This store was the one bright spot in what has been a truly miserable T-Mobile upgrade experience. The people who helped me were Ish (Store Manager), Keston (Assistant Store Manager), and Raihan (Mobile Expert).
I was trying to upgrade my family phones and use the Black Friday P40 promotion for new iPhone 13/13Pro/13ProMax (get Magenta Max and trade in 2 iPhone XS's for $800, and an iPhone 7Plus for $400- all very good condition; total value of trade-ins for me was $2,000). It was Thanksgiving weekend and I was traveling in Boston so I decided to order the phones online while I T-Mobile still had inventory for the phones I wanted. The site had issues and instructed me to call to complete the transaction. I did and was connected to a Care Agent overseas, and he told me the promotion expired- which I informed him it was just started this week for Black Friday and I am looking right at it on their website. Eventually, he put me on hold to consult with an "expert" and hung up on me. I call back and start the process over with another Care Agent overseas. It took an hour and I had to explain the promo again, but eventually I thought the order and trade-in promos went through. They rushed me to sign the Docusign agreements, which by the way, make no mention of the trade-ins (this becomes important later).
Later that day, I logged into my T-Mobile account, and noticed that there was no trade-in for one of my iPhone XS ($800), so I called them back. This Care Agent told me that because the previous one didn't properly put in my trade-in promo, he would have to resubmit the purchase correctly and the original order would automatically cancel. It sounded like he just wanted to get me off the phone but I relented.
This week when I was at home in NY, 4 phones came instead of 3 because the erroneous order was actually not cancelled. At this point I am furious and I went down to the Garden City Park store for help. These were my issues the helped me with:
1. The erroneous order never cancelled... Keston called T-Mobile corporate and had them process a return for me which I had to mail back because the order was made on the phone
2. The trade-in for my iPhone 7Plus did not show in my promotions online, and Keston confirmed since it was processed during the promo period, it will take the promo, though he was not sure why the system did not show it
3. For the above return, T-mobile corporate processed the wrong phone (I heard Keston provice the correct info though), and I had to go back to the stort, and Raihan helped me update that to the correct phone with corporate
4. Then I noticed today, my account is showing the wrong phone model, even though the IMEI number matched the new phone I just activated. Ish explained this happens on the T-Mobile system and not to be concerned
5. I went back to work with Ish to submit the trade-ins for the promo. On the trade-in for my iPhone 7Plus, the IMEI did not match even though I never gave them an IMEI (the phone was originally from another carrier). Ish helped me push that through
6. The system did not show my iPhone XS as being tagged for trade-in, even though I am holding a piece of paper with the exact IMEI. Ish found it on the system and helped me process that.
There were actually other little issues which I won't get into, but the experience was a nightmare and it's actually not over until I see the bills showing the device credits. The team at Garden City Park were really helpful with me and I hope I won't need to go back for further issues. Ish, the manager told me to call him if I do have any. I highly recommend going to this store to do your transactions and skip the online or calling the Care Agents. T-Mobile starting charging the $35 setup fee even with online purchases (started November), so you save nothing by doing it yourself. read more