The complaint to Ea-nasir
The oldest customer complaint: bad copper
A man named Nanni berates the Ur merchant Ea-nasir: the Dilmun copper was poor, his servant was treated rudely and his money was not refunded. Leonard Woolley found it among other complaints about the same trader; Guinness calls it the oldest customer complaint.
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The oldest known customer complaint, from around 1750 BC, is about bad copper. A man named Nanni scolded the Ur merchant Ea-nasir for shoddy ingots and rude service; Guinness lists the tablet as the oldest complaint on record. Share →
Alive at the time
- Hammurabi (aged 60)