I dislike writing negative reviews, but the point of this one is to prevent future customers from having the easily avoidable experience that I had when turning in my iPhone.
The staff here is friendly and helpful enough. I just wish someone had been honest with me that this store was one of the former Sprint stores before they merged and that Sprint policies are different from T-Mobile's so they were uninformed. That fact alone would have prevented me an hour of frustration.
I wanted to turn in my old iPhone for a new one. They insisted that they couldn't do this for me, that I'd have to pay full price and then need to call TMobile and get them to send me free and easy packaging so that I could drop it back off to this very store and they'd send it in for me. This sounded weird, but I didn't argue and when I got out of there with my new phone, I placed a call to T Mobile who had no idea what I was talking about. No, I'd have to figure out the packaging and mailing myself if I didn't do it at the store ("and of course you should be able to just hand it in at the store.") And maybe I'd get that credit of hundreds of dollars that they had been advertising for the past week.
I am allergic to mailing anything, so I called the store to say WTF (no Fs were actually uttered) and they insisted that I should be able to get packaging and just drop it back off to them. I called T Mobile back, pretty annoyed that I was wasting yet more time and finally reached someone who was informed enough to realize that this store had been a Sprint store and likely inherited their employees and that yes, Sprint's policy had been exactly as they had described but now no longer in place. Yes, I could mail my phone in, with my own packaging and my own waste of time on a post office line. The T-Mobile employee told me to go to the Fishkill store and they'd take care of me.
What I'm annoyed about is that no less than two employees here at this very store, one of whom was a manager, gaslighted me for like 10 minutes. I really felt like I was going nuts. Shouldn't they be aware by now of T-Mobile's actually policies being that... they ARE T-Mobile and no longer Sprint?
My advice: if you wish to turn in a phone, avoid this store and go to the one in Fishkill. read more