Literally the absolute most incompetent experience I've had with any electronics company either, and I've had to talk to AT&T customer service so that's really saying something. Very professional, knowlegable staff, doing a good (not great) job at customer service, but everything they sell is absolute junk.
My dad got a Samsung S3 there that (with an OtterBox and rice to dry it out) survived swimming in the Little Miami... but the same can't be said for their other stuff. I'm on my 5th or 6th smartphone from them (I literally lost count, I've had so many replacements) in about 2 years. Every single one, save maybe one that simply got upgraded (after having been replaced multiple times in ONE YEAR, NOT TWO), has had SEVERE hardware issues. Not even issues with apps on it, or a physical blemish of the screen or something... it's that the phone literally don't function as phones.
Right now? I'm using an LG G3. I've had this phone since the end of March (6 months) and it's been progressively been getting worse and worse, since I started having problems out of it and my tablet both, back in May (2 months with phone, 5 with tablet.) My G3 literally doesn't work as a phone - I drop EVERY SINGLE CALL, it randomly disconnects or doesn't even connect in the first place, it doesn't send group texts half the time, sometimes not even a regular sms to another Verizon customer, it doesn't stay connected to 3G, 4G, or analog consitently, and when it actually does, by some miracle, stay connected to a call, the other party can't hear me, at some varying point throughout the span of usually quite short conversations. The camera was impressive at first, and I was satisfied to a degree on my vacation to Gettysburg back in June, however it too has gone down hill, in that it no longer autofocuses or allows me to manually focus it on what I'm actually trying to photograph.
Some of my other issues have been, but are not limited to, a Verizon brand tablet from a promotion last December failing to hold a charge, or even accept charging on any cable, including the original and other Verizon bought chargers, an LG Lucid that randomly shut off one day and never turned back on, another LG Lucid that had a faulty screen and data connection, and a Samsung sliding text phone that's screen cracked beyond use or ability to recover information lost on the phone after a gentle tap on a wood post.
Verizon service is also horrible around everywhere I've seen a store. My hometown, the areas directly and moderately around where the servicing locations are around here, and my grandmother's city with a store all have horrible, spotty service that can literally go from 3 bars of 4G (the max I've EVER gotten more than 5 seconds with Verizon) to no bars of anything in a single step any direction. In my small, window filled, low/thin ceiling/roof house, I cannot, and never have been able to maintain a decent connection for something as simple as a phone call in certain areas of the above ground first floor, even near windows and walls. If you ever find yourself in a basement of any sort, anywhere, you're best off turning the phone off because even if you turn the date connection off, it kills outrageous amounts of the battery searching for service it will never find.
The employees of this particular location are competent, generally, although they can be slow for some things that are rather simple and quick things to be done, however Verizon as a whole is a terrible company providing sub-par service and selling poor condition products, that I quite well expect are refurbish-failed already broken devices simply packaged and labeled as new. Also, they don't too well take care of their employees, as several salespeople have even complained about their lack of perks and upgrade options for even their work demo phones, let alone their personal cells. I recommend NEVER even stepping foot in this store, or any other Verizon ever. read more