{"id":8910,"date":"2006-05-03T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2006-05-03T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T00:47:09","slug":"one-customers-complaints-katamari-through-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8910","title":{"rendered":"One Customer&#8217;s Complaints Katamari Through Cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right valign=top src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/dead360.jpg\">All Chris Szarek wanted was to have the latest game box in the form of a Microsoft Xbox 360. What he got was a lemon, and then another one, and then another. Along the way, he had to endure a lot of the customer service frustrations we can all relate to when our tech goes bad and we&#8217;re forced to deal with clueless and\/or surly &#8220;customer care representatives,&#8221; dropped hold calls, inadequate replacement gear, and all the rest of it. The difference here is that Szarek went online with his beefs and found an all-ears audience on Xbox forums and blogs. Things snowballed right on up to the top of MS&#8217;s Xbox division, with an eventual call from Xbox chief executive, Peter Moore. Szarek is now on his fourth 360 and hoping for the best.<\/p>\n<p> A great story for anyone who&#8217;s had to deal with problems like this and wanted to shout out (or has): &#8220;I&#8217;m going to go online, go to the press, and tell so many people about this, I&#8217;m gonna smoke yo ass!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Read the gory details <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mercurynews.com\/aei\/2006\/05\/the_unluckiest_.html\" target=new>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Chris Szarek wanted was to have the latest game box in the form of a Microsoft Xbox 360. What he got was a lemon, and then another one, and then another. Along the way, he had to endure a lot of the customer service frustrations we can all relate to when our tech goes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Customer&#8217;s Complaints Katamari Through Cyberspace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}