Article: Lessons to be learned: Listening and loyalty: E-commerce vendors need to be more attentive to consumer feedback. (Quint's online).

Basically, e-commerce dot-coms have two major problems. One, they're too big. Two, they're too small. Like the pelican, their eyes can hold more than their belly can, to quote Dixon Lanier Merritt's limerick (no, it's not Ogden Nash). They have the ambition and the platform to serve a world of consumers, but they often lack the staff, resources, and installations to perform that most essential of functions in any grand marketing effort: listening. The best and brightest of them have, of course, established reliable, accommodating ways of processing complaints about orders. If you can't do that, then customers will not only leave you, they'll take their friends, neighbors, ...

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