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Calling this TransUnion Customer Number

By Jeff Whelpley

Sep 3, 2024

When you call the customer service number for TransUnion, you're greeted by an automated messaging system that first asks whether you'd like to proceed in English (press 1) or Spanish (press 2). Having an alternate language option is greatly appreciated as it increases caller accessibility!

If you don't make a language selection, the request—press 1 for English or 2 for Spanish—will repeat three times. Normally, when a language option isn't selected (at least in my experience), English is selected for you, and the automated messaging system proceeds from there. With this customer service line for TransUnion, however, it will say, "Sorry that you are having trouble. Please try again later," and then automatically terminate the call.

After making a language selection, you hear an extremely robotic-sounding voice that makes some sort of promotion I didn't really catch, then asks how it can help you today. The phone menu seems to only be accessible via voice activation, which is not the most convenient. Voice-activated systems, at least in my experience, rarely work well. Even when you clearly state a selection, they still seem not to accept it as a valid entry; it can be incredibly frustrating.

With TransUnion, the system didn't offer potential things you could say, as other customer service lines often do if you don't immediately start speaking. Instead, the automated messaging system repeats itself three times, with very minimal time in between—literally maybe 1.5 seconds. A positive, though, is that if you don't make a verbal selection for three cycles, it will automatically transfer you to a representative!

This is potentially a great shortcut for other callers. Once I was able to get through to someone, they were very helpful, so no complaints on that end! The messaging system itself, however, could certainly be improved.

Jeff truly believes that all customers deserve good service. He’s been building tools, inventing phone tree hacks and helping customers since before his days at GetHuman. He's also a Google GDE and involved in the Angular community.

Conclusion and closing notes

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