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Lincoln Urgent Care, Lincoln CA: the self-pay price for a visit
A real call asked the front desk what an uninsured existing patient pays out of pocket for a standard visit, and what that price covers.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Skip hire Abingdon: seven firms quoted for a rubble skip
A call4me customer's assistant phoned seven Oxfordshire skip firms in one morning for a 4 or 6 yard skip of clean bricks and concrete on an Abingdon driveway. Here are the prices, hire periods, weight answers and delivery days, with all eight recordings.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Farmacia Luma Viejo San Juan: checking a prescription by phone
A call4me customer's assistant called the pharmacy counter at Farmacia Luma in Old San Juan, in Spanish. In under two minutes staff confirmed the prescription had arrived, said it was ready, quoted $1 without insurance and gave the recetario hours.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
CO2 tank exchange in San Juan: Hydro Warehouse PR swaps a 20 lb tank for $50.18
A call4me customer's assistant called Hydro Warehouse PR in Spanish about a 20 lb CO2 tank, then called two local drivers to run the swap. Here is what staff said, what the drivers quoted, and all five recordings.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Suitsupply customer service: the numbers, and what two stores said by phone
Two real calls from a call4me customer's assistant: Suitsupply Chicago on Rush Street on returns and hemming, and Suitsupply Washington in Georgetown on an order pickup. A person answered both store lines in about half a minute.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Home Depot customer service number: how to talk to a real person
We called The Home Depot twice with general questions for this guide. 1-800-HOME-DEPOT left us on hold until a survey picked up. The online orders line reached a live representative in 1 minute 34 seconds. Here are both recordings, the menus, and what the representative said, checked against homedepot.com.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
Walmart customer service number: get past the AI agent to a person
We called 1-800-WALMART with general questions for this guide. An AI agent answers first; asking twice for a representative got us a live person. Here's what the rep and the AI each said about hours and refunds, and the full 6 minute recording.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
How long it takes to reach a human at 59 companies (we recorded every call)
We went back through 100 customer service calls we've published to 59 companies, and timed how long each one took to reach a live person. Here is what got through, what didn't, where AI assistants and account number prompts stopped us, and the full dataset as a CSV.
OCT 8 / Nick Khami
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