But how much staff time have you actually spent dealing with this? Your
time is worth some serious $$! Any good subscription agent--EBSCO, Swets,
Harrassowitz and others could save you a lot of time and headaches by
taking this problem off your hands.  Money definitely well spent in my
opinion!

Susan

Susan Davis
Electronic Resources Acquisitions Librarian
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY  14260-2210
(716) 645-2784
(716) 645-5955 fax
unlsdb@buffalo.edu

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--On Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:59 PM +0000 Carly Bachman
<carlywood@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am wondering if anyone has had serious customer service issues with
> Wiley and if/how you successfully resolved the problem(s)...
>
> Months ago we started trying to contact Wiley in order to try and receive
> price quotes for our Blackwell subscriptions that were being transferred.
> We were told that regular renewal invoices would be sent out shortly.  We
> have never received anything and our subscriptions are set to expire at
> the end of the year.  When I finally called them directly in October, we
> were told that the customer agent assigned to our account was no longer
> in the subscriptions dept. and they would forward my information to
> someone else.  This person never contacted me, so eventually I made
> contact with him after multiple email and phone call attempts.
>
> At this point I actually became briefly optimistic because this person
> seemed responsive to our request for price quotes and questions regarding
> the new pricing models.  He asked us for some further information about
> our Library's users and IP addresses, which I sent off the same day.
> That was a month ago.  Unfortunately, I have not heard back from him
> since then.  I have written multiple emails.  I have called.  Yesterday
> our chief librarian sent an email to someone else she hopes might be in
> charge of marketing or general services, but we are beginning to lose all
> hope that they have any intention of responding to us.
>
> Has anyone else had anything like this happen?  Any advice for someone
> pretty new to this?  I am completely at a loss and am not sure what to
> do....switch all the subscriptions to someone like Swets?  This
> unfortunately might cost much more than staying with Wiley.
>
> Thank you for any and all advice you can offer us.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carly Bachman
> ECLAC Library
> United Nations
> Santiago, Chile
>
>
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