My name is Mike, I'm a new customer with T-Mobile and I wanted to express my extreme dissatisfaction with the service I received at store #9500 located at 2737 N. Elston Ave. Chicago, IL 60647.
I entered your store this morning, 6/10/19 to inquire about the setup of my new phone. I purchased my phone yesterday, 6/9/19 but the services weren't fully activated.
I was greeted by Angel B. and he proceeded to ask me what he could help me with. I explained the difficulties I was experiencing and he asked for my phone number and the name of the primary account holder. I gave him the number, and told him that the primary account holder is Ebony Hawkins (my fiancé) but my name is Mike Brown. He asked me for my I.D. and I told him I'm not Ebony but it's my phone. He informed me, rudely, that he couldn't access the account without the primary account holder present.
I told him I'd get my name added to the account immediately. I asked for access to the store wi-fi so that I could contact Ebony and get my name added as an authorized user but he refused, stating that "the store wi-fi isn't public." I asked if I could use it considering I'm a new customer, he replied "the wi-fi is for data transfers only."
I attempted to find a wi-fi connection for 10 minutes and even tried to access the internet with a display device in the store before finally asking him to please let me use the wi-fi one last time so that I could get this resolved and my phone activated as soon as possible. At this point, he finally offers to allow me to use the store phone to call her, but states he didn't originally offer because "I thought you were going to call customer service and pretend to be Ebony."
I was appalled by his accusation that I would waste my time attempting to impersonate a woman just to finish getting my phone activated, which should have been done correctly at the point of sale but that's another store's mistake. However, the accusation and assumption that I was attempting to commit some type of fraud was extremely offensive. I've had accounts with other carriers and never been accused of fraud or impersonation, even when I wasn't the primary account holder.
After asking Ebony to call customer support, I waited about 10 minutes before I was greeted by another agent who had just arrived for his shift. He immediately looked up my account, asked for my I.D., then finalized the activation on my device without a problem. Round of applause for his swift service that saved me cancelling my account and returning the phone entirely.
After I left the store, I learned from Ebony that customer support had stated that my name was listed as an authorized user throughout this entire ordeal. Upon realizing that my name was listed on the account and Angel B. knew that all along, I was extremely upset due to the amount of time wasted and decided to return to retrieve Angel's name. When I returned to the store, Angel yelled at me saying it's my fault for not giving him my I.D. If you read above, I told him my name and the name of the primary account holder and he replied that he couldn't provide me any service without her present.
I asked how to go about filing a complaint and Angel claimed there is "no store manager". Thankfully, the other associate also supplied me with your business card. Nobody deserves to be spoken to rudely, yelled at, or accused of attempted fraud/impersonation. I'm not sure how you retain customers but I'm very upset to have started my relationship with T-Mobile so poorly. Please reply as soon as possible via email with a resolution by the end of the week.
Regards,
Mike Brown
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