TalkTo - Text Businesses, Receive Answer

[clamum]

Has anyone heard of or used TalkTo before? Besides the website, they also have an app for the iPhone and Android.

It's a website/app that you can use to contact businesses via text instead of making a phone call. I'm not sure how the business answers your question (I think they can answer it directly, or in other cases TalkTo has people that actually make the phone call and relay the answer back to you via text). You can ask if stores have an item in stock, make reservations, ask for store hours, stuff like that. I guess this only works for commercial-type businesses, not schools or government-type places.

After I read about it today, I tried it out by asking a question of the Barnes and Noble store by me. I asked "Do you have [title of book] by [author] in stock?" and got the answer back in about 3-4 minutes, affirming that they did and how late the store was open (I had been in the store a couple days earlier and saw the book so I wanted to check what kind of reply I'd get). Pretty neat service!

 

[clamum]

No one? Well fine, fuck y'all too.

 

[DesiPower]

Friend Dear, have good day, you post I like, I try once and myself see, think of company feel is fantastic, I will tell try text company.

 

[clamum]

Did yourself see? :awe:

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Sounds neat.

When I worked retail, I would often have people ask to be texted when their order was ready, that sort of thing. They were flummoxed when I would point to the phone and indicate that, actually, no; I could not text them, they could not text me a picture to print, and I was unable to get their email on our phone.