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An awesome customer service experience I wanted to share

 I'm very impressed with this recent example of excellent customer service that I received recently. I wanted to share it with the community in hopes that it helps us look at what we do, and to highlight the company for what it did to serve me.

The Xbrand Company is a leading designer of laptop accessories. One of their more well known products is their line of laptop stands. These things look like something out of a Sci-fi, or a high tech gadjet from an action movie.  When I see it I just think "Batman." The stands are beautiful, sleek, and ergonomic.

When I purchased one somewhere around 3 years ago, it really was one of the best stands I'd ever seen.  I eventually broke the stand by putting to much weight on a special catch it has so you can tilt your laptop up.  The stand continued to work for me for years, but not with the full functionality that it had with the catch.

I saved the pieces, hoping to fix it someday. This unfortunately became one of those projects that constantly gets put off. The pieces are lost now, Xbrand Laptop Standand I probably could not have fixed it anyways without new parts.

I finally picked up the project again last month. I checked it out and the company was still selling at least a similar looking model. I wrote to see if they might, by chance, have the parts I was looking for. I received a prompt reply requesting more specifics on the model and serial numbers to see if they had what I was looking for. As it turned out their current models were updated, and the parts I was looking for weren't available. At least that's what I understand.

In any case my very next email from Xbrand was a request for my shipping address. They were sending me a new stand!

They've got a pretty happy customer in me. I'm enjoying the stand very much it sits alongside my monitor so I can work on two screens. Years later this is still probably the best stand I could find.  And now I'm wowed by this amazing customer service experience and I'll be recommending this product, and sharing my experience with the company for years to come.

10 commentsCaleb Mardini • September 11 2007 03:36PM

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Its always nice to hear something GOOD!
Posted by Sam White - Bryan & College Station, Texas (Keller Williams Realty Brazos Valley) over 2 years ago
That's awesome!!  I wish everyone knew how to do customer service like that!!
Posted by Donna Harris, REALTORĀ® & ASP - Hill Country Austin Lakeway Homes (RE/MAX Austin Skyline) over 2 years ago
Seriously Donna, that's how I felt afterwords.  Another company I've been buying products from for years, hasn't served me quite as well, and now I'm less likely to go back.
Posted by Caleb Mardini (M2M) over 2 years ago
Hi Caleb! Thats always great to hear and I'm sure people who give amazing customer service(you) like to be on the receiving end of it as well. This company really knows how to keep their customers "life long" customers:)
Posted by Pamela Williamson Team Clayton, Missouri Real Estate (Dielmann Sotheby's International Realty) over 2 years ago

It is nice you have found hope in a dying breed. (Good Customer Service)

Posted by MarQuis Rhodes (MarQuis Real Estate Group/Boise River Properties) over 2 years ago

cool Caleb...

imagine, after all this time, they did that for you. Pretty excellent company, I'd say.  Certainly sets an example for us.

Jo 

Posted by Jo-Anne Smith- Oakville, Burlington and Mississauga Region Real Estate, Ont (Sutton Group - Quantum Realty Inc., Brokerage) over 2 years ago
It is good to hear plain old customer service is still alive!
Posted by Shawna Gibson (Coldwell Banker Burnet) over 2 years ago
Compare the companies that spend thousands or hundreds of thousands on advertising, with the price of one - or a few - laptop stands. You know the latter has a payback.
Posted by Sharon Simms St Pete FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS (ALVA International, Inc.) over 2 years ago
Extraordinary customer service like you received is practically unheard of today...  definitely inspires me to go that extra mile--  I want MY customers to be smiling like you!
Posted by Chico CA Real Estate by Sandi Bauman, Chico CA Realtor (Chico Homes Real Estate) over 2 years ago

This is impressive.  I'm actually in the market for a laptop stand, so I will definately be checking them out, Thanks Caleb.

Have a Blessed Day,

by John Occhi, Hemet REALTOR®  
Mission Grove Realty    

Posted by John Occhi, ePRO, Hemet-San Jacinto CA Real Estate, 951-443-6259 (Allison James Estate and Homes) over 2 years ago

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