WARNING PLEASE READ WARNING
If you are elderly or unaware of how this industry functions or unable to be firm on what you want be warned that you will be sold products and services not in your best interest due to slimy, unmoral, and borderline illegal practices at this location. I will briefly explain below the situation at hand. My mother was in the store, she is 60 years old and was completely manipulated and taken advantage of the situation by Ricky and the Asian(maybe Filipino) that was the supervisor/lead/manager on duty or so it seems. On 10/4 my mother was in the store that has not have a cellphone for quite some time because she truly doesn't need one. However, recent events have urged her as my father has suffered a near fatal heart attack the night before my mom went to this store seeking service. Our family has been long time, loyal TMobile customers to TMobile and this event won't change how I see TMobile, however, it will definitely prevent me or anyone I know from ever entering one of these third-party stores. I have never EVER had any issue with transparency or customer service at any CORPPRATE location so if you need to do business, drive the extra few miles to visit a location where they won't SLAM phone lines on you at a different price than advertised, then when you ask to rectify the situation because it was a mistake(regardless of whose fault) they say they cannot do anything except open new lines at this location (which is a complete lie)
Like I said my mother doesn't do this type of stuff often as my dad is the head of their household and given the situation of my dad almost dieing from a heart attack my mom needed to step in to take care of business and what an awful first time experience for a great wireless company it's a shame. She walked into a store and was gathering information to make a purchase and had already done her research online about plans she wanted to ask about. She really needed only one phone line but wanted to ask about deals on 2 phone lines. She asked about their senior citizen deals and bug surprise here they have "never heard of it" how convenient. My mom is not a stupid person, but she is a very trusting person which with all the recommendations to set up a service at TMobile how could she not be trusting to her own family's advice. Furthermore when telling the rep that it's on the website the rep opened the website and went to deals and selected the criteria for senior citizens and low and behold ALL THE PLANS WERE THERE!! Definitely not the third party retail store. So ask they begin to sales process the rep is clearly trying to hide the pricing on the screen by scrolling past the 27.50 price per line for 2 essential senior citizens lines as I will post screen shots of the online pricing on tmboiles website so you can view yourself. My mom like I said, isn't stupid, she asks the rep(Ricky) to scroll up and there was a very shady tactic to scroll very slowly creeping up to the top of the page before scrolling past the same are in which my mom was trying to guide him (okay, benefit of the doubt - maybe an honest mistake) He then by the grace of God finds the price on the line where it says $27.50 per line for 2 lines totalling. $55+taxes and fees. This is what my mom proposed she wanted to ask about but in reality she wanted the single line for 45/month as long as she can get a free phone she is good.. Anyways, once the first line was opened it was the 45$ line for seniors and that's ok, except the Filipino/asian MOD had cut in and suggested insisted on doing the second line anyways because it's almost the same price "as the first one" so naively mo mom says yes as this point she's been in the store about an hour and just wants to leave because of her social anxiety. So what do they do next you say? They charge her a second activation fee for a simcard and provide no phone to a second line and SLAM a 65$ essential line on her without disclosing what charges were being made to the account and she was told she was getting the 2 for 55$ essential senior plan verbally. They did not add my mom's email before the transaction so she has ZERO order summary or order confirmations, and on top of that they lost my mom's old simcard from her phone that she was trying to get activated after years of non-use which had all her contacts on it. Zero compensation for that, but that's a small feat of this entire transaction.
TLDR: do not use thirs party retail stores, call in Monday through Friday at a decent time and get a company sales rep or agent to assist with ANY transactions, period. If you need to go to a store make sure the store is a corporate or official store not an authorized retailer (sorry for all the good 3rd partys out there I know they exist) but think of how many other people were taken advantage of and mistreated.
I was able to rectify this situation over the phone in a matter of 10 minutes and I will be filing a complaint to TMobile and the FCC. read more