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How I got one over on the chat bot

2 July 2022

9:00 AM

2 July 2022

9:00 AM

‘Your service contract has been completed,’ said someone or something from British Gas, in the chat box on its website.

I had been watching the squiggly lines of the icon telling me a person or a bot was typing. When it finally spat that out as the reason I could not book an annual boiler service, I was baffled.

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