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PayPals literally took me into the same canned question & response loop twice in the same session until the bot suggested that I could talk to a human which was available seconds after that suggestion.

I tried to same loop before several times, always asking for a human. But obviously I didn't meet the character threeshold or whatever that it would be willing to forward me.

Worst possible customer experience by far



So I had a text from a major uk phone provider (forget who now) that my phone number was being ported to them. It took 24 hours of chat to resolve. I kept being put in their chat queue. It would take them about 4 hours to respond each time, but if I didn't then respond within 10 minutes it was straight to the back again. Every time I got a human who failed to read the thread above and asked the same dumb questions (no I don't have an account number, I don't want to be your customer but you have told me you are stealing my number!). If I didn't respond within 10 minutes, back of the queue again.


maybe you'd have had to start the loop over if the human wasn't available? kind of like having to circle the airport until the runway is clear?


No. I just write 'fuck this' about 20 times now until the bots directly refers me to a human.




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