“This Call May Be Monitored (By the Caller) For Quality Assurance Purposes”

June 21st, 2006

If It's This Hard To Cancel AOL, Why Did They Lose 2.8 Million Members Last Year?

This is a classic example of customer service gone very, very, very wrong. The audio of the call should become a classroom case study (how about this direct quote from the AOL rep: “I really don’t care, to be honest with you”), and the comments to the original blog post make for fascinating reading.

Takeaway for marketers: Are your customer service reps trained? Empowered? Disgruntled? Do they care?

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