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A recording of a Verizon employee haggling with a customer who
was
trying to switch to another service just went viral recently and
reminded me of about 99 percent of my waking life. I suck at this
kind of thing, haggling, naturally, I think, or at least have no fun
at
it, but maybe that's
because I am constantly losing the
transactions,
getting in fights with the customer service people, etc. What do I
excell at? Sleeping, I guess. And apparently not having children.
And maybe being a librarian, at least enough to avoid getting
fired,
yet.
So with the money that I have made avoiding getting fired and not
having kids and through compound interest as I have slept, I
propose,
I would like to hire a mercenary haggler to finagle me the best
and
cheapest verizon account, to deal with the bus driver or cab
driver,
to weasle on my taxes, to do all that stuff, while I sleep more. In
other words I am ready to get married, to an auctioneer/used car
salesperson/tax attorney.
Or what if I contract out for this service on a per-job, trust-based,
distributed, socially networked basis?
Sorry it was Comcast
http://nypost.com/2...-service-call-ever/
[JesusHChrist, Jul 31 2014]
A Father's Adwise...
http://charlesdicke...e.com/pickwick.html
Left hand column, next to bottom. [8th of 7, Jul 31 2014]
quite similar to...
Freelance_20Bureaucrat
in my humble, slightly self-interested, opinion. [FlyingToaster, Jul 31 2014]
Billfixers
http://upstart.bizj...tiate.html?page=all
Freshly baked [AusCan531, Aug 01 2014]
The traditional version of this for travellers in foreign parts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoman
It used to be said that the dragoman's job was to ensure that no-one cheated you except him. [pertinax, Aug 01 2014]
Escrow app
Shameless self promotion [xaviergisz, Aug 03 2014]
[link]
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// I am ready to get married, to an auctioneer/used car salesperson/tax attorney. // |
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Take Mr Weller Senior's advice ... |
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I believe there is a service out there that, for a fee, will attempt to cancel your cable, internet, or phone service. This would be a useful extension of that idea. [+] |
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What, instead of just "horrible" ? |
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What you need is Haggling school. |
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Yes, but who's going to haggle the cost of the haggling service for you... |
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"Hello?, I'm really terrible at negotiating and haggling
so I'd like to hire your services please." |
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"Certainly Mr JesusHChrist, you've rang the right
company, but first let's discuss our fee." |
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You'll have to talk to my MH about this. |
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Billfixers sounds almost exactly as described in your
post. |
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Known to have existed widely (see link). |
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I predict those guys are going to make a killing. |
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