https://marco.org/2009/05/12/cablevision-com-yes-we-serve-11215
Cablevision.com: “Yes, we serve 11215!”
Cablevision: “No, we don’t serve 11215.”
TimeWarner.com: “We can’t let you proceed with anything useful because someone else recently lived at your new address. Fill out this form and someone will call you!”
[sound of crickets for a week, no phone call]
TimeWarner.com: “We’ll bury the phone number so you can’t easily call us, but here, use this phone-gateway Javascript thing to coordinate the call so you don’t learn our actual number but we learn yours!”
[phone-gateway Javascript thing maintains terrible sound quality and frequent dropouts, then disconnects in the middle of my order]
I love cable companies.