Worst experience I have ever had with customer service. I have been fighting with them for a week!! My story.....I have a foreign exchange student that brought a phone from Norway, we went to a AT&T store in barstow they sold us a SIM card and a pay as you go contract. We thought we were all good. We went home and phone has NO SERVICE not just a little but NON. We go back to store they pretty much say sorry your out of luck good bye! I try to stay calm as my student is very upset that she now has an unusable phone but I persist right after work the next day we will go to a real AT&T store and they will make everything all better.
So day 2, as soon as school and work is over we head 45 miles into the other direction and go to a authorized AT&T store. They give us another SIM card. Tell us that the other SIM card was cut wrong, etc, this was suppose to fix it. It makes one call. We go outside the phone shows no service AGAIN. We go back inside and they tell us give it a little bit and it will work. So we do. We drive home and still NO SERVICE! So we slept on it!
So I call first thing in the morning. They just blame Apple! So I go with that. I talk with Apple for 2 hours. They walk me through every possible thing that could be wrong with the phone. We find out phone is unlocked and that it has to be on AT&T end. So I call AT&T...
Another 2 hr call we try everything. Power phone off and on, Reset each setting, open close, Power phone off and on, take SIM card out put in, Power phone off and on,etc, just everything you can think of. The phone still reads no service. They tell me go outside, raise phone in air, a glimpse of light 1 bubble than its gone. I'm relaying all this to the man on the phone. He just insists that the cell service area must be low or there is something wrong with the phone. I ask to speak with anyone that is in a higher tech service because I really felt it was a technical issue that just had to have a resolution right?!?!
Well no one helped. I was told wait 24 hrs and if the phone did not work they would refund my money. I was told that he would call me back and this would be handled. I sent my student off with her broken phone cut off from the world in hopes it was going to start to work.
Day 4....NO SERVICE. I was only just beginning to understand that the NO SERVICE message I was getting on my phone was telling me AT&T policy. Anyways, I call customer service again. I asked them to pull up my notes. I get told they can't and to just tell them what I want. So let me say I don't start out happy. So I explain the whole thing. They say so sorry let me see what we can do, have you tried powering your phone off and on, needless to say I lose it!! We have tried all your tricks! They decide it must be that their service is not compatible with our phone. So, I want my money back! You can't fix my problem you should just refund my money! You sold me something that never had a chance of working. I should be given my money back. They say there is NO WAY!!! How? How is there no way to give back money for a service we never received. At this point they ramble about maybe a credit towards a different month if we purchase a phone. Ok maybe but at this point I am so angry with AT&T I don't want there damn service!!
I want to take my money and go back to Verizon the company who told me from the beginning that their service was not compatible
They all blame this barstow store for not filing info correctly and can not do anything do to the fact that they can not locate the charge. Totally corrupt!! read more