Fellow CX professional Jason Kapel
told me about a recent experience at ABRA Auto Body. He had his car repaired, and while the experience itself was fine, he found the flier to the right attached to his receipt.
If there was a Hall of Fame for the Hall of Shame, this would have a good chance of winning Most Blatant Example of Survey Manipulation. Not only does it tell the customer exactly how they want each question answered, at the bottom of the flier it instructs the customer not to take the survey if there was some problem with the repair.
Needless to say, this survey is not likely to get much honest and unbiased feedback from customers, nor is it going to identify ways to improve the customer experience. Pretty much the only thing this survey will do is allow the manager to boast about his great survey scores and claim whatever reward (or avoid whatever punishment) results from hitting his numbers.
All of which begs the question, what’s the point of doing this survey?
I have to assume that either ABRA is unaware that their survey is being blatantly manipulated, or they don’t care. Neither possibility speaks well to the level of commitment and attention the company is paying to improve their customer experience.
