Ask HN: Why Is Anthropic's Customer Support Bad?

1 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by tj-teej

Item id: 50252272

4 Comments

ben_w

10 hours ago

> Wouldn't the right thing from a Customer Support perspective to give a one-time usage reset in a case like this? If they had a human instead of an agent doing it, would that have changed the outcome?

I spent something like a year and a half arguing with E.ON's very human customer support agents about how it's not OK for them to send bills to a street address which does not exist, especially after they had agreed that it was not OK and to stop doing it half way through this time, but had carried on using the non-existent street anyway.

E.ON are the third highest ranked energy company in the UK for customer service: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/energy/energy-sup...

This is to say: customer service is never easy to get right, very easy to get wrong.

armchairhacker

9 hours ago

If it's really important, you can pay for a second account.

spottedmarley

8 hours ago

Some lessons in life are expensive. Now you know and you won't let it happen again and you will make fewer presumptions moving forward. Overall, a win in the experience category.

PS. Im also an everyday user of Claude on the Max plan and I too love it.

verdverm

10 hours ago

because demand is way above what they can handle, thus they can afford any churn from lack of support or sales contact