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		<title>You Might Think AT&amp;T Is Cheaper, But You&#8217;ll Pay&#8230; With Your Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh K-sky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can't continue this conversation unless we can agree on a consensus reality.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keep in mind that this chat comes at the end of five days in which my internet went down,  a repairman failed to either fix the problem or call me back the next day, a scheduled repair on Saturday morning magically turned into a scheduled installation on Monday afternoon, and my year&#8217;s worth of service was seemingly lost to AT&amp;T&#8217;s system.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span></span><br />
I was not able to pull up your account. May I have your billing account number or primary email account with U-verse?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
josh.K-sky@xxxxx.net</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span></span><br />
Thank you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Account Number: xxxx7004</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
Thank you that will help a lot.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
By the way, may I know when was U-verse installed?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I&#8217;ve had it for over a year, but nobody seems to know that. I&#8217;m looking at my old bills and my account number used to end with 4842. that might be the problem.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
Because the account I pulled up is an not active.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
Just to confirm, the billing account number on the bill is xxxx7004. Am I right?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
That&#8217;s when I log in now. But as I look back on a year&#8217;s worth of email bills, they all say &#8220;your account ending in 4842.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I think whoever made this switch caused me no end of grief these past few days.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Please, can you just help me figure out why my wifi is so slow?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
May I know when did you switched to AT&amp;T U-verse?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I already told you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
One year ago.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
I will do my best to help you with this issue, Mr. K-sky.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
My first bill is 10/15/2008.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Earlier this year I increased my download speed.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
What I am confused about is that the account I am pulling up shows that Tentative. Which means that account is not yet active.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
That&#8217;s because someone switched my account number over the past week, when I was making service calls.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I think they did it because they hate me.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I am so enraged at your company.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
You&#8217;ve been very nice to me, but so has everyone else.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
They&#8217;re very nice, and then they can&#8217;t do anything.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
The only way I can help you resolve this issue, is to review your account too.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
That&#8217;s nice. But you can&#8217;t review my account, because someone changed it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
And I don&#8217;t have the original account number, because I went paperless, and all I can give you is the last four digits of my account number&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
&#8230;because the emails you send don&#8217;t contain the full number.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
So you can&#8217;t do anything.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
And I can&#8217;t help you out.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Look, it&#8217;s not a tragedy.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
I apologize for this inconvenience, Mr. K-sky.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I have clean water, enough food, and cats who love me.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
But I&#8217;ll be damned if I continue paying AT&amp;T for this kind of service.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
I have to review your account so that I may know what to do.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Well, how do you expect to do that?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Is there anyway I can help you?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I&#8217;ve given you the information I have.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
It shows on the records that there was an order requested on 10/24/2009 and up until now, the Order is still Executing.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Yeah. Do you not believe me when I tell you I&#8217;ve had U-Verse for a year?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
They fixed it today. There was a man at my house who installed a new drop box, and another one installed a new line.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
There were technical problems that required them to do all that.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Just tell me you believe me when I say I&#8217;ve had service for a year.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
So the installation was done today?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Can you please tell me that?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Yes, it was done today. Tell me you believe me when I say I had service before that.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
Okay.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I can&#8217;t continue this conversation unless we can agree on a consensus reality.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
The installation was done today.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
And no one else I talk to understands that.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
I am still retrieving the result of the line test.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Yes, it was done today. Another installation was done in October of 2008.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Do you think I&#8217;m lying?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Geraldine, I&#8217;m afraid I have to say good bye.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
You can&#8217;t even tell me, &#8220;I believe you.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
To get started, it shows here that you have the Internet Pro package.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I think we&#8217;re done here. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll see how much of my service I can get reimbursed for, and then I&#8217;ll start looking into cable or something.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
Internet Pro. OK, what does that mean?</p>
<p>[later...]</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
Since this is a wireless connection, please check if there are devices that blocks the wireless signal.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I have to walk away at 9:20. If you have advice, I&#8217;ll try it. If you don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll start the whole beautiful process tomorrow.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
What kind of device would that be?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
Any device that is using 2.5 Ghz will interfere with the Gateway.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
The modem is under a desk. There is a cordless phone on top of the desk.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
It is 2.4 Ghz.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
I could also be the distance from the Gateway to the computer.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
Now that you mentioned the cordless phone, please move that away from the Gateway.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I unplugged it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
The guy who repaired it today made it so the only place I can put the cordless phone is in here.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gg195f(Geraldine)</span><br />
When you say modem, are you referring to the 2wire Gateway from U-verse?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;">You</span><br />
I may have to call him up and cry.</p>
<p>[etc...]</p>
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