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From the best and worst companies to how to get treated fairly - ask our consumer champion anything – live
In her weekly column for the Guardian, Anna Tims solves readers consumer problems – ranging from the devastating to the ridiculous . She’s online now to answer your questions and share her wisdom Sign in or sign up to post your question Sherbert asks : How do the same companies keep getting away with such shocking levels of customer service and incompetence? Anna: Many reasons. When I get disillusioned with corporate incompetence and indifference, I have to remember that my column exists to help with the worst cases. Most companies do what they are paid to do with greater or lesser efficiency. The average customer is unaware of the quality of a company’s customer service until they have to make a complaint. Our natural inertia is another reason. It’s a pain switching insurance/utilities/phone providers so many of us tend to put up with the devil we know. There’s our addiction to convenie
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Oil falls below $100 a barrel on reports Iran ‘makes strait of Hormuz offer’; UK government borrowing paints ‘dismal picture’ – business live
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U.S. strikes Greenland deal for 'permanent control over security,' will send forces to Danish dogsled outpost and reopen Cold War base: Report
Trump said the agreement with Greenland and Denmark would give the U.S. "permanent control over security" in the Danish island territory.