Monitor start-up Dough promises full and fast refunds

pcgamer.com:

Fair to say Dough, the monitor start-up formerly known as Eve, has had a bumpy start to its existence. Now the company wants to get on top of its problems once and for all with a new promise to process all remaining refunds and address other customer concerns rapidly.

The Verge reports that Dough has a new online customer resolution form for expediting refunds and other claims. Dough told the Verge that it has already processed a fairly staggering 25,000 refunds, with two percent of claims remaining outstanding. It's unclear exactly how rapidly claimants can expect a response when submitting the form.

Dough is actually being up front about its motivations here. “Especially now that we are launching in retail and shipping online from our webshop in 48 hours, we really want to improve our reputation,” Dough co-founder Konstantinos Karatsevidis says.

You could say that Dough is moving into a more mainstream retail space and with that will come more mainstream expectations, the sort of expectations which involve ordering a product and assuming it will turn up shortly afterwards.

Of course, it doesn't take long to dig up tales of woe involving Dough. Everything from very slow product deliveries to failure to refund and even claims that the outfit is little more than a scam have been discussed on Reddit. Some also complain that warranties aren't honoured and repairs aren't carried out.

The new customer resolution form has also inspired pushback for requesting the claimant's Reddit username, though it's unclear that this is an actual requirement for processing rather than an optional data point.

Likewise, it's hard to know with certainty just how many people have been left without product or refunds over the last few years,