Verizon requires people who are there to drop off equipment to sit and wait for people to buy cellphones, sign up for plans, get customer service, etc. They offer this as a convenience, but it's not. Apparently they can't scan a serial number and mark it returned. A technology company that can't scan an item see who the heck they rented it out tto is a technology company that is behind Blockbuster.
Staff are consistently rude about it too because they don't make any money off it. I imagine staff are just consistently rude, because I've encounter this over multiple years which suggests it a culture that's taught.
For the record, I called Verizon, and they absolutely can just ship it back to the warehouse where it gets automatically scanned and you will not be charge for the equipment. So, the THREAT the tiny tyrant at the store made about me getting charged if I left it there was BS the whole time. The empty threat of a little man with a little authority, as I suspected. read more