Terrible service. I purchased a new phone via the T-Mobile website for my wife and we went today (10/11/26) to pick it up and get the data from her old phone transferred to the new one. I had already paid for the phone outright, but immediately upon sitting down with the rep, she started trying to upsell us with more services.
We both told her, we only wanted our phone and to have the data transfer completed, but she tried to tell us that, "Oh, well, you can have the phone paid for by us and get another line and you won't have to worry about the cost of it if you get another line added to your existing plan." I then told her, I have already paid for the phone at website and all we wanted was for her to get the phone and do the data transfer. It must be REALLY hard for these people to accept NO when you tell them. Then it was an Apple watch and "Oh, the watch can do this, this and this and it'll monitor this, this and this." And again, I said NO.
What is so difficult to understand? I bought a phone "Outright". No contract, No payments. That is the way I do things. I don't want your "FREE" items, because there is no such thing in this world as "FREE".
Their idea of "FREE" is a 24 month or longer contract where they tack on more tax, more fees for services you probably didn't want to begin with.
The sales rep seemed flustered that we didn't want any of the "FREE" stuff because I guess the employees get some kind of commission when they sell more crap to a customer. I have never had this kind of interaction with a phone store employee before. Normally, when I buy or upgrade a phone, I just buy it straight out. I don't do contracts and never will again. As I said, contracts just pile on more fees and taxes as if we arent' taxed enough as it is.
I don't see why it's so damned hard to just accept the fact that people don't want attitude when they are getting a service. Just accept the fact that some people are a little wiser and that they know what they want.
After almost an hour we finally got our phone and the data transferred and got out of there.
Thankfully I will never have to go through this again. I can only hope that Elon Musk gets his Starlink X phone out soon for the public because I am SOOOOOO done with T-Mobile and Verizon. read more