I(and my family) have been with ATT since it was Cellular One. The last couple of times I've traded in my phone it has been a nightmare and everything gets messed up. They offer great trade in credits but then make your life a nightmare to get them. I traded in my phone at the ATT store in Sept. 2022. The guy that I worked with was super friendly but very pushy with products I specifically said I didn't want and spent extra time making me estimates for said products when I mentioned I was short on time. I specifically went to the store to trade in person because I had an issue with sending my phone in the mail the time before that(it got lost at ATT somewhere/somehow). I also didn't want to have to deal with all the transfer of stuff from my old phone to new or with the set up(Which is also part of the reason I chose to trade in person)) and I guess the internet went down while I was there, so I ultimately had to take both phones home and do the set up myself and then make another trip to the store a couple of hours later to turn over my trade in to them. Well long story short, it turns out someone at the ATT store screwed up when applying my credit and put it on a different phone number I've never heard of on some random account and apparently they CAN'T remove the credit from that account and apply it to mine. I found this out the 2nd or 3rd month I called after spending hours on the phone with them trying to figure out why my credit was not being applied. I was told several months in a row by several different people that "this will fix it or that will fix it". Nothing ever did. I even was told to make a trip BACK to the ATT store just to say hi and approve them to put a notation in the account? Turned out it did nothing and was another waste of my time. Now 7 months after I handed my phone over to them and 12+ hours of conversations in messaging and calls and after talking to managers and the trade in department, the best they can do is put a credit on my account for the remainder that I haven't already forced them to credit me for. Which would be an OK option except I am on a family account with my siblings and parents as a lot of people do and now there is no way have my credit applied directly to my phone/installment agreement. It's been the biggest headache and will continue on for several more months before we get this all worked out ourselves. It's the biggest joke that they can make these mistakes and then make ME deal with the repercussions and the headache and the wasted hours on the phone with different representatives just to be talked in circles. It took me talking to 2 different managers to even get this "resolution". I don't normally do reviews but after all this I couldn't help myself. This is just a brief look and doesn't do the whole experience justice. If their mistake had been fixed quickly, efficiently, and in a way that didn't cause even more problems for me I wouldn't have made a big deal about it. Oh, and I also had several extra charges on my bill after this visit of stuff that I SPECIFICALLY declined during my visit and SPECIFICALLY said I did NOT want to change or add anything to my plan except the new phone. That took a couple of months of getting different things removed from my bill during my phone calls with them. read more