As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

This may indicate a co-owner as in a legal partnership or may be used in a general way to refer to a broad class of employees or temporary / contract workers who are often assigned field or customer service work.

An example would be Call Center software which helps to direct a customer to the agent who can best help them with their current problem.

When available, cash out is convenient for the customer, who can bypass having to visit a bank branch or ATM.

Printers congregated in urban centres where there were scholars, ecclesiastics, lawyers, nobles and professionals who formed their major customer base.

Any customer who opted to keep theirs was required to sign a waiver indicating their understanding that no more software would be written for the system and which absolved Intellivision of any future responsibility for technical support.

The sketch portrays a conflict between disgruntled customer Mr Praline ( played by Cleese ) and a shopkeeper ( Michael Palin ), who hold contradictory positions on the vital state of a " Norwegian Blue " parrot.

As such, the customer who comes in with this TV that they paid $ 1000 for when it was new may be offered as little as $ 50 by the pawnshop owner, who is taking into account all of the risk and cost factors.

Tony Hines defines value as follows: “ Ultimately it is the customer who pays the price for service delivered that confirms value and not the producer who simply adds cost until that point ”

The last VAT amount is paid by the eventual retail customer who cannot recover any of the previously paid VAT.

However, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small businesses whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters ; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year ( without flights ) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced.

The customer simply adjusts their configuration to include the correct community ( ies ) for each route, and the ISP is responsible for controlling who the prefix is advertised to.

ACD systems are often found in offices that handle large volumes of incoming phone calls from callers who have no need to talk to a specific person but who require assistance from any of multiple persons ( e. g., customer service representatives ) at the earliest opportunity.

Various vendors and individuals ( even those who were not part of the original group ) can use the standards document to make products that implement the common protocol defined in the standard, and are thus interoperable by design, with no specific liability or advantage for any customer for choosing one product over another on the basis of standardised features.

A customer who orders a DS3 usually receives a SONET circuit run into the building and a multiplexer mounted in a utility box.

The visitor, who was accompanied by two men, inquired about rides at the customer service counter.

: One sketch featured an employee ( McCulloch ) at a counter who loans a customer ( McDonald ) his ballpoint.

Consider a customer purchasing an item which costs five pence, who possesses several silver sixpence coins.

The customer then takes this receipt to a nearby sales clerk, who then exchanges it for cash from the till.

For this market, the producer would charge 60 cents and thus exclude every customer who had less than 60 cents of marginal benefit.

Of particular importance during this period was his encounter with Charles Fourier, who in 1829 came to Gauthier as a customer seeking to publish his work Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et Sociétaire.

There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.

Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.

Management or the customer may be upset with the planners as an overly conservative baseline ties up available funds for other purposes, and the baseline is also used for manpower planning.

Where a customer has provided sufficient identifying information, the loyalty card may also be used to access such information to expedite verification during receipt of cheques or dispensing of medical prescription preparations, or for other membership privileges ( e. g., access to a club lounge in airports, using a frequent flyer card ).

Alternatively, a customer may offer to pawn an item that is difficult to sell, such as a surfboard in an inland region, or a pair of snowshoes in tropical or sub-tropical regions.

For example, a five-year-old 42 " Sony TV may have been bought by the customer for $ 1000.

Determining if the customer is likely to return to reclaim an item is a subjective decision, and wily customers may attempt to persuade the pawnshop owner that the item in question is important to them (" that necklace belonged to my grandmother, so I will certainly return for it "), and they will claim that they will return to recover it.

The saleability of the item and the amount that the customer wants for it are also factored into the pawnbroker's assessment ; if a customer offers a very salable item at a low price, the pawnbroker may accept it even if it is unlikely that the customer will return, because the pawnshop can turn around a quick profit on the item.

If a customer offers a top quality, brand-name valuable at too low a price the pawnbroker may turn down the offer, because this suggests that the item may either be counterfeit or stolen.

A pawnshop in a low-income neighborhood that pays a customer $ 300 for a power amplifier with a used value of $ 2000 may find the unit hard to sell alongside much less expensive merchandise.

A post office may have a main customer service and point of sale area.

For example, a company may outsource only its software development, the manufacturing of hard goods, or customer support needs to another company, while handling the business management itself.

These oracles may include ( but are not limited to ) specifications, contracts, comparable products, past versions of the same product, inferences about intended or expected purpose, user or customer expectations, relevant standards, applicable laws, or other criteria.

Business plans may also target changes in perception and branding by the customer, client, taxpayer, or larger community.

Alternate party diversion is an optional feature of telephone services, whereby a call may be routed to a different number based on time-out and precedence schemes set up by the customer.

BSEs constitute optional capabilities to which the customer may subscribe or decline to subscribe.

Termination equipment that ( a ) is located on the customer premises and ( b ) performs a function that may be integrated into the common carrier equipment.

Moreover, the larger and more aggressive mass distribution outlets and chain stores have insisted on high quality -- and the customer seems to have caught on.

Sailfish are so plentiful that boat captains have been known to bet with a potential customer that if he does not catch anything the trip is free.

Market forces and customer demand have encouraged many restaurants to offer " MSG Free " or " No MSG " menus.

The Boxing Day sales have the potential for customer stampedes, injuries and even fatalities.

In more recent years, they have stepped up the fight against money laundering, by limiting banking secrecy, introducing requirements for customer identification and record keeping, and requiring banks to cooperate with foreign investigators.

Some developments and shifts have made companies more conscious of the life-cycle of a customer relationship management system.

Test users can also provide feedback from a targeted audience: a software development team creating a customer relationship management software system for higher education can have a user with a similar profile explore the technology, offering opportunities to cater the further development of the system.

Some corporations and supermarkets have introduced self-checkout machines, where the customer is trusted to scan the barcodes ( or manually identify uncoded items like fruit ), and place the items into a bagging area.

Internet service providers ( ISPs ) have used PPP for customer dial-up access to the Internet, since IP packets cannot be transmitted over a modem line on their own, without some data link protocol.

Private companies and firms have a greater incentive to produce more goods and services for the sake of reaching a customer base and hence increasing profits.

Interpersonal communication and public speaking have several components that embrace such things as motivational speaking, leadership / personal development, business, customer service, large group communication, and mass communication.

In each of the cases, the customer or object at the front of the line was the first one to enter, while at the end of the line is the last to have entered.

Quality System requirements for medical have been internationally recognized as a way to assure product safety and efficacy and customer satisfaction since at least 1983, and were instituted as requirements in a final rule published on October 7, 1996.

If we attempted to insert a new customer with the ID 1234567890, this would violate the design of the relvar since < u > Customer ID </ u > is a primary key and we already have a customer 1234567890.

Instances have been known, from at least the 1960s, of companies delaying release of fixes or patches to suit their corporate priorities rather than customer concerns or risks.

Business class passengers as well as members of the Priority Pass, Airport Angel ( including Diners Club ) and Metropolis regular customer programme have access to Linda Lounge, located in the closed area of the passenger terminal next to gate 7.

As a result, many customer service jobs as well as jobs in the information technology sectors ( data processing, computer programming, and technical support ) in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have been or are potentially affected.

To be eligible for sub-capacity licensing, a z / OS customer must be running in 64-bit mode ( which requires z / Architecture hardware ), must have completely eliminated OS / 390 from the system, and must e-mail IBM monthly sub-capacity reports.