Elon Musk spends a lot of time talking to Tesla owners on Twitter, but the company's stores are terrible at responding to customers

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Tesla placed 27th out of 28 auto brands in a ranking of the feedback dealerships received from customers and how they responded to it.

Tesla's stores received a higher overall rating, 4.47 out of 5 points, from customers than all but two other brands, indicating that the company's unconventional decision to operate its own stores, rather than outsourcing sales to third-party dealerships, has had a positive impact on customer satisfaction.

Tesla ranked 27th out of the 28 brands on the list, due mostly to the failure of its stores to respond to nearly all of their customer reviews. The company's stores responded to just 1% of the reviews analyzed by Reputation.com. No other brand responded to fewer than 24% of their online reviews, and 79% of the brands on the list responded to at least 40% of their online reviews.Tesla's stores received a higher overall rating, 4.

But Ali Fawaz, Reputation.com's automotive general manager, told Business Insider that the entrepreneurial nature of a traditional auto dealership motivates its owner to be more attentive to customer concerns than a store that is just one of many run by a large corporation. "With a franchise dealer model, you have entrepreneurs who are opening up these franchise locations and running them like local businesspeople," Fawaz said."With Tesla, I think there's a disconnect there, and that's hurting Tesla's ability to actually engage with their customers and respond to negative reviews and ask for reviews on social channels."

According to Reputation.com's analysis, Tesla customers are enthusiastic about their vehicles, and they tend to have positive feelings about the employees in the company's stores. But their biggest complaint, vehicle service, has become a

 

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