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Annoying sales/service representatives

I picked up my girlfriend from her sister's house yesterday, and when I got there her sister was on the phone with an internet service provider. Turns out that she had an agreement with them to become a customer, and later she found that the sales representative gave her wrong information (or there was a misunderstanding between them) and the price she has to pay was about $50 a year more than she thought originally.

The conversation was about 50 minutes long and the ISP person completely exhausted her, she ended up agreeing to receive a small gift and stay with this ISP.

It reminded me of the Vincent Ferrari/AOL story and it made me wonder what can be done about this annoying phenomenon and if there's any arranged protest against it.


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Having worked for a number of ISPs in the last few years, I can tell you that most times when a wrong prices is given this is not necessarily out of dishonesty, but sometimes out of human error. A new salesperson that doesn't know all the prices by heart, someone that forgets to mention a detail, etc.

For example, when someone signs up with the company I work for, if they cancel before the account is activated (for high-speed only) they get a $20 service charge (honestly, for wasting our time). This is written on our website but not given verbally. If an agent would give all possible information to every single client, they would spend an hour on each call and not much would get done in terms of work. It's not through dishonesty that this is done, it's simply to prevent wastes of time.


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I have run into this problem time and time again the only thing i have done is hire some boys to rough the sales person up about 2 o'clock  in the morning its really pretty  easy to find  out who he was  i no u think lam joking but i ain't playing  email me at yahoo and ill tell u how my email address  is the same as  my  handle here good buddy


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