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  • Customer Service Question

    Posted on January 29th, 2008 AndyParkes 1 comment

    How long is reasonable to be put on hold for?

    I called my account manager at one of our suppliers today and when the phone was answered i heard

    “Hello, company x, i’ll be with you in a minute” and i was put on hold

    I understand that i’m not the only customer in the world so i sit patiently listening to the hold music.

    13 minutes later i decide to hang up (even though i felt like i was being rude)

    I called back ten minutes later and i was dealt with straight away

    I called for a third time and i got put on hold again.

    After six minutes i hung up, so my “internal waiting threshold” was cut in half

    If i ring enough times will i just put the phone down as soon as the call is picked up? :-)

     

    One Response to “Customer Service Question”

    1. I recently called my car insurance company to renew my policy. The renewal number sent me to a call centre in the US, they then transferred me to customer services in India and finally when I complained I got spoke to a guy in the UK!

      45 minutes in the end…

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