This is good news - we almost had a call center in our area but they decided despite huge tax cuts, incentives, etc. that it would be too expensive to run so they are looking elsewhere. Dolores ----- Original Message ----- From: "David F. Wooledge" <wooledge001@xxxxxxxx> To: "PcTechTalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:01 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Technical Support >A while thee was a thread concerning tech support by computer manufactures >and software companies. The short article below and the link to the full >article is good news. Often when you call any company for tech or other >help and even to order a product, the call goes to a large call center that >answers for many other companies. This can be a reason for poor help has >the employee is reading from a script and that script is all she knows >about your product. Here in Erie we have two large companies that run call >centers and the people answer calls for many companies, at one time even >the old ATT phone company. > > > Gateway takes support to the heartland > PC maker unveils facility to help reduce amount of customer support it > outsources to other companies. > Thursday July 13, 2006 01:41PM PDT > > Dave -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/