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helloworld15

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    Comment #9096225

    He proved he wasn't clueless a few answers in the thread. But by that point that fact possibly bothered me even more. It was as if he was trying his best to be smoky and withholdin…

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    Comment #9096199

    It does, but multiple people also stated that the rep was clearly untrained in customer service matters, some agreed saying a straight now without trying to help isn't the right th…

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    Comment #9093602

    At what point exactly do you think I flied off the handle? When I said their stance was terrible and that I was disappointed? Or after the flood of condescension that came my way?

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    Comment #9093507

    This is what I don't get. People seem to genuinely think ego was involved. I was just blown away by how clueless the rep seemed (at first at least) about what I was asking. The con…

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    Comment #9092232

    It's a customer's right to say "I think this is terrible and I am disappointed" and I think that's miles away from telling anyone they suck.

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    Comment #9092225

    I admit getting a straight no without any follow up as to how we could figure it out rubbed me the wrong way as that's not what a customer support rep should do. When I got condesc…

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    Comment #9092213

    wget/curl as by far a last resort in this context, as unfortunately none of the companies I enquired care the least about this stuff. It's not like these wget operations would happ…

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    Comment #9092186

    Customer service exists to help customers. At no point in the conversation I felt like the rep was making any effort to understand why I even opened a ticket with them. Given the k…

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    Comment #9092143

    Hey, thank you for the feedback, I'm the author of this thread but I'm actually the customer, not the support rep. I get behind every single point of your list. I felt like he just…

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    Is this the most condescending customer support ever experienced by mankind?

    Here's the exchange (anonymised as I'm not into public shaming): http://pastebin.com/grbfp3Kv I'm sincerely interested in knowing what people's opinion on this exchange is. I felt …