I purchased an IPhone 7 from this store/rep at the end of August, as well as a cellular IPad for work. We discussed the insurance for each product and I wanted to go with I Care. My sales rep told me how much better the Verizon insurance was and how bad the I Care was because it did not cover anything and you always, always received re-certified products. Whereas, Verizon's warranty sends you up to two Brand new phones if your phone is lost or has to be replaced etc. My IPhone stopped working exactly 30 days from the day of purchase and I took it to the store and immediately got the help I needed by the same sales rep ordering me a phone to be sent the next day. He made a big deal of them paying the Fed Ex Charge of $22.00 to me and I left (after my phone had stopped working on a Friday night and I could not receive a replacement until Tuesday) assuming, based on the previous conversations when I purchased their insurance - that I would receive a brand new phone...especially since a $869.00 phone only worked 30 days...what would you expect...needless to say, I received a Verizon certified replacement phone that was not new. Of course, I was very upset and I was told I could drive to the Apple store and see if they would trade it out for a new one. They had already done all they could do by paying the Fed ex charges to get me the certified used replacement phone because that is part of the one year warranty that Verizon has...never discussed. All they wanted to do was sell the phone, the insurance plans, the screen protectors, the cases, for the phone and IPad, etc...They were horrible and all they would keep saying was they had done all they could do and it was up to me now to drive to Apple and try to get a new one, but they would not call Apple and could not guarantee that they would give me a new phone. The other option was to buy out my phone portion of the contract which meant purchasing the phone in full at that time. This was both the store sales rep and the store manager. Give the manager his due, he did stick up and by what his sales rep said. He backed him like a champ. In summary, I will never walk back into this store. If you decide to, i would encourage you take someone with you and have them record your conversation with anyone in there. After all, they tell you that they are going to record your conversations when you call customer service, correct? All they want to do is sell, sell, sell. Before I walked out of the door, they even tried to tell me that I should purchase the Apple watch ($399.00 plus tax and an additional $10.00 more per month on my statement) and I could have been using my watch while my phone - which was not Verizon's fault...it was all Apple's fault - anyway, I could have been using my watch while my phone was out of order. --- Needless to say, I did not purchase an APPLE watch from Verizon So, after the trips to the store, several conversations with the Verizon sales rep and store manager, I did not drive to the Apple store to exchange the phone. I called Apple customer service instead, and it looks like I will just deal with them. I will be purchasing 18 new - not certified used - IPhone 8's for my business (for field sales reps and 10 more IPads before the end of the year. I will probably add an additional 10 - 15 more IPhones after the first of the year. The phones will all be sim card free and I will begin negotiating with AT&T and/or Sprint to put all phones on one plan for the reps across the country. So, with Verizon, I lost initially, but feel much better that I will now win in the end. This Verizon store has lost my business and once I cycle through these contracts with them, I will walk away from Verizon all together and AT&T or Sprint will get a lot of new business from me and my company.
(Thank you for reading this review. It can be verified - as I did tell the store manager that I was going to post a review and he wanted to make sure that I let everyone know that they offered me the option of driving to the APPLE store and that Verizon did their part by paying the Fed Ex charges to ship the certified used replacement phone to me. So, I have let all of that be known in this review. The only change in this is the name reflected is different for privacy purposes for my company.) Again, watch Verizon. If you are going to purchase a new I Phone from Verizon and it only works 30 days, they will ship you a used replacement phone. NOT a new I Phone. if you want to settle for a used phone, you may be smarted to go ahead and purchase a used phone from Apple initially as you get a discount from them and you will get the one year warranty on the used one from Apple. That is what you get from Verizon and when you have to use the one year warranty, you get a used phone back anyway, so save the money!!! read more