What's your personal record for hours spent on hold in a single day?

Around 2 hours and it was for my sisters Medicaid when she first got it back 15 years ago. I also had a speaker phone back then. Yes my nerves wont handle that.

My aunt and I spent thirteen hours on the phone with sprint once.

You had me on this one. Made me laugh. I do not play with that type of stuff. I either go online to talk to them or just say screw them all together. On the way back from Laughlin in car, My friend fought for two hours with AT&T because his phone would have a hard time charging after 6 months and they raised his rates without telling him for no specific reason. I just remember a bunch a yelling, swearing and then. Fine, if you not going to fix this, How much for the upgraded version because he could not do anything because he was in that stupid contract thing. I just shook my head. After all that you rewarded them with more business. I get it but corporate world is to much and they need to be slapped in the face.

The only very long waiting were when we called Microsoft, all the local companies are good.

@TheHorse Here in Israel we have several numbers to press and then when finally get to the right department and then have to wait in line till they answer.

My aunt and I spent thirteen hours on the phone with sprint once.

1 hr 45 on the phone to national grid.i actually did fall asleep waiting.

I think less than an hour. I have very short patient

I do not hold.If I have problem will work it out.

I was on hold with DIRECTV for about 40 minutes when they hung up on me. Frustrating doesn't even begin to describe it.

I was on tech support for seven hours once. He helped me reconfigure my computer one painful line at a time. I had to wait through his coffee breaks and lunch hour. I was afraid if I hung up, I would get someone else and have to start over. In the end, I told him I loved him. He said he loved me too. It was a really strange day.

That is sick! I don't have the patience for that, so let my husband handle it all. Speaker phones are wonderful IF they don't play obnoxious background music.

I am not really the patient type but Vince once spent five hours on hold back and forth to various ones in a government department. I'm not sure if he is patient or stubborn.

2 or 3 hrs

That is just crazy to have to wait that long! I think the longest I have waited is around an hour, being passed around also. That's what gets irritating to me. You tell the first person what you are calling about, then they connect you to someone else, then your have to explain all over again. This happened to me one time, between the wait time and being switched to different people, by the 5th time, I was so mad that I started yelling and telling the person to not switch me again. Needless to say they hung up on me! This had to do with a cell phone service.

What a terrible thing to think about now! Just spent a good portion of the WEEK trying to contact those we need to connect with. Hold time is awful, but we try to do other things while waiting.

I hang up before that. I have learned if they really want info or money they will call back.

I think I would grow impatient and have hung up once they kept transferring and putting me on hold. However since you were dealing with medical coverage I can understand why you stayed on.Still crazy though

Maybe twenty minutes mostly to sort out bank account issues - siva

No such experience till now. It's very boring.