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Testing Zappos’ Customer Service Reputation

January 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Big Companies, Lovely People, Lovely to Staff

Zappos – the online shoe retailer – is famous for their customer service. When Andrew Warner interviewed Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh last year, he put the company’s reputation to the test live on air!

Andrew had heard that if a product listed on the Zappos website is out of stock then the customer service team will actually help you order the item from one of their competitors – they’d rather help you out in some way even if it means losing your business in the short term. Luckily for Tony the experiment worked perfectly and the customer service rep was quite prepared to help out!

You can listen to the interview here:

Previous coverage of Zappos here and here.

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  • http://sellsellsell.salesnexus.com Anh

    LinkExchange – brought back some memories. Great interview. Good customer service is even more important now during the hard times.

  • http://mixergy.com Andrew Warner

    Glad my interview was helpful.

  • http://wishli.st DHS

    Glad you enjoyed it! I agree that customer service is especially important now!

  • http://www.userinsight.com consumer product research

    Good Job interviewing them it helps a lot…. Costumer Service is important nowadays so we must not forget it.. Thanks for your wonderful blog post. I really appreciate it.