Get a lower Verizon internet bill by having ChatGPT negotiate in live chat
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AJ Stuyvenberg, an engineer at Datadog, was offered faster fiber internet by Comcast for $50 a month and asked ChatGPT to negotiate with Verizon. After a little over an hour in Verizon's live chat, the agent got the plan down to $69.99 a month from $94.99, plus a $47.50 loyalty credit, which Stuyvenberg said saves $347.50 over a year.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Get my internet provider to lower my monthly bill, using a real competing offer. Fill in before running: - Current provider, plan and monthly price: [DETAILS] - Competing offer, with price and speed: [OFFER] - Lowest price or credit I'd accept to stay: [TARGET] Rules: - Use the provider's official live chat or support channel. - Mention the competing offer accurately; don't exaggerate it or invent one. - Ask about retention or loyalty offers and credits, and get the new monthly price and contract terms in writing. - Don't agree to a new contract, add-ons or a price that isn't lower overall without asking me. - If a site asks me to sign in, pause and let me do it myself (including any CAPTCHA or two-step code); never guess or store passwords. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: The new monthly price, any credits, contract terms and the chat transcript or reference number. You'll know it worked when: my next bill shows the lower price and the credit.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Get my internet provider to lower my monthly bill, using a real competing offer. Fill in before running: - Current provider, plan and monthly price: [DETAILS] - Competing offer, with price and speed: [OFFER] - Lowest price or credit I'd accept to stay: [TARGET] Rules: - Use the provider's official live chat or support channel. - Mention the competing offer accurately; don't exaggerate it or invent one. - Ask about retention or loyalty offers and credits, and get the new monthly price and contract terms in writing. - Don't agree to a new contract, add-ons or a price that isn't lower overall without asking me. - If a site asks me to sign in, pause and let me do it myself (including any CAPTCHA or two-step code); never guess or store passwords. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: The new monthly price, any credits, contract terms and the chat transcript or reference number. You'll know it worked when: my next bill shows the lower price and the credit.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Get my internet provider to lower my monthly bill, using a real competing offer. Fill in before running: - Current provider, plan and monthly price: [DETAILS] - Competing offer, with price and speed: [OFFER] - Lowest price or credit I'd accept to stay: [TARGET] Rules: - Use the provider's official live chat or support channel. - Mention the competing offer accurately; don't exaggerate it or invent one. - Ask about retention or loyalty offers and credits, and get the new monthly price and contract terms in writing. - Don't agree to a new contract, add-ons or a price that isn't lower overall without asking me. - If a site asks me to sign in, pause and let me do it myself (including any CAPTCHA or two-step code); never guess or store passwords. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Work out the yearly saving and tell me when the discount ends so I can set a reminder. Output: The new monthly price, any credits, contract terms and the chat transcript or reference number. You'll know it worked when: my next bill shows the lower price and the credit. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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