Far from cheaping out, we've actually added resources to increase our response rate time. The problem we're dealing with is that the tool for doing real research into what happened to the customer and how to fix it is very, very, very slow. Improvements to it would create multiples for our time to respond.
That's the explanation, but I realize it's not your problem. Since we have added new support people we've been catching up, but we'll continue until we have the response rate that you deserve.