The Opposite of Trustpilot - Businesses reviewing customers

The Opposite of Trustpilot - Businesses reviewing customers

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jonamv8

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3,202 posts

173 months

Wednesday 31st May 2023
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Had a thought earlier while discussing a problem customer with one our ecom clients. This particular customer was just ridiculous to the point where our client was going to let them keep the product in question (£15 item) and send the refund just to stop having to communicate with her LOL.

They get some nutters from time to time and it dawned on me that customers have free reign to leave bad reviews for businesses but not the other way round. A simple plugin linked into the orders database could match certain metrics and highlight a problem customer saving the company money in the long run dealing with returns, elongated customer service etc etc

Obviously data protection comes into play here if you provided full customer data but if you were picky with the data, ie used only part of the email address, 3 digits from the postcode, 4 digits from the telephone number and the customers name was John Smith then are you actually pin pointing a specific person? There are probably a lot of John Smiths in Blackburn so have you broken any rules.

Not looking to turn this into a service, just something we've been discussing in the office. What do you think, over to you business owners?


bigandclever

13,948 posts

245 months

Wednesday 31st May 2023
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jonamv8

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173 months

Wednesday 31st May 2023
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bigandclever said:
Oh! no data protection there LOL

Countdown

42,066 posts

203 months

Wednesday 31st May 2023
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Simpo Two

87,088 posts

272 months

Wednesday 31st May 2023
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Countdown said:
'Battle of the Halfwits'. They should find something more constructive to do.

FactoryBacked

257 posts

239 months

Wednesday 31st May 2023
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jonamv8 said:
Had a thought earlier while discussing a problem customer with one our ecom clients. This particular customer was just ridiculous to the point where our client was going to let them keep the product in question (£15 item) and send the refund just to stop having to communicate with her LOL.

They get some nutters from time to time and it dawned on me that customers have free reign to leave bad reviews for businesses but not the other way round. A simple plugin linked into the orders database could match certain metrics and highlight a problem customer saving the company money in the long run dealing with returns, elongated customer service etc etc

Obviously data protection comes into play here if you provided full customer data but if you were picky with the data, ie used only part of the email address, 3 digits from the postcode, 4 digits from the telephone number and the customers name was John Smith then are you actually pin pointing a specific person? There are probably a lot of John Smiths in Blackburn so have you broken any rules.

Not looking to turn this into a service, just something we've been discussing in the office. What do you think, over to you business owners?
I've said this same thing for years!

A small percentage of customers are an absolute nightmare.I try to use every interaction as a learning for processes or product information etc but some people are just horrible to deal with.

Have called a few out recently for being exceprionally rude and especially the racist one 'two Asian men in an unmarked van' had the temerity to try to leave their parcel with a neighbour.

They forget there is a human at the other end of the phone or email. Gets you down some days.

Dingu

4,367 posts

37 months

Wednesday 31st May 2023
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No chance you would get that off the ground OP. For it to be any use you would need to identify a specific person.

Chuffedmonkey

940 posts

113 months

Thursday 1st June 2023
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Maybe the ability to counter the review? Unless that's already in place? If you knew who the review came from which would probably be smaller companies, then that would be some good reading. Obviously with out breaking GDPR.

Edited by Chuffedmonkey on Thursday 1st June 19:15