I wanted to purchase a new iPhone 13 Pro Max one Sunday afternoon. I was paying cash and just…read morewanted to get the phone, regardless of the carrier. Having already stopped at Best Buy and having literally been sent out the door because I wasn't interested in signing a new contract, I wasn't sure where to go next. I had $1,500 in my pocket and I wanted the new iPhone... Boo Best Buy.... Boo you! Anyway, I was driving up the road and saw the Verizon store and thought, "Hey, they have good service coverage". I had Verizon service once upon a time and didn't have any complaints and anything had to be better than what Best Buy had just pulled. I walked into the store and was greeted by who I would later discover was the General Manager, Ava. She was very personable and got me into their service queue. I waited for about 10 mins (they were reasonably busy - so not a long wait at all) and was greeted by an associate named Michael. I explained what I wanted to do and what had happened at Best Buy and he laughed and told me about a perfect solution to my custom situation. Bottom line. I didn't sign a contract. I got the new iPhone 13 Pro Max I wanted (in the desired color and size). I paid for the phone outright with cash. The phone will unlock automatically in 60 days, but I have Verizon prepaid service until I decide which carrier to stick with for the long haul. I purchased a case and a screen protector after examining the display models. I left the store with my new iPhone activated, transferred, protected, and ready to rock inside of 2 hours (I stayed in the store until my data transfer was complete - you could shave 1.5 hours off this time if you did that at home). Michael was extremely knowledgeable, patient, helpful, and courteous throughout my entire experience. The store was quite busy the entire time I was there, but Ava, Michael, and the other staff members always took their time with me and made my time there feel valued and important. I don't know what these other reviews are based on. In my experience this Verizon store offers flagship products and exceptional customer service while still offering excellent deals and reasons to choose them over the competition. I found out after I left that I was actually going to save $300 off my phone bill over the next 12 months if I decide to keep the service. It's in the form of a $25 credit applied to my account every month. Quite the nice little surprise. Just another reason to give them a try! Ask for Michael or Ava, you won't be disappointed. ***By the way: I just read the rest of the reviews for this store and I have to be honest... I didn't see *ANY* signs of laziness, rudeness, or disgruntled customers. To be truthful, I think all of these negative reviews are an angry 10% making 90% of the noise online. For every one bad review on Yelp I'd be willing to bet there are 50 customers who are satisfied but silent. Think about it... don't believe every negative comment you read. Especially when the person posting the review can't spell or properly form sentences. I'm positive the majority of complaints I've read concerning this Verizon Store are a bit.... exaggerated. They helped me get my iPhone 13 Pro Max in an efficient and professional manner. Plus, they only sold me what I told them I wanted. No hardcore sales pitches, no lying, no insults. That's ridiculous. Ok, I'm done ranting. Im just trying to balance the scales a little bit. *** + Here is a summary of how Verizon Sales Associates are paid. + This is straight from CareerTrend.com. Just because they get paid incentive commission doesn't mean you need to go on a witch hunt. It's just to keep everyone motivated. ****************************** ###Base Salary### Verizon typically offers its sales representatives a base salary or hourly wage. The company guarantees this amount regardless of individual performance. The base salary or hourly wage may be the same for all representatives at a certain level. For example, entry-level retail sales representatives in a particular geographic region may earn an hourly wage of $10 regardless of education or experience level. Inside sales representatives may earn an hourly wage of $12 while sales associate positions that require at least a bachelor's degree may offer a base salary of $30,000 per year. ###Commission### Commissions are one of the primary reasons why a sales career has the potential to be lucrative. This is pay that varies with the amount of completed sales and links directly to an individual representative's performance. Verizon pays its sales representatives commissions on confirmed sales. Commissions are usually a percentage of the dollar amount of total sales for a particular period. For example, if a sales representative accumulates $10,000 worth of sales in a month and earns a 10 percent commission, his incentive pay is $1,000. ******************************

I have wasted hours of my time trying to get a "promotional credit" that never came. I was promised…read more$1200 credit for a phone upgrade and Verizon customer service which is completely outsourced to another country has no record of anything happening at local branches. I was told by the local branch that I didn't have to trade in my old phone and customer service made me mail it in and couldn't find it after it was sent with their shipping label. I have spent 4 hours at least on the phone with promises and false assurances over and over with this company. I wouldnt recommend Verizon to my worst enemy.

POS company. I canceled my service and returned my equipment and have been sent to THREE separate…read morecollection agencies because they claim I never sent the equipment back. I have a receipt from UPS that I have already had to use for a collections dispute a couple of months ago which was RESOLVED. and then they just go and send it to a whole new agency I have never heard of. This store WILL mess up your credit score and continuously send you to collections, regardless of your equipment being FULLY returned. This company is a joke, a scam, and fully worthless. I would give this 0 stars if I could.

Charter/Spectrum had a crew in my area installing cable and boxes for their service. After…read moreinstallation, they left rocks and ruts and no attempt has been made in weeks to clean it up. It gets in the way of cutting grass and definitely doesn't look professional when the salesman leaves a card at the door trying to sell the service. I will be sticking with my Starlink service.

This company is the worst. I have a business account and I have waited multiple times on hold for…read more30+ minutes at a time. There isn't an option to leave a call back number or any recognition that poor service is their standard mode of operation.

Service goes out a lot. The price quote I was given was not the price I was charged. Also I got…read moredisconnected many times. Very glad to now have TDS.

A 1.3 star review is not even worth it to this company…read more At&t is the worst service on the planet. They help with absolutely NOTHING !!!! I had one of those flip phones, I took good care of it, I didn't fold it anymore because I seen a crease starting on it so I treated it like a straight phone. It worked good for a couple years like that. Then black screen, blank, nothing. Restart it, it's ok. It did this off and on for a while. Folding the phone is expected to get a crease but I didn't fold it. Blank screen ? It wasn't that old. I paid $150+ for 2 lines. My daughters phone was just a straight phone but the battery kept dying, she charged it, it would die again shortly after. I called At&t costumer service (Multiple times) and told them the problem with my daughters phone, the girl told me that the phone was discontinued. I did not know they were gonna get rid of it. Eventually the phone completely died and is now just a paper weight. When I told the girl about my flip phone she had no answer for me. I even talked to a manager (costumer service employees are useless, they just answer phones). The manager (managers are also useless just there for a paycheck) told me I had NO insurance and they were not gonna fix my phone or do anything for me. He also told me that I'd have to pay out of my own pocket to fix the screen. Paying $150+ for 2 lines and nothing else, I thought that included insurance also. They took the insurance off my service without my permission. One place I found near me said they could take a look at my phone, replace the screen but it would cost me about $500 dollars or more to get it fixed. And for my daughter, I'd have to get her a brand new phone and STILL have to pay on her old dead phone. So I'd have to pay for 2 lines, 3 phones, $500+ and a partridge in a pear tree. AT&T is the company from .... (you know where) If you want to just throw your money away then At&t is the company for you!! I am happy to say that I don't have the stress of deal with people who just want to sit there, answer phone with an accent you can't understand and collect a paycheck that's it. I now have a different company with 3 lines and I'm now paying LESS than $150.

Unbelievable incompetence. I set up time for a tech upgrade to 5G yet kept receiving their oddly…read morethreatening emails to do so ("just ignore them," I was told - "they are auto-generated"). They cancelled due to the blizzard (understandable). Set up another time (for today) and I confirmed it with a phone call TO THEM on Friday. Here I sit, now told "oh, they're not coming. And if you had the app you would have known that." When I tried to address my overinflated bill with them, they said "You can drop your in-home warranty for $25/month." I've never been so glad to know of other options in my neighborhood. Can't wait to push the "eject" button on AT&T.

terrible customer services and rip off and lied. I went to the store and manager Tara offer me a…read moregood deal specially she ask how much I pay monthly to NT&T, I been with NT&T 25 years and didn't think to change the company but Tara offer 50% less monthly payment, after that I came to get 3 new phones, customer serves was horrible , employee wasn't happy spend time with me and ask if I want come back tomorrow because employee suppose go to party , then I suppose to get Apple watch and I made 3 visits to the store and still didn't get my Apple watch and then the kick me out of the store, I been told I have to leave the store with no reason, my bill came $500 with $200 more that i paid before, no one wants talk to me and help, when I came and saw Tara in the store she hide and didn't come talk to me, so what I get- no customer service, no Apple watch, bill $200 more and no one want talk to me to explain what is going on, manager Tara is lie about the price , dont go there and don't trust ... they just lie and rip off

Dear Steve B. - Manager Thank you for your response,…read morehowever, if you would have read my review you would have seen I have already contacted Mike S. I left him a voice message and I'm waiting to hear back. 1. I went to this store because they had such high reviews. Unfortunately, my service was DEFINITELY NOT 5 stars. I spoke with Ben about getting a iPhone 15 Pro Max. He didn't have any in stock stock so he ordered one. I waited until the end of the week when he got back in the store and my phone would have already arrived. I called in the morning to make sure the phone came in. He said it had, so I drove the 30 minutes to get it. When I got to the store we started the process and he realized he had the regular 15 not the Pro Max. He called another store to see if they had one and suggested I could there. I wasn't happy with that idea as I had already driven to that store and waited 4 days to get it. He went to get it (which took another 30+ minutes). Once everything was set up, he said I got a FREE screen cover which he put on and a FREE phone case. I didn't need the phone case so he said I could pick out one of the charges instead. I proceeded to pick out the "free" charger and then saw the printed invoice that I asked for. The "free" charger and "free" screen case COST $199.99!! I told him that I didn't want any of them and he said there was still an activation fee. I just received my bill from Verizon and I was charged activation fees. I called Verizon and they said that his fee wasn't any type of activation fee. That this store was not a corporate store and they can charge whatever they want. Buyer beware of the Device Payment Promotion - You are NOT GETTING ANYTHING FREE. They use the term free and don't tell you are actually paying $200!! 2. HOURS LATER, I finally went home with my new iPhone and Apple watch. Once home, all of the sudden my old Samsung watch rings. Apparently, he didn't set up my new Apple watch right! I have to drive another 30 minutes both ways to have him set up my watch again. 3. I gave them my Samsung S21 phone in to get my $800 trade in credit. I look on my Verizon bill and it is not there. They said they never received the phone from the store. I called the store and they said that they wait until they have a load of them before they ship them and that I should wait another month or 2 before it shows up on my bill. 4. I've tried multiple times to call the store to discuss my dissatisfaction and I get no answer and voice mail has not been set up. 5. I found the name/phone number of the District Manager Mike S. at (608) 572-0985 from another review and left him a message. I hope he will be able to resolve my complaints above.

I signed up for what I thought to be a one month plan when I first moved to Madison, b/c I needed…read moreinternet. It was not advertised on the website that the service would automatically roll from month to month and auto-charge my credit card. After receiving additional charges for internet services I didn't need, I called in to ask understand what was going on and to get those charges removed. When I spoke to their guy, he told me that on the bottom of the email they sent me, it indicated that my card would be charged monthly. I looked at the email and it said no such thing. When I advised him of this and requested my money be credited back, he refused. This is not a high integrity shop and I would discourage all from doing business with them.

This is actually the worst internet service provider I have ever seen. Run a speedtest and you can…read moresee that their speeds rate an F overall. the average download speed is around 2-300 kb/sec. KILOBYTES! All that's missing in Mad City Broadband is the dial up noise when you connect to the internet.

Gave ResTech another shot after moving to an apartment complex that only offers their internet…read moreservices. Had it briefly a few years back when I lived downtown and swapped off it. Had heard they were better now days but sadly that is not the case. Been here a less than two months with their service and have already had 4 outages, one which lasted around 6 hours. Avoid rental apartments that do not allow any alternative options, especially if you work from home and need to rely on the interent for being able to work. Their customer support like also for some reason seems to go down during outages often as well - during 2 of the 4 outages so far I have not even been able to reach their support line as the line itself seems to go down when they have larger outages. One of the outages I did get a chance to talk to someone, it was a week after the first 2.5 hour outage and I asked what the issue was and if this was normal and they suggested I just use my phone as a hot spot and I said that doesn't really work due to being in an ATT deadzone for speeds and the rep ended up just hanging up on me...never thought I would say I miss Spectrum interent but man their service was was so much more reliable and their support team was always professional. I have also noticed that rain for some reason causes drops in connection briefly and oddities with the speed so be ready for that as well. The speed itself, when working, is solid at 1gig up/down.

They have gotten better, much better. When I need to call for tech support, I am greeted by…read morecompetence. How refreshing. Good job. Keep up the good work.

Overall, I'm happier with TDS than I was with Spectrum. Fewer outages, decent internet speed, lots…read moreof TV channels for the price. As with every company on earth, customer service is lacking. It takes forever to connect with a live person and that person is not proficient in English so I keep asking them to repeat themselves. I have a 16 year old Sony "dumb" TV so I can't stream, but when I can, I'll probably not need TV from TDS any longer.

Absolute scam of a provider. Customer service is like talking to a rock, they won't help you they…read morewon't fix anything they won't do anything for you besides steal your money. The internet they provide sucks!! It goes down weekly and when it does work its way below the threshold of what you signed up for. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY