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Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out

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Re: Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out

#11

Please email me (email in profile) and I will try to get you support internally.

HN is the only place you can get Google support. Thanks for the effort, but you guys should seriously fix that, and not by shifting into your "let's automate this and do it smarter" mindset. It does not work.

Re: Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out

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Please email me (email in profile) and I will try to get you support internally.

As respectable as your involvement in the situation is, this is exactly how it's not supposed to work. It seems that the only way for a small business to get in contact with someone at Google is to raise hell on social media (or HN) and to wait for someone to take mercy on you.

I agree, I don't understand why such wildly profitable tech companies willfully ignore live support...

I mean, even a paid option.

As a business, I would gladly pay $99 for a phone call if I have a high-pri issue.

I remember using that when Microsoft had something like that years ago.

If they did that, high-priority support can be a profit center (or at least break even) if they're really that worried about costs.

Re: Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out

#18

Please email me (email in profile) and I will try to get you support internally.

HN is the only place you can get Google support. Thanks for the effort, but you guys should seriously fix that, and not by shifting into your "let's automate this and do it smarter" mindset. It does not work.

I don't know why they can't just hire a bunch of people to take care of stuff like this, like this is so ridiculous that I'm pretty sure someone could make a successful start-up to pay Googlers to enter internal tickets on behalf of people having issues with Google accounts/services.

Re: Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out

#19

Why does everyone seem to be glossing over the fact they said 'suspended for nonpayment'? And it doesn't seem like they're trying to pay their bill, but just get that one email out of the account... Maybe google isn't in the wrong here.

Maybe that one email is the login info to their bank?
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