1 /5 Don Dearth: Ok, this is for upper management. How inconvenient can you make it for your customers? When customer wants to do business with you they will either call or stop in. I like to call so I dont have to get in my car, drive there just to get a yes or no answer. When I lived in Bradenton, I had the Assistant Managers phone number that she gave to me on her business card. I could call that number and she would either answer or her voice mail would take my message and she would promptly call me back. She always made me feel important and a valued customer.
I can not say the same for the Green Cove Springs branch. Last year when I tried to call about getting an answer to a question I had in reference to a CD advertising that came directly to my cell phone, I could not reach the branch by phone. I spent over 45 minutes going around in circles by pushing buttons on my phone only to reach a call center. They promptly gave me the phone number for the branch and after dialing that number the circle started once again. I finally gave up, got in my car and drove to the bank just to get a "no" answer to my question.
I told this to the bank manager and ofcourse she apologized but I was still angry because all she had to do was be able to answer the phone. Today was the same. I called and could not get through to the bank. 45 minutes later I finally talk to a person and he assured me it was the number to Green Cove Springs branch. He was from the call center place so I asked him for the number for the CEO of Wells Fargo so I could inform him of the inconvenience there customers go through in just wanting to talk to some one at a branch. Well needless to say he does not know the phone numbers to the President, CEO, COO, or CFO. I was given the number to the branch and after calling that number the circle started once again. My wife and I got in our car, drove to the bank got in line and when we got to the teller we asked, (Did the Canadian money we ordered and paid for come in yet?) The answer was "No". Now I knew there was a possibility that I would make a trip to the bank for nothing but in my mind there was a 50/50 chance of it being there and I couldnt get through to the bank anyway.
The clincher was when we were told that the Canadian money was not there, I was informed that she saw that I had called several times by way of caller ID but was too busy to answer the phone. I was also told that others in the bank were too busy to answer also. When we were there, one person was on her computer, one was on the phone with a customer at her desk and one was a teller.
When your customers call they know what they are calling about. They dont want to hear all the phone promps. They called to talk with a person. Your call system does not work. My advice is to revamp it, get rid of it or better yet hire someone to answer your customer phone calls at the branch.
Im sure that Im not the only Wells Fargo customer who has experience such lack of telephone procedures.
Chief Operations Officer, Chief Executive Officer,
Vice President,
President, please change the way your customers currently have to contact there local bank branch.