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  • lisyloo
    lisyloo Posts: 30,077 Forumite
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    My friend had lost faith in the systems when time after time the quotes would not confirm and the message please call to talk through your details.

    What you are describing does not sound like discrimination to me.
    Your friends cirucmstances are unusual and are not catered for by automatic software, it's as simple as that.

    I find myself in he same posistion with house insurance.
    My requirements are not catered for by the software so I have to call up.
    It's makes shopping around a lot harder but no-one has discriminated against me, it's simply the case that software programs cannot be written to take account of 100% of cases.

    I know how your friend feels as it's annoying but I work in software and I know it would be impossible in practice to do what he wants.
    Technically it would be possible but the expense would be huge.
    e.g. let say 90% of the population are catered for with 10% of the effort, then in practice that is what companies will do.

    If you could give me all the scenarios then I could write a program to do 90% in 10% of the time (cost and effort).
    The other 10% of the scenrios would take 9 times as long.
    So you wouldn't pay me to do that bit.
    It's as simple as that.
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