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  • CX Therapy - Episode 186 - When your vacation rental gets cancelled at the worst possible moment
    2026/08/05

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, Max Ball shares a painful travel story: a vacation rental booked for a busy London weekend gets cancelled less than a week before check-in, leaving him to navigate a vague bot response, no real escalation path, and a very unhelpful set of replacement options. We dig into what went wrong, why the lack of explanation made it worse, and what companies should do when they need to cancel on a customer.

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    14 分
  • CX Therapy - Episode 183 - When you are being ignored until you start making noise on social media
    2026/03/31

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, Julien Rio talks about a pretty nasty experience with a well-known website hosting company and only gets support to care after making a fuss on social media platforms.

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    21 分
  • CX Therapy - Episode 182 - When your cable company can't compete on product, price or service
    2026/02/24

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, Max Ball talks about his recent experience with cable outage.

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    24 分
  • CX Therapy - Episode 181 - When your car dealer knows less than regular repair shops
    2026/01/27

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, Julien Rio shares his recent story trying to get his Honda fixed by a Honda store.

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    22 分
  • CX Therapy - Episode 180 - When scammers get better and better
    2025/12/30

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, Max Ball shares his recent story falling for an SMS scam and has to deal with his bank to cancel his credit card.

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    15 分
  • CX Therapy - Episode 179 - When appliances can't keep up
    2025/11/25

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, Max Ball shares his recent story trying to get his device to connect to a new source.

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    22 分
  • CX Therapy - Episode 178 - When airlines can't help themselves - Simon Harrisson
    2025/11/21

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, we've invited Simon Harrisson to share his airline story. We'll talk about omni-channel, effort score, self-service, and how airlines could both reduce their costs and increase their revenue with a very simple fix.

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    48 分
  • CX Therapy - Episode 177 - When great employees save bad CX - Daniel Hong
    2025/11/21

    CX Therapy - we've all had 'em, those customer service experiences that are so bad they leave you wanting to run straight to your therapist's couch. Maybe that is not such a bad idea, there are good lessons in every bad customer experience. Join industry veterans Julien Rio and Max Ball as they share some of their scariest and most disturbing customer experiences, and break them down to see what went wrong. Was it the wrong technology. structural issues, agent problems? Listen in and find out.In today's episode, we've invited Daniel Hong, ex-Forrester Analyst, to talk about his recent travel experience in an hotel that could have gone terribly wrong if it wasn't for some amazing employee displaying the right level of empathy.

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    43 分