http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17845 One of my great frustrations with online sites, particularly those offering e-commerce, is the difficulty in finding phone numbers for customer service where you can reach a live human.&nbsp; (Disclaimer:&nbsp; bakersfield.com needs to improve in this area too; it's on my to-do list). But thanks to a story on Slate.com that documents one person's quest to reach a human at iTunes, I found a link to Get Human 500. This is a listing of phone numbers for a variety of companies that allegedly will put you in contact with a human. Scroll down the list and you'll find lots of listings for stores and online businesses. You might want to bookmark this site for future use. --Logan Molen One of my great frustrations with online sites, particularly those offering e-commerce, is the difficulty in finding phone numbers for customer service where you can reach a live human.&nbsp; (Disclaimer:&nbsp; bakersfield.com needs to improve in this area too; it's on my to-do list). But thanks to a story on Slate.com that documents one person's quest to reach a human at iTunes, I found a link to Get Human 500. This is a listing of phone numbers for a variety of companies that allegedly will put you in contact with a human. Scroll down the list and you'll find lots of listings for stores and online businesses. You might want to bookmark this site for future use. --Logan Molen en-us Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:11:34 PST On voice-activated systems, a healthy string of obscenities will actually kick you over to a human.&nbsp; Sometimes. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17845/#c_166926 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17845/#c_166926 On voice-activated systems, a healthy string of obscenities will actually kick you over to a human.&nbsp; Sometimes. random, how I've missed your informative input;) http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17845/#c_166927 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17845/#c_166927 random, how I've missed your informative input;) <font size="2">If you can get the &quot;voice&quot; to say &quot;I can not understand you,lets' try again&quot;( or it's variant of that phrase)enough times,&nbsp;usually you can get a human.</font> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17845/#c_166944 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17845/#c_166944 <font size="2">If you can get the &quot;voice&quot; to say &quot;I can not understand you,lets' try again&quot;( or it's variant of that phrase)enough times,&nbsp;usually you can get a human.</font>