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I use the intercom style buttons to chat with sales reps all the time. It's the most convenient method for a few reasons, 1. I never know what forms of contac
by dariusj18 6y ago
I use the intercom style buttons to chat with sales reps all the time. It's the most convenient method for a few reasons,
1. I never know what forms of contact a website will provide until I navigate around the site to find it.
2. Finding the contact information can be difficult in the first place.
3. With the instant chat I either a) know I will get a quick response, or b) it tells me how long a general response takes.
4. I don't like having to use email for quick questions.
5. I DO like that the chat falls back to email as a response mechanism if the response time is longer than I am willing to wait for.
- cutemonster 6y agoI do too, I think it's nice to know where to look (I mean, in the corner). But it's annoying when there's no real person, just a nonsense script Or if the chat widget asks for an email address directly. But then I can just type random letters incl an @
- dariusj18 6y agoYeah, there are certainly antipatterns that are in use for customer support.