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Google's profit model relies on a high volume of customers, all of whom they make a very small amount off of. Thus it's understandable that their customer support is non-existent. If they had someone to answer the amount of queries they'd receive from their billion users, they'd be financially unsustainable.

That's one of the many reasons we just pay $8 a month for Exchange hosting.



I agree... In my case, I'll most likely not spend any more money on adwords after this, which is a shame.

How do you grow to that many users and provide decent support. Tough question really.


You just can't unless you can somehow get that many users and have a healthy markup on them. Perhaps Toyota is a good model for that.

Most of good support is eliminating the need for it I suppose.




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