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Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by hellcow on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:22PM (#16261520)
I actually founded a company that does ML-based customer service alongside humans. https://www.abotlabs.com

If anybody at Coinbase wants to reach out, I can probably automate 20-50% of your queries with integrations into your backend systems. Email is in my profile.

Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by tw1010 on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:29PM (#16261564)
Awesome, I'd love it if you could help Coinbase resolve poor OPs problem swiftly and economically with the warm friendly response of a robotic rejection.
Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by mv4 on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:48PM (#16262014)
My initial comment wasn't clear. My point was - there are tens of thousands of open, unanswered cases there. But it's only a handful of distinct categories. Meaning cases can be programmatically categorized, and handled by Support employees in batches. I've done tech support before, and you can make a small team very effective with some organization and good automation.

Also, don't underestimate an importance of a ticket update (any update). If you observe a few open cases on Reddit or Twitter, you will see that the worst thing you can do is say nothing - no ETA, not even an acknowledgement... it's the complete silence that makes people freak out and open multiple cases, spam multiple channels, only aggravating the problem.

Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by jlgaddis on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:59PM (#16261743)
Yeah, I'm sure that "instant replies" are exactly what CoinBase customers are longing for. /s
Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by SwellJoe on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:35PM (#16262472)
They already have a chat with instant replies...that point you to a website with the answer they should have just linked you to when you went searching for the answer. I had to go through this rigamarole to reset my 2FA because my phone had to be reset and I didn't have backups of my Google Authenticator keys. The process went something like this:

1. Search docs for how to deal with lost 2FA device. Find entry about it.

2. Docs say, "contact support to blah blah blah" with a link to a realtime chat thing for support.

3. Ask question in chat thing.

4. Receive a link to a web page with a description of what to do from the chat bot

5. Follow those instructions, which involve logging in with a different browser (or incognito) and clicking "lost my device".

6. Verify identity, etc. etc. which finally gets the ball rolling on fixing the problem, which takes a couple of days, as I think it actually involves a human at this point, though I never actually talked to one.

It wasn't super painful, but it made me think, "What idiot came up with this? Why would I want to talk to chat bot only to have it take me to the web page that it should have directed me to in the first place when I was looking at the documentation?"

Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by DoofusOfDeath on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:34PM (#16261595)
> I actually do ML-based customer service.

An alternative business model: An ML-based recommender for Coinbase's customers for how best to obtain satisfaction.

The revenue model would be a little harder to design, but you might help more deserving people.

Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by mv4 on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:43PM (#16261983)
So far, the most effective way for a CB customer to obtain satisfaction has been calling out a CB employee on Reddit by name (who also happen to be active Reddit users) with a case number, at which point said employee personally looks at the issue and provides an update.
Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by NicoJuicy on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:06PM (#16261779)
With what did you integrate yet? I'm looking for a solution like ecommerce in different languages
Re:Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase custom... by hellcow on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:14PM (#16261821)
We integrate into most of the major eCommerce platforms and automate common tasks out-of-the-box: returns, exchanges, order tracking, etc. We support multiple languages.

Shoot me an email and I'll see if we can help.