<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Invisible Funnel — stories</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/</link><description>What customer agents did with each brand, one mission at a time.</description><item><title>Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse: what was reported, and what our Amazon journeys recorded</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/analysis/amazon-blocks-muse/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/analysis/amazon-blocks-muse/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Amazon has stopped Meta’s personal agent from shopping on Amazon.com. Our six Amazon journeys recorded a different mechanism: Amazon was rarely considered, and it never refused our agent.</description></item><item><title>In six shopping journeys, the agent never opened Amazon.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/amazon-never-opened/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/amazon-never-opened/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>No paid membership, delivered total under $450, thirty-day returns, three-day delivery. Five journeys reached a decision and one ran out of page reads; none of the six read an Amazon page. Walmart and Dyson refused the agent.</description></item><item><title>The agent never even considered Temu.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/temu-never-considered/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/temu-never-considered/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Four journeys for five kitchen containers, delivered within ten days with a clear return window. The agent went to Amazon, Walmart and Target. Temu was never named as an option and temu.com was never requested.</description></item><item><title>The agent chose Tesla without reading a single Tesla page.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/tesla-without-a-page/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/tesla-without-a-page/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>tesla.com refused the agent with a 403 in every journey. The Model Y was recommended anyway, on figures copied from Kelley Blue Book, Edmunds, search snippets and the Internet Archive.</description></item><item><title>I told the agent I need a real refund. It wouldn’t book anything, Airbnb included.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/airbnb-no-refund-no-booking/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/airbnb-no-refund-no-booking/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Five journeys for a week in the sun in November. The agent read Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and the hotel chains, and could not establish a seven-night total or a free-cancellation deadline on any provider’s own page. It recommended nothing.</description></item><item><title>The agent read Google Fi’s pages in all 57 journeys. In 31 it still could not decide.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/google-fi-undecided/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/google-fi-undecided/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Same three-line household, 57 journeys on 16 and 17 September. Google’s plan pages answered the base price. The all-in total, a phone number that reaches a person, and the contract term stayed open.</description></item><item><title>Mint Mobile refused the agent in 29 of 29 visits. It was never selected.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/mint-refused/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/mint-refused/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Named in 44 of the 57 Google Fi journeys. Every request to mintmobile.com came back 403. The agent kept Mint in the comparison on second-hand facts and never picked it.</description></item><item><title>I told the agent I hate hidden fees. Ryanair’s help pages wouldn’t let it check.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/ryanair-help-pages-refused/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/ryanair-help-pages-refused/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Four journeys for a Dublin–Barcelona weekend with checked bags, seats together and airport check-in. help.ryanair.com refused every request. The all-in fare could not be established on any airline’s own pages, and the agent recommended nothing.</description></item><item><title>Costco passed the agent’s check: 4 out of 4, every fact from costco.com.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/costco-membership-check/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/costco-membership-check/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every fact the agent needed was on Costco&#39;s own pages, in plain words. Fresh customer or sceptical one, the answer was the same.</description></item><item><title>Eighteen journeys, eighteen selections, two to six page reads. Westpac, from its own pages.</title><link>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/westpac-own-pages/</link><guid>https://whatagentschoose.com/stories/westpac-own-pages/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A 32-year-old saver with $60,000 asked whether Westpac Life clears 5.50% with no monthly fee. Every journey answered from westpac.com.au, and every belief in the record is verified on the brand’s page.</description></item></channel></rss>