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Title    Google Must Stop Ignoring Customer Support Emails in Germany
Date    Saturday September 13 2014, @05:41AM
Author    n1
Topic   
from the too-big-to-email-customers dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/09/13/0124200

Hugh Pickens writes:

Normally Google users who email the address “support-de@google.com” receive an automatic reply notifying the emailer that Google will neither read nor reply to customer support emails due to the large number of requests sent to the address. After that sentence, the automatic reply directs Google users to various online self-help guides and contact forms. Now PC World reports that a German court has has ruled that Google must stop ignoring customer emails and start offering a way to communicate with the company. According to the German Telemedia Act says, companies must provide a way to ensure fast electronic communications with them. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV) argued that Google’s support address is a black box in which messages disappear into a void.

This doesn’t mean that every incoming email should now be checked and processed individually by a Google employee, the court said. But the company has to provide the possibility for users to contact it via email, it said. It was left up to Google how to deal with future incoming email. If Google does not change its conduct, it could be fined up to €250,000 (about US$323,000) (PDF in German), the court said.

Links

  1. "Hugh Pickens" - http://respectponcacity.com/
  2. "German court has has ruled that Google must stop ignoring customer emails" - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2606212/german-court-requires-google-to-stop-ignoring-customer-emails.html
  3. "could be fined up to €250,000 (about US$323,000) (PDF in German)" - http://www.vzbv.de/cps/rde/xbcr/vzbv/google-lg_berlin-2014-08-28.pdf

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