Update: I went back to try to and return my phone that I bought 4 days prior and the associate helping me tells me that they can waive the $35 restocking fee for my trouble. After a call to his manager he comes back telling me that they have already done me enough favors (by refunding the screen protector that I didn't purchase) and they won't be waiving the restock fee. I took my phone and left there. This is the 3rd review I have written trying hard to get the word out about this thieving, lying store and its despicable manager and employees. If you wonder why the employees think this behavior is ok just look at that manager (Mathew)
I am so frustrated and I think you all should hear my situation before you give your business to this sketchy Verizon store. In the interest of full disclosure I am going to include every boring detail I went into GoWireless Verizon over in The District last Thursday and I was helped by a girl named Ashlyn B. I paid $27 to pay off my previous phone and upgrade to a new one (which she did on her end with my card) then handed it back to me and asked me to swipe my card in the card machine to pay $130. When I asked her what that $130 was for she just responded "its just for the taxes and some out the door stuff" I thought it seemed like a lot but I didn't really question it because I didn't care to sit and figure out the taxes and second guess her (naive and trusting, I know!)
Ashlyn B tells she has to go to the back to get my receipt and comes back with a screen protector and just opens my phone and starts putting it on my new phone, I ask her what the screen protector is for and she says its just a perk that specific store offers when you buy a phone from them and we proceed to have about a 5 minute conversation about how cool that is because places usually charge so much for them Anyways, I leave with ONLY a generic receipt that shows the $130 payment (has no specifics of what that payment included) and a service summery that just has all my information (address, phone number, plan etc) and a shipping label and box to send my old phone back. I get home and my husband questions why I had to pay that much to upgrade and we start wondering about it a little more, since I did not see or receive an itemized receipt like you normally would. She had me sign one page that talked about the phone return policy and that's it.
Today my husband goes into Costco (Verizon, same account)to upgrade his phone and walked out having paid $47, just the taxes for the new phone, so at this point Im really wondering why I paid so much so I call the number for GoWireless and get a call center to ask about what was involved in that $130 I paid and she tells me that there was an $80, EIGHTY DOLLAR charge for that "free perk" screen protector that she put on my phone in the store. Actually it was screen protector "protection" that I had paid for since the $39.99 for the actual screen protecter is waived when you buy the $79.99 screen protecter protection. She writes a report and sends and email to the store manager and tells me to go in there and talk to the manger (Mathew) and get a refund. She also tells me that the girl will most likely be fired and she emails me the complete invoice, that I should have walked out with but I never saw, let alone got a copy of.
I go into the store to talk to the manager and tell him the situation. I get met with skepticism and not even any type of an apology that it happened and he just said that he'll need to talk to Ashlyn to get her side (don't worry that I am the customer telling him exactly what happened) there was just a complete lack of care that they had an employee that was being so completely dishonest, lying and STEALING money, seemed like maybe thats just how they do it there. I got a refund of the screen protector but I am sure she got a kickback or bonus for each one of those that she sold. I am someone who has been buying my glass screen protecters on Amazon for years ($7.99 for a two pack) so I would NEVER purchase one protecter for an outrageous $40 or even $80. I am so disgusted with that store and Ashlyn B. Use that store at your own risk. I will never go anywhere but Costco or an actual Verizon store. read more