Buyer beware! This store is not to be trusted!
Last month we had a misleading experience similar to the review from 5/31/19. On May 21, 2019, we entered what we thought was a Verizon store (the Verizon signage on the storefront is very clear) and were told by the sales manager that it was the final day of a joint promotion offered by Verizon and Google for a free Pixel 3 phone. We were assured that by taking advantage of this promotion and by making some other changes, our monthly Verizon bill would actually be lower than when we arrived. Imagine our shock when our monthly Verizon bill came later, not lower but significantly higher!!
We immediately called Verizon and were informed this is not a Verizon store, it is a Victra store, a third party retailer, "an indirect store for Verizon" that acts independently, and there was no free Pixel promotion for May. Our "free" cell phone was actually a Verizon-leased phone that cost $830 to be paid over two years in monthly lease fees! Never once were we told about the $830 cost or that there would be any monthly financing through Verizon. Furthermore, there were additional monthly service fees and two 24-month contracts set up that the sales manager had also failed to inform us about.
Outraged, we went right back to the Victra store and confronted the sales manager. We told him we were promised a free phone because of the promotion we were led to think we were getting, and his response was that he didn't say "free," he said "like free." He refused to budge and refused to honor the free phone promotion. And now we're stuck. Stuck paying a ridiculous amount of money for a phone we, as seniors on a fixed income, would never have otherwise bought, and fooled by other persistent upselling sales practices, as well.
Don't be betrayed and taken advantage of by Victra the way we were. Be careful. read more
