OT: Spoke to soon. Adobe customer support is back up to its shenanigans. Anyone from Adobe monitoring this list???????
If anyone at Adobe is monitoring this list and reads this email, customer support would be sincerely appreciated. My client purchased a retail license for Framemaker 10. After the purchase, and installation, my client set up an Adobe account with an email and a password. My client attempted to use this email and password to access their Adobe account today. The email was from the business email of the VP of Software Development that is no longer at the company. When my client entered this email and password, a dialog opened stating that because of security issues, that a new password had to be created for the account and that an automatic email with a temporary password with the proper instructions was being sent to the email address on file for the account. Well, this obviously won't work as this email is for a person who no longer works at the company. It's now an invalid email. I got on the phone with Adobe support and Ashish stated that all I had to do was have an email sent that came from my client's address (i.e., usern...@clientcompany.com) that requested a reset of the email address for the account. We did that. Well, come to find out, now Adobe is digging in its heels saying that my client has to fill out a License Transfer form that asks for all this crap that such as the End-User ID, etc. Say what? We are NOT transferring the friggin' license. We are just trying to reset the email address for a valid account. The friggin' license is staying with the company. The company purchased the license, not the VP of Software. And Adobe is saying that this the one and only shot that we get at this, otherwise, they license becomes invalid . . . Again, my client purchased the perpetual license and it is still valid. We just need to change the email address on the account. Any advice from anyone on this list? I swear to G_D that Adobe Customer Support is an oxymoron and exists only to hassle, harangue and just plain hack off its customer base. TIA, TVB From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tammy Van Boening Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:06 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: OT: OMG . . . Wonderful customer service from Adobe OK, So, I will be the first to admit that I will one of the squeakiest wheels around on this list when it comes to getting lousy customer support from Adobe, but this time, I felt that, in all fairness, it would also be appropriate to send a shout out when it turned out to be great customer service. I have a long time client that I got set up with Adobe Framemaker. Long time client went through a major reorganization and tons of layoffs since March of this year. My contact there, the long time VP of SW Development, was one of the folks who got the ax. This VP had purchased a retail license for FM, and had set up the Adobe account with his credentials (email and password). When he got the ax, all the information about the purchase (serial number, Adobe account information, etc.) was never kept track of, and the two machines on which he had installed FM got wiped BEFORE deactivating FM. Yea, right. Well, long time client wanted to get set back up again with FM, get an account reactivated, get the activation back for FM. . . and being Adobe novices, it was a landmine for them. They didn't even know where to begin and reached out to me. Well, I haven't had to deal with Adobe support in a while (knock on wood) and I quickly found out that the rules for phone support have changed . . . even the phone number that was readily available for installation and activation questions is no longer available after 90 days from installation and you are forced to chat. In a nutshell, chat was as useful as a screen door in a submarine. After an hour of going nowhere fast, and basically being told that my client was screwed despite the fact that they had a valid license, I called the support number in frustration and got through to a live person in TCS support. I asked them (nay, begged them) to listen to my complicated situation and Ashish understood my frustration and offered to help me. In about 15 minutes, what couldn't be accomplished in a useless 1 hour chat was accomplished and taken care of right the first time with Ashish and I am so grateful. He actually understood the concept of customer service and helping an Adobe customer. The folks on chat . . . go fly a kite Adobe certainly doesn't make customer support easy unless you pay through the nose for premium support, and really doesn't handle one-off situations like this well at all . . until this time with Ashish in TCS support. So thank you Ashish. It made a world of difference. TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com www.spectrumwritingllc.com 303-840-1755 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as
Re: OT: Spoke to soon. Adobe customer support is back up to its shenanigans. Anyone from Adobe monitoring this list???????
Our corporate IT Help Desk is very similar in operation. So now we just call it Desk. Any help you get is purely unintentional and accidental. Good luck, Adobe has assumed the corporate policies toward customers that Microsoft pioneered. On Oct 22, 2014, at 16:30, Tammy Van Boening tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com wrote: If anyone at Adobe is monitoring this list and reads this email, customer support would be sincerely appreciated. My client purchased a retail license for Framemaker 10. After the purchase, and installation, my client set up an Adobe account with an email and a password. My client attempted to use this email and password to access their Adobe account today. The email was from the business email of the VP of Software Development that is no longer at the company. When my client entered this email and password, a dialog opened stating that because of security issues, that a new password had to be created for the account and that an automatic email with a temporary password with the proper instructions was being sent to the email address on file for the account. Well, this obviously won't work as this email is for a person who no longer works at the company. It's now an invalid email. I got on the phone with Adobe support and Ashish stated that all I had to do was have an email sent that came from my client's address (i.e., usern...@clientcompany.com) that requested a reset of the email address for the account. We did that. Well, come to find out, now Adobe is digging in its heels saying that my client has to fill out a License Transfer form that asks for all this crap that such as the End-User ID, etc. Say what? We are NOT transferring the friggin' license. We are just trying to reset the email address for a valid account. The friggin' license is staying with the company. The company purchased the license, not the VP of Software. And Adobe is saying that this the one and only shot that we get at this, otherwise, they license becomes invalid . . . Again, my client purchased the perpetual license and it is still valid. We just need to change the email address on the account. Any advice from anyone on this list? I swear to G_D that Adobe Customer Support is an oxymoron and exists only to hassle, harangue and just plain hack off its customer base. TIA, TVB From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tammy Van Boening Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:06 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: OT: OMG . . . Wonderful customer service from Adobe OK, So, I will be the first to admit that I will one of the squeakiest wheels around on this list when it comes to getting lousy customer support from Adobe, but this time, I felt that, in all fairness, it would also be appropriate to send a shout out when it turned out to be great customer service. I have a long time client that I got set up with Adobe Framemaker. Long time client went through a major reorganization and tons of layoffs since March of this year. My contact there, the long time VP of SW Development, was one of the folks who got the ax. This VP had purchased a retail license for FM, and had set up the Adobe account with his credentials (email and password). When he got the ax, all the information about the purchase (serial number, Adobe account information, etc.) was never kept track of, and the two machines on which he had installed FM got wiped BEFORE deactivating FM. Yea, right. Well, long time client wanted to get set back up again with FM, get an account reactivated, get the activation back for FM. . . and being Adobe novices, it was a landmine for them. They didn't even know where to begin and reached out to me. Well, I haven't had to deal with Adobe support in a while (knock on wood) and I quickly found out that the rules for phone support have changed . . . even the phone number that was readily available for installation and activation questions is no longer available after 90 days from installation and you are forced to chat. In a nutshell, chat was as useful as a screen door in a submarine. After an hour of going nowhere fast, and basically being told that my client was screwed despite the fact that they had a valid license, I called the support number in frustration and got through to a live person in TCS support. I asked them (nay, begged them) to listen to my complicated situation and Ashish understood my frustration and offered to help me. In about 15 minutes, what couldn't be accomplished in a useless 1 hour chat was accomplished and taken care of right the first time with Ashish and I am so grateful. He actually understood the concept of customer service and helping an Adobe customer. The folks on chat . . . go fly a kite Adobe certainly doesn't make customer support easy unless you pay
