Announcing the J-List Support Center
At J-List, we all work hard to be the very best company we can be, bringing you fun and wacky products like Hello Kitty toilet paper . As the Internet has matured, the wonderful tool that is email has become somewhat less reliable, and sometimes when you send an email to someone it seems to go nowhere. Over the past few months, we've become aware that J-List's email is not as reliable as it should be, and that more than a few customers have asked us questions about their orders and have gotten no reply from us due to these email problems. J-List takes communication very seriously (as customers who have gotten emails from me at 2 am can attest), and it really makes us sad that some customers have been unable to reach us easily. Today we're happy to announce a sweeping replacement for our contact form, the J-List Support Center located at http://help.jlist.com, a secure new contact database that you can use to ask J-List anything about our products, your order, or what the weather is like in Japan this week. You might not even need to ask, though, because the system has a complete Knowledge Base with articles that help you find the information you need yourself, including many articles on potential issues with our PC dating-sim games. All emails will be tracked with tickets, and you can read our replies by logging into the contact system if emails don't reach you for some reason. We sincerely apologize to any customer who ever had a question that didn't get replied to due to email issues, and we think the new support center is going to make it much easier for you to get fast answers from us. Expect more good things from J-List! As always, feedback is welcome.




10 Comments:
an excellent idea, Mr. Payne! kudos on it, Tim
6:05 AM
Always making thing better for us customers. Good deal. One request though, is it possible to make the landing page remember our choice for seeing the adult side so we don't have to click it all the time?
6:20 AM
A good start, but I've been hoping you might set up an online community for users to share stories, support each other and provide feedback/ratings on products. I love the blog, but I think some peer interaction would be great too. Any plans for that on the horizon?
4:27 PM
Thanks for the feedback. Theillien, you can bookmark the http://www.jlist.com/index.html page and you'll go right back there, that might be easier. Kamikyo, that would be a good idea. We sort of have that with the games forums on otakuism.com, which WILL be updated soon and moved to a new site (can't talk about that right now though).
5:34 PM
That works when directly going to the page, Peter but, when clicking on items in your Cool Items posts it heads to the landing page first.
5:33 AM
Ah, I see. Hmm, it's supposed to remember the choice in a cookie and automatically redirect after the first time, does this not work? Make sure your browser will accept cookies (all should, its not 1994 anymore), and that the "remember this choice" box is checked.
9:07 AM
hmmm...I never even realized there is a "Remember my choice" box. That said, I double checked everything and the box is selected and cookies are enabled. I verified that there are no exceptions for J-List to not be saved.
As someone that works in IT, I'll be quite embarrassed if I'm still doing something wrong. Not that I wish for you folks to be making a mistake. ;)
12:34 AM
Odd, can you try it in another browser?
1:40 AM
I tried in IE7 (I use FF3). When I went to J-List directly I was presented with the landing page with no "Remember my choice" check box (I've never used IE7 to go to J-List so I had no cookies saved). After clicking on the "I'm 18 or older" option I was taken to the electronic signature page where I entered my birthday and selected the "Remember" box.
I then closed IE7, reopened it and navigated back to J-List. I was again taken to the landing page. This time the "Remember my choice" box was present.
So, it doesn't seem to be browser specific. However, I don't discount that I could still be doing something wrong.
5:53 AM
Hmm, trying it in a fresh Vista install. This url should show the yes/no box if you have no cookie, then remember the choice after that. Seems to work fine in IE7 and FF3 no problem. This is different cookie-wise from the manual login, which is what you get if you go to www.jlist.com directly, which asks for your birthday and records it. Can you try the redirect URL here and see if it works?
10:19 AM
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