Customer complaints and service policy in electronic commerce

South African Journal of Business Management

 
 
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Title Customer complaints and service policy in electronic commerce
 
Creator Fan, Y-W. Miao, Y-F. Wu, S-C.
 
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Description Handling customer complaints is an important strategy to retain customers. Therefore, in the event of service failure, e-retailers should concentrate on recovery policies. However, studies discussing prevention policies to avoid customer complaints are scant. This study collected 5933 real customer complaint data from an electronic commerce customer-service database and classified customer complaints into 6 types. The findings showed that a number of customers were dishonest and took advantage of recovery policies. After interviewing business managers and consultants, this research suggests that e-retailers have prevention policies to guarantee accuracy of packaging and delivery processes. Prevention policies can reduce customer complaints, and avoid extra costs for businesses conducting recovery policies.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2013-09-30
 
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Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajbm.v44i3.158
 
Source South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 44, No 3 (2013); 15-20 2078-5976 2078-5585
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Y-W. Fan, Y-F. Miao, S-C. Wu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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