Notice for Insurance providers Utility companies and Banks

Notice for Insurance providers Utility companies and Banks

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steve-V8s

Original Poster:

2,920 posts

260 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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If you feel unable to publish a phone number and man it with a reasonable number of people I am very unlikely give you any of my money.

I don't want to make an account / log in / download “the App”/ facebooktimetweet / live chat with a robot. I just want to speak to a person.

If you are unable to provide a person and a number to contact them my business is going elsewhere and you will be on the black list of people to avoid.

geeks

10,143 posts

151 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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Cool story bro

andy43

11,227 posts

266 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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Your post is important to us.
We are very busy with other threads at the moment but we value your post and we will respond shortly.

MitchT

16,584 posts

221 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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If you manage to find any compnies that provide a means of dealing with a human being, specifically one with more than four brain cells who isn't reading from a script and is cabpable of speaking in inteligible English, please list them below.

clockworks

6,607 posts

157 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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MitchT said:
If you manage to find any compnies that provide a means of dealing with a human being, specifically one with more than four brain cells who isn't reading from a script and is cabpable of speaking in inteligible English, please list them below.
Only one that I've found is Octopus

phil4

1,414 posts

250 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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You're pretty much opposite of my thinking.

I want to avoid talking to people wherever possible, so want to see the price, spec etc so I can decide myself, and ability to buy easily without talking to anyone. House, car, electronics, banking, insurance, I don't care. I don't want to talk to anyone.


98elise

29,148 posts

173 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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phil4 said:
You're pretty much opposite of my thinking.

I want to avoid talking to people wherever possible, so want to see the price, spec etc so I can decide myself, and ability to buy easily without talking to anyone. House, car, electronics, banking, insurance, I don't care. I don't want to talk to anyone.
That's fine where you're buying something, not so fine when it's not working and it's near impossible to speak to someone knowledgeable, who isn't reading from a script.

I binned one broadband supplier because the people you spoke to seemed to have zero knowledge about how a broadband router worked. Their only options were to resent it again and again, or to sell you more bandwidth (like that will fix the router).


phil4

1,414 posts

250 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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I do get your thinking, but also prefer helpdesk email type support rather than discussing stuff with people.

Richard-390a0

2,784 posts

103 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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MitchT said:
is cabpable of speaking in inteligible English.
Oh the irony. rofl

Sebring440

2,582 posts

108 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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Richard-390a0 said:
MitchT said:
is cabpable of speaking in inteligible English.
Oh the irony. rofl
Have another:

rofl


Alex Z

1,686 posts

88 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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Richard-390a0 said:
MitchT said:
is cabpable of speaking in inteligible English.
Oh the irony. rofl
To be fair he said speaking, and not typing.

Agent57

2,011 posts

166 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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Many don't list a phone number or an email address.

My experience of chat bots is heaven help us when AI takes over fully.

If you send an online question, they never actually answer the question you ask and reply from a 'do not reply' email address so you can't have an ongoing dialogue.

Ham_and_Jam

2,997 posts

109 months

Friday 27th December 2024
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clockworks said:
Only one that I've found is Octopus
Which is very handy as they never produce or send me a bill, no matter how many times I tell them.