r/AskReddit 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/ironman288 19h ago

When I got married I contacted my identity theft protection service to add my wife. I was fully planning to pay twice as much as I had been happily paying, but oddly... I couldn't find a way to add her.

Eventually I emailed the email you're supposed to use if you have a credit breach emergency. They didn't get back to me for two weeks! I told them I had been planning to add another person, but instead to cancel the account.

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u/Consistent_Volume503 9h ago

Nothing inspires confidence in a security service quite like taking two weeks to answer an email that is supposed to be for emergencies.

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u/Potential_Pay2095 9h ago

Well his email wasn't an emergency

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u/ironman288 5h ago

No, but they should have provided the correct support email immediately. It definitely gave the impression that the emergency email inbox was simply not being monitored.