Problem: Sims Card was defective: this is why it went from a one star to a two star, because overall someone saved the day.....
We got greeted when walking in, this is always GREAT! I cant believe people REALLY complained about this sooo much they changed the rule. Reps can no longer put the thick plastic cover on customers phones.They also couldn't set up on my friends phone in the store, which made this the WHOLE reason why this night was ruined. This is how we spent our Friday afternoon.
We were in the store for about 20 minutes and then went home, we were told we could just log into our WIFI and the phone will start downloading everything (backing up) and activate right away, ok seems easy how hard can this be......
It had been about three hours on the phone with the four different reps (apple and Verizon reps), to them head back up to Verizon store again, which is another 30 min (to and from: 1 hour total) to drive to the store and back.
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We've been on the phone to find out the number on the receipt goes to their 1-800 number, 20 mins of waiting for a rep to tell us that he can't help us set up the phone and we need to contact Apple, which Apple Rep was actually pretty amazing and helped us with the two authentication code (ONLY apple can by pass this and remove it) and then she told us we need to contact Verizon again to talk to two different reps and the last one said "head to the store" because you have a defective phone. Brand new and already having issues, we need to take this back NOW.
We get into the store and ask for the manager as we could've just called in the first place to find out someone in the store knew what was going on. YEAH!! He had been there for 6 years and knew it was the SIMS card, WOW. I mean are you kidding me, could've been avoided. If someone on the phone we spoke to had this "in store experience" in the past. I was heated at this point, but we were happy there wasn't anything wrong with the phone it self. The point is the WHOLE night was ruined because we were on the phone for hours and in the store and traveling up there, just because they didn't set up the phone. OH the best part is the new download for the iphone was making my friend use the middle button and that is what made the button stop working and that is why she needed a new phone.
I think the whole thing is insane, wrong, and I think someone should at least given her (me too) a free starbucks drink, from across the street for all the time we spent in the store and on the phone, but who am I to make these decisions. All because of a one in a million things that could go wrong SIMS CARD is bad!!!
I don't have that good of patience with trouble shooting over the phone and would've went to the store after the first hour, but you would HOPE someone could help you over the phone. I look at us NOT being able to activate the phone in the store as an issue. I don't understand how we have to take the sims card out when talking on the phone with a Verizon rep and Apple rep, this appears to be a rep in the stores job, as they have the special tools to take it out, but if we could've activated it in the store this would've solved ALL the issues.
The problem here is since the store didn't help her set up the phone it's promoting for a verification #being sent to the OLD phone and it's two phone authentication! when we spoke with the two he said he can't by pass the "two factor authenticated code" and we now have to call apple! That was about another ten min wait (not bad) until she made US pop out the SIM card, to them prompt us through a few things to get the code to send us to the same steps we keep running in!
Listen the button stopped working and we paid 150 bucks
out for the phone ID BC the new phone isn't set up! She was prompt with it and got is assistance however
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