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urquattrogus

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Sounds frustrating although it does sound like a minor issue.

Is it not possible to use Tidal, Quobuz, Apple Music or Spotify instead?

I like Tidal in the car, high res files that can be downloaded for on the go or streamed at medium quality if the data signal is there.
 

Ewan

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Is the problem related to Amazon and the deal they have with Hyundai/Kia/Genesis, (such as a software or licence issue) or is it just a glitch with your personal car? If it is a problem across all the cars with this feature, you'd have to assume they'd have a team of people already working on it, as it would be affecting thousands of vehicles.
But if it is only your car, is it not something your local dealer would have to fix under warranty?

What are people saying on the Hyundai/Kia/Genesis forum?
 

Scaf

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Whether or not they are or not, you’ve reduced an adult to tears to the point fellow staff members have sought to intervene


And you’ve come on here to brag about it?
Well said, if a customer reduced one of my staff to tears their problem would likely take much longer to resolve.
 

Oneball

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With alarms that would wake the dead (assuming they'd slept through the bloody thing boiling!)

Parent and parents in law had one both!

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When we were much younger a friend of mine was staying over at his in laws. He and his Mrs peered out from under the covers after some morning nookie to find two bacon sandwiches and a pot of tea on the bedside table.
 

MarkMas

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When we were much younger a friend of mine was staying over at his in laws. He and his Mrs peered out from under the covers after some morning nookie to find two bacon sandwiches and a pot of tea on the bedside table.

A friend of mine, working in Norway in the 1980s, picked up a girl in a bar who took him home with her. He and she peered out from under the covers after some morning nookie to find a middle aged woman with a tray of tea in the doorway, who said (first in Norwegian, and then in English) "Oh, hello, I've made some tea to help you start your day, because I don't want my daughter to be late for school."
 

keith

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Let me get this straight

An self admitted minor problem

For which it is highly likely the UK staff are unable to help with - if they could sort it they would

Largely because this is a macro problem affecting all sorts of vehicles and only solvable at an international level

The videos you sent may or may not be appropriate or viewable on a customer service computer

Whether or not they are or not, you’ve reduced an adult to tears to the point fellow staff members have sought to intervene


And you’ve come on here to brag about it?
With respect, you have got the situation anything but straight...
 
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keith

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Well said, if a customer reduced one of my staff to tears their problem would likely take much longer to resolve.
As I replied to the person that posted this comment, you are speaking without knowledge of the facts.
Since the entirely inappropriate choice of language by the C.S representative, who as I say strangely thought he could talk to a customer like that, completely ignoring the daft questions asked by the woman on Monday, I sent an email to the UK Sales director of Genesis cars. The following day - Wednesday, I received a call from a lady who is the Head of marketing for the brand.
Painted against a picture of me being described as one of the best customer's Genesis have in the UK, so much so they wanted to interview me for their publicity, those at that level of seniority were shocked by the behaviour of the C.S team. She explained that they were in the process of setting up a new purely Genesis C.S Department and they had assigned a member of this team to me for future contact. They have also offered to make gesture of good will to me for this ongoing problem. Finally she intimated the the team I had been speaking to were only a stop gap until the new group were assembled.
The problem with Customer Service in the UK, is for the most part, there is no Customer service. The advisor on Monday, if she can't deal with an angry frustrated customer, then she should work in a different environment. I am never rude nor do I ever use foul and abusive language, such behaviour is utterly unacceptable, however to demand some kind of resolution, or at least to advise me as to what is going on to resolve the problem, I maintain as perfectly acceptable.
I posted on a HMG forum the issue and have had many responses echoing the problem I have, with one reply essentially repeating my frustration in the customer service operations.
It used to be the case the customer was always right, not anymore in this woke ridden country!
 

keith

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Sounds frustrating although it does sound like a minor issue.

Is it not possible to use Tidal, Quobuz, Apple Music or Spotify instead?

I like Tidal in the car, high res files that can be downloaded for on the go or streamed at medium quality if the data signal is there.
Your right it is a minor issue, and I have Amazon supposedly trying to find a fix.
What bothers me is the total lack of interest the customer service team seem to have shown in something that has been ongoing for months.
I'm the first to accept things go 'wrong', but at least give the pretence that your trying to find a solution!
 

philw696

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I still think I'm a lot happier thinking which cassette tape do I want to take out of my storage box and play on my particular journey.
I'm thinking the Jam this morning :)
 

zagatoes30

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Cassette storage boxes, there's a thing as rare as cassettes themselves. I remember when car manufacturers started putting cassette storage slots in the centre dashboard or armrest, some actual took the whole cassette case where as others just took the cassette itself the idea being it was easier to just put a new cassette in the player and put the old one back in the slot rather than find the right case. The downside was it led to so many lost cases.
 

keith

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Cassette storage boxes, there's a thing as rare as cassettes themselves. I remember when car manufacturers started putting cassette storage slots in the centre dashboard or armrest, some actual took the whole cassette case where as others just took the cassette itself the idea being it was easier to just put a new cassette in the player and put the old one back in the slot rather than find the right case. The downside was it led to so many lost cases.
And a rattles from the cassettes...
 

Tallman

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This makes me smile (but not out of happiness..). Since the invention of software it has always shipped in a less than ready state, with customers left to wait for updates which then in turn would have its own bugs. Now that software has found its way into nearly everything we buy it means that nothing works as intended from the get go…and we used to complain about say Landrover and stuff (=hardware) breaking all the time.…now that I mentioned Landrover, the Car Play in my Defender has never worked as intended and I’ve given up asking the sales rep and service manager if a solution is near as they wouldn’t have a clue anyway, nor would a call centre operator. Them complaining or sending feedback or escalating it will in 99% of the cases also do b*gger all
 

DLax69

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Vast improvement over these:

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DLax69

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This makes me smile (but not out of happiness..). Since the invention of software it has always shipped in a less than ready state, with customers left to wait for updates which then in turn would have its own bugs. Now that software has found its way into nearly everything we buy it means that nothing works as intended from the get go…and we used to complain about say Landrover and stuff (=hardware) breaking all the time.…now that I mentioned Landrover, the Car Play in my Defender has never worked as intended and I’ve given up asking the sales rep and service manager if a solution is near as they wouldn’t have a clue anyway, nor would a call centre operator. Them complaining or sending feedback or escalating it will in 99% of the cases also do b*gger all
...I also have a child who's never worked as intended, and asking his mother to get him up off his duff is pointless, frustrating, and does b*gger all.