How To Reduce Refund Request
Author: N. Robbins
It's a double edged sword, this thing we call refund. By
offering the same, we could actually strengthen relationships
with our clients. They would trust us easier if they would be
assured that they could always return a product that would not
meet their expectations. On the other hand, refunds have been
abused by some quarters. Since we're dealing with digital
products, they could easily make a copy of the items they'll
buy, and then, request for a refund. In effect, these people
would be able to get our products for free, which would mean a
diminution of our profits.
So should you or shouldn't you offer refunds?
Well, you should know this much. Offering refunds is the
professional way of doing business. It's your way of telling
your customers that their patronage is valued and that their
trust would never be compromised.
The trick is not in refusing to offer refunds. It's in finding
ways on how to reduce refund requests. For this purpose, let us
enumerate six amazing ways that would help you limit the
incidence of refund requests.
1.Provide quality products. This, of course, is very
elementary. Refunds are borne out of customer dissatisfaction.
If the customer is satisfied, there would be no reason for them
to request for a refund. Providing excellent products truly
worth their time and hard-earned money would remove from their
minds any possibility of considering a chargeback.
2.Provide for an excellent customer support system. Many
online businessmen believe that customer support is unnecessary
for an online enterprise. This is a false notion. On the
contrary, a customer support system would increase the value of
your product and drastically reduce your refund rate. Knowing
that their grievances can be coursed through a given channel
would dissuade your customers from resorting to refunds.
3.Provide lifetime updates. You may have noticed the
preponderance of offers with lifetime updates as of late. There
is more psychology to this strategy than what is readily
apparent. By providing lifetime updates, you will be giving
your customers something to look forward to. In the event that
your products would fail to meet their expectations, they would
be hesitant to return the same because of the coming updates you
have promised. Updates can enhance the value of existing
products, and offering such, for a virtual eternity at that,
would be too good an offer to pass up.
4.Provide bonuses. Bonuses have long been used as come-ons to
sweeten the deal and make them easier to sell. Bonuses,
however, would also serve as an anti-agent against possible
refunds. By packaging your products with a bevy of other items,
your customers would feel that they will get more than what they
will pa for. The sheer variety offered by bonuses would make
them think twice about requesting for a refund.
5.Give the best guarantee that you could muster. Guarantees
are different from refunds, of course. The former is more
concerned about customer satisfaction. The latter is focused on
security of investment. Guarantees can range from the good word
of respected people, or actual reparation of the products in the
event that they are susceptible to breakdowns. A guarantee is
promise to your customers that you have done your best to
deliver to them a product that you truly believe is the best,
and that you would be by their side whenever that very product
fails them.
6.Offer loyalty rewards. Acknowledging loyal customers would
go a long, long way in curtailing the rise of refund rates.
Rewarding them would build lasting relationships that would make
the need for refunds almost obsolete.
No businessman would want to receive a refund request. It's
both disappointing and downright demoralizing. But keep your
spirits up. Refunds are a part of the game. They are something
we have to live with. And fortunately, they are something we
could actually control.
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