If you make the mistake of going to this store to start service rather than just doing it yourself online (or better yet is probably avoiding AT&T altogether if you can), make them show you a printout or something of all they're putting on your order before you consent to anything. They added $9/month mobile insurance on my decade-old phone without saying a thing about it. They didn't even try to get vague consent, they just shamelessly signed me up. Of course, they financially incentivize you to enroll in autopay-from-bank-account, hoping you won't notice their illegal cramming practices. I did though, and of course the store won't do anything to right their wrong, so this forced me to waste my time on multiple phone calls to different departments within AT&T to resolve (loyalty was who I had to connect with, 800-288-2020).
I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else, but if so, make them remove the charge and put a credit on your account for whatever they did bill you without consent, even if it was just a day. Also, auto-pay apparently takes 1-3 months to kick in, and "magically" it kicked in before my first bill for the mobile line with the charges they were trying to cram in under my nose, but hasn't yet gone into effect for the internet line I'm supposed to be getting a year-long deal on, meaning I owe $10 more than the advertised price. Will probably change mobile providers at least when the year is up. And I'll never go to this store again obviously. read more