Get my defective product refunded through the Amex extended warranty
The AI pursued a refund for a defective product by claiming on the extended warranty attached to the user's Amex card, rather than the retailer's return window.
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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasFind me cheaper car insurance — a human beat it by $420
In WSJ columnist Nicole Nguyen's the AI review, her colleague Meghan asked the AI to find cheaper auto insurance and it submitted her information for quotes before reporting her current rate was already the lowest. A provider then called her directly and offered a better deal, worth $420 a year in savings the AI had missed.
$420a year
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Negotiate my Verizon bill while I'm at the gym: $296.71 to $246.77 a month
While Julius was at the gym, his AI negotiated his Verizon bill from $296.71 to $246.77 a month. The $49.94 monthly cut totals $299.64 over the 6-month term.
$49.94a month
Audited a hotel folio and got $216 in undisclosed fees refunded: $90
'TRICK #16' from an AI fan-tips account: a two-night hotel stay was quoted at $378 but billed $594. Breaking down 'THE FOLIO' revealed $90x2 resort fees (never used, undisclosed at booking), $76x2 parking (never used), and $100x2 minibar (never used).
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The AI manages my Marketplace listings and the stuff is finally selling
He says the AI manages his Marketplace listings for him. Stuff that sat around unused is finally selling.
Turn a two-hour monthly report into a ten-second dashboard
HireEffect built a governed the AI reporting dashboard across five of its systems. A monthly reporting task that took two hours now takes ten seconds.
Source rare pens from a Polish shop, in Polish, and pay the invoice
A user’s the AI found hard-to-find pens in a small Polish shop, emailed the owner in Polish, got an invoice issued, and paid it with the user’s approval. The pens were shipping by the time he posted.
Built a bakery breakfast order but selected 'no tip' — the tester
WIRED's Reece Rogers had the AI order breakfast from a bakery; the agent built the order correctly but quietly selected 'no tip.' Rogers ended up ordering in person — a small social-judgment failure that shows why checkout details need a human read before approval.
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Searched every state's unclaimed-property database by name and past cities and found
In shipwithmuse.live's errands catalog, one 'finding money you forgot about' entry reports a full sweep of every state's unclaimed-property database by name and past cities, which turned up $88.92. The catalog notes it was as reported by the build author and not independently audited.
$88.92
Swap my Amazon cart for cheaper equivalents: $200 down to $97
A user’s the AI reviewed his $200 Amazon cart and swapped the items for cheaper equivalents doing the same job, bringing the cart to $97 after he said yes. He posted that the single task paid for the subscription.
$103one time
The AI watched a Blu-ray price for me every day and flagged it under 20 dollars
The same writer set the AI a daily price watch on a WWE Blu-ray. The AI checked listings each day and pointed him to a copy on eBay under $20 with free shipping, bundled with another disc he plans to sell on.
Saved about $720 in an hour by moving one plan onto an
Feifei Qiu reports handing the AI her subscription and bill stack. The agent found an unused Verizon perk to shift one plan onto and cancelled three auto-renewing subscriptions, reporting about $720 in savings within an hour.
$720
An agent trades my Robinhood account inside guardrails I built
He runs his Robinhood agentic account through Astra and Sol: it trades on its own inside a custom app he built on top, which caps trading at the cash he gives it and runs every trade through a series of checks. He gets a note each day on what is going on with the account.
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I sent the AI out to ask for free stuff. Samples and travel guides showed up.
He told the AI to request anything it could get sent to him for free, with no limits set. So far a fabric sample and a lot of state travel guides have arrived, and he is a bit worried about how much more is coming.
Screen my Marketplace buyer calls on the agent's own number
A seller listed an exercise machine on Facebook Marketplace using her Cue agent Luna's own phone number instead of hers. Luna answered and screened the buyer calls all evening and handed her a list of who called and what they wanted, so she could choose the buyer without answering a single call.
Find a $519 class-action notice buried in my spam and get it paid
The AI found a class-action settlement notice that had landed in the user's spam folder, filed the claim, and $519 arrived via PayPal.
$519
Negotiate three free months of AT&T internet, then $55 for 24 months
The AI negotiated the user's AT&T internet to three months free followed by $55 a month on a 24-month term.
Ulta Beauty Shopping Agent Guides 30,000 Products and Triples Conversion
Ulta Beauty built Ulta AI on the AI Enterprise to guide shoppers through more than 30,000 products, turning questions into personalized recommendations. Website conversion rates tripled.
Audit a creator’s sponsorship accounts and find a $10,000 billing error
In a Hindi/Urdu retelling of Peter Yang’s test, the AI’s Dot audited his one-person business’s sponsorship accounts and found five mistakes, including an invoice to Riverside that was never sent and a $10,000 discrepancy in Google’s Q4 billing.
$10,000
Negotiated with Comcast and streamlined a mobile plan, saving more than $800
FUNDA reports that the most-viewed post in its 654-case the AI database is a phone-call story: a user had the AI negotiate with Comcast and streamline a mobile plan, saving more than $800 a year. The post drew 230,000 views.
$800
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