Where do I even begin?! Last week, I called this AT&T store on two different days. PROBLEM #1: Both times, no one picked up the phone. Since it's a short drive from my house, I chose to drive over. When I arrived, there were three employees. PROBLEM #2: Not a single one acknowledged that they would be of service, or that I should put my name down somewhere so that I can get some service. About 10 mins passed before a gentleman came by, asked my name, and said he would be right with me. PROBLEM #3: 15 mins after that, I finally saw my name on the service screen. Another 15 minutes later, an AT&T rep finally came over to find out what I needed.
Had a decent rapport with the rep, and he answered my questions, for the most part. Finally after carefully weighing my options, I decided to go with an iPhone XR. The rep said they would back up my phone and transfer everything over, no problem. GREAT! Except, PROBLEM #4: I took the phone home, played with it. Thought it was strange that not everything updated that evening, but figured it would by morning time. PROBLEM #5: The AT&T guy didn't transfer everything over.
PROBLEMS #6, 7, 8. 1/3 of my contacts came through, so many were missing (which means they didn't do a thorough job of transferring my data, even though the phone was plugged in overnight and should have updated). None of the names in my text messages were coming through, instead there were phone numbers. Worst of all, every time I tried to type in a phone number to text message someone, the number would automatically erase!!
I took the phone back that very day. Spoke to the same manager (Corey) that helped me the night before and he said he'd never seen anything like it regarding the erasing numbers in the text messaging, but couldn't do anything about it. The phone was under warranty and needs to be handled with Apple. Are you kidding me?!??? You just sold me this phone the night before. It's a LEMON and I now have to waste my time to go to Apple and get this fixed?!? (and now I'm wasting my time having to write this review!) Super unhelpful, unsympathetic to the situation, and it was so easy for him to pawn me off to Apple!
On my way home, I called Apple. They tried to trouble shoot over the phone for 45 mins. The Apple rep said she'd never seen anything like the way my phone is behaving either. Long story short, save yourself the trouble. Don't go to this location. I've been told (learned these after the fact), Target has an incredible phone tech guy and Costco has some good phone deals for iPhones from time to time. I would NEVER EVER go to this location nor would I ever recommend this team of very incompetent AT&T reps. BTW, when I asked my sales rep about them not picking up the calls I made last week, he said they never pick up that line and only have it because they need to have a land line for corporate. "Only call the number on our business cards, otherwise we'll never pick up the phone. Hahaha."-Seal Beach AT&T rep
This is day 3 with this phone and it's still showing the same issues. Apple appointment scheduled for later today. read more