Please NI - give us an email address where we can get support from a real person.

Markus_S
Markus_S Member Posts: 1 Newcomer
edited October 22 in Komplete General

I'm a little bit in disbelieve, I love NI products and have many of them and will still get more. But when I tried to buy an Update for Komplete on the website my VAT number wasn't taken into account, so I thought, no problem, I'M JUST GONNA DROP AN EMAIL TO SUPPORT.

Well, easier said than done, it takes me to endless menus switching in language (and I tried several of them) and in the end to a page "This page is not available".

No Email, no chat, no phone number, no way to contact a real person.

So I went over to Thomann and ordered the Komplete update with no incident.

Please NI don't give us this neglected customer support like huge corporate firms that will avoid at any price to communicate directly with their customers. Give us a person we can talk to - an easy-to-find email address, phone number & chat.

Love your products, keep it up!

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  • Kubrak
    Kubrak Member Posts: 3,066 Expert

    If you open Ticket you comunicate with real person. At least, it was like that in past. But it takes day, two, three.

    And sometimes I had the feeling that the person did not read carefully. Probably reading too fast. So, it seems to me, writting very short and condensed description works best.

    Live Chat used to work fine for more complicated things, but I am not sure if it still works.

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 12,971 mod
    edited July 2023 Answer ✓

    Not sure what happened here, we have a dedicated support section with typeforms where you can always submit a request, I've just checked now and it's totally working, in both french and english. There is even an article explaining how it works: How to Contact NI Support

    Here is the link to our support section: https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us

  • iam1788
    iam1788 Member Posts: 1 Member

    I am having similar problems. After reporting a distortion problem (Support ticket 2912309) using the new update 6.7.1 in Kontakt 6 I received an email requesting me to create snapshot of my system in a file called “NI_support_Info.zip”. This file is 31.5 MB.

    I tried to send this on an isp linked to my account but they only allowed 10mb.

    I then tried to send the file on my hotmail account (Support ticket (2912060) but they said I couldn't reply to the Zendesk email platform used by NI.

    When I asked how to get the requested file to NI I got a reply saying that I couldn't reply to this email address.

    All emails (including the one saying I couldn't reply to this address) had the message:

    ##- Please type your reply above this line -## above the text.

    Now I have two support tickets open which I know is wasting both NI and my time.

    NI are probably waiting for the requested file before continuing with my support ...... only I can't get it to them. It does seem like a standard reply which is impossible to fulfil.

    I have watched all the support videos for an answer. I have also looked for my support tickets in My Account but can't find them.

    In the Kontakt forum threads a solution was to re-install Kontakt. I have tried to do this three times with varying degrees of success.

    I have been using Kontakt for sixteen years and never had this problem before

    So, unfortunately, I agree that the NI support system is very inefficient and I cannot get any help either.

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 12,971 mod
    edited June 2022

    Hey @iam1788 About your request 2912060, my colleague got back to you on June 8th and got no reply from you. If you haven't seen that answer yet, I would recommend checking your inbox, inbox filters and spam folders and get back to him.

  • shaliss
    shaliss Member Posts: 1 Newcomer 
    How do I buy original spare parts trakto s4 mk3 potentiometers???
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  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 12,971 mod

    @shaliss you should get in touch with our hardware department: https://bit.ly/NISupport_Hardware

  • Matt_NI
    Matt_NI Administrator Posts: 1,130 admin
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/51289#Comment_51289

    Jumping here as I might have a bit more insights than Jeremy on this one. The teams both in support are still handing the incoming requests and there is still a real person if you are sending us a ticket. It is true that we've had to re-center everything around our contact forms and are aligning the iZo / NI team together, which is maybe why things take a bit more time than usual. The support teams are not responsible for what's happening on the social side and unfortunately, we're also moving to other places than Facebook. You can still DM us on Instagram.

    I see you sent us four requests recently and I can assure you we will be in touch as soon as possible.

    With that said, I'd love to share your feedback to our team and for context, I would like to understand what is your biggest issue right now - the waiting time, the channels you can use to contact us or more generally disappointment towards the product you are buying (also judging at the request you sent us lately) ?

  • Matt_NI
    Matt_NI Administrator Posts: 1,130 admin
    edited February 2023

    @aidenstunes I know you really want a 24/7 chat feature but it just not possible. Our support decided to set everything up via email and they usually have a turn around time of 48-72h. This is definitely something we'd hope to get faster at (actually the large majority of last year we had a reply time below 24h) but that is the expectation atm.

    On a personal note, I know pretty well how technical support works at NI and I honestly believe live chat is not a great tool for the types of issues we face in our world. It might be relevant for other areas like account but for bug reports / technical issues / set-up questions ... it would just be unmanageable for the volume we have.

  • YRohatiner
    YRohatiner Member Posts: 3 Newcomer

    I am in desperate need of support from NI and they aren't answering! My production work for clients is backed up because of this. I opened a support ticket a few days ago, but nothing.

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 12,971 mod

    Hey @YRohatiner You submitted your request on Monday at 16:48. We're in the middle of a sales special so they have a lot of requests to process, but do not worry my colleagues will get back to you soon.

  • YRohatiner
    YRohatiner Member Posts: 3 Newcomer

    Thanks for getting back! Hope they do

  • OSKAR97
    OSKAR97 Member Posts: 3 Newcomer

    I need to talk to someone about resetting registration codes and permissions to use my hardware?

  • OSKAR97
    OSKAR97 Member Posts: 3 Newcomer

    @Jeremy_NI Do you have any advice for the issue above please?

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 12,971 mod

    @OSKAR97 This is where to contact my colleagues for your registration issues: https://bit.ly/NIsupport_RA

  • OSKAR97
    OSKAR97 Member Posts: 3 Newcomer

    @Jeremy_NI I’ve tried going through this link but I cant find the resource for my particular issue.

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