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I'd like to be able to pay other people to phone up companies on my behalf to do things like closing accounts or changing my address on accounts. Ie, so I could
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
I'd like to be able to pay other people to phone up companies on my behalf to do things like closing accounts or changing my address on accounts. Ie, so I could go to a website and fill in a quick form with the following info:
Phone water company X on phone number N
Close my account
Information you might need: My name is Y, my account number is Z, my address is A and my password is B
I hate having to speak to people whos job it is to try and stop me achieving my goal, ie cancelling accounts. And having to wait on hold, and having to phone back when the call queue is shorter. etc
I guess you could create a dedicated API wrapped around Mechanical Turk, and then stick a website in front of it.
- wuster 15y agoI'd like a trustworthy and central repository for my current billing/mailing address that all the big companies simply "subscribe to". When I move, the update should be pushed to every bank/magazine/delivery company.
- waffle_ss 15y agoIn an ideal world this information would be stored in an OpenID attribute.
- noarchy 15y agoAlmost sounds like how a credit report can work. I've had my current address appear on mine without any effort on my own part. Once one company gets it, it seems to propagate.
- SeanNieuwoudt 15y agoI think https://www.trustfabric.com/ https://www.trustfabric.com/ does that.
- jeffool 15y agoI'd combine this, the grandparent's post, and the example given in the original post (along with it's inverse, making physical mail available digitally,) into the ultimate personal correspondence service.
- shrike 15y agoHow about just never changing your address? I use Virtual Post Mail but there a a bunch of companies offering virtual mailing addresses. I couldn't be happier.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoWe have this in The Netherlands, it's called the "basic city records", but is for government services, churches and some other basics. Oh, and the mail company has a service to forward your mail, and change your addresses for various companies when you move. Part of the deal...
- jacobbijani 15y agohttp://www.fancyhands.com/ http://www.fancyhands.com/
- mike-cardwell 15y agoSeems neat, but it's unfortunately very US-centric. Under the list of things they "can't" do: "Telephone calls outside the United States". I'm in the UK.
- tedroden 15y agoComing very soon.
- phzbOx 15y agoI don't remember the exact name of the website, but a sponsor of mixergy (during the talk on trello at least) is doing exactly what you're saying.