Can I give this place a zero? We gave them out laptop on June 29th to fix. Finally today we had hit…read moreour limit. Excuses of being short staffed. The thing sat for a month and nothing was done because they "couldn't get around to it" and the laptop "wasn't their priority." I'd hand my device to a Russian Hacker before I'd take my business here. Excuses, excuses. Also, avoid their Asurian home plans they push. Wouldn't recommend this place to my enemy.

I brought my HP Envy laptop in after having issues with it booting up after a windows update…read morefailed. I spent hours trying to get it to work when I finally gave up and figured I needed to call someone that was more tech savvy. I found these guys as a recommended business through HP's website. They gave a quick diagnosis about noon on Monday and was told at that time it could be up to a week to get it back to me. I was completely okay with it as it was of no use to me in its non-working state. After about 2 hours I received a phone call from them with a more thorough diagnosis walkthrough describing what they'd found to be the issue, what they would like to do to fix it and what I wanted backed up and saved. They were able to backup all the files I requested and reinstall an uncorrupted Windows 10 on my laptop. They later called me that same evening about 6:30pm informing me that they think they had everything ready to go and I could pick it up before 7pm when they closed or Tuesday anytime after 10am. I went in today to pick it up and they had an issue getting the laptop to let them login using the password I gave them for the login that hasn't been changed. I likely had a virus that did something to the password. The guy that was working with me today was not the individual that fixed the laptop yesterday evening, but he was able to work around my login and password issue and get that reset for me. I still am so appreciative of the guys that worked on my laptop and the fact that they were able to get it working in less than a day. True lifesavers! Best thing is that I was quoted $29.99 for the fix and my laptop is working how it was before the issue Sunday! Took less than a day to fix and at an excellent price! Thanks guys!

I wrote a bad review of this places horrible costumer service about a month ago and magically it…read morehas disappeared!!! Writing another one because this place is still horrible. Even now that I disconnected my line because I was so disgusted with this place, I'm having to wait in line for a long time to print a bill and pay for it. FYI, I also have to PAY to print my last bill! Use another provider and save your sanity.

This is my first Yelp post - I signed up just for purpose. This store and the owner Ben are, to say…read morethe least, slimy, untrustworthy, and not worth your business. Three points. Firstly, their service is terrible - contact them with a problem and they won't get back to you (even though they promise that they will when you are in the store buying your phone). Secondly, they try to sell you a bunch of things which you don't need at highly inflated prices, and I'm ashamed to say I fell for a few of their offers. For example, the case they sold me was 3 times cheaper on Amazon, plus, it was a piece of crap and gradually fell apart over the course of a few months. Thirdly and finally, I also signed up for the phone replacement insurance, which was actually a good call as I dropped later my phone in water. However, buying my insurance from them was not a good call because the replacement phone they gave me is a piece of crap - the transmission is so bad that either I keep cutting out or the person with whom I am talking does. They said the replacement phone was given to them by Verizon but I quite frankly wouldn't be surprised if they had a hand in it. Needless to say they refuse to fix it. I'm writing this post 1.5 years after buying my phone from them, after yet another frustrating attempt at making a phone call. I ended up having to make the call from my gmail account. That about sums it up: you're better off using gmail as your phone than buying one from these clowns.

Getting a new phone overall took 1.5 hours from start to finish. The worker was kind, but they do…read moretry to tack on all of these "deals" to your quote. It was better than buying a car, worse than trying to checkout at a store that wants you to open a credit card.

This was one of the worst experiences I have ever had with purchasing a product, cell phone or…read moreanything else. The whole place smells of arrogance. They walk around like some king on a throne. I had purchased the phone online to be picked up in store, seems simple enough. The concierge met us at the door and asked if we had an appointment and I had. She then handed us to another sales associate who went and got the new phone. She asked if we wanted them to transfer the data from the phone we were trading to the new phone? Thinking it would be best to have everything taken care of on one stop I agreed to pay the $29. We were transferred to a different even more arrogant "A" who asked for a photo ID so they could except the traded phone and transfer the data. I showed it to them. After standing there for about 45 minutes thinking we would be finished soon they said, "this is going to take three hours". Maybe could have led with that in the beginning. We agreed to come back later and pick up the phone. When we returned, they seemed oblivious to the fact we were trading a phone in. They said they needed a photo ID to do that. I did not have it with me because I was only going to pick up the phone, right. So we took both phones and brought the trade in back the next morning. So yes, that worked well, three trips to the store. Don't do business with these people unless you want a challenge.

Thank you Chat at the Ames AT&T store for helping us is restoring the internet on our phones…read more. great service!!

This store is under new management! Hannah helped our family sign up for a brand new unlimited…read moreplan, add a line, and buy a new phone all in under an hour. She was very knowledgeable, kind, patient, and helpful. I didn't get the pleasure of working with any of her employees, but I am sure she's working hard to build a team of people with similar qualities!

At the end of May (2025) my wife went to T-Mobile in Ames, Iowa to switch from Verizon with hopes…read moreof lowering our monthly bill. One big concern of hers, however, was that she would be able to hang on to voicemails on her current phone which were very important to her. Her dad, who passed away 6 years ago, had left several messages of a personal nature before he died, and she took great comfort knowing she had those recorded voicemails. She was told by the T-Mobile associate that there should be no problem transferring the messages in the switchover. However, he was wrong. They didn't switch over and were actually lost in the transition. T-Mobile at this point could do nothing to get the information back. There response was basically, we're sorry but there's nothing we can do on our end. We were in disbelief and my wife was feeling that she had lost her dad all over again. We then went back to Verizon to see if we could switch back and in the process retrieve the lost voice messages. The associates and techs at Verizon bent over backwards trying to help us fix the glitch - and this was before we had decided we were switching back to Verizon. We spent hours on end in the store in Boone with two associates in particular who called technicians higher up in the system to try to make things right. Altogether, the associates spent over 15 hours with us looking for a way to get this fixed. Unfortunately, in the end, nothing worked, but their effort to help was phenomenal. (One gal spent an entire hour after store hours on the phone while we were there trying to get things figured out - amazing!) I do place a bit of blame on Verizon in that their computer system, in my opinion, should be set up so that when a customer changes to another carrier, all information is archived for a reasonable amount of time so that this type of problem could be avoided. Also, I blame ourselves a bit, in that we were too trusting on the employees of T-Mobile, and took their recommendations without doing any research. But we are of the older generation, and assume that those who are younger know technology much better than we do. The bulk of the blame, however, is on T-Mobile. They are (or should be) the experts in doing this type of thing. The fact that they didn't realize that this could happen in a transfer is inexcusable. My wife trusted the associate when he assured her that there wouldn't be a problem. Once it had happened, T-Mobile should have moved heaven and earth to make things right. They didn't. It was on us to try to fix their screw-up. To add insult to injury, in addition to having several hundred dollars on my Mastercard bill for signing up for T-Mobile, returning the phone she received as a promotional offer is turning out to be another issue. T-Mobile, it seems, has a 14 day period that you can return your phone without a problem. Unfortunately, because of all the time required to try to figure this out, nearly a month has gone by since our initial visit to the store in Ames. So, when we tried to take the phone back we were told that because of being outside they 14 day limit, we would have to go through a customer service representative who would send us special packaging. Upon calling the number we were given, we were told that, no, the phone must go back to the store. Additionally, we were told that most likely we would end up being responsible for paying the full price of the phone. We are now planning on going into the store Monday morning but honestly, I have zero confidence in being able to walk out of the store without being frustrated once again. Customer satisfaction for our experience - zilch. (Final update) Called the store Monday morning. The only way they can take the phone back is by charging us an additional $70. At this point, I'm just going to take it in and take the one last hit on the credit card - a fitting way to end up an absolute crappy experience. T-Mobile might advertise that they have the best system, and maybe they do, but their customer service in my opinion is worthless.

Justin at the location on Duff in Ames was so helpful and nice! I went in prepared for a headache…read morebut the experience was great, and my issue was solved with great courtesy! Thanks, Justin!