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Appalling experience with Samsung warranty service

(Topic created on: 06-14-2021 11:11 PM)
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tortelli999
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Just wanted to share my experience with Samsung so far.

Note 20 ultra 5g 512 - Tech who took my device in for warranty for soft photos broke my camera module.

Main camera now sits dangling off to one side and rattles. When tracking focus is activated, the focus box shakes and moves on its own from one side to the other, presumably as a result of OIS + freewheeling lens module.

He's also left a blue piece of plastic I recognise as the spudger from an iFixit kit inside, which has now disappeared into the phone. Specs of dust has also appeared between main lens element and camera glass.

Took it back to Samsung a 2nd time, who escalated to a "voice of customer" rep called Peter, guy was blase enough to send me an email at 4pm on a Friday afternoon to pass on the tech's suggestion that it could be the "app, accessory or sim card", then sending the phone back and closing the ticket off before any response headed his way.

Samsung rep who gave me my device back was at least honest enough to admit they didn't do a thing, and that I got one of their generic responses.

Providing poor feedback via email netted zero response, submitting a complaint via live chat only had the chat agent suggest "I should test it".

One more try at rectifying this with Samsung before I go to fair trading. My friends and I work in tech / software / engineering and I photograph as a hobby, all have found great amusement in Samsung's techie diagnosing obvious hardware fault as software (or even not bothered at all).

I have retained all service documentation and correspondence as evidence.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable in wanting the phone working as intended 

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SamsungJon
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I'm very sorry to hear about your experience @tortelli999, as this is definitely not up to our expectations of our service. If you could please email us your full name, contact details, address and any reference numbers, I will investigate this for you. Again, I apologise for the experience you have had so far. 

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tortelli999
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Hi,

After multiple weeks of going round and round between service centres, VOC, and the feedback team, this saga has finally concluded. Samsung ended up providing a major remedy for replacement or refund. The irony is that I would have been more than happy to have stuck with my phone had they just replaced the camera module the technician broke. Doubly ironic is neither Samsung nor the retailer has any stock left of my phone.

another customer at the retail there had no love for customer service either.
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SamsungJon
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I’m really sorry to hear of the experience you’ve had so far with us, @tortelli999. We did not meet your—or our own—expectations. If there's any feedback you would like to provide us so that we can learn better from your experience, please do not hesitate to email us.

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Emmanue7
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I myself have had my Note 10+ 5G 512g sent to Samsung support twice for camera OIS and phantom touch issues only to find out that they just re-flashed the ROM multiple times. I've complained on both occasions and empasized that multiple factory resets only temporarily fixes the issues. And, I've also emphasized that I hate resetting the phone frequently because that means reconfiguring my business apps. But, they reply with "just bring it back if it happens again" ! Now, I just live with the issues and reset the phone whenever I've lost my patience.
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