Vodafone UK in sexy web chat “Bait and Switch”
So there we were, idly browsing the Vodafone UK site for possible NEXT NEW PHONES, when up pops the chance to engage in a bit of live, one-to-one chat with what must surely be the most attractive call centre operative working in the UK today:
Oh yes please! Tell us all about the Nexus One and Vodafone’s upgrade packages!
Then we got connected to “Mike”. Bastards. Try going here and seeing who you get. Bet it’ll be Mike again.
filed in THE MODERN WORLD on Mar.17, 2010
March 17th, 2010 on 10:27 am
What is a “voice enabled keyboard”? Do you shout the letters you wish to type?
March 17th, 2010 on 1:19 pm
is it a keyboard that says the letters as you type them? Can you download different voices to say the letters? How would it pronouce ¬ and |?
March 17th, 2010 on 1:36 pm
She’s a man! There is no bait and switch here, idiot.
I’ve seen this before, a girl at the end of the bar sends me a drink and sidles up next to me. She’s one word into chatting me up when I notice her voice is far too low and she’s got man-hands. I suspect that isn’t all the man parts she had.
Buyer beware, you know, if you pay for it.
March 17th, 2010 on 1:45 pm
I’m getting nobody :(
Tried disabling noscript in firefox to see if that was the problem. Even commited a terrible personal sin and loaded up Internet Explorer (which is used so little on my computer that I actually had to use the search function to find it). Still no joy.
Shame. I was looking foward to chatting to Mike and making him think I was on the verge of suicide if he couldn’t give me one reason to keep on living. I wanted to know if he would suggest buying a Nexus One to easy my pain or if he would just shit his pants and disconnect.
March 17th, 2010 on 3:54 pm
I still like the idea of shouting at the keyboard.
Very much in the style of the utterly useless, voice activated technology, as demonstrated on virtually every broadcast of “Tomorrow’s World”, spanning 40 years (probably).
I can imagine the hilarity, in rehearsals, as Raymond Baxter and, later, Judith Hann, shouted “CUNT!” at the latest voice controlled food mixer. It is probably those kinds of profanity filled hi-jinks that finally drove James Burke to leave the program.
March 17th, 2010 on 4:04 pm
I got connected to a used connection sales adviser :(
March 17th, 2010 on 6:45 pm
…I wanted to know if he would suggest buying a Nexus One to easy my pain or if he would just shit his pants and disconnect.
“Please press “1″ now to purchase the Nexus One. Press “2″ if you’d like me to shit my pants and disconnect.”
“2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,!”
(Several repeated, disgusting, gross noises, followed by awkward silence and finally, disconnection.)
March 18th, 2010 on 9:25 am
I’m guessing Mike’s photo will be on the support chat-live window…
Mike’s photo
March 18th, 2010 on 3:19 pm
Has anyone tried chating to the Ikea girl on their website. She is a computer and not a real person at all but she can still be good fun!
March 18th, 2010 on 6:01 pm
I did, a very long time ago. Doesn’t she have some very dry stock phrases when you ask her what she’s wearing?