they are more greedy bcuz they cuts corner to hit such level of profit

@pixxlated_

3 ай бұрын

not only that but they're just amazing all around. i have a steam deck and pixel 7 pro case, both skinned, and accessories for the steam deck, and it's just so good. pile that on top of their support, and i'm a huge fan

@sxndwich3395

2 ай бұрын

Dbrand customer service is great, and honestly, I dont mind paying so much for their skins. Long ago, I messed up really bad and ruined the skin i got for my Nintendo switch. I literally emailed them asking if they had any advice to try and salvage the skin, and instead they just sent me 2 replacements "in case I fuck it up again" and a set of skins for the joycons. Its WILD. I wanted to throw money at them after that.

That Asus score was VERY generous. The first person clearly knew nothing, and even the subsequent people seemed to be getting nowhere until you just told them the answer.

@lucasbim

10 ай бұрын

Specially considering the price of the product.

@maxbls16

10 ай бұрын

Agreed, they didn’t even resolve anything. 1. You had a hard time finding support on the site. 2. The manual was straight up wrong due to laziness. 3. TWO hour long support calls with incompetent technical support. 4. No escalation when they couldn’t fix it. Each one of those should be at least one star off. They shouldn’t get leeway because their customer happened to be slightly technically competent.

@NoxiousPluK

10 ай бұрын

Yea that score was very out of line compared to the others.

@SocietyNeedsImprovement

10 ай бұрын

I completely agree. Communicating with the customer how to actually use the product is such a basic requirement. The fact that Asus has been selling products like these for decades and they still don't have a clean process (documentation and customer support) is a clear argument against using Asus products for me.

@demarcmj

10 ай бұрын

@@maxbls16 Right. All of that to get a score only half a point lower than Jackery who was very good but took a while to respond. The scoring system is straight out of "Whose Line is it Anyway"

The ASUS one was so incredibly lenient. I would have them at 2 stars at best

@bitslammer

10 ай бұрын

Agree. 3 stars is the lowest passing grade and with the website issues, lack of easy to find phone number and taking that long on the phone asking irreleevant questions is a fail. Had they not been coached into the right answer I doubt it would still be solved.

@dhkatz_

10 ай бұрын

How? 2 stars is borderline malicious intent. There was nothing malicious about what they did. The GPU was perfectly fine and they had to invent their own issue.

@VoldoronGaming

10 ай бұрын

@@bitslammerutterly unacceptable the asus support individual had almost no knowledge of the product and how to set it up.

@leogarcia4657

10 ай бұрын

they dont want to lose their sponser 😂😂

@trajectoryunown

10 ай бұрын

2 stars for the effort. Can't blame the support when ASUS hires clueless people and gives them a script to work through. Many businesses do this because its cheaper than hiring knowledgeable people who could knock out problems like a baseball player. Then they'd have to pay a higher rate for the employee and shell out more for refunds and returns.

I hope you let these companies know what you were up to after the fact. I really hope the person who packed the order at Ifixit didn’t get in trouble for somehow “missing” items in the order.

@Alcoholic_Nerd

10 ай бұрын

Knowing Linus he probably told them and paid for the replacements.

@Twodog20012000

10 ай бұрын

@@Alcoholic_Nerd yeah, hopefully it wasn’t too late for that person that was just trying to make a living.

@Alcoholic_Nerd

10 ай бұрын

@@Twodog20012000 No one would be getting fired for doing their job, even if someone does mispack an order you don't get fired for one mistake.

@agentnull5242

10 ай бұрын

If that did happen, that would probably be a good reason to cut ties.

@Jonvon65

10 ай бұрын

​@@Twodog20012000I've been on a tour of iFixits HQ in San Luis Obispo and they're definitely not the type of company to 'punish' someone for making a mistake. They have a really good work culture and they take care of their employees even though they are a small company.

I can see why the iFixit and UGreen support ask for some evidence, my sister used to work at a local portal called Linio and scams for extra items and refunds were a real problem. To this day people call me paranoid when I take unboxing vid and keep shipping packaging for 30 days, has saved me 2 times and will keep doing it.

@Strividia

9 ай бұрын

yes, keep unboxing video as prove, so it saves me a few time too especially on expensive stuff

@Vysair

9 ай бұрын

Since I would make a r eview of product I ordered, I always take photo by habit. I didnt take a vid though because it is difficult to do unboxing with camera in hand.

@rocortega2064

9 ай бұрын

@@Vysair unboxing alone is sometimes difficult, I have a small portable tripod (cheapest of the cheap) that I use if there's no help around.

@Demoralized88

8 ай бұрын

A good practice is opening expensive, smaller electronics (i.e. Laptops, etc) in the store after purchasing. Especially any packaging that isn't wrap sealed as they're easy to reseal and look unopened. Recording is worth it for shipped used stuff, high-value new from online or packages too big to open in store (TVs, etc.). Higher-end power tools are also commonly swap scammed. You are fcked if this happens to you otherwise and they're almost always going to assume you're trying to scam them. I can't recall being burned badly but I also usually only buy local used for electronics. Celophane-wrapped is far less likely to be a return scam as relatively few have the equipment to reseal decently enough, yet I opened Skyrim for Xbox 360 as a christmas gift to find it empty with no disc despite the seal looking factory perfect and fully wrapped. I vaguely recall exchanging it at the specific Target because I think they had caught some employees resealing the packaging.

I fail to understand how ASUS received anything but a two star here, with one given for responsiveness. Unless the editing made it unclear, ASUS didn't solve the issue whatsoever. The person reaching out literally had to tell them the answer over two calls and at least an hour on support. By my metrics, that's a two star, and absolutely representative of my own experience with ASUS in Canada.

@danny208YT

10 ай бұрын

He obviously didn't want to fracture their partnership. He knows it was a 2 star he's way too smart

@thespookybanana6007

10 ай бұрын

All of these are way too lenient. Solving a problem is the bare minimum. Not at all worthy of praise.

@Hougeki69

10 ай бұрын

At 2 stars I would say a company is getting into malicious territory. Unless you're doing something to actively hurt my wallet you stay above 2.

@superslash7254

10 ай бұрын

@@Hougeki69 They released motherboards that were blowing up CPUs and then pushed out a BIOS update that they then underhandedly denied people's warranties for using.

@alexdavis9324

10 ай бұрын

@@superslash7254 they never actually denied the warranty claims

I bought an iFixit kit several years ago. Right out of the box, a bit immediately chipped and broke. I contacted them expecting just the replacement bit. They asked for a picture, and upon seeing it, they sent an entire replacement kit. The whole thing. 10/10 customer service.

@CheezeCracker

10 ай бұрын

Good to hear... and... I believe iFixit deserves a revised score from Linus. It's standard practice to verify packaging integrity, verify dimensions and weight, if for no other reason than simply it's exactly what the shipping carrier will ask for when filing a claim. Policies exist for a reason and businesses can't just go with an honor system.

@thomasphillips885

10 ай бұрын

I mean they also took ages to get back to them

@CheezeCracker

10 ай бұрын

@@thomasphillips885 Probably for internal review reasons. The claim was in a gray zone, not cut and dry and LTT dilly dallied withholding complete information (packaging).

@n_core

10 ай бұрын

@@thomasphillips885 They probably thought them was a scammer, thus ghosting them to fend them off. You don't want to waste your time on someone that couldn't fulfill your request because of made up reason. Better spent that time to something else, like a real customer that can provide you with what you need.

@serpico1616

10 ай бұрын

The high extra premium you pay for the name also includes a warranty

As someone who works in CS, the Asus call is painful lmao. Also the ratings you hand out are very very generous.

iFixit asks for a picture of the packaging, because if an item is missing because the box was damaged, they can file a claim with the postal carrier (for instance, in the US, UPS automatically covers the first $100 of the value of a parcel, even via Ground service.) Source: I used to work a UPS & DHL shipping counter in a retail store. EDIT: this isn't a justification of the service that you received, the lack of communication and slow response times weren't great, just telling you how the policy might work on the fulfillment side.

@AuraMaster7

9 ай бұрын

It's still an incredibly bad policy. People throw away packaging if there's nothing left in it, and "please send us a picture of your packaging or we won't resolve your issue" is not a common policy, so most people wouldn't hold onto that packaging for the sake of customer service requests. I would bet there is a decent number of ifixit customers that got basically scammed out of their products because something was missing but they threw out the empty box everything came in.

@pixxlated_

3 ай бұрын

I think it's a decent policy provided they provide AMPLE warning that you should keep any packaging in the case something is missing before ordering. @@AuraMaster7

3 out of 5 for that Asus support? that was... really generous

@MrHendrikje

10 ай бұрын

Not really. It was a pretty fair assesment. YOu have to remember that it's a call centre you call that handles support cases for Asus, asus then provides a flow chart of sorts and a FAQ of questions and that is what they are trained on. This is often a department or a group of people that work at a call centre that asus hires. If this were actual asus employees they wouldn't need to guess. you could clearly tell she had little knowledge about tech and felt unsure about it too but she tried her best and that is saying something.

@NeonCoding

10 ай бұрын

They still need their LTX sponsor

@fenixmining

10 ай бұрын

Agreed they basically gave Asus a free pass here. A real test would have been to actually RMA the GPU but that would have shown just how bad things really are.

@billystronk4251

10 ай бұрын

​@@MrHendrikje All of those things are not the customer's problem though. I just want help with the problems I have, I don't care how asus has set it up. If I call asus with a technical problem and there is nobody available with any techincal knowhow that's just bad customer support.

@SamAsMe

10 ай бұрын

Totally, thats was not a 3 by any metric, didn't find the number had to get it themselves, had to go through 2 calls the CS agent was 100% clueless and he gave her the answer, how is that a 3 idk. Definitely gave them a free pass.

I have been waiting for this. Im so glad Linus makes sure that we dont end up feeling scammed by a sponsor.

@tropicalshadow3817

10 ай бұрын

Even though they’ve scammed us😂

@BenSwoloest

10 ай бұрын

manscaped is trash

@fatigued

10 ай бұрын

​@@tropicalshadow3817when?

@acetrainerarcane1755

10 ай бұрын

@@BenSwoloest The ball shaving company is ok

@tomchapman128

10 ай бұрын

​@@fatiguedjust a guess, but probably that water cooled bed

This HAS to become a series forever. Thank you.

@WoobsBallJesse

10 ай бұрын

Definitely. Things like this and GN's pre-built 'secret shopper' videos are absolutely invaluable for consumers.

@collisw8302

10 ай бұрын

Yeah Linus just needs to be honest and transparent, unlike how he was with Asus.

@unholydonuts

8 ай бұрын

Paid for publicity.

Linus: We do a secret shopper for out sponsors Actual Linus: This is how to scam our sponsors

@Andytlp

9 ай бұрын

@@sphinx3r Well it was terrible but they did get the answer... that they gave themselves so i'd rate it about 2 at most.

@noobhere2176

9 ай бұрын

it really gets me that Linus actively damage the product himself to “test” customer service, asked for a free gift and got one. This is only encouraging people to do the bad things. I can already see how people brag online saying how they got free gift or refund by lying.

@Andytlp

9 ай бұрын

@@noobhere2176 Theres a whole market of scammers and dipshit people like that who buy stuff and claim they never received it in the small chance that the seller ships them another one. Or deliberately break the thing then ship it back for free replacement. Although lately shipping back costs money to discourage this. Or replace the item in the box with something of exact weight so when the item returns to a warehouse and gets weighed no one notices for a long time. Hopefully those huge e tailers check every box... at least scan them with x ray or something. Automate it somehow.

@CidVeldoril

9 ай бұрын

@@noobhere2176 True, somewhat. Still, how else are you gonna test customer service and return policies?

@anonmouse-zr9cn

9 ай бұрын

New title: "Linus commits mail fraud and goes to jail"

It would be hilarious if D-brand tried to contact linus’s support 😂

@animefreak5757

10 ай бұрын

i mean, if they read this they probably will, or maybe someone will send it if thier twitter or whatever.

@JordanNeenan

10 ай бұрын

I've had to contact the LTT store support and it was outstanding.

@Woah994

10 ай бұрын

same @@JordanNeenan

@JKSSubstandard

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, my LTT screwdriver arrived on fire, can I get a warranty replacement?

@e21big

10 ай бұрын

@@JKSSubstandard trust me bro amirite?

ASUS got a golden glove treatment from LTT. That was a solid 2 at best. 1.5 would be my ranking, but I'm biased from my own nightmarish ASUS Canada support ticket.

@NerdyFello

10 ай бұрын

For real, he even gave them what the problem was

@fringie4327

10 ай бұрын

me too, had a few issues with asus.

@marceldiezasch6192

10 ай бұрын

They should've just had a consistent methodology. All other support requests were basically "my product was damaged" (in one case lost) and seeing how they deal with that. That's a very straight forward and standard support request.

@barowt

10 ай бұрын

Would be a 1 star from me, and I would have been getting very irritated with them.....

@ichijofestival2576

10 ай бұрын

It was a Canadian three stars. By American standards, it's a sawed-off goat's head in the CEO's car.

My experience with dbrand was awesome. I lived in Canada and Indonesia, and they treat customer support the same. I forgot what kind of support I needed, but I remembered they were awesome at handling whatever problem I had. They sent me a handwritten Post-it note of a quote, "Sometimes happiness is a feeling. Sometimes it's a decision."

@lsksniper1936

8 ай бұрын

DBrand is the goat I can’t remember which mail carrier it was but they folded one of the larger skins instead of using our overnight documents slot on the mail box and I reached out to them they had a replacement for that and a new one of my iPhone one I had ordered in the past shipped out with some stickers and a hilarious note mocking me that said “don’t get all bent out of shape” in less than 3 hours. In the email I had asked if they thought I could salvage it and they said “it might require a higher intelligence life form than you :)”

If you continue with this series in the future I would really prefer to see only aesthetic products judged by responses to aesthetic issues. I don't as a consumer care if Ugreen cares about whether my wall wort is scratched. I want to know if they'll help if it doesn't work and I still don't know

I'd say Asus support was a fail. They didn't get there Rush had to give them the answer 😂

@trban8r

10 ай бұрын

Right, how was that 3 stars?

@Howtheheckarehandleswit

10 ай бұрын

And the problem should have been the simplest thing ever! He just wanted to clarify a part of the manual!

@iyja

10 ай бұрын

Simple, sponsorship money. The rating was for sponsorship money, not for their customer service which deserved a zero. It's like little Jimmy going to an admission test and scoring a zero, but because daddy gave the school $$$, it's now 60% and he passed.

@kuroishiPH

10 ай бұрын

That first rep was embarrassing

Customer support is not for the people that knows what they're doing, it's for the people who don't. So having skilled people on support is really important, as proven 🙆

@CreativityNull

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but none of these companies want to pay for it, which is really annoying.

@SuperKendoman

10 ай бұрын

Can you rephrase what you just said? I'm not getting you. When you say "the people" do you mean the customer? Hence why it's important to hire staff that know what they're doing?

@pascald.1451

10 ай бұрын

Basically, mostly people that are clueless will reach out to support. So having skilled people on the other end is a must.

@carlosn894

10 ай бұрын

Customer support is very often outsourced. These subcompanies put their guys in a call center for minimum wage and give them a database where they type in the issues the customer states and get pre written instructions from said database for how to fix issues. No one has ever seen or had the actual product in hand.

@SuperKendoman

10 ай бұрын

​@@carlosn894yeah, and that's what most small to medium size companies do. For the bigger ones that hire tech support, I think they have 1st and 2nd line of support. 1st line support is mostly clueless and have no idea what they're talking about when troubleshooting with you. Everytime I contact my ISP it's like a battle trying to explain things to the front end support team

I never realised how much I took for granted that LTT does their own stock footage until I saw LTT using actual stock footage from a library 🤣

My biggest problem with the dbrand one is that it basically shows the bullying the support staff gets better results/more free stuff. It would be much better if they were firm but fair with this type of customer and instead if you were a very kind and easy customer they bent over backwards to help you and send you stuff to encourage this type of behaviour. dbrand is the type of company with the 'marketing attitude' that they 100% would see a brand benefit from firmly encouraging kind behaviour from their customers

The way this channel becomes more and more self aware of its relationship with sponsors is amazing

@caseyboone7018

10 ай бұрын

agreed it is really good ting the're doing

@chandlerbing7570

10 ай бұрын

Prefer no sponsors overall but ok.

@MasonH24

10 ай бұрын

Eh, I want them to get paid what they deserve. A short ad, that we can easily skip, is well worth it.

@Atomsk0192

10 ай бұрын

@@MasonH24 My brother in christ this whole video is an ad.

@lukefrahn8538

10 ай бұрын

meta content is the future

You were so lenient on Asus. You only 'got there' because you fed them the answer. 2 stars

@Deja117

10 ай бұрын

1 star. If they're going to sell PC components and provide support, train your staff so they actually know how to support customers. I seriously can't be the only one thinking this... If you sell a thing, make sure your support team knows how it works, and that they can walk you through setting it up with their eyes closed.

@Kvantum

10 ай бұрын

Everyone knows Asus support is terrible. That's just a given. None of this was surprising. Great products, but terrible support if anything goes wrong.

@AlmightyJu2

10 ай бұрын

@@Deja117 can't agree more. How does 2 calls and still unable to get the answer without being spoon fed it by the 'customer' get 3 stars? Any slightly knowledgeable person would go "Yea you need to connect 3 8 pins into the adaptor then the 16pin into the gpu, the quick start guide is vague". Feels like they don't train their staff and 'fix' issues by frustrating people enough that they go online to forums/reddit for support.

@Inn0IWNL

10 ай бұрын

​@@Deja117I think they use BPOs for their tech support. We usually only rely on knowledge articles. I work on mostly software troubleshooting so that's not an issue for me but I understand how that can be frustrating for hardware end users.

@ShaOryDow

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I think it would've been more entertaining to have kept the call going until THEY gave the correct answer to the problem.

Secret Shoppers used to be a real thing for Retailers in the 80s-90s maybe early 00s, but now that most of the services have moved online, it's harder to validate these sellers, resellers, warranty, customer support, etc. So I greatly appreciate these episodes. I used to work at Geek Squad before Best Buy bought them out and we had several secret shoppers hit us up and graded our location. Thankfully we did great on our scores compared to other location, but it's important for consumers to know they're being honest, reliable, helpful and straight up faithful.

@2010justinkoch

6 ай бұрын

Secret shoppers are very much still a thing for brick and mortar stores and online a friend of mine freelances in secret shopping as a side hustle, basically she goes in, shops, pays, sends a report, and 24-48hrs later she is reimbursed and usually gets a little extra most of the time she gets to keep the merchandise but sometimes she has to return it then the company will pay her

I hope you removed the protective film before starting the tests... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

dbrand is always just so chad of a company, so I'm glad they flew full-stars through the secret shopper experience.

@ViXoZuDo

10 ай бұрын

well, when you're charging 5 times what other brands, it's expected to have way better customer service.

@SKYTRiXSHA

10 ай бұрын

@@ViXoZuDo I think if you can afford it, paying 5 times more (or well, not 5 times but premium none the less) doing that for great customer service would not be a bad idea :)

@smthing_pei

10 ай бұрын

at least people at happy

@zwerko

10 ай бұрын

Given that I generally need a phone skin every couple of years, I can afford their heavy markup. Their products are top notch, and their copywrite is second to none, well, well worth the extra money for the entertainment alone. Trolling LTT is just the cherry on top.

@smalltime0

10 ай бұрын

@@zwerko You don't just save some money after spending $1k+ on a new phone by buying a cheap chinese case? In the scheme of things, spending $50 or so on a dbrand case that I know I'll use for a few years is well worth the markup

Dbrand is pretty amazing with their customer support I told em I messed up on the skins as I have the dexterity of a child, told em specifically I didn't want a replacement but just a link to how to get a skin for that specitic iteration (killswitch compatible) They walked me through the entire purchasing process. They're awesome

@FreeYourMem

10 ай бұрын

They are awesome. I once got a case for the wrong phone as a gift and it was the smoothest return and refund experience ever.

@Ziogref

10 ай бұрын

I have contacted dbrand twice (I have been using them since 2012). Once my skin went a bit funny after a few months of being on my phone, I contacted them, they only took a day or so to reply but they released a new skin since that I told them not to worry and bought a new design. Another time Aramex (worst shipping company ever) didn't have my house number on the packaging, this was an issue at the time as if a company used Google for address verification it would drop the house number for everyone on my street.... dbrand uses Google. I tried contact Aramex Canada, they told me to contact Aramex Australia, Who then told me to contact my local depot, who then told me they can't do anything until it arrives in Australia. Contacted Aramex Canada again but they wouldn't budge. Contacted Dbrand and they just sorted it. Sent me a new skin. Also I love how all messages I have seen from dbrand are signed off by robots.

@franchocou

10 ай бұрын

That's standard

@charlesakin1908

10 ай бұрын

I gotta agree, I've had nothing but great experiences with Dbrand. They're products are great too.

@bakukirby7268

10 ай бұрын

I had to send in my Joy-Cons in for repairs once, asked if their skins could be reused, and while they said no, they offered to send replacements for just the price of shipping. Passive-Aggressive marketing aside they're really good about customer support.

Companies have been getting worse and worse over the last 10 years with hiding contact details. But since the pandemic they have got a lot worse and their services and support have really deteriorated.

I had a Manscaped trimmer go wrong about 13 months after purchase, and it hadn't seen all that much use. To their credit, it took one email to arrange a free-of-charge replacement with no need to even send the genuinely faulty one back. It arrived two days later. Fantastic experience.

The iFixIt ghosting is... strange to me. I got the Pro Tech kit and I actually broke the nylon-tipped tweezers by mistake. I sent an email to support, and almost immediately had a response. All they asked for was a photo of the kit and a photo of the broken tweezer tips.... they promptly sent out TWO PAIRS of replacement tips, AND a brand-new pair of tweezers. I was thoroughly impressed with the customer support. Of course I probably dealt with a different support center because I'm in the states.

@Soundwave142

10 ай бұрын

Unlike Linus, you sent your picture sooner.

@yugas42

10 ай бұрын

I really do think they went about the iFixIt order wrong. I'm a computer hardware tech and I have used a ProTech kit as my daily tool set for years. My original driver that I bought in 2018 came apart a few weeks ago; I opened a ticket, they asked for my original order number, which was in my email inbox still, and they wanted a picture of the broken driver. I sent those, and three days later I had my new driver. Their website specifically states not to throw away packaging until you're sure you have everything, that's a pretty simple request. iFixIt was just following policy at that point since it's already stated online.

@Woodie-xq1ew

10 ай бұрын

That’s probably because you didn’t loose anything. Like Linus said if they’ve been having problems with people not checking their packaging properly then asking for a picture of the box gives them a way to ask you to check the box without implying that you can’t look in a box properly

@informitas0117

10 ай бұрын

Did you bribe them with a picture of packing material? They seem to love those a lot.

Something that I can tell from experience, a lot of my classmates actually scammed amazon and various other merch stores by claiming missing items. This happened approx 4 years ago, and they each scammed the websites for hundreds of dollars. Since then, it has become a kind of rule here in India that you must record yourself unboxing anything and everything to be able to claim warranty or returns.

@Artcore103

10 ай бұрын

that's messed up. not as much of an issue in north america / europe.

@watsonage

10 ай бұрын

It's very commonly done but the profit loss to places like amazon is so minimal that they should just suck up the cost if that means generally better customer service. In Europe they definitely can't make you do those things anyway because of consumer protections, luckily.

@SirVer51

10 ай бұрын

Amazon India still doesn't require unboxing videos, but smaller sites definitely do

@painengineer

10 ай бұрын

Amazon basically does the same thing. When somebody orders a package and something is wrong with it like it cant be delivered and no return address or some shit idk they have these fat ass palletes with like 200-300 packages that they just sell to people. Like not stuff they offload to a DSP, actually just lost and found packages just loaded up on palletes and sent off to whoever buys it. I imagine they just tell the company it was 'lost' or something and then either the insurance covers it or the company sending the item just has to eat the cost and send another. Or the customer is just fucked

@e21big

10 ай бұрын

@@Artcore103 it's a fairly common practice in Asia, China especially, I wouldn't be surprised if Ugreen will expect you to do some sort of that for warranty claim

I just had a suspected warranty issue with jackery. Their response time was excellent, with them even responding on the weekend. In the end I didn’t need to send anything back, but they were ready and willing to do what was needed. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Maybe they're hiding the Billet Labs prototype that you auctioned off?? 😂😂😂

Linus, from my time in a call center years ago, I spent an hour and a half explaining a four piece curtain rod bracket (wall mount, adjustment plate, nut, and bolt) to a customer. Your comment on "This really can happen" is absolutely spot on.

@Lana_Warwick

10 ай бұрын

Yes, but but how easy would your/our job have been if you/we said to customers (or info supplied with the product). If you go to their website, there's a video tutorial. Like a young child, everyone learns from pictures easier than trying to absorb, interpret speech or text.

@etyrnus

10 ай бұрын

@@Lana_Warwick this was literally a 4 component bracket, including the nut and bolt. There were picture instructions included with them, and during training every employee had to go through the install process of the products. Keep in mind, my point is that these situations DO happen, across all industries. I worked with that customer until she had the mental "click" and understood. The call center used that call in training for new hires as an example of staying calm and patient with customers instead of getting frustrated for over a year after.

@Lana_Warwick

10 ай бұрын

@@etyrnus I get it, but even I have a hard time (especially now I'm very old), keeping up, comprehending, most who've explained something so many times, it rolls out their mouths so fast, I can't mentally keep up, like some of these tech youtubers, 100mph (linus, nexus). Thankfully with a video, I can turn on subtitles, replay. Flip-side - I've been building PC's for ~30yrs, recently installed a cheap tower cooler for someone, screws didn't line up with the plate, was ready to throw it, flame online. Sitting down having something to eat, I realised there were instructions on the other side of the paper (initially thought it was another language), realised I was following intel for an amd install. So regardless how simple it seems...

I thought ifixit would surely get a 5/5, I asked for replacements for a couple worn hex bits in my 64-bit kit and those guys literally sent me a full pro tech toolkit, what an upgrade! They said it was a gift for being a long time customer (all I've ever ordered from them was the original 64-kit, and then the uograded one shortly after it came out). Outright amazing customer service! They did ask me for pictures of the bits though, which is reasonable, as I still had them unlike the packaging.

@viking9442

10 ай бұрын

Gives them the lowest rating. The one brand that they happen to compete with hmmmmm.

@verakoo6187

10 ай бұрын

​@@viking9442 not to mention they complained about them being overly cautious about fraud, by requiring pictures, while he's doing the exact thing that caused them to have that policy. How u gonna be upset about someone not believing u lost a product, when u had it sitting right beside u. Lol

@CircuitrinosOfficial

10 ай бұрын

@@viking9442 ifixit sells a lot more than just screw drivers... That's not much competition.

@ElFuego35

10 ай бұрын

@@verakoo6187 Plus, he gave Jackery a 4.5/5, yet they had the same issue in response time.

@tonyli2918

10 ай бұрын

​@@verakoo6187 They are doing an EXPERIMENT, simulating what could have happened to customers with missing items in their order. Be honest, do you keep every packaging of items that you purchased ever? If you do, you have a hoarding problem. Your disposition (and possibly iFixit) is every customer is a scam and out to take advantage of you, whereas sometimes it can a genuine, honest mistake. You are not going to get many returning customers if you run your business like that, there are plenty of offbrand tools I can get from vendors on Amazon with much customer-friendly policies.

Loved the video and please keep up the secret shopper series. I would love to see how Secret Labs handles issues. Maybe different parts that fail out of the box and/or if the QC was poor. Also how to do they handle issues when the purchase date was more than a year ago. 3D printing companies would also be great.

I like how Linus called out the Ugreen support rep name "Hugh Green", but completely missed/didn't question the Jackery support named "Jack Urie" lol.

TBH, having experienced ASUS "support" before for a DOA GPU , I feel like that three out of five was incredibly generous. It got RMA'd eventually, but it was nuts. Dbrand is just always awesome in every way... no surprises there.

@karjihn8944

10 ай бұрын

Asus is literally just for frustrating to deal with on support, I sent a motherboard in for a “bios reflash” and they ended up just trying to charge me almost 200$

@vespermoirai975

10 ай бұрын

@@karjihn8944 They tried charging me 700$ for advanced RMA/replacement for almost 2 months. For a monitor that has been sent back twice before that. It was a 2 year endeavor, never offered to give a upgrade or even something to make it right. Not even a coupon. It was just a new-old stock version of the monitor I bought 2 years ago. That's it.

@c6197

10 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’m ever buying another Asus product. I’ve been a pretty diehard Asus fan, I have Asus monitors, Asus motherboards for my like 5 builds, an Asus gpu, and an Asus laptop. But my laptop really sunk my opinion of them. I bought it from best buy because I needed it fast and easy, and within a few months I had some really wonky issues with the screen that I only found 1 other person online on the Asus subreddit also had. I contacted Asus to start an RMA and they told me to go through Best Buy. I contact Best Buy and they said the warranty is through Asus and to contact them. And I got sent in circles and circles and circles until my coverage ran out. Honestly really sunk my opinion of their brand because up until now all my Asus products have been 100% reliable with no failures. But their RMA process is a nightmare. Maybe it’s better if you bought the product directly from Asus and non a store like Best Buy- but either way it was ridiculously hard to even talk to a representative let along try and start an RMA- which I still never got!

@lbs3521

10 ай бұрын

Had many interactions with asus in different countries. Issues are related to software side and I just don’t have the technical knowledge to solve them. What asus supports do is ask you to provide many information and describe the issues, then tell you to send your products to their service points or factories straight away, without any replies regarding the issues. Three out of five is indeed too generous. I remember when I first got my zephyrus 17 and I ask dbrand if they have a plan on making skins for it, dbrand does not ignore my stupid email and actually explained why wouldn’t they do so. It’s just built differently.

@NoirGK-

10 ай бұрын

In Vietnam, they are called "Asuck" for a reason too....Many horror stories of them denying RMAs over here......

Really hoping to see a "Sponsors React" video to see what they have to say about their own customer support.

@MrToastyYT

10 ай бұрын

Pretty easy to predict, it'll be a very corporate "this is OUTRAGEOUS, we will fix this AT ONCE" and nothing will happen

@randomghost1080

10 ай бұрын

@@MrToastyYT Except dbrand. I am pretty sure they will end up pranking Linus.

@sinni800

10 ай бұрын

@@randomghost1080 Dbrand will probably order something at LTTstore and be majorly douchey at the support people, claiming their water bottle that was run over by a truck needs replacement for free, but the DBrand HQ will be in the background so they troll linus like "the writing was on the wall lmao"

@eirgel38

10 ай бұрын

there's not much for them to do, what would they say other than some corporate apology like the other guy mentioned, or make excuses which would just make them look worse.. no reason for them to

@AustynSN

10 ай бұрын

@@randomghost1080 dBrand will probably make a point of firing somebody for giving Linus good service.

Imagine everyone start doing this and unboxing video become mandatory for starting a support session, thanks linus

I'm 100% sure that DBrand knew that LTT were going to do something like this and decided to pull a fast one on them

@helloukw

10 ай бұрын

Plot twist they sent them the broken glass protection in the first place.

@tinsucevic

10 ай бұрын

Dbrand is actually really really good at support. I got a free replacement (and upgraded to the newer version) grip with the skin for a phone they didn't even sell cases for anymore. After 2 years of usage.

@Butterbean32

10 ай бұрын

@@tinsucevic can confirm they have good support. I bought their first gen screen protector years ago, and they sent me a replacement no questions asked because the plastic protective layer wouldn't peel off and it ruined the protector

@hendrikseemann8407

10 ай бұрын

sure = could be? How would they know?i mean one might know, but they are more than just one customer service person. idk

@iMidnight_

10 ай бұрын

@@hendrikseemann8407 yeah dbrand are always generous with replacing damaged items

Even internationally, dbrand is incredible for support, even when it is clearly user error they are still so helpful

Ifixit for me personally was super easy. I had tools that got bent and the reverse tweezers got the tip snapped off. They asked me to take a photo and provide the order number from Amazon where I bought it from and then they shipped my replacements. Took only two messages and about 3 hours total

@unicodefox

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, however I do understand the complaints about iFixit's commuinications. It sometimes feeld like there's a cat walking across the kayboard when responding to you. That's primarily because I did get an email from a cat walking across the keyboard when trying to do an RMA. They did reply with a picture of said cat so I'm not complaining :)

The first transition to the sponsor was amazing. I really appreciated this one head and shoulders above the others in some other videos. 👌👌👌

I'm from Indonesia and it's a policy in most online shops here that you have to record an unboxing video to have your complaints processed. It's quite inconvenient but we get used to it. It's so refreshing to see someone from a first world country get surprised over that policy lol.

@kaimojepaslt

10 ай бұрын

what is indonesia? is it india?

@nuclearicbm

10 ай бұрын

@@kaimojepaslt how hard for you to google a single word?

@rengg1441

10 ай бұрын

@@kaimojepaslt it's a little village in vrindavan

@dannyx5125

10 ай бұрын

@@kaimojepaslt ain't no way this man does not recognize a whole ass country

@AlexRonai

10 ай бұрын

​@@kaimojepasltNo. It's just... Indonesia.

I feel like a lot of these scores were VERY generous. Companies that were unable to help after 1hr on the phone, or that make it extremely difficult to even connect customer support should not be getting 3+ stars

@ligametis

10 ай бұрын

Maybe most people from US are expecting no questions asked from amazon. But for others this seems fine. In my country this would be even great 😅

@Quivex1

10 ай бұрын

@@ligametis Yeah as a fellow Canadian I think some people just have unrealistic expectations when it comes to basic customer support when dealing with 90% of companies lol. Yes, Amazon will do their best to just please you however possible (especially if you're a prime customer) but that's not realistic of everyone else. You have to give ratings based on realistic customer support experiences, not idealized ones that almost never occur (although I will say Dbrand really did seem to manage A++ support, going WAY above and beyond, so I'm guessing their margins are so high it really doesn't matter to them). All the ratings seemed relatively fair to me, and pretty inline with various support experiences I've had, both with companies in the video and companies that aren't. I think the *consistency* of support quality would also be interesting to test, for example I've had multiple support tickets with the same company and some experiences were excellent while others were just okay - despite the issues being almost identical.

@broakroze

10 ай бұрын

Ditto

@Alice58302

10 ай бұрын

If it where to be an only "certain county" producer i would expect quick responses but international corporations? Idk feel like i would give them more time to response

@Themiddleman416

10 ай бұрын

It's getting worse and worse over the years in Canada. Consumer protection is basically non-existent other than in Quebec. CAA for instance is killing me right now. I moved out of province and apparently signed up for auto renewal and set a pin up on the account. They make you call to make changes to auto renewal and won't let you remove a credit card online. Call them and they demand a pin number I don't remember setting up, without it I can't cancel renewal or remove my credit card, I have to show up to a CAA location in person to do so now. I'm over 3000KM away from the closest CAA. I'm literally pulling my hair out 😭🤣

I have had a similar experience with UGreen as well: unable to find their support email on their site until I googled for it. They did eventually refund my whole order. Had a charger that connects and disconnects repeatedly every second unless i flip it around, or bang it against the desk, so might have been something loose inside.

@KaioKakarot

10 ай бұрын

Same for me. Their website is horrible and they want to get out of honoring their warranty.

This video didnt age well lmao

I knew DBrand would be good, kinda nuts how far they went. Didn't expect that at all

@rengg1441

10 ай бұрын

makes sense cause their products come at a cost

@mataskart9894

10 ай бұрын

@@serceband He announced it after they already filmed it, this was months ago and they had no way of knowing (that's the point), other than it seeming fishy for someone to be that clingy for free stuff.

@JesseBrohinsky

10 ай бұрын

I had a display failure on my Z flip, and after forwarding them the RMA confirmation they sent me a replacement skin for free. They have some of the best customer service I've ever seen.

@Reptilectrik27

10 ай бұрын

@@jayeh1443 nah, dbrand customer support is truly great.

@dinosoup

10 ай бұрын

Fun fact: I always request a drawing with my order and they give me one everytime.

I had an issue with my dbrand case ages ago, and support was unbelievably nice. The contrast of how they act online externally vs the lovely support internally is quite amusing.

@ibexl8631

10 ай бұрын

Hey you're the color palette guy

@quantumxp

10 ай бұрын

Yea I didn't realise I bought a skin at dbrand and not a case and they were really nice and just let me buy the case for the normal additional price instead on a complete new order

@j.d.8593

10 ай бұрын

They are sassy on social media but they do really love their customers and always find a solution for any problem you have with them, even if it's your own fault.

@MHWGamer

10 ай бұрын

I mean you pay for that. The plastic sticker is vastly overpriced but in return you get excellent service

@svm2787

10 ай бұрын

i guess you can do quality support if your product has 500% markup

What LTT experienced with Ugreen is pretty accurate. Had a pretty similar story a while back. For me Ugreen was the go to for USB cables and chargers a few years back. They offered great quality for reasonable prices and all they did had a "we want you to be happy and order again vibe". Since then theier prices have gone up a lot, they entered a lot of product categories they don't seem to know much of and I feel like they shifted from quality to design over quality. They don't even ship cable ties with their USB cables anymore. I moved on to brands that don't have a brand recognition to rely on/or don't milk it...

I hope these are followed up quickly with the respective company, imagine being a packer in the shipping team that gets fired for not shipping out the correct order... when they actually did

Dbrand support is amazing. My grip case was falling apart after about 7 months of use and sent them a question wondering if maybe I could get a replacement or discount to rebuy it. They not only sent me a replacement for free but they also included a replacement robot 2.0 skin because that's what I had on the case!

@tudalex

10 ай бұрын

Is the replacement better or the same? Was looking to buy one, but saw a lot of posts on their subreddit complaining that it falls apart in a year.

@jeffthekilla41

10 ай бұрын

my skin was lost in shipping and they sent me another one, their support is actually very nice

I had to go through dbrand customer support once and it was by far the best support I have ever received. Glad to see they haven't changed

@HectorHernandez-pg4iy

10 ай бұрын

Same my order got lost in shipping they just sent over the replacement skin no questions asked

@pancak3

10 ай бұрын

I had to go through dbrand customer support once and it was by far the best support I have ever received. Glad to see they haven't changed

@nopucks

10 ай бұрын

glad for you my experience with them was dogcrap :D

@pancak3

10 ай бұрын

@@nopucks I lied

@keaton_m

10 ай бұрын

@@nopucks What happened to you?

These customer support calls are the exact reason i will always miss EVGA in the graphics card market. Dealing with their customer support was always such an easy process. Frankly, the customer support issues you had with Asus are exactly why I stopped buying from them. Any other brand I've dealt with has been a better experience and I'm disappointed that Asus hasn't improved since I stopped buying their products almost a decade ago.

For Asus, your very right about the motherboard issues. Am in Kenya and bought their Zenbook Pro Duo 15 OLED (UX582, 12th Gen Intel) laptop from their certified resellers here and it has been 6 weeks since they started repairing it under the warranty and just kept finding more problems each time they replaced a part and having to wait for parts from China and US to be shipped to Kenya!

Find yourself someone who looks at you the same way Linus looks at his sponsors.

@Oaisus

10 ай бұрын

critically and with suspicion?

@michaelcorcoran8768

10 ай бұрын

Yeah although he gave Asus a three out of five when they couldn't solve his problem at all for an hour and eventually the person who called just answered it for them. If that's a passing grade then I don't get the point of all this

@BobSentell

10 ай бұрын

Umm...

@jasonlast7091

10 ай бұрын

@@michaelcorcoran8768 Just looking at how some of the others were handled I think it's an overall score but they're just focusing on the support factor more in the video. Conveyed a bit weird but probably to do with how the video was pitched and written. You're right though, that support was muff cabbage.

@nymesisnemesis9329

10 ай бұрын

You mean how he looks at 0:12? 😂

I'll also vouch for dbrand's stellar customer service. I had an atomic grip case for my S22 Ultra for over a year and it started warping and didn't fit properly on the phone anymore. I opened a support ticket, sent photos and they immediately gave me a coupon worth the full value of the case as they no longer produce that specific case anymore. I used it to order a new case from them. Stellar customer service and I definitely recommend them.

"We didn't have to fabricate an issue" Proceeds to pry open the USB Port with a screwdriver

Makes complete sense with iFixit. If you don't receive your full order you're obviously going to take pictures of the packaging for evidence

@b00psn00t

10 ай бұрын

yeah Linus is literally committing fraud for his "test" (messing with customer support reps dealing thanklessly with Karens all day)

DBrand products have huge profit margins, allowing them to spend a ton on sponsorships and handle customer complaints well. That's common for these types of companies.

@1206549

10 ай бұрын

My favorite thing about Dbrand is they call themselves overpriced and call their customers idiots for buying their overpriced stuff. Does that discourage me from buying their stuff? Hell no. Also, they are very easy to work with.

@drinkwoter

10 ай бұрын

​@@1206549lol imagine paying like 3 times for the product, you wouldn't buy a gpu for paying 3 times over just to have great customer support experience in case of a faulty product

@syth-1

10 ай бұрын

@@drinkwoter put it into perspective, a GPU doesn't need to be triple in cost to also pay for customer support staff, it could be 10-15% of a top of the range GPU, (if even that, these are bs numbers) On the other hand, a skin that has a low MSRP compared to the GPU, needs a higher profit margin to pay for customer support, So no I wouldn't pay 3x for gpu's, but would pay for a premium skin,

@smellysox1567

10 ай бұрын

​@ellasoderstrom5407 you just reposted the comment.

@ITOUTLAW

10 ай бұрын

This is true, their product is relatively inexpensive and easy/cheap to ship . However - they don't have to provide good customer service. There are plenty of companies out there that provide horrible service, even with products that are inexpensive. So I say credit where credit is due.

That unboxing thing is actually very common here in the local marketplace in my country. It's somehow become a "standard" if you want a refund. Almost every store has that policy, like maybe 99% of them, including the official store.

@thechosen29_

10 ай бұрын

lmao not to mention your warranty is off if you rate the seller other than 5 stars

@gryg666

10 ай бұрын

Which country?

@liwaun

10 ай бұрын

Pretty much SEA things, I guess.

@thechosen29_

10 ай бұрын

💯

@SamuelLing

10 ай бұрын

Also you need to keep the box, people told me how stupid I am until they have to claim a warranty because seller wont accept returns without boxes.

I got to say, the ltt customer service is pretty nice. I ordered one of their screwdrivers from the Netherlands and I had to wait very long for it because they were still being made. 1 email to the customer service and it was pretty quickly explained to me why it was taking so long. Keep it up!

@AbigailPenner

10 ай бұрын

I agree. LTT has great customer service. I messaged them about an item (the issue wasn't with quality), and it was resolved in less than a week.

We're more interested in what LMG is hiding.

The packaging thing with IFixit is likely to do with them claiming their costs with the delivery partner.

@SillyNamesAreSilly

10 ай бұрын

Could also be the weight to see what was in the package.

@devonwilliams2423

10 ай бұрын

seems like when trying to claim a warranty UFixIt

@Jehty21

10 ай бұрын

But that's still a 💩 response. If they just asked for a picture and if you don't have the package anymore they still help you, then that wouldn't be a problem. But refusing to help you without the picture is just 💩

@JocheProHD10

10 ай бұрын

@@Jehty21 but linus didn't have any proof of the ordered items actually missing. should the company just blindly trust the customer at all times and send out replacements?

@Jehty21

10 ай бұрын

@@JocheProHD10 the only way to proof that an item is missing is by making unboxing videos. IFixit didn't want an unboxing video. They wanted a picture of an empty package. What exactly does that proof? So the company either has to require every single customer to make an unboxing video (I would never order from a company like that) or just accept that some customers are lying. And the latter one is what every good company is doing. They don't make their customers jump through hoops. They just price the products accordingly.

The best recent memory experience regarding customer support I've had was with dbrand. I bought a skin for a laptop and was missing the microfiber cloths (of all things) lol. I told them that, but also added after inspection that the top skin had some weird adhesive issues (it wasn't bubbles - the bubbles went away after a day). they said they'd normally replace the skin for free sans cost of shipping which was already cool enough but since I was also missing the microfiber they'd just send it all for free. I was expecting the cloth and top skin but they pretty much replaced my entire order. also, they said my death will be swift when the robots finally take over the planet. woot!

12:28 "no hard feelings." "Your balls will thank you!"

They need to do a secret shopping for their OWN product, where no one in creator warehouse knows it's them and then manufacture a problem and see what the response is.

@jeremydale4548

10 ай бұрын

Uhm, they don't need to do that. As it makes absolutely zero sense.

@mataskart9894

10 ай бұрын

If there wasn't a major conflict of interest issue that'd be a great idea, but the community would roast them if they did well because they obviously faked it, and roast them if they did poorly for obvious reasons.

@sanc3375

10 ай бұрын

That's an... Awful idea, not because it actually makes no sense for a self assessment and self rating, but it would backfire quickly

@TheAssirra

10 ай бұрын

Nah, that is something GN should do for the Linus products. You can't investigate yourself after all.

@gamerdweebentertainment1616

10 ай бұрын

Don't give Europeans more ideas, we have regular check ups at stores as is, with a bonus at least though.

I'd like to give a huge shoutout to Linus' team for actually practicing what they preach. I opened a support ticket about my LTT screwdriver, and the support rep sent me a new screwdriver within a day, no questions asked, and it arrived 5 days later. Absolutely a 5 star support experience from me and I cannot wait to order my backpack from LMG in the next few weeks.

@mataskart9894

10 ай бұрын

Same, noticed my water bottle was missing the LTT logo a few days after I got it and after messaging support expecting something like the ugreen's 5$ discount they instantly offered a full refund or free shipped replacement while keeping the one I got, A+.

@antonyjharper31

10 ай бұрын

Used mine yesterday it’s a cracking driver!

What also doesn’t help is, in my experience of building my first pc, is that the 8 pins for the gpu usually come as a split of two. So you need two cables plugged into the PSU, that branches off into 4 8pins, and then 3 of those go into the 6 pin. It just gets a little confusing.

That was actually the best sponsor transition ever. I always see them coming but this one was outta left field and was funny

@christophejergales7852

10 ай бұрын

I skipped it immediately because I am a loser.

@delayedcreator4783

10 ай бұрын

not really

I think for global brands like ASUS the quality of the support varies greatly by country. I live in Japan and had an issue with my Z13 and ROG Mobile. I filled out the Japanese repair request form in English and a guy came to my home with packing materials to pickup both devices after 2 days. The estimated repair time was 7 days, but in 2 days they delivered my device with the mobo and battery completely replaced.

@Crawfishness

10 ай бұрын

An actual person came to your home to pick it up instead of just having you send the old devices through the post? That's honestly the most Japan thing I've heard in a long time. Wish we could have that kinda service over in the west.

@digitalnomadist

10 ай бұрын

That's japanese customer service, can't expect that elsewhere honestly.

@fgsaramago

10 ай бұрын

@@Crawfishness thats very normal here in Portugal...

@matthewblankenbeheler1061

10 ай бұрын

​@@Crawfishnessdell also does that

@goofy851

10 ай бұрын

That's Japan for you. There isn't any other country where you would get that kind of customer support because Japan is the last country on Earth where they value their customers.

Best buy in my experience has a great warranty program. I once spilled beer on my keyboard, took it back and told them i spilled beer on it and they replaced it anyway.

In my country, Ugreen is extremely combative and unwilling about minor scratches and damages. Almost every product got reviews complaining about this, but they seem to take action soon enough if the product isn't functioning.

@Vysair

9 ай бұрын

also depends on customer protection law

Can't fault dbrand. I have always loved their customer support. When I made an order, I tweeted them about having serious cardiac issues and in the order they sent a hand drawn picture or a broken heart and note saying: "F**K YOU - Don't take this to heart" and the note was NOT censored, only doing it for YT comments haha. Loved it, as did my wife. Think I even tweeted a pic of it, I know I still have it as I just need to search the full f u in my iPhone photos search and it brings it up lmao

@PatrikTheDev

10 ай бұрын

They fucked my order up 6 TIMES (I wish I was kidding) but the support was great the entire time, refunded me the whole amount, accidentally sent me 6 extra skins in the process, sent me a pack of microfiber cloths and shipped me a Tesla Roadster art made from scraps of skins (including discontinued ones). While I was disappointed, they made it right

@carlangelo653

10 ай бұрын

I can definitely agree, even when it was my fault for ordering the wrong skin, they swapped it for the correct one, no questions asked. Top tier customer support. iFixit support has also treated me fairly well. Luckily I didn't throw the packaging. But it probably has something to do with their internal processes.

For IFixit, I had no problem (or charge) getting a bit replaced when I broke it trying using force as an alternative to thread locker. The replacement even came with stickers. This was years after purchase.

@Alaster-

10 ай бұрын

I've had same great experience with iFixit: 3 torx bits, tweezers, and pry bars all replaced years after purchase under their lifetime warranty, including shipping US to Australia (was close to 7-8x the cost of parts total). Parts were basically worn out due to daily use. Provided photos and new parts were on their way!

I am am always happy to see videos like this from LTT. Highlighting the significance of vetting the product you are spending your hard earned money on is important but vetting the companies support eqaliy important. One thing I am curious about was the hold menu experience. While I feel like this videos aim was not to focus on the negative, outside of the email delays the on hold time and the over all experience of calling is a big part of frustration I have when calling for support these days. Overall I am always please to see LTT performing these types of audits on people the are associating with and event them selves.

Honestly I think Ifixit deserves better. Customers can be total Karens sometimes and even try to outright scam the company. The fact that they sorted it out immediately after he sent the picture shows that they're just being cautious. If anything, people should be educated not to throw away packaging and anything that could confirm their purchase at least until they've tested the product.

@DanCojocaru2000

10 ай бұрын

In some countries, not having packaging is not a valid reasons for refusing warranty. iFixIt deserves a bad score for the ghosting and the requirement. Receipts exist for a reason.

@tbuk8350

10 ай бұрын

​@@DanCojocaru2000The packaging was apparently because some carriers pack things into the same box, so apparently people have thrown away some products on accident in the past. Still though, they should just send one no questions asked, I can't imagine it would be a huge cost for them.

@Coz131

10 ай бұрын

@@tbuk8350 Sounds like a problem with the packaging not being obviously containing items.

@linuxdragon57

10 ай бұрын

The score was okay. It was just that the Asus score set a terrible baseline. Asus should have gotten 1 star.

@PHIplaytesting

10 ай бұрын

There's nothing wrong with them asking about the packaging but if you threw it away you threw it away. Them outright refusing to provide service if you didn't keep the packaging isn't reasonable.

The iFixit customer service interaction is exactly WHY i always keep my packaging for new tech for...probably way too long.

@nah95

10 ай бұрын

I still have the box my Nokia 5310 came in. Just in case...

@b00psn00t

10 ай бұрын

you're only going to get asked for photos of the packaging if something is missing.

Out of all the customer service I've dealt with, the two best experiences I had were with Bose and Diode Dynamics. I had products that failed under warranty and both companies were quick, easy, kind, and replacements were sent and delivered quickly.

It would be good for you to have a follow up video with the sponsors themselves and the customer service leads in those departments to review the cases and see where they could have done better. Sometimes it is just luck of the draw, but always good to investigate incidents like this. Also, you should get your sponsors to secret shop YOUR merch in return and then try and contact your team ;). Dbrand, up for it?

I always apreciate linus being completly honest with us

@Hrethgir

10 ай бұрын

An confirm. This is why my next laptop might be a Framework. I love the idea, but I trust Linus to be honest about it all too.

@StreetPreacherr

10 ай бұрын

Isn't this more of a list of which companies are the easiest to take advantage of?

@thesamsungexperiance8853

10 ай бұрын

Open your eyes you think he being honest lmao

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd

10 ай бұрын

​@@thesamsungexperiance8853 maybe you don't know what that word means.

@felicityc

10 ай бұрын

I, too, believe at face value that he is being honest with us, a pseudonymous creator on camera trying to make money by roasting sponsors he doesn't care about, yes, very honest person. It's not the level of honesty it's the level of dishonesty we can't possibly enumerate.

Pretty damn excited about this, and hoping it goes past LTT sponsors.

@ogs5276

10 ай бұрын

That was an idea mentioned on WAN show, but said it depends on if the video does well or not

@apaxtoa

10 ай бұрын

I mean they already have a secret shopper series of some prefab computers aswell.

@jaku86

10 ай бұрын

@@ogs5276 That's what I'm hoping for. This is overall a solid idea.

Imagine that. Having challenges with a large scale corporations QC and information accuracy.

@SuperTort0ise

9 ай бұрын

I know right! These Corpo should(n't) take a page from ltt imo.

Dbrand valuing the consumers happiness to make sure they keep him as a customer Be more like Dbrand, I just feel bad for them now when everyone will be asking for something extra

Imagine being on a level you get to choose who’s on your shit. This video is the biggest flex of all time in a good way. It’s using your power the way you should. Your looking out for your people who got you here. Your the best Linus!

05:30 I once had to call IKEA for support (multiple drill holes were missing), and that's exactly what they did. They quickly could confirm that I indeed got a faulty part, and send me a new one.

I had an amazing time with manscapes customer service through email. I saw on reddit that if you email them that you lost your charging cable and would like a new one they'll send you one for free. Not only did they email me back the next day and say they'll send me a new cable for my old version of their manscape shaver, they are went ahead and mailed off their Newest version of their main razor for free. I was blown away by this amazing customer service just for being a loyal customer of theirs. I understand that this is to keep me being a loyal quarterly subscriber of their refills but they absolutely didn't have to send me anything extra for free 10/10 recommend Manscape.

My SO applied a dbrand skin once and was unhappy it wasn’t perfectly flush with something. Dbrand sent us a free replacement, if dbrand makes the thing I’m looking for I’ve always ordered from them. They’re what every online retailer should aspire to achieve in terms of customer service

Every KZreadr should do this! Also having BestBuy as the sponsor of this video is hilarious.

@LiamNajor

10 ай бұрын

Can't wait for them to absolutely DESTROY Best Buy

@joshua41175

10 ай бұрын

​@LiamNajor it's weird because I've always had decent experiences with best buy, but I primarily use their mobile services like the screen protector installation.

@studentlogan

10 ай бұрын

Worked at best buy for years, for in store it can be wildly inconsistent. You may get someone who knows their shit, a person mostly focused on selling you something, or a kid just working there for beet money. All depending on the region, the store, the time of year, the time of day, etc. They've also largely scaled back their training process so it's even worse these days as far as what you might get on a given visit

@thejunkman

10 ай бұрын

@@studentlogan I remember never having enough money for beets in college.

@busomite

10 ай бұрын

Not having beet money is country poor level. Rough.

my respect for d-brand has skyrocketing after watching this good word you guys

The sponsor that did best should have been the one to get the sponsor spot in this video

He gets a sponsor for the video he debunks his sponsors irony at its finest

You should do a roundup of how easy it is to contact support for major brands. It is impossible to find on some websites.

@paulm6447

10 ай бұрын

Labs ... but for customer support. +1

@Tomazack

10 ай бұрын

Best to check customer support before sinking big bucks into a product. Don't give money to companies that are clearly making it difficult to help with what they've sold you.

Regarding Framework, I recently had an issue where the laptop died after months of use. It had a dent in the shell because of a much earlier fall, unrelated. After some troubleshooting they sent me a mainboard and I sent back the old one. They didn't deny the warranty using the dent, I was pleasantly surprised. And the laptop now works perfectly.

10 ай бұрын

In the EU it wouldn't even be legal to deny the warranty based on an unrelated dent if they cannot prove that the dent is connected / cause for the damage to be repaired under warranty. I think this should be something we as a customer can expect

@accidentalmeme5327

10 ай бұрын

@it’s illegal in the USA too. Unfortunately it’s all to common that companies try to weasel out of their warranties. Apple is well known for using water contact stickers and refusing to service machines if the stickers have come in contact with water. This is even if the damage to the machine was not water related.

The reason for the delays from the support time is probably because they're understaffed. I worked at a support-center and we were constantly understaffed with queues over 1000 in the mail section. So every mail I sent out was delayed with two weeks, it's most likely that the company also just hires a different company for the support, so they can't really control how long it takes by hiring more people.

@ChrisSmith-rm6xl

10 ай бұрын

Bullshit. If other comanies are able to provide decent support, we don't care what your excuses are for not being able to do the same. What next? "Our quality sucks because quality control is understaffed"? "We take your money and don't send you a product because we just hired new people to do the shipping"? "We lie about our specs because we just hired a new ad agency"? I recently had a tech support question for Framework. They responded quickly and were super helpful, even though it turned out I had made an error and the laptop worked perfectly. Wordperfect was the same, back in the day. There is NO excuse for not meeting the needs of your customers.

@Mel0n

10 ай бұрын

@@ChrisSmith-rm6xl fair.

im personally using a lot of ugreen cables and adapters but so far im totally comfortable with their quialty