Deplorable product and customer service. While most people know that in all business, some mistakes happen, but it is the way those things are handled that really makes a lasting impression, and this company failed dismally on both fronts.
I spoke to the sales person--and while I had the distinct impression that I was talking to approximately 50% of the entire company--he still convinced me that trusting our most important trade show of the year, where we'd be having a large event in our booth to celebrate our company's 60th anniversary, would be a good idea.
He promised that the system would arrive on Friday before the show on Tuesday, and it did not. I called to find out the status, and his demeanor then was far less polite. The system finally arrived at about 4pm the day before the show started, so we did not have time to become familiar with it or test/troubleshoot in the the booth.
When we did try to use it at the show, the speed of the connection was horribly slow, even for only one computer--we'd try to open an image or webpage from our site and stand there with a customer, unable to access what we needed. We'd purchased an expensive touchscreen computer to use as an interactive display to show booth visitors our website, and we were unable to open pages, show images, etc. for the entire time, despite our expectation, according to their site's information, that up to FIVE devices could use it simultaneously.
I called their technical support, which was one of the big selling points that made me consider this system in the first place, and spoke someone who sounded like they were on their cell phone driving, who claimed he did some cursory diagnostics. He said that the system was working perfectly, and dismissively said that the issue had to be with our website. I had our team verify that our site was working fine, and when I told him I felt it wasn't our site, he disagreed, and then sarcastically said " Our system is working fine, but I can't be expected to fix your website." He quickly backpedalled, realizing quite correctly that that was an inappropriate response, but at that point, as I was having this challenging conversation in our booth during our trade show, I ended the call, and asked him to take my number and contact me if he was able to think of any other possible solution for the issue, as we were dead in the water. I never heard from him, or anyone else from the company after that. I even wrote an email to the person who sold me on trusting the system in the first place after the show, and asked for a response, and never heard a word.
I really put my faith in this product to enable us to successfully use just one computer as a key component of our display at a critically important show of the year for us. We were put in a terrible situation in not being able to access the internet reliably. It would have been better and more cost effective in the long run to have paid the convention center for their internet connection. read more