Be VERY careful at this store. I was looking to get a new phone via Asuron (or whatever it's called) insurance after having lost mine. I spoke with a clerk who really came off like he wanted to save me some money ($100 deductible), and told me that he had a promotion going where he could give me a free iPhone 7 (this was summer 2019 - still an older model at the time, but I'm all for saving $100). This seemed like a good move, and seeing as it was an older model phone, and seeing that I've been an AT&T wireless customer for well over 20 years, it didn't seem like a scam. I got my phone, and went about my day, my week, and the next year and a half.
Now, I do auto pay because I just don't have time to dissect bills every month. I rely instead on the companies I trust with my business to be honest. Clearly that's a mistake, and foolish, and naive, but it's the way that I choose to live, and the way that we all deserve to live.
It's now more than a year and a half later. About a month ago I was looking to get my mother a new phone, and since stores are funky in Covid season I opted to do this online. When I opened my account page to select her phone for an upgrade I was shocked to see a device that I had never authorized attached to my account. After some reading I found that this unauthorized device was opened on the same date as I went to AT&T Park Ave. Worcester to get my phone replaced. It doesn't take a genius to see what happened, the sales clerk who was so "helpful" had lied to me, sold a new phone and line onto my account, and I'm assuming pocketed a commission, and then probably made a couple hundred extra dollars by selling that phone that I never knew existed until a month ago.
That brings me to today. Over the last month I've spent at least 7 or 8 hours on the phone with AT&T trying to get back the hundreds of dollars that I've been paying for a phone that doesn't exist, because an employee of the AT&T store on Park Ave in Worcester lied to me, and stole from me (he stole a phone that I had no idea existed/no idea that I was paying for). Every single person I've talked to at AT&T gives me a different explanation, a different promise of a solution, a different excuse. Several of the lower level customer service reps I've talked to have advised me to NEVER BUY DEVICES AT AT&T STORES BECAUSE THIS IS A COMMON OCCURRENCE. Can you imagine theft from your customers being a common business practice at a large company like AT&T? Can you imagine that it's so common that several of their phone reps have advised me that this is a problem, and I should not trust the people working in the stores with my account information?
This is far from over, and I'm sure that I have many more hours of phone time with AT&T, which I'll update here as it progresses, and if there's ever an actual solution. As of now AT&T has stolen right around $648 from me at 35.99 a month, and by my math they've stolen another $648 from me in the time that I've had to spend on the phone trying to resolve this.
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