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I would like someone - hopefully a manager to review my communication with the customer service representative last night. Apparently you only staff sales staff at night and I would not buy anything from this person. My first call rather than telling me that the support staff were not in until morning she just disconnected chat on me without saying as much as good bye. I then started a chat on the service line and got the same person. i asked her if i could speak to a manager or supervisor - she left me sitting on chat for over 20 minutes and never came back. These messages have been sent to email for your review. Aside from having purchased the most expensive phone that does not work along with an insurance plan that I was told only replaces phones with new phones vs refurbished (this is not the truth) and the policy only kicks in after the factory warrantee is over so I sit with a droad less than one year old certified refurbished that goes on and off as it pleases and randomly dials numbers. This is better than the original phone which I paid between the phone and the insurance over 300.00 for less than 1 yr ago that decided to slowly die and completely died xmas eve after I was in a car accident. Then the phone came with no sim card after I paid extra for shipping and the local store would not give me a sim card would only sell me one. This would be the retailer were I purchased the phone - a verizon retailer.
I have never in my life had an issue with anyone on the phone until last night - i was asking for one of my lines that is eligible for an upgrade next month to change it now so I can get a working phone or US Cellular has offered to buy out all four of my plans. I have always been a fan of verizon and never had issues other then never getting my rebates..........I have not received this one which still does not appear in the system and we have had 4 people submit the info now. (Because I sent the phone back I can no longer give you the numbers unless I find the paperwork copies i kept). A couple years ago I had the same thing happen when i purchased my phones from a verizon store - the rebates never came. That has really been my only complaint other than this current phone is horrible - the first one was brand new and slowly died over a couple weeks. I spend two hours troubleshooting the problems with a very nice man on the phone - he went above and beyond what he needed to do to test this phone Then the certified refurbished phone came with no sim cared - we were very specific that we thought it was a combination of a phone defect and the sim card. I paid extra for shipping so my kids could still reach me and it came with no sim card. I called and you all send me to the verizon store in Monona WI where i purchased the phone for a sim card and they would not give me one without charging me...........so I had to wait again for you to send me a sim card. Well the phone is slowly dying again this time with random on and off and random dialing while fully charged or even sitting on the charger itself. I do not think my request of the young lady was that big but point blank she did not want to talk to my if I was not buying. She should not be on the phones - you do not disconnect from people in anger and you do not answer a chat and just leave someone sitting there until they hang up out of frustration. In my office that would be grounds for immediate termination (I do not want to see anyone lose there job) but she needs serious training. She cannot handle conflict management, she cannot simply answer a question or tell you that a department is not available until morning - all understandable answers. Hanging up on someone or just leaving them sit there - not acceptable. I get paid 75.00 per hour of which she has wasted approx 5 either on the phone filing complaints or trying to get in contact with you - who is going to pay for my time because of your staff and her tempore tantrum. My 7 yr old would get in trouble for behaving that way. I expect a resolution to this issue today! I expect a phone call from a manager today! If I do not hear from someone i will file a complaint with the better business bureau - put an article in the paper in Madison Wisconsin about recent service decline in verizon and I will cancel all of my accounts with your company as well as have my husbands attorney dissolve the contract for his business and his technicians can use another service. (He is scheduled to had phones out on Monday - that will no happen if this is not resolved)
Thank you - I look forward to hearing from you today to hear how you plan to reconcile this issue.
Sincerely,
Tammy <Personal information removed for privacy.>
(The conversations were saved by email so you should have copies of both the hang up and then the call where she just left me sitting and waiting! If you do not have copies of the emails I do please feel free to ask!
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I tried for 30 minutes to get to billing and all I could get was a computer that wanted money, no option for service rep. I had to change the date on one of my payments and ever since I have been getting texts saying I missed a payment and I had to call them. After I went through the aboved mentioned I finally called the new business line and was able to get transfered to billing. The lady was rude and didn't want to wait on my responses. She said I had schechuled it for the 1st and that why I was getting these texts , I was holding the paper, gave her the conformation number and told her it was for the seventh, all of a sudden the phone starting breaking up. I never had problems like this till my idenity was stolen and some guys got into my checking account, we caught it early and was able to close the account and open another. I had verizon on auto bill in the account and that was the only one I forgot put in the new info. Of course it was returned as closed. As soon as I saw this I checked the profile and changed it. They charged me the fee ( of course) and I called them to explain why this happened and apologized. Ever since then I have been treated like I'm a bum and that I don't pay my bill. I have been with them since 2000 and I'm thinking of changing it in September when the contract is up.
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