Wow. I never thought I experienced a worse Verizon store till I went to this place to upgrade to a new phone. It was Black Friday so I totally understand things are a bit slow. We put our name in and we're called about 15 minutes or so later. Honestly, this was much better than I thought it was going to be so that wasn't an issue.
The issue was when the lady that we were working with came into the picture. I have been an iPhone user for many years and was curious about switching to a pixel 3 so I had some questions. She didn't really answer anything more than what I already knew so it wasn't helpful.
She then went to the back of the store for a few minutes and came back. I wasn't sure why and found it odd. She came back and I asked for her suggestions on storage for the new phone. She wasn't helpful but I told her I wanted the smaller size. She verified and went back into the back.
After quite awhile, she came back and verified the model type and size and color of the phone. During the transaction, she told me that the whole Verizon store was having issues and they required you to get insurance on your phone and we would have to cancel it within 45 days. (more on this later.) As she swiped the card, it wasn't sure so this added more than 10 minutes to my already 45 minute + interaction with her (what should have been 15).
We moved from a tablet to a computer. After a few more minutes she then explained the charges and it went through. Finally.
We walked out and that was that.
That night, I began setting up my phone and realized that she gave me the wrong storage amount and charged me for it. $100 more to be exact.
Upon me calling customer support for Verizon, they told me that there was nothing they could do aside from having me come back in and getting a replacement phone. They acted as if refunding me the required $50 restock fee was compensation. LOL.
To make matters worse, when I inquired about the insurance that I was told was required due to their system messing up, customer support had no idea what was going on and wasn't aware of this. They also told me that instead of charging for just my phone to have insurance, they charged me for all phones on my family's plan ($39.00).
Moral of the story: do NOT come here. They take advantage of you and charge for you BS stuff that isn't even accurate or true. read more