Hopefully, some partners are already aware of the new processes that started today for faulty and returned Jump modems. Anna Paterson from Rangiora Library has been first to try out the new processes. Today, she assisted a customer set up their Skinny account, activate the modem and complete the Jump profile form – but Anna was then taken by surprise when the customer announced they had changed their mind and didn’t want the modem after all!
I suspect that Anna is not the first Jump partner to encounter customers who change their mind. But rather than consign the modem to the recycling bin, like we have been doing for the last 12 months, Anna was able to log the modem as a “returned modem” using the form here.
This form raises an alert with the Skinny Support team (not to be confused with the Skinny Care Team, who handle calls to the Skinny 0800 number). A Support Team member will de-link the modem from the customer’s account and reset it, ready for reissue, i.e. ensure that the initial 30GB data is available for a new user. When this has been actioned, Anna will receive an email from the Support team, advising her that the modem is now ready for reissue.
As this is only day one of our new processes, we are not exactly sure how long it will take for Anna to receive this email – she is going to let me know (and I will update this blog post accordingly). But we understand it should be ‘pretty quick’, like the same or next day.
6 January UPDATE: Anna has just advised me that she received confirmation from Skinny of the de-linking within 24 hours, so that’s pretty good.
In the meantime, we (DIAA) will add a comment to Column H in the partner’s GDoc Jump Register for the modem in question and mark Column B as ‘pending reset’. This has the short-term effect of reducing your stock levels by one. When we receive advice that the modem has been reset, we will remove these notes and the modem is added back as available stock, ready for reissue.
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