How to get a human on the phone

by John on February 21, 2009

I hate automated phone menus. When I call a company on the phone rather than going to their web site, it’s usually because I have a complicated question that isn’t going fit into the menu options.

Here are two sites that give tips for getting cutting through phone menus to talk to a person.

http://gethuman.com/

http://1800shortcuts.net/

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Danny 02.21.09 at 13:28

I’ve never used it, but here’s another cool way of addressing the same problem:
http://fonolo.com/learn

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Lihai Song 02.23.09 at 13:39

Really good to know. Thanks for sharing.

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