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If he didn't make a video that got some degree of internet traction, it's unlikely his problem would have been fixed.

I heard similar advice in few places now, if you want customer support got to twitter and make a big s*show. If you get some traction the company will contact you to stop bad pr.

Otherwise you will be stuck in 'not my problem'/'cant be done' hell.

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