{"id":363,"date":"2008-04-02T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=363"},"modified":"2013-07-16T23:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T05:21:40","slug":"50-tricks-to-get-to-a-real-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"50+ Tricks to Get to a Real Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get a live person when calling a support number, I use tricks like pressing zero even if it's not given as a choice, or doing nothing to make the system think that I don't have touch tone phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voip-news.com\/feature\/50-plus-pbx-hacks-030308\/\">50+ Hacks and Tips to Get to a Real Person at Any Corporation in 10 Seconds or Less<\/a><\/strong> has some clever ones I've never thought of before, like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Choose the Spanish option<\/strong>, which often has a shorter wait time, and you'll probably be connected with a bilingual person.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Press <em>everything<\/em>.<\/strong> By pressing multiple numbers, you can trick systems into thinking you're on a rotary phone or that you're crazy. Either way, you're in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The article also has links to some good resources, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.800-numbers.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">800-numbers.net<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gethuman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gethuman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get a live person when calling a support number, I use tricks like pressing zero even if it's not given as a choice, or doing nothing to make the system think that I don't have touch tone phone. 50+ Hacks and Tips to Get <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=363\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}