So the manager at Silver State Relief has been rude and dismissive. This is 1 of 2 email streams. Also pics are messed up, they keep dis-/re-appearing. Now there are doubles?
There was conflicting information about the discounts. Apparently these are only available to medical users. However the top answer to that question here on Yelp doesn't mention that. Another yelp reviewer noted that he was confused by this information and yet they DID NOT FIX this. So I asked them to fix it which they have. So that's good.
Then I emailed them about a problem with the fakebook link as I was trying to get to that because at some point on their website they were directing people to look there for plague updates. Because the plague has made things difficult for EVERYONE and email is now the only way to get hold of them reliably and on their time schedule. Every interaction with this woman starts out with her being dismissive at best shading over into actual rudeness.
So here we go.
ME: Fakebook link is not usable as it takes me to a page demanding a login. I don't have a Fakebook account and am curious as to why it seems SSR has set their fakebook page up NOT to be public.
MEGAN: Our Facebook is not private. If you don't have a login, Facebook won't let you view the page or some of its contents.
(Note that this is true ONLY if the page owner has set it up that way, at least for the Welcome page - or if there is something wrong)
ME: You fail to understand what I am saying. The link provided takes me to a login page. NO OTHER business that forces me to use a fakebook page instead of a REAL website does this.
(Honestly I should have attached screenshots at this juncture, but apparently, as we shall see, that would have availed me naught because when I DID send them, she apparently didn't look at them because when she called me back - and it superduper freaks me out that they knew who I was because I don't use my real name ANYWHERE online but apparently she thought it appropriate to track me down by guess and by golly ANYWAY - she claimed not to have seen any pictures. Maybe she got it from blackbird, still bad.)
MEGAN: We are not trying to force you to use anything. We have supplied a link provided by Facebook to use for our website. Below is the same link.
https://www.facebook.com/silverstaterelief/
ME: Really. Then explain to me the line on the attached jpg where it says "You must login to continue".
Compare and contrast to the jpg of the where the link to Turmeric's web page takes me. That would be the other attachment, which instead of slamming me straight into a login wall just takes me to their page.
Either there is something wrong with that link, there is something wrong with the way you have set up your pages, or someone IS in fact trying to force us to have a fakebook account.
MEGAN: As far as I know, the link is correct and we are not forcing anyone to use Facebook. We have nothing to gain off of doing so.
Have a great day.
(Honestly Megan brought up the "forcing to use fakebook" thing, the point I REPEATEDLY tried to make with her was that there was something wrong. I had another email thread going with this woman and I think they got crossed at some point because I'm not sure what the following was in response to)
MEGAN: We are not going to entertain this. Have a great day.
ME: You're not? Yes you are. I'll fix this on yelp.
MEGAN: I honestly don't know what the problem is here. A link to Facebook? You have sent me multiple emails and I don't even have a problem to address other than a Facebook link issue.
Apparently responding to emails is unusual behavior, and pressing for some kind of response indicating that they are LOOKING IN TO THE PROBLEM also makes me a freak. She repeatedly indicated that there was NO problem with fakebook, only me. ONE EMAIL from her that said something like "We're not sure what's going wrong, can you send us some screen shots?" or just "we are looking in to this" and I'd have been satisfied. And given my dislike of fakebook, I would probably never have known whether they actually fixed it or not because I never go to a fakebook page if there is any other choice.
So she calls me, tells me I was bombarding them with emails. Frankly I didn't expect this issue with fakebook to be solved soon, nor for the manager herself to be the one solving it, but apparently SSR doesn't HAVE a tech person, they just have Megan. And while I have some sympathy for a non-techy person who has to deal with a weird tech issue, I have NONE for a manager who can't be arsed to even ADMIT said weird tech glitch exists, let alone apologize for it, but rather keeps denying that there is anything wrong. I DIRECTLY asked for an apology, which she ignored, and only grudgingly admitted to looking in to this problem that doesn't exist. Or claimed so anyway.
A simple response indicating action was being taken (or asking for more info) was all that was appropriate or necessary. read more