eBay CEO Devin Wenig Announces Bilingual Customer Service

by: geoffreymason

MORE EBAY NONSENSE

by: ebayout

Will they charge for that?...they don't do anything unless it involves an income stream.

by: FidoMaster

Ebay needs to provide on-shore US-based service reps to store subscribers.  

They also have very poor internal communication (as documented internet-wide). Service reps are generally clueless about the goings-on related to critical site changes, marketing programs and various "testing" activities affecting paying seller customers.  

by: Ric

Move along folks.... nothing to see here.

Another eBay announcement that is driven solely by the need to keep Wall Street analysts engaged and talking positively about the company.

The fact is eBay should have been offering customer service to all sellers using reps that are dedicated to that sellers in their country all along.

As others have pointed out, eBay customer service reps are woefully uninformed, an issue that is only exasperated when users can not speak to a rep who natively speaks that individuals language.

Making an announcement that reps will now be available to those who speak Spanish is not an advancement or enhancement as eBay is merely catching up with something that should have been in place on day one.

by: booklover27

Ha ha ha...hilarious.  They should get some customer reps that can speak English.  The anti-American mentality of this company is beyond me.  After lying, breaking promises and putting lots of small American companies out of business this is their idea of the month?  

Calling all Millennials..its time to take the internet away from these jerks!  Marketplaces are prime for the taking now.

by: Silver Ice King

So now they can spout the same lies and incorrect information in multiple languages.  How Devin of them to be so considerate of their sellers.  This probably also means they will be moving the CS from their international companies to one service center to once again cut down on costs as Ebay does not do anything that does not save money or generate another income stream.

They had already discussed charging for CS calls in the past so maybe this will be coming out in the Summer Seller Update.  Every time you contact CS you will be charged $2 or whatever number they come up with to cover all of their costs, but to also show an increase in Gross Revenue so they can show additional growth.

With all of the glitches that keep occurring and forcing sellers to contact CS this would be the perfect opportunity to generate additional income for Ebay as sellers would have to contact them to have the errors corrected.  That would be a pure Devin way of thinking and operating a company.

by: iheartjacksparrow

CSRs can barely speak English; how are they going to communicate in Spanish? I guess they're going to be using an app that hears the Spanish and then automatically translates to English, which will most likely result in lots of misinformation being given out.

As for what improvements could be made to customer service, how about training the CSRs so they actually know the policies and workings of eBay listings and can accurately communicate that to sellers/buyers, not just reading off a script, or doing a "find" in the TOS. If there's a problem, they need to take substantive action and see that issues are resolved quickly.

The last two times I called customer service, I was given information that had absolutely nothing to do with my problem, and it was obvious I knew more about eBay than they did. That needs to change.  

by: Castoman

How about adding English for those that prefer that?

by: pace306

@silverking :)

So now they can spout the same lies and incorrect information in multiple languages.

%100!

by: toolguy

Many people in the Philippines speak Spanish as a 2nd language. . .

Big thumbs up to eBay for helping Latino customers communicate better with customer service reps.

I wonder when they'll offer some sort of Chinese translators for our Far East friends?

by: Marie

I think it is wonderful that Ebay is adding CSRs that speak Spanish.  We have a large Latino population in the USA and think it is long overdue.

by: RKTOYS

You just can't make this stuff up.  I figured language number two would be Chinese or Spanish.  povertEbay fishing for those pennies again.

by: Marie

You all do realize that we have had Latinos as part of the US for a very long time, right?!?!?!  Puerto Rico is part of the US as well.

I think it is LONG overdue to include the CSRs that can speak Spanish.  We have lots of US Citizens that are Latino.  

by: pace306

Queridos vendedores de ebay de habla hispana: durante mucho tiempo hemos descuidado tener representantes que hablen español para que podamos explicar mejor lo que hacemos y por qué lo hacemos.

por lo tanto, estamos anunciando nuestro nuevo equipo de representantes de habla hispana eho csn help.

en primer lugar, tomar pérdidas es parte del negocio, las súplicas toman uno para nosotros.

en segundo lugar, no tenemos idea de cómo dirigir una empresa, pero los errores suenan mejor en otro idioma.

gracias

by: geoffreymason

Marie: I think that the "large Latino population" in the USA is "long overdue" in learning to communicate in English.

by: Rexford

Calling all Wall Street Analysts!  The eBay carnival barker has spoken.

by: ebayout

Hey Wenig...howz about...
"If English is your native language, press 1"
...and you go to the Utah call center.
...which would then have to triple in size.

by: iheartjacksparrow

@geoffreymason - I totally agree with you. If I moved to Mexico, I certainly wouldn't expect everyone to start talking in English to me; I'd need to learn to speak Spanish if I wanted to talk with people.

by: pace306

Thank you for calling eBay.

Please remember that your call may be recorded in case the Cupcake or the Grifter wishes to learn something about ecommerce:

If you want to know why eBay is stealing from you in english, press 1

If you want to know why eBay is stealing from you in SPANISH, press 2

if you wish to let us off load the job of creating the catalog on you in either language, press 3

If you wish to confirm that DW is a moron, press 7 or wait for an uninformed overseas CS agent who doesnt know the rules to help you

by: Ming the Merciless

Mas mentiras y mas robos son los mismos en cualquier idioma.

Renuncie su trabajo ahora mismo, Devin, y pase mas tiempo con su familia.