Horrible experience!
Hello, my name is Brisa
I've never been to this location before for T-Mobile but let me start by saying I had a terrible experience. This is my first review, I never thought I'd be one of those people (no offense) but it was that bad and I need to speak up. As soon as I walked in, I spoke to the manager Elly, I told her "Hi, I'm here for pickup I'm trying to trade in my phone for a new one." Before I came in to this location I called the T-Mobile service number and I spoke with three different people and they all told me that I was able to exchange my phone no matter what condition the old phone was in. I had an amazing experience on the phone with the T-Mobile employees, and they helped me set up the trade in on the app. The app gave me three options:
1. To pick it up in store
2. Get my new phone delivered like Uber Eats
3. Get it mailed
I obviously picked option number one, the only location that was available for this service was this one. While I was trying to explain this to the manager, she cut me off and told me right away: "You can not do that." I tried to explain to her what the people told me through the phone, but she kept cutting me off and told me that I was not allowed to trade it in because the screen didn't work. My phone has no cracks, it's in good condition. The screen simply turned off and wouldn't turn on suddenly. After the manager cut me off and didn't let me speak, I mentioned that I was having a horrible day, and she then continued to make it worse. She then told me to sit down and that I would be serviced later. She did not mention that I had to wait for 30 minutes and that there were 13 other people waiting in front of me. I understand communication is key, but if it wasn't for me asking questions to other employees that weren't helping me, I wouldn't have had any idea how long the waitlist was. I would've been sitting there for hours with no explanation if I hadn't gone out of my way to find out. So with this information that Elly had told me, I informed my mother who is the owner of my family plan about the situation, and she then proceeded to call T-Mobile on her own, and she had an employee on the phone as well. The employee then asked to speak to the in person workers, in order to let them know about the plan I was on that let me trade in my phone in any condition. I tried to get one of the employees attention, whose name was Paul, and he gave me the worst attitude ever. I was in disbelief. He told me to hang up the phone and told me that he instructed me not to call T-Mobile. (Which I didn't do, it was my mom.) He then refused to speak to the mobile representative, he was so loud during his reprimand, that the employee on the phone was also in disbelief about what he was hearing. After all of this, I wanted to go home and cry, for being mistreated and being talked down to. I am a customer, and I felt like I was being bullied by the employees, specifically Elly and Paul. When I managed to get Elly to talk to the mobile representative, ( since Paul refused) she seemed to understand that the any condition plan included a phone that had a screen that didn't work, despite her saying earlier... that they must have not known what they were doing, and afterwards she said to me that I never mentioned that it was an any condition phone plan. She assumed that it wasn't, despite the fact that I was trying to trade in a phone that was in an unusable condition, which makes no sense because I wouldn't be trying to do that if there wasn't a specific plan for that. After all this happened, I talked to a THIRD employee since being left unattended multiple times, and with Saveenah(?) we finally were able to get everything situated, she was the true hero in this story. With her calmness and patience she really saved the day. Saveenah helped me set up my phone to iCloud she also help me back up my phone and she also helped me purchase a phone case " to go" which is part of T-Mobile company which to be honest I felt horrible to spend any more money with this location. I left unhappy and stressed which should've been an exciting experience read more