You are aware of course that this is the ARIA, right? The Australian Recording Industry Association. US Congress of course has no input on what ARIA does.
I was actually quite impressed with this whole method of customer conversion. I'd actually never seen anything like this on eth web and was very surprised to see the pop-up appear. I was just doing some preliminary investigation on my hosting options because I was planning on getting a dedicated server for my business and I was barely into the site for two minutes when it appeared and I was greeted by a friendly salesperson. I had some concerns and issues that needed to be addressed and the salesperson had a consultant contact me within a few hours of the chat. They were very helpful and we ended up signing up. Their level of service has not disappointed us at all.
You know, for all those people that complain that this sort of thing doesn't belong on the web because of what the web was originally intended for, I have to disagree. I think that the web falls into several categories. If you go to an informational site Like Slashdot, then of course a technology like this is out of place, but if you visit a company's website and start checking out their products and services, I think it's perfectly natural that they should be allowed the chance to at least attempt to strike up a conversation with the person doing the investigating. If you ran a shop in a mall and someone came in, assuming you wanted to convert some of your window browsers into actual customers, you'd ask if there was anything you could help with, wouldn't you? This is simply the web version of that.
And let's be honest, if you really don't want to talk to them, you shut the chat window. They're not going to bother you again. And if you really have a problem with it, don't visit their website:P
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You are aware of course that this is the ARIA, right? The Australian Recording Industry Association. US Congress of course has no input on what ARIA does.
I was actually quite impressed with this whole method of customer conversion. I'd actually never seen anything like this on eth web and was very surprised to see the pop-up appear. I was just doing some preliminary investigation on my hosting options because I was planning on getting a dedicated server for my business and I was barely into the site for two minutes when it appeared and I was greeted by a friendly salesperson. I had some concerns and issues that needed to be addressed and the salesperson had a consultant contact me within a few hours of the chat. They were very helpful and we ended up signing up. Their level of service has not disappointed us at all. You know, for all those people that complain that this sort of thing doesn't belong on the web because of what the web was originally intended for, I have to disagree. I think that the web falls into several categories. If you go to an informational site Like Slashdot, then of course a technology like this is out of place, but if you visit a company's website and start checking out their products and services, I think it's perfectly natural that they should be allowed the chance to at least attempt to strike up a conversation with the person doing the investigating. If you ran a shop in a mall and someone came in, assuming you wanted to convert some of your window browsers into actual customers, you'd ask if there was anything you could help with, wouldn't you? This is simply the web version of that. And let's be honest, if you really don't want to talk to them, you shut the chat window. They're not going to bother you again. And if you really have a problem with it, don't visit their website :P