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An Uber support experience

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Re: An Uber support experience

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I would have given up after the second canned response and just switched to Lyft. Why are you so insistent to use a company that treats you that way and is showing very little technical prowess?

From the domain and other posts, OP probably lives in New Zealand, where Lyft doesn't operate.

Re: An Uber support experience

#12
What do you expect? Uber has no way to authenticate you if email doesn't work.

Is Uber, by any chance, using "constantcontact.com" ("With Constant Contact, you can create effective email marketing...") for transaction emails? That's a terrible mistake, because they're basically a spammer and get blocked or opted-out. Bay Area FasTrak uses them for billing email, which causes some problems. An opt-out for all of Constant Contact will cause email sent through them to fail before it hits your own mail system.

Re: An Uber support experience

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post #7

I would have given up after the second canned response and just switched to Lyft. Why are you so insistent to use a company that treats you that way and is showing very little technical prowess?

From the domain and other posts, OP probably lives in New Zealand, where Lyft doesn't operate.

Sounds like a market ripe for disruption.

Re: An Uber support experience

#15
post #12

What do you expect? Uber has no way to authenticate you if email doesn't work. Is Uber, by any chance, using "constantcontact.com" ("With Constant Contact, you can create effective email marketing...") for transaction emails? That's a terrible mistake, because they're basically a spammer and get blocked or opted-out. Bay Area FasTrak uses them for billing email, which causes some problems. An opt-out for all of Const…

What do you expect? Uber has no way to authenticate you if email doesn't work.

Technically they do - they could send an SMS to the registered number, which as OP points out, is unique.

Re: An Uber support experience

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post #12

What do you expect? Uber has no way to authenticate you if email doesn't work. Is Uber, by any chance, using "constantcontact.com" ("With Constant Contact, you can create effective email marketing...") for transaction emails? That's a terrible mistake, because they're basically a spammer and get blocked or opted-out. Bay Area FasTrak uses them for billing email, which causes some problems. An opt-out for all of Const…

They have multiple methods. For instance they can use the SMS, charge the card on file with a token amount or just send a letter.

Re: An Uber support experience

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post #7

I would have given up after the second canned response and just switched to Lyft. Why are you so insistent to use a company that treats you that way and is showing very little technical prowess?

I have had similar experiences with Lyft customer support. Customer accounts being in weird states is a corner case that these services simply don't handle well right now. (It takes many eng-years to build out automated and manual review systems for all of these things; Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Twitter have a lot of engineers on it.)

Re: An Uber support experience

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post #12

What do you expect? Uber has no way to authenticate you if email doesn't work. Is Uber, by any chance, using "constantcontact.com" ("With Constant Contact, you can create effective email marketing...") for transaction emails? That's a terrible mistake, because they're basically a spammer and get blocked or opted-out. Bay Area FasTrak uses them for billing email, which causes some problems. An opt-out for all of Const…

What do you expect? Uber has no way to authenticate you if email doesn't work. Technically they do - they could send an SMS to the registered number, which as OP points out, is unique.

There's also more than just phone. Could use the full credit card #. They can also send the device a push notification with a security token and have the user reset password with it in lieu of an email based token.
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