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Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews? I have email
addressses & have looked through their FAQs, but can't come up with
anything. Any help? Thanks

the loner wrote:
> Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews?


Giga sez they offer only email support, not telephone, telegraph, or
videophone..

How do I contact Giganews?
Giganews provides all support and customer service through email.
http://www.giganews.com/faq.html

addies for sales, support, and billing.

They also have an online webform http://www.giganews.com/contact.html

The domainname registration information, snailmail address for the
corporate offices, telno & faxno in Austin TX are not customer service
numbers.

They occupy Suite 500 in the Terrace II commercial building seen here
from the street
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/bizsp...home=1&t=lease

and here from the air. http://snipurl.com/o495 a snurled googlemaps
hybridview


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"Mike Easter" <> wrote in message
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> the loner wrote:
>> Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews?
>
>
> Giga sez they offer only email support, not telephone, telegraph, or
> videophone..
>
> How do I contact Giganews?
> Giganews provides all support and customer service through email.
> http://www.giganews.com/faq.html
>
> addies for sales, support, and billing.
>
==Yup, got all that

> They also have an online webform http://www.giganews.com/contact.html

==Yup, got all that

> The domainname registration information, snailmail address for the
> corporate offices, telno & faxno in Austin TX are not customer service
> numbers.
>
> They occupy Suite 500 in the Terrace II commercial building seen here
> from the street
> http://pacific.bizjournals.com/bizsp...home=1&t=lease
>
> and here from the air. http://snipurl.com/o495 a snurled googlemaps
> hybridview
>
>
> --
> Mike Easter

yea, but.....no phone? Guess I could go visit...heh
Thanks for the info Mike
loner

>

the loner wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> Giganews provides all support and customer service through email.

Notice the *all* -- I interpret that as meaning all CS thru' email and
*only* email, no other modality.

> ==Yup, got all that

Be sure to get the nuance I'm emphasizing.. Not just that there are 3
email addies for support and CS, but that that email is the *only*
support they offer. There is no other mode provided, with the exception
of the web form access which I'm sure results in email correspondence,
since an email addy is a required field for the form to work.

> yea, but.....no phone?

Correct. Corporate and domain registration telno, but no customer
service telno.

> Guess I could go visit...heh

Austin TX is a great little city; not so little any more, like it was
in the old days.

Telephone support is very problematic in terms of cost, and a lot of
companies do it very badly. There are many modern day operations which
strongly prefer email and other forms of non-telephone support.

You would think that as a news provider, giganews might have some
support newsgroups on their servers which don't propagate, but I don't
see any mention of it on the site.


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"Mike Easter" <> wrote in message
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> the loner wrote:
>> "Mike Easter"
>
>>> Giganews provides all support and customer service through email.
>
> Notice the *all* -- I interpret that as meaning all CS thru' email and
> *only* email, no other modality.
>
>> ==Yup, got all that
>
> Be sure to get the nuance I'm emphasizing.. Not just that there are 3
> email addies for support and CS, but that that email is the *only*
> support they offer. There is no other mode provided, with the exception
> of the web form access which I'm sure results in email correspondence,
> since an email addy is a required field for the form to work.
>
>> yea, but.....no phone?
>
> Correct. Corporate and domain registration telno, but no customer
> service telno.
>
>> Guess I could go visit...heh
>
> Austin TX is a great little city; not so little any more, like it was
> in the old days.
>
> Telephone support is very problematic in terms of cost, and a lot of
> companies do it very badly. There are many modern day operations which
> strongly prefer email and other forms of non-telephone support.
>
> You would think that as a news provider, giganews might have some
> support newsgroups on their servers which don't propagate, but I don't
> see any mention of it on the site.
>
>
> --
> Mike Easter

Yes, I did understand what you were saying--I was being a little sarcastic.
And yes, the web form access is an email...however, I will say that they
have responded promptly to me (althought not really answering my question).
Many of their answers seem to be being read off a kind of customer support
check list--kinda like comcast
I looked for a giganews newsgroup as well. Ah well, as I said, they at least
reply. I ended up resolving the problem myself, so no big deal...and you're
probably right, actually speaking to customer support sometimes results in
homicidal thoughts, so email only access is probably wise
>

"the loner" <> wrote in message
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> Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews? I have
> email addressses & have looked through their FAQs, but can't come up
> with anything. Any help? Thanks
>


Did you try calling the phone number listed in their domain
registration?

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:35:27 -0800, "the loner" <>
wrote:

>Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews? I have email
>addressses & have looked through their FAQs, but can't come up with
>anything. Any help? Thanks
>
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=giganews.com

"Vanguard" <> wrote in message
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> "the loner" <> wrote in message
> news:O-...
>> Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews? I have
>> email addressses & have looked through their FAQs, but can't come up with
>> anything. Any help? Thanks
>>
>
>
> Did you try calling the phone number listed in their domain registration?

No, actually i don't even know how to do that--can you lead me there?
Thanks!
>
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"Clued Weasel" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:35:27 -0800, "the loner" <>
> wrote:
>
>>Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews? I have email
>>addressses & have looked through their FAQs, but can't come up with
>>anything. Any help? Thanks
>>
> http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=giganews.com

Thank you Weasel!!

"the loner" <> wrote in message
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> "Vanguard" ...
>>
>> "the loner" wrote in message ...
>>>
>>> Anyone have a customer service-type phone number forGiganews? I have
>>> email addressses & have looked through their FAQs, but can't come up
>>> with anything. Any help? Thanks
>>
>> Did you try calling the phone number listed in their domain
>> registration?
>
> No, actually i don't even know how to do that--can you lead me there?


http://www.dnsstuff.com/

Lots of useful tools there. Use the WhoIs to get the domain
registration for "giganews.com" (just enter the domain, not the hostname
[of "www"]).

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