VZW Customer Service has become an EPIC FAIL

Here I am again spending another freaking night on the phone because a rep can't add the right feature code to my account. I had gotten sick of paying ridiculous amounts in international calling charges so I decided to add the discounted international calling feature to my account. The rep added I-dial so I can call international (I've already been calling international for over 2 freaking years now). Now I have to waste more time talking to a rep who isn't helpful and hold for a supervisor. Can't even eat dinner at 10:45 at night thanks to Verizon not adding the correct feature and failing to document the account. God, it never ends, just when you think your phone is starting to work after all the garbage problems, there's an issue with the plan.

After over an hour on the phone (most of that time on hold) I spoke with a supervisor who had no idea who I was. She actually listened, put the correct feature on the account and adjusted the overages. At least I can go to sleep now.

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HP customer service has become worse than McDonald's(if they ever had one)!!!

I HAD been a very loyal customer of HP products & used to highly recommend it to friends & colleagues - even over Macs!
recently I ordered a very high end customized model with a coupon...within a week I found a cheaper coupon with more add-ons included. Since I had a custom built laptop it would take 2 weeks to build it & I called within a week & asked for the discount.
To my astonishment the Rep told me she could see the new customized model (I made it exactly the same configuration) in my cart with the discount but I would have to CANCEL my old order & rebook it to get the discount. She informed me it takes 3-5 business days to reverse the charge on my card (working with a large hotel I know it can take 2-3 weeks sometimes).
I asked to speak to her supervisor...who was very unhelpful & on top was very VERY unprofessional which made me make the decision of CANCELING the order right away. He gave me a hard time to cancel. He told me I had to wait until I get the laptop delivered (it won't be built for another week) & I would have to send it in & than get a refund!!!!!
I asked for his supervisor who was the same as him..Equally unhelpful!! I emailed the customer service as well..But all of them want to give me some stupid promotions & are sorry for inconvenience (the same old standard drafted automatic sorry email)
Should complaining to Better Business Bureau be the next step???

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What does it take to get a VZW Customer Service Rep to call you back?? READY TO CANCEL SERVICE OF 4 LINES!

Has anyone else had problems with VZW customer service? I have been lied to repeatedly and am on the verge of terminating my contracts. To begin, I sent my daughters, who are authorized users, into the store - which is 40 minutes from my house- to upgrade and renew 2 lines. I called Apple to upgrade initially, but my account has a corporate discount, so they were unable to upgrade my lines of service. I called the closest VZW store, again 40 minutes away, spoke with the sales associate DUSTIN. I told DUSTIN exactly what I wanted and advised that my daughters would be in to upgrade the lines.
When my daughters arrived, there were 2 people in line ahead of them. As the other customers were taken care of and left, it became closing time. Another representative approached DUSTIN telling him he did not "need to do all that, just hurry and get them out". YES!!! The other rep told him to hurry and get the sale out of the store!!! WHO PAYS YOUR BILLS? WHO PROVIDES YOU WITH THAT PAYCHECK AND COMMISSION MONTHLY?? YES, we the customer do!!!
Next, DUSTIN brought out a selection of cases, car chargers and screen protectors from the back of the store advising my daughter to "pick one", as he presented the selection of cases to her. She advised she did not want or need the cases or other items he was offering. He told her the case and screen protector "comes with it". HE LIED to her!! This is unethical and deceptive!! It was not until she arrived home, after being rushed out of the store, she noticed the additional charged for the case and screen protector - which was supposedly included.
I called VZW *611 immediately. I spoke with a gentleman named CASEY who empathized with me and stated he would forward this information to his manager to have his manager contact me. I have waited for a return call and have not received one. If I do not hear back from VZW today, I am returning 2 lines of service, cancelling all 4 lines and taking my service to a carrier that will do what they promise and not unethically obtain sales from paying customers.
The bonus to this story- my daughter is a minor! Not only did he manipulate and lie, but did so to a child!!! I have been a VZW customer for over a decade. When I cancel my service, everyone will know why. In addition, I talked my LARGE corporation into obtaining corporate accounts with VZW. I can assure you, that will also be revoked.
Best Wishes

Sadly, i've had a few unethical issues of my own and i'm an adult. I do think there was some responsiblity on the daughters' part to verify what they were paying for before leaving the store even though you made an honest attempt to have things laid out prior to their arrival. In regards to VZW's service, It has declined horribly over the past few years. I've been a customer since they were orignally a company called PrimeCo and I'm on the verge of switching providers myself. I had a defective phone that was replaced 6 times in one year..the store manager called me out the blue to apologize for the defective phones and offered me a free upgrade at no charge. He NEVER told me that he was extending my contract and treating it like a normal upgrade. I didn't find out until i went for my New Every Two purchase. I also received a letter stating they were discontinuing the New Every Two Program, but i still would be able to use my last upgrade on my next purchase. Of course when the renewal period came around, there was no such record of the offer and I got nothing. It's now time to renew my contract again and upgrade, but as before, there is absolutely no incentive for me doing so. I'm still going to pay the same as any new customer that walks through the door, still paying an activation fee, and i don't have unlimited everything like most other providers are currently offering. So please tell me again WHY i would want to renew my contract and purchase a new phone from Verizon when i can go elsewhere and get all types of perks???
All in all, i truly sympathize with you and as of today, i'm looking to purchase a new phone this afternoon with another provider.

What is the difference between Safari 5.1.7 and 5.1.10? I can not log on to my website, so that their customer service has said that they are using Safari 5.1.7, and I use 5.1.10 (which I have installed on my computer, Mac)

what is the difference between Safari 5.1.7 and 5.1.10?
I can not log on to my website, so that their customer service has said that they are using Safari 5.1.7, and I use 5.1.10 (which I have installed on my computer, Mac)

Might be the security fixes > Safari 5.1.10 for Snow Leopard

Please help customer service has done NOTHING for

I have had my creative zen micro player for about 8 months and having problems with it...When I put in the battery it won't work, but if I move it around to different spots it works for about 2 seconds and turns off. It has a full charge becaue if I hold it in that position it stays on and you can see the full battery. I've tried everything, I e-mailed customer service, but got nothing so I'm hoping that someone out there will be able to help me. I'm about to die without music .
Dakota

I sympathize with you not having any luck with Customer Service. I have had a long standing issue with them (I sent off email number 54 this morning). I have tried to escalate the problem by requesting the name of the Australian manager (I have asked in writing for this times) but every time they ignore my request. I am on my second Creative Zen Micro which is riddled with faults - just like the original unit. I have spoken to a representati've of customer service on the phone and he promised certain action but has failed to deli'ver (that was 55 days ago). Hopefully someone in Creative, maybe the Australian manager, will read this and help resolve my problem. Do not give up the fight... I'm not.

Store rep signed me up under the wrong plan and no one in customer service has fixed it in over a month

I was bait and switched. I signed up under the pretense that I was getting the promotional rate of 40gb/$150 that was scheduled to end on November 5 2014.
I walked into a Verizon wireless store on November 4th with the intent to trade in my iPhone 5s which I was offered $350 trade in value and port over 2 of my lines with T-Mobile under the Verizon promotion. Once I was approved and offered my trade in I was told that the phones I was seeking to purchase from Verizon was not in stock and needed to be ordered, and delivered separately with the iPhone 6 being shipped out November 14 and the iPhone 6+ shipped November 21. Thomas, the Verizon wireless sales representative, also informed me that for me to get the promotional rate I would have to open the account with an active line before the 5th or I wouldn't be able to get the promotional rate since the phones would be delivered past the promotional date period. The sales representative insisted I should add an iPad that was in stock at the store and I could leave the store with an active account and once my phones were delivered I would be all set to go with my promotional plan and devices. I had no need for an iPad but decided it was worth getting for the sake of the promotion.
ON November 14 I recieved via FedEx a package containing not a iPhone 6 as promised, but a iPhone 6+. I called Verizon to activate the phone that was ported to my personal phone number, and didn't have my iPhone 6 that was set to port my out of state business line and cancel service with T-Mobile on the 14th of November. To say the least I was extremely upset for which I had no means of recieving business calls from North Carolina while I live in Florida. At that point I asked the Verizon customer care representative I had on the phone to see if they could see if there was a store that had the iphone 6 I ordered in stock so that I an could have a business phone the same day. He found a store that had it in stock and it happened to be the store I originally signed up at. I was told that it was in the color and storage capacity I had originally ordered and that I could pick it up at the store to complete my purchase with Verizon. Again, for the sake of having a business line I ran to the store and spoke with Thomas and explained the mix up. upon moving forward I was informed that they had an iPhone 6 in stock with the capacity I had requested but not the same color I had ordered. At that point I didn't care I just needed a phone and proceeded to activate the phone he had in stock And ported over my business line.
After recieving a text from Verizon that I had consumed all of my data just days after I recieved my phones I called Verizon 611 from my phone and spoke to a customer care representative named Fallon, which informed me I was set up on the wrong plan and that she see's the notes that Thomas notated that I was subscribing for a 40gb plan and that she was going to send a request I D # [removed] form to make the corrections and that there was no need for me to cancel service as I was within my cancelation period, again she insisted that there was no need to cancel and that the request would be granted and she would be calling me once my billing cycle reset and the corrections were made and she would credit my account based on the promotional rate. I NEVER RECIEVED A CALL FROM FALLON! Not even to be notified that the request was denied! I came to realize later in December when I recieved a $1200 bill that this wasn't resolved. I called customer service again and spoke with a gentleman that explained the request was denied and that this will be resolved after I explained what transpired. He assured me that he was going to expedite another request and he would be in contact with me within a few hours....... I'm still waiting for his call as well!
I called again several times in the past few days and have spoken to several supervisors that promised to resolve this matter and call me back promptly........ Again, no one has called me back!
December the 8th I spoke with a supervisor named Victoria which assured me she would get this resolved within the next 24 hours and gave me her direct number to reach her if I didn't hear from her [removed], again I haven't heard from her yet and I've made several attempts to reach her at her direct line to no avail.
December the 9th I spoke with supervisor named Mike employee #[removed] in the Seattle call center, he appoligized for the mix up and that no one has called me back and that he would handle this matter and get back to me today December 10th....... Again no call..... I have spoken to 3 people today all which have made promises to call me back today within a few hours and none that have. I just got off the phone with a supervisor named Vanessa Jentfield at the Chicago call center and saw all the notations and assured me that there is no reason why this shouldn't be corrected and that she would be calling me back tonight or tomorrow. I will be sitting by the phone unless Verizon wireless decides to disconnect my service for non payment of $1200+.........
I have filed a complaint giving a detailed explanation of what has transpired with the FCC as well as the FTC, my next step is to file a small claims lawsuit tomorrow morning with the state of Florida and see if Verizon finds a way to contact me then,I guess I will just have to wait and see.
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It was a good idea to file a complaint with the FCC, someone from Verizon will contact you by phone in an effort to resolve your issue. I wouldn't suggest small claims court as they have not done anything illegal, (just bad customer service) and their contract with you is usually upheld, which in this case is not for the plan you want. The person contacting you likely has a little more pull, as the call centers can only uphold the written customer agreement made.

VZW Customer Service is a Joke (3332 Error Still A Huge Issue)

I've been using an old (original) Razr flip phone, and recently had the opportunity to purchase a (never used) Razr2 that missed the 3/2011 update. Before forking over a single penny, I googled the 3332 error. It brought me to these very pages where a very helpful Verizon employee (helpful Verizon employee being an oxymoron these days) named MikeS_VZW posted on several different threads about how to fix the 3332 error.
He posted a direct filepath for store employees to follow, and he also posted a list of phones that the flash would work for. (By the way, all those threads are now locked for some reason.) It was based on this information - a Verizon Wireless Employee posting on the Verizon Wireless Website, that I decided to fork over the money and buy this new phone.
So a few days ago I head to the Encino, CA store and am told that they don't have any computers at all that a phone can be hooked up to and that he didn't think any stores are able to flash phones. But he did go in back and call around. Turns out that the Flagship stores are still able to flash phones and that the nearest Flagship store was in Porter Ranch.
Today I went to the Porter Ranch, CA Verizon Wireless Flagship store. Upon entering I explain that I was sent there from Encino to have my phone flashed. I show him a printout of MikeS_VZW's filepath & instructions. The greeter tells me that he doesn't know why they keep sending people to his store but that he will have someone help me out.
Jean Carlo comes over and I explain the whole thing to him again. First thing that he tells me is that Encino could have done it saving me a extra 30 miles (15 miles each way). Well I say that they told me only Flagship stores could Flash my phone. He tells me Panorama City is also a Flagship store (and only about 4 miles away from me). But whatever, I'm already in the Porter Ranch Store...
I show him the printout and without looking at it he responds that he knows how to flash a phone. He then goes on to tell me that he can flash my phone but if it burns out, which has happened, then they aren't responsible and I would have to pay the insurance deductible to get a new phone.
Again, I WOULD HAVE TO PAY MONEY OUT OF MY POCKET, IF THE VERIZON WIRELESS FLAGSHIP STORE EMPLOYEE RUINED MY VERIZON PHONE WHILE TRYING TO GET IT TO PROPERLY WORK ON THE VERIZON WIRELESS NETWORK. Gotcha.
I told him to go ahead, because if it burned out then I would revert to my super old original Razr and then just wait it out til the end of my contract.
Ten or so minutes later and brings my phone back as it's still restarting and asks if there's anything else. I say no and he walks away. As soon as it restarts I try to download Backup Assistant and I of course get the 3332 Errror.
I go to find Jean Carlo, but he's with a customer...20-30 minutes later, I show him the printout of the filepath that he previously refused to look at and ask if that's the filepath he followed because I'm still getting the error message. He tells me to hold on, takes the printout and goes to talk to someone. 5-10 minutes later Benjamin the manager approaches me and says that they can't follow specific filepaths, they can only flash phones with whatever software they have on their computers which are sent to them by Verizon.
I explain that this is a fix posted to the Verizon Website, by a Verizon Employee and am told that there is nothing they can do and that I should call tech support.
As soon as I got in my car I called 611 customer service to complain about the runaround that I had gotten which resulted in nothing being done to fix the problem that Verizon themselves created. The cs rep (whose name I didn't get) told me that it sounded like an issue for tech support. So my call to complain about getting the runaround results in getting more runaround.
I was transferred to Buddy. I explained everything to him, told him about this forum and asked him to pull it up. He was unable to because their computers are very slow and the page kept timing out before it could load (VERY TELLING). He did mention though that anyone could post on the forums that MikeS_VZW might not be a Verizon employee. Buddy's solution was that he offered to replace my new phone (old, out of stock model, but still new and never before used) with a "like new" refurb. This option would 1) not cost me anything, and 2) not require a contract extension. The only 3 phone choices he gave me are all garbage. I wouldn't take any of those phones if I was offered free service to use them. And even if I were willing to try one out to see if it was acceptable, I'd have to send them my Razr2, so I'd be stuck with the garbage once it proved to be garbage. And since he was unable to pull up this forum to see that there is a fix, I asked to speak to a supervisor.
I was then transferred to Brandon. While his computer was super slow as well, he was able to open the forum and see the filepath that MikeS_VZW had posted. I asked him to verify that we are in agreement that MikeS_VZW is (or at least was) a Verizon employee. He conceded that it appeared that he was. A lot of back and forth later, he promised to call stores in my area to see if he could find one that could and would be able to fix my phone. But before he did that, I asked him if he was able to open the filepath that MikeS_VZW had listed. He tried and said that it had been moved to a different location. He looked to for in that new location and still no luck. Therefore, if he wasn't able to find it, what was the point of asking a store to follow a path to a destination that didn't exist.
That 611 call lasted 02h 01m 31s. Plus the 45m-1h I spent in the Porter Ranch. All for nothing. All because Verizon has obsolete information posted in it's help forums.
There was a reply to a (now locked) post dated as recently as February 13, 2013, a mere month ago, saying that they went into a store in Columbus Ohio, and that store was able to fix the problem. Why does one hand not know what the other one is doing.
Is there anyone else that has had this issue resolved recently?
I have been a Verizon Wireless customer for over 10 years, since before it was called Verizon Wireless (I started with Airtouch). Slowly but surely, year by year, month by month, and day by day, their service, as in customer service (not wireless service) has steadily gone downhill. They do not care about their customers. They only care about their customers money.
I have 3 phones in service with Verizon, and as soon as the contract expires on the last one in July, I'm dropping them as fast as they drop calls in the canyons.
Q: Why create that update in 3/2011 that removed functionality from all the basic/non-smartphones?
A: Cashmoney*
By removing functionality you force your customers to upgrade their phones. (Cashmoney)
By forcing your customers to upgrade their phones you force your customers to sign new 2-year contracts. (Cashmoney)
By forcing your customers to sign new 2-year contracts when you basically offer nothing but smartphones, you effectively force your customers to switch to a smartphone. (Cashmoney)
By forcing your customers to switch to a smartphone you force your customers to add data plans. (Cashmoney)
Q: Why start charging a $30 upgrade fee when it used to be free to upgrade?
A: Cashmoney
Dear Verizon, may I please please pretty please pay you $30 for the privilege to continue paying you every month? (Cashmoney)
Q: Why eliminate the unlimited data plan and move to an obtusely structured tier system?
A: Cashmoney
Hey Verizon, do you think there's any way it's possible for me to pay you more, but get way less? Why don't you guys look into that and see what you can come up with. (Cashmoney)
*Cashmoney - Corporate translation: Added revenue stream
Note: all the tags relating to this post (i.e. no_help_from_customer_service, money_hungry_company, cancel_contract, cancel_service) were already created by other users prior to me.
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1. Jim, the only reason my phone is "obsolete" is because Verizon decided to make it "obsolete". Otherwise, it makes and receives calls and texts without issue.
2. We are not all customers here, Verizon employees are constantly posting on these boards.
3. There was a post on a previous thread by a customer who had the issue resolved. That post was dated February 13, 2013. https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/493678?start=122&tstart=0
4. You, personally, might not need to know what every single person said in every single discussion, but I wanted the Verizon employees that troll these boards to see what >Comment Deleted<they put their customers through.
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Verizon customer service Has to be the worst yet!!!

Here we go again, below is an email I sent you back in March of 2012 about the extremely poor customer service that Verizon seems to consistently offers its customers. the email was sent to William {edited for privacy}.
On Saturday morning I woke up to find my internet and cable service was out. I called for service and the woman I spoke with again had a difficult time finding my account. after she was able to locate my account, she did attempt to help me get my service up and running. we were unable to do so. so she indicated that she would put in a service call for a repair man to come to my home. She told me the waiting window was from 8:00 am to 9:30 pm. This in itself is a ridicules time window 13 hours. I explained I had some volunteer work to do that day and I would not be home until after 4:30 and she told me that she would mark the ticket to indicate that. While I was doing the volunteer work, I had received a telephone message from “peter” telling me he was going to be at my house at 2:00pm. I received this message and called the service number to remind them that I would not be home at that time. Again it too 10 minutes to find my account, and the person I was speaking to told me he would check with dispatch and call me back.. I had finished my work earlier than expected and headed home. I then received a phone call back telling me that the repair man would be at my house at 3:30.
At 4:00 I called service again because I have not seen the repair man. I talked to a man named Kyle, who with my name, address, telephone number (a Verizon cell phone) and service ticket number too 15 minutes to find my account. After he found my account, he told me that the service man is scheduled between 4:30 and 9:30 to come to my house. I asked him to talk to someone to narrow down the time a little bit as I was told it would be 3:30 and that 5 hour window was ludicrous. he told me he could not. I asked to speak to his boss.
Dennis was the boss’ name, he told me he was going to call dispatch and “get to the bottom” of this. He called me back, only to tell me that there would be no repair man coming to my house because it was not scheduled and they do not have anyone available to send. I told him that my call was given to a tech as I was told two specific times that he was going to be there. He said that the dispatcher did not log my call correctly and that there was nothing that could be done, I would have to way until the next day for repair service. Imagine that, I called at 5:46 am for service and I cannot receive service for more than 24 hours.
So once again like back in March of 2012 I had to waste hours of my time, and on Saturday and Sunday 1 hour and 45 minutes of my air time on my Verizon cell phone to attempt to obtain something the even resembles good customer service.
Today I went online to the “chat” service and talked to someone in India, Dyvia, I explained I wanted to file a complaint, she told me that she to transfer me to “billing”. Robert in billing told me he could not help me as he had to transfer me to technical Support. Jagannath told me he could not help and that I could go to
https://www22.verizon.com/Content/ContactUs/EmailUs/emailus.htm to file a complaint. That site does not have dropdowns for complaints. while he was looking for some alternative I called back to the technical service number to try to obtain the corporate headquarters number. again they could not find my account and I said you do not need my account to give me a phone number. they reluctantly gave me the number. I called {edited for privacy} ended up speaking with Ms. DelGado, who listened to my complaint, and told me that she would have someone call me tomorrow.
tonight at 8:53pm I received a phone call, by the time I got to the phone it had gone to voice mail. it was someone named “Celeste” I think, she was not very clear and spoke too fast for voice mail. she told me that she would update my account so that service technicians would be able to find my account if I ever call. While this may be all well and good, this is the same thing you did for me in 2012 and I am still having this problem.
This “fix” does not go far enough, I feel that Verizon owes me for my wasted time and my cell phone minutes and I want to know what Verizon is going to do about it. I spend a lot of money on my Verizon services, and I want and expect to receive good customer service. I do not think it is too much to ask for that a company can at least fine my account, but they MUST be able to provide prompt service calls.
When you have had a chance to research this please contact me by email and let me know how Verizon is going to handle this. Xfinity is looking better and better
Thank you
PRIOR EMAIL FROM MARCH 2012
William
Thank you for taking the time to talk to my this morning. I wanted to let you know that my situation has still not been resolved.
After Spending 35 minutes one night and was promised my box would be shipped to my office and be delivered on Tuesday, it was not
The second time I called spending 55 minutes on the phone, Kelvin assured me that UPS would deliver the box to my office on Wednesday, he assured me! Well here it is 7:15 pm on Wednesday and I still do not have the replacement box. Totally wasted an hour and a half on the phone.
As I told you earlier today, I am totally shocked at the lack of service I have been receiving, and this just goes to prove the point. today when I called and asked to speak to a supervisor it took 20 minutes to get to you, because they can NEVER find my account, my phone # which is a Verizon cell phone, the only phone I have cannot,. for some reason be linked to my account. (I called one night and they could not find my account even though I was giving them my account # from online. some people complain they are only a number to big companies, seems I am not even a number to this company.)
You told me today that you would personally handle any issues I have with Verizon, so I am asking you now to fix this problem, and have my new box delivered. I have to tell you I am really considering moving my accounts to Comcast. I spend a lot of money on my FIOS PHONE and Internet services with your company, and I feel that it is not appreciated by Verizon.
I am looking forward to your assisting me, and hopefully saving me as a customer.

Hi buonopaul,
Your issue has been escalated to a Verizon agent. Before the agent can begin assisting you, they will need to collect further information from you. Please go to your profile page for the forum and look at the top of the middle column where you will find an area titled "My Support Cases". You can reach your profile page by clicking on your name beside your post, or at the top left of this page underneath the title of the board.
Under "My Support Cases" you will find a link to the private board where you and the agent may exchange information. This should be checked on a frequent basis, as the agent may be waiting for information from you before they can proceed with any actions. Please keep all correspondence regarding your issue in the private support portal.

Since this is Halloween, I have a iMac AppleStore/AppleCare horror story...that so far no one even in Apple Corporate Customer Service has been able to address. So who do you call after you've called Apple Corp?

Oct 21 2013
Hello my experience Apple Service has not been great. Anytime I have had to have something repaired...it has had to go back. Several years ago i had a logic board replaced on a Mac Pro but they forgot to serialize the board... (well?)
Recently I had to take my iMac in (repair # R104249849) The check-in was great after that it was all down hill. I was told by one tech what would be done AND he would call me. I got no call. When I called to find out what was going on, no one could give me any information...kind of like there was no communication between techs. no one ever called me to come get the iMac so went to the store ( I got tired of trying to getting "no answers" on the phone. It just so happened the iMac had been ready and was "just sitting" in the back running another diagnostic. A week ago the iMac shut down on it's own I got it running again...two days ago one of the fans started running a very LOUD HIGH SPEED yet the computer was not hot. I wasted almost two hours with Apple Care iChat "typing" my story to only find out that that I would have to call the Apple Store in the morning and re-tell my story again...
When I got a manager on the phone and mentioned I am under some tight deadlines his suggestion was "if it's possible for you to buy a new machine and return it when yours get fixed...(!)" I had a good laugh on that one.
The iMac is there now being there hopefully being repaired.(repair #R10604084)
I got "band aide fix" service when major surgery was needed.
I know computers can cease to function anytime, but I also know that there are two sides to customer service:
1) Learn to really listen
2) Do thorough repairs
I have been 100% Apple for over 20 years, does this mean anything to Apple?
Oct 23
I have spoken to Customer service at Apple Corp. They seem to take this serious.
Oct 26
I still don't have my computer and after speaking with the tech yesterday morning (who said they would call me before 6:00 PM...I never got a call)
no can tell me when I will get this computer back.
I called Apple Corp Customer service to ask why after all the company "ball dropping" and questionable repair work...simply replace the iMac.
No one there has an answer for this.

Wow, Karan Taneja, you've just embarrassed yourself on a worldwide support forum. Not only is your post ridiculous and completely inappropriate for a technical support forum, but it also shows your ignorance as to whom you think the audience is. Apple is not here. It's users, like you.
If you would have spent half the time actually reading the Terms of Use of this forum that YOU agreed to by signing up to post, as you did composing that usesless, inappropriate post, you (and the rest of us on this forum) would have been much better off.

NEED AGENT activate data feature like customer service has for months due to error

for the last 4 months customer service thru email has had to activate data after my plan renews i just found out the email option is gone. So i need an agent to do it below is what the agent said thru his email in june when they ask for me to reply via email. btw the error has been happening since April where my blackberry data turns off on verizons end and i can't get email or send or use browser or send and receive picture messages once my plan renews
Good Morning Monica,
Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless once again, this is Mike again, and it's my pleasure to again enable your data feature for your account.
I have once again activated the proper data feature on your account and I have submitted another error example. I have also found that this issue is common with blackberry devices and we are currently working on a solution. Until your data feature no longer needs to be activated by a representative each month, i will be more than happy to assist you with activating your data whenever your plan renews if you simply reply to this email and request that i activate the data.
thank you, Monica for contacting
Verizon wireless once again. We
greatly appreciate that you provided us
with another opportunity to assist you.
again this is Mike, and it's my
pleasure to activate your data feature
once again. please continue to feel free to reply to this email or call customer service at (888)294-6804 if you ever
have any other questions or concerns,
thank you for choosing Verizon Wireless.

I did a diagnostic check and this part came up. I think the BIS
service is not connecting but i think it's on verizon's side. Each
time the customer service agent turned on data on verizon's side it
fixed the problem.
I saw online many blackberry's have the issue like the agent told me.
so i need for this to be fixed because i am paying for data.
Diagnostic report
Blackberry registration: Yes
Connected to blackberry: No
Blackberry pin-pin: abort

Need to request service Tech to an area that service has become garbage.

My in laws have cell phones on my account and recently the service on their cell phones has become garbage. The both have samsung galaxy phones and even when I go their front or back yard or in the house the service plummets. The Address is in Greenport, NY 11944. It used to be very good but the only way to get a clear call lately is walking to almost the road. I worked for verizon 4 years and this seemed awkward to be that the service would change. It used to work great in the house but has become poor.
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hendrickmsman24, thank you very much for trying those steps. I want wo make sure that we can get you guys back up and running with good service. If they have a 4G device the *228 will not work. The best way to update the service is to have them power the device off and pull the battery from the phone. Once the battery is out please have them remove the sim card for a good 5-10 seconds. Then place everything back together and power it back on. Then re-test the service. Please keep us posted.
KevinR_VZW
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Friendly Suggestion for VZW Customer Service

I have had Verizon for years. I have always paid my bill on arrival online, about three weeks early. Somehow I forgot to pay it on the first of October.
Today, for the first notice I received from VZW, I received a sharply worded note saying if I didn't pay immediately my service was subject to disconnect.
It might be a little friendlier to send a note, just past the due date, asking: "Did you forget?" instead of firing away with both barrels.
Jack Cain

1. Jim, the only reason my phone is "obsolete" is because Verizon decided to make it "obsolete". Otherwise, it makes and receives calls and texts without issue.
2. We are not all customers here, Verizon employees are constantly posting on these boards.
3. There was a post on a previous thread by a customer who had the issue resolved. That post was dated February 13, 2013. https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/493678?start=122&tstart=0
4. You, personally, might not need to know what every single person said in every single discussion, but I wanted the Verizon employees that troll these boards to see what >Comment Deleted<they put their customers through.
5. >Comment deleted<
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Verizon's honesty and customer service has really sucked the last six months. Can anyone share information with me on transferring my service to Sprint?

Please share information on moving to Sprint or any other service that does not treat their customer like crap.

We really don't want to see you leave, john528.
What has happened? Please look for a private message from me.
TamaraH_VZW
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Customer service has one solution for my problem

My Cisco 4335 STB has been experiencing all of the usual issues reported here and on other forums.
1) Caller ID has never worked (I've run the troubleshooter and rebooted many times. I see the test message caller ID, no joy displaying during a test call)
2) Random reboot of STB (this has decreased slightly but is still occurring weekly), and everyone's favorite problem
3) STB is intermittently slow to respond to commands from remote. This has increased in frequency and is driving us insane. The only solution we can find is to use the Verizon remote control app on my phone or tablet.
The only solution Verizon can offer is a new STB. This is not an option for us as we currently have hundreds of hours of new shows and movies saved to the dvr and external HD.
I've seen other users report the problems are improving, I'm hoping to see improvement soon myself. I've only been with Verizon for 6 months and I'm happy with the level of service so far.

What you need to do is have someone at verizon reboot your services as there may be a glitch that exists where verizon will first have to run their tests on their end on your home to make sure that everything is ok where if all is well then they can reboot the services where what will happen is that initially there will be a slow response between the remote and the box but give it some time then all will be fine. I too had that issue and verizon rebooted it at night where in the morning all was well. It is an odd issue where it can be repaired without you getting rid of your box and losing all of your shows that were taped. Now as far as getting someone from verizon on the phone to help you out with this problem that is a whole orher conversation. Good luck with trying to get someone on the phone without waiting at least 2 hours to talk to them.

Why is VZW customer service so awful?

On 11/30 I ordered an iPhone 6 through the reseller at Costco because they had an $80 rebate for a qualified update. Although I didn't expect it soon, I checked on it at the store on 12/5, where they told me that it had been damaged in transit from VZW in Pennsylvania and delivery was refused by the reseller's warehouse, so it would probably be another 4-5 days. No big deal, but when I checked at the store today, there wasn't any more news. The order came from VZW and wasn't delivered to the reseller, so it's VZW's responsibility (it was likely broken by FedEx, but that's between VZW and FedEx.) The guy at the reseller's booth said I had to call VZW to cancel it. I called VZW in the store, but the guy on the phone couldn't tell me much of anything. The reseller offered to cancel (although I'd lose my rebate), so I asked them to check on it. When I got home, i saw the order on MyVerizon with the FedEx tracking number to the warehouse showing that it had been refused and a notation from FedEx to contact the shipper. Online chat said they couldn't do anything, and at that point I was ready for retention anyway. I was on the phone with "Adam" for an hour or more (I hung up once and he called back), during which time he said the reseller should have reordered (maybe, but they refused the damaged phone), said I should have bought it through them (the reseller's deal was better and I didn't have to wait an hour to talk to someone at their Costco booth), told me it wasn't VZW's fault (it's their phone until it hits the reseller, so yes, it is), kept saying it was a $750 phone and a claim had to be filed, and pretty much gave me service that was both rude and inept. However, he did offer to give me the same deal I'd get off the street if I cancelled the order and stayed with VZW and got a Droid Turbo - generous!
So, whatever dear VZW bots are trolling these comment threads - can you give me one reason why I should stay with you?

The phone was shipped by VZW and arrived damaged. If it had been damaged by the reseller after receipt, it would be their problem. However, it's between VZW and FedEx, and the FedEx tracking screen says "Damaged - delivery not completed" (which may mean it never left FedEx's facility near Seattle if they saw it was damaged). Regardless, FedEx is acting as VZW's agent. The reseller probably should have followed through to find out why a new phone wasn't sent, but VZW should have sent one as soon as it was clear that it didn't arrive - and if FedEx didn't return the iPhone's corpse to VZW after noting it was damaged, that's between VZW and FedEx.,
Regardless, the phone rep was bad. Really bad. Bad enough to alienate me when I don't have much of a network alternative at home apart from WI-Fi calling,

VZW Customer Service has become an EPIC FAIL

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