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Reviewed Feb. 2, 2011
We got a T-Mobile phone in CA and moved to TX the following month. We have subsequently been receiving phone bills in a corporate ID that we do not recognize and 95% of numbers that we also do not know. We have called T-Mobile several times and I have written one letter that I did not receive a reply for. They keep telling us that the calls and the text messages are from our SIM. We are at our wit's end, please help.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2011
I have been receiving bills from T-Mobile which stated that my account is past due. I have also received notifications that my account has been forwarded to a collection agency. Moreover, I have notifications that my address was changed, and when I called the company to inform them that I did not make the change, I didn't get any resolution.
I have contacted the company and have informed them that I did not authorize an account to be opened in my name. I have requested on several occasions to have documentation provided to me that proves that I opened the account. I am not having any success with getting this matter resolved. I need help. I refuse to pay for a cell phone bill that I did not authorize.
If this matter is not resolved, it will be reported to the credit bureau and will have a negative impact on my credit report.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2011
I lost my phone so I had to call the insurance to get a new phone. The insurance company name is Asurion. I pay $130 for them to send me a new phone and when I got the phone, it was defective. I did everything that the manual said to do about troubleshooting and it still was giving me problem so I called T-Mobile to see what they could do and the representative did all the troubleshooting with me again and she said that my phone was defective and that she would send me a new phone. When I received the phone, it was a refurbish device not a new one.
I received a refurbish device when I was supposed to get a new one. It has not been a month that this thing happened and I feel T-Mobile is giving false advertisement and bad customer service. If I pay for a new phone then why am I getting a refurbish phone?
Reviewed Jan. 20, 2011
I have been with T-Mobile for four years, and I had no problems because I never used customer service. Every time I called customer service, I had problems because T-Mobile reps were really dumb and were not kind. But I just put it off because it was not too big of a deal. I am only writing this because the customer reps on the phone lied, and as a result, I am paying extra money. Here's a brief and direct to the point story:
I have a $115 plan + taxes--3/4 of the lines are upgradeable and one line can be upgraded in one week. I purchased two smartphones for my main line, and kept the third and fourth with same phone. Online, we saw the family plan for 1,500 minutes, unlimited text, and 200mb Web plan for the two phones for $119.99. I also saw $5 to add a line.
At first, we had to keep our $115 plan during the upgrade, but I was told that we could change it at any time, so the total was about $180 dollar plan. For some reason, the person we bought it from said that we needed to add $30 for that phone at that moment, but we can change it when we get home. Cool, so we got home to call. Obviously, knowing T-Mobile, we knew that we would run into some dumb trouble or "new customer only" ** on the phone. We did, and spoke with a customer rep. After an hour of arguing, a customer rep named Lisa told us that we could have the $119.99 plan with $5 to add a line.
The reason why she didn't do this at first was because we were just upgrading two lines and not the rest. But she said that if I agree to renew two years with the other phone as well, she would let me have the new plan. Cool, right? She said that the total was $130, and she repeated it multiple times. After 24 hours, I received a message on my phone saying that it was changed. I checked online, and sure enough, the data plan was put down to 200mb, but the plan stayed at $180. Wait, what?
I waited for another day, in case it was just a delay in the system, but it didn't change. I called customer rep again, and he said that there were no changes to the account so my account stayed at $180 a month. I had a lowered plan of 200mb which was restricted on my phone, but I was paying the normal $30 a month per phone for unlimited. And on top of that, that ** girl, customer rep Lisa, didn't do anything to our plan. My hypothesis is that she most likely wanted to get rid of us, and we would eventually die on the argument. We're paying an extra $50 a month for something that we're not even getting right now. Could she be that stupid to let us on that plan?
I asked him if he could check our call records, what we talked about, etc. with Lisa, but he said that he had no record whatsoever. I'm getting suspicious that they're just trying to get rid of us. He said that he would change the plan after over an hour on the phone, so we hung up hoping that it finally changed. But in case, my hypothesis of them totally ** and lie their way out was true so I called 10 minutes later. Guess what? That customer rep said that there was no sign of anything happening to my account. Really? Sometimes, it sucks to be right! I requested the rep to speak with Lisa again for completely lying and scamming us, and the rep said that he would make note and tell her within 24 hours. I'm pretty sure this was all ** to delay and stall as well.
T-Mobile, what kind of idiots do you have working for you? Just to let you know, I will be calling every single day until this is fixed. I'm not writing this because I want to let my emotions out. Right now, I'm being overcharged for a plan by $50 for which I don't even have access to. The customer reps lied to us and this is not just an unpleasant transaction, this is fraud and scam. I am very unhappy at the moment, and every rep I talk to lies and tries to put this off. They think that they can just keep lying and pushing until we get tired. Really? Is this the business model you want to run?
I would also like to get a hold of Lisa, the customer rep that I talked to in the beginning, for being a fraud and scamming us. Honestly, what type of idiot working at T-Mobile would do such **? Excuse my language, but wouldn't you be frustrated as well?
Reviewed Jan. 19, 2011
In March 15, 2010, I walked into the Long Beach T-Mobile, upgrading my phone since I continuously had problems with my Sony Ericsson. I was offered by the representative an "unlimited plan". I agreed to pay $69.99 a month instead of the $54.98 I was paying previously. The change was never made and yet I continued to pay their "overage" fees. According to T-Mobile customer services, no phone call was ever made in efforts to change my plan and insisted I pay the full amount according to management in the Long Beach branch.
In July, while out of town in Arizona, I received a phone once again asking me to pay for more "overage" fees. I did pay by phone and once again requested the changes to be made to "unlimited". I was told it would be taken care of. However, it was not. They are now charging me a ridiculous amount of over $700. My credit is being damaged by this company since they've sent me into collections.
Reviewed Jan. 16, 2011
I had 2 lines of service with T-Mobile since April 2009. I have had dropped calls, defective phones, no signal on one side of the same road where there was signal on the other. I transferred service on secondary phone to AT&T around October 15, 2010, transferred service on primary phone around October 31, 2010. I have been receiving calls from collection department for a bill in the amount of over $400, but no one will tell me what the charges consist of. I was not delinquent on account. I realize there were early termination fees, but no one will send me a detailed, itemized bill. My account at T-Mobile online has been deactivated. The ** at customer service tell me they cannot produce the detailed itemized statements from October, November, and December that I have been continually requesting because my account is no longer active. They tell me I will have to go to a T-Mobile store and request a statement. I told them, "No, that is their job. If they want to be paid the balance due, they need to call a T-Mobile store and request the detailed itemized statements to be sent to me. That is their responsibility."
I don't think I'm asking for anything unreasonable. I'm entitled to see the charges that comprise the balance they expect me to pay. I'm not going to hand over almost $400 without knowing why I'm paying for it. I'm entitled to a detailed itemized statement for October, November, December, and now we can add January to the list.
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2011
I purchased two phones on November 24, 2010 from the T-Mobile store in Forest Hills at the address listed above. At the time of purchase, I asked the sales representative if the phones are returnable, since I was purchasing them as a gift. He said that they are, so long as they are returned within 13 days. I asked him to clarify as to why 13 days and not 14 days. And he said that he specifically tells customers a shorter period of time so that nobody comes a day late.
The sales representative did not mention anything about the restocking fee at the time of purchase. I purchased and returned phones from other T-Mobile stores before and was never charged a restocking fee in the past. When I came to return the phones on December 4, 2010, the amount returned to me was $20 less than what I paid for the phones ($10 restocking fee for each phone). I asked the same sales representative why he did not inform me of the restocking fee. He said that he knew nothing about the restocking fee and was not sure what it was.
I asked to speak with a supervisor, but she refused to waive the fee even though the sales representative himself did not know that customers are charged a restocking fee upon return of the phone. It seems unreasonable to charge customers a restocking fee upon return, when the customer representatives are not aware of such fees themselves.
Reviewed Jan. 9, 2011
It all started when I changed from TN to Texas. They offered me a text and talk plan for $49.99, then on my monthly bill, it was $59.99. I called customer care and they offered me a $10 credit for 12 months because it was their mistake.
In 11/2010, I was charged an activation fee for a line that was never mine. They gave me the wrong number and it was handled and I was told at no charge. So they said okay, we will credit your account. Well then for the 12/10 bill, they took it upon themselves to remove the $10 credit I was offered and had received until I caught them in another mistake. I called and spoke to customer loyalty, they said sorry for all of this, we will put the $10 credit back onto your account and my bill for 12/10 would be $87.58 instead of $97.58.
I paid my bill and they said I still owed $10 and it was late. I spoke with customer loyalty and the above individual said my account was now under investigation and I had to pay or they could cut my phone off. I asked why the credit did not show up on my account, they said because my account is under investigation, but they would not tell me why or for what reason it was under investigation. Chris was rude and very dismissive. He first asked me to explain what had happened and when I did, he then got frustrated and said he was not going to listen to this since he knew what was going on, even though he said he did not understand the representative before him. So I told him and he cut me off and would not let me finish. He said that is all he could do and would do.
Reviewed Jan. 9, 2011
When I subscribe to an additional telephone line with T-Mobile on 11/29/2010 the plan requires a web/data service plan service. A T-Mobile representative offered two web/data service plans: (1) $20 a month for unlimited web/data service plan and (2) $10 a month for 200MB web/data service plan. I opted for the $10 per month web/data service plan.
When I receive the monthly statement I notice that I was overcharged. When I called the T-Mobile the customer service representative told me that the two data service plans that T-Mobile offers are $ 30/month for unlimited and $ 15/month for 200 MB download. This misrepresentation and deceitful business practice to lure customers to sign up for the service is very concerning. Although I don't have the name of the customer service representative that misrepresented the offers, I am very certain that T-Mobile has the recording of the conversation that can be used as supporting evidence that this claim is not unwarranted and frivolous. Subsequent calls to T-Mobile prove to be useless as they denied the claim and refused to honor the claim and make the necessary adjustment to my account.
In addition to the above mentioned claim, T-Mobile also made several mistakes on my account. One of the mistakes is to charge the monthly data service plan to a different phone line that I did not authorized. The second mistake is the reoccurring charge on another phone line that I have returned and cancelled. It is only after several phone call attempts to T-Mobile that both issues were resolved. Overall the deceitful business practice, misrepresentation and unauthorized and erroneous charges need to be addressed and resolved.
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2011
I tried to cancel my T-Mobile of seven years and the company gave me trouble. They wouldn't cancel my service until I literally told them I could no longer afford T-Mobile and was going to use my landline phone at home. I paid $78.52 on December 31, 2010 and I expected a small bill in January which was $71.50. Now they're telling me I will have a February bill. Why? I had my own line turned off on December 31, 2010. Something is not right about this.
Reviewed Jan. 6, 2011
We upgraded and our service has been so upsetting. I’ve been trying to get the charger that came with his phone but it was not in the box. So it’s been five weeks and 6 or 7 calls and I finally got half of the charger but I still don’t have it all.
We will not be using T-Mobile for our next contract, that’s for sure. And his new phone was used already. It had someone else’s info on it but we got charged for a new phone. This upgrade has been a total nightmare. Someone needs to contact us. That valuable really cares because this 611 number has been useless for us. If we could get out of this contract we would.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2011
I and my mom, Hownin **, have a family plan together with T-Mobile. We have long finished the contract. Then, from an authorized dealer, she signed up for a discounted program with 15% off and an additional line with just $1 a month. However, she hasn't been told that she has to bind by a 2-year contract. We called T-Mobile immediately, and tried to reverse the contract because it was within 15 days of opening the new phone. T-Mobile agreed that if I mail back the new phone, they would reverse the contract. I repeatedly asked them if the 2-year contract of all the cell phones under the plan will be canceled, in which they agreed. They also offered me $15 discount without any extension in contract.
Yesterday, I called to find out why they changed my bill's closing day, just to find out that they extended my contract without my acknowledgement. They extended my contract when I agreed to take the 15% off, which I repeatedly insisted that I only wanted the 15% off discount without any obligation to extend my contract. I clearly stated that I did not want a contract, no matter what they offer me. My purpose of calling them was to reverse the contract within 14 days because the contract was set up without my agreement and acknowledgement. In contrary, they claimed that I called because I wanted to claim my 15% off discount, which was totally not true!
Their service is not reliable. Since I am a visiting nurse, very often, the area I travel does not have any signals. In case of emergency situation with my patients, I need a reliable service that I can call for help immediately. Therefore, I do not want T-Mobile as my service provider.
Reviewed Jan. 4, 2011
I had T-Mobile for about 7 years and on my account I had my phone & my son's cell phone. I decided to switch to Verizon and had my number ported over. I called them to give approval to put my son's phone in his name, all he had to do was call in. My phone was changed 3 days prior to him calling. It also was a couple of days into the next billing period so they charged me for a total of 30 days for notice on both phones. They also plan to charge me a few days for him calling in late in addition to the 30-day fee. I have no contract and he switched the phone into his own name. So they will be charging double for his phone. This is such a ripoff. I plan on reporting this to the state and file a complaint with the BBB. I will never use them again. Also you cannot print the bill or view it once they cancel your account and they expect you to go into the location to get a printout. How stupid! There should be a class action suit filed.
Reviewed Jan. 4, 2011
Back around 2004-2005 approximately, I had signed up with T-mobile under my name. Previously, it was under my friend's name but I decided it was time to put it under my name. It was going to cost me $800.00 dollars for the deposit due to my impaired credit. Back around 2007, I decided to cut back on my expenses, so I asked them to reduce my account to an affordable payment that I could afford that was supposed to be around $50.00-60.00 approx. That didn't happen. So in turn, I had to cancel my contract with T-mobile. They in turn told me they would charge me a $200.00-250.00 cancellation fee. I couldn't do anything about it. My biz went way down and I just couldn't afford it. So that's the gist of what happened. So the other day, I was remembering how they owe me a refund since my deposit was larger than the bill. I never paid the bill due to my circumstances, which I still find myself in. Please help me if you can. The phone number in question on the acct. is **.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2010
Charged me for international calls that I did not make on my phone. They refused to fill out paperwork for my complaint. They refused to block international calls. They refused to give me any service or investigate the problem to my satisfaction. I was with disrespect and called names. I wasted at least 2 hours on the phone losing work and they refuse to make me whole and credit me back the full amount.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2010
T-mobile has refused to remove charges to my bill that were unauthorized. I went to a T-mobile kiosk in the Broadway Mall in Hicksville on Long Island. I was considering purchasing a new phone for my wife. I decided against it. I just received my new bill and there was three one time charges for my existing three phones.
I called customer service to find out what these charges were for and was told these were one time charges for upgrading my cell phones. Apparently, the dealer in the kiosk submitted these charges even though I did not upgrade my phones. Customer service said there was nothing they could do. They acknowledged there was no proof I authorized these charges or any proof I received new phones. Clearly T-mobile allows it authorized dealers to add charges without proof. Except for the inquiry at the kiosk, I never dealt with this dealer or ever purchased anything. This is outrageous that T-mobile would allow this kind of fraud. Do not trust T-mobile or do business with them. The one time charge is in the amount of $58.65, have not been removed.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2010
They keep charging me for text messages from the UK when I do not receive or send them out.
Reviewed Dec. 29, 2010
I purchased a new cell phone MyTouch 4G via phone with customer service back on November and I was asked to provide a credit card or bankcard to pay in advance for the phone. So I did and used my bankcard and paid $65.69 that day. Later on, this new 4G phone didn't work as fast as they promised so I called back days later and a representative with the name Fred told me that that particular cellphone wasn't for me because there is no 3G or 4G in my area where I live. He didn't know why the people sold me that phone knowing that in my area, I don't have that kind of network. This guy Fred was honest to me and asked me to return the phone.
So I did that on Dec. 17. I returned the cellphone exactly with all the trash that came with and called customer service and provided with the tracking number of the return. So they told me that the $65.69 was supposed to be back in my bank account in a few days. Yesterday, I called to be curious whether or not they received that phone, and one customer service guy told me that they did receive my phone and some credit was put in my account. But I asked to talk to a supervisor about this matter and she told me that they did have the phone back and some credit was applied in my account. When I asked what's going to happen to my money the $65.69, if they'll go back to my bank account? She said no, they'll go to your T-mobile account instead.
So today, December 29, Wednesday I called back again and talked to another supervisor with the name Courtney ID #**. She told me that my money was applied to my T-mobile account instead of going back to my bank account. I found this to be illegal and broke all the privacy rules of a credit card or bank card holder because if I purchase some item(s) and I don't like them for any reason, I can return them and my money goes back to my card automatically in a few days. But this people from T-mobile, they have different ways to rip people off and don't advise customers before purchasing articles or new stuff and check whether or not they work in the customer's area and don't want to return the money the way the customer pay for such accessory. I am really disappointed and mad about this issue and advised Courtney that I will seek legal advice and even an attorney to sue the company for ripping me off, thanks.
Reviewed Dec. 29, 2010
My mother originally started the account with T-mobile when I was very young, mainly because of the good prices that were promised. Since then we have had an overwhelming amount of problems with them. When I was in about 9th grade, I had the Sidekick Slide and I was very excited. After about a month of having the phone, it started freezing up and deleting everything saved on the phone. All my contacts, pictures, notes, and games were deleted. This started happening more and more. This problem was soon accompanied by the loss of service in random places that I have always had it. We finally got a hold of the company and they told me that because I wasn't signed up for the data service, the phone wouldn't be able to function correctly.
This was a surprise to us, and we were very angry because no one had mentioned it to us. We purchased the data package for one month to see what would happen and it seemed like it worked for a couple weeks. Soon, it started deleting everything again. I had the data package but it still happened. We decided we would call about it when we received the bill. Once we looked at it, we were shocked. We were charged a fortune in excess for the data package. I had no idea that they were going to charge for every megabyte or whatever it is they charge for, when we signed up for it in the store, no one had told us or even mentioned it.
We got most of it covered by complaining, but we still had a couple hundred dollars to pay. After that was sorted, we complained about the dysfunctional sidekick phone. The woman on the phone told us that they had taken that particular phone off the market because it was faulty and didn't work right. So they said okay we can give you another phone but you have to choose from the ones we say to. They were nowhere near the kind of phone that the sidekick was. I wanted one that had the same kind of Qwerty keyboard and they said the only thing they could offer was the Blackberry Pearl. In no way is that similar.
It was only after a couple weeks of fighting for something different did we have to give in because they wouldn't let me have something else. We called in to complain multiple times and sent letters and emails to the company but absolutely no one would help us. About a year passed where we had a rather civil relationship with the company. We kept waiting for our contract to expire so we could get out of it, but my great aunt joined our plan and upgraded her phone a couple of times so that extended our contract for a couple of years.
Soon, it came time for my younger sister to get her first phone. We went to the nearest store and spoke to a young man who worked there and he seemed very polite and eager to help us save money. Once we settled on a phone and got ready to check out, he mentioned a plan for us to pay $5 a month instead of $7.50 since we now had 5 people in our plan. My mom was eager to get that so we could start saving a little here and there, but the first question she asked was, "Will this extend our contract at all?".
The young man smiled and said, "No ma'am!". We were happy, he was happy, and we paid and left. Later we called in to see how much longer our contract would be so we could cancel it and leave. The woman said, oh no you have to wait until the summer of 2012. We were astonished. The young man who had sold us that $5 monthly plan had lied right to our faces. We explained this many times to representatives and no one could seem to find the stones to help us. It's ridiculous. My family is now stuck with this terrible cell phone provider until the summer of which I graduate.
Reviewed Dec. 29, 2010
I have been a loyal customer with T-Mobile, since August 2007, and every year, they seem to get more unprofessional and incompetent. I had purchased a new phone from them, and because they had messed up the order, they told me they canceled it without my consent. They still charged me for the phone on my bill, for a shipping fee, and the phone, when I don't even have in my possession.
I thought it was cancelled. They haven't credited my credit card back. I put in a complaint with BBB, and I got a call from an executive guy from T-Mobile named Jason. He called me, and left me a message. I called him back, and he never returned my phone call. This is crazy. It's gotten to the point that I want to cancel my phone service with them, and just end this ongoing problem for the past year. I have been very unhappy with T-Mobile and their services. I have no new phone, and overage on my bill that I cannot pay, which is not my fault.
Reviewed Dec. 29, 2010
I recently closed my service with T-Mobile after several months filing complaints about the service coverage inside buildings and my home. I went with another carrier and now have excellent coverage everywhere I go. The only thing I received from T-Mobile was an apology and them telling me that their coverage was not good in buildings in my area.
I received my final billing today and they are charging me a contract termination fee of $200, which was expected, but they are also charging me a full month of service because I went over my monthly charge date by four days. I called them and they told me that it says in my contract that I am required to pay for the entire month if I cancel my service after the billing cycle.
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2010
My dispute with T-Mobile began over a returned non functioning phone. I received a text message from T-Mobile customer care department stating that I must return the phone or I will be charged. The same day or the very next day, I went to the T-mobile store located in Selden, NY to return the phone as was requested of me. However, I was told by the representative at their Selden store that I needed a laminated sticker in order to send it back.
At that time, I asked why they couldn't simply find the address and return it. They insisted I must "wait" for the sticker to come in before they could process the return. The sticker was ordered that day in the store and upon receiving the sticker, I returned to the store again the same day. I'm unsure how long they took to send it but the phone was return as was requested of me and only required additional time to process because of their policies, not my desire to hold on to a broken and useless phone.
Approximately a week or two later, the phone was charged to my account. I have called customer service (800) xxx-xxxx many times and have not received acceptable assistance. The offer they have made to discount my fee does not suffice because I am being charged full price for a phone I no longer possess (they possess) and I can only presume since no one is willing to send me this phone back that I am being charged for anyway, that they have or will attempt to refurbish and resell the phone. It was explained to the T-Mobile customer care representatives repeatedly that when I got the sticker, the phone was returned through the T-Mobile store. I am asking your assistance for the following reason:
The complaint from the T Mobile representative standpoint is that the phone was returned late. This may be true but is not the fault of mine. I returned the phone as soon as "their" policies would allow. Remember, I made an attempt to return the phone at the store but was refused because I was required to have the sticker. The point is that when I was notified, the phone had to be returned it was. If the customer care representative knew the phone sticker wouldn't get to me in time for the store to return it timely then other shipping options should have been provided or I should have been advised it was too late and the situation could have been dealt with accordingly.
Had I been allowed to return the phone myself and without this "sticker" this situation would not have occurred at all. For all I know, the store could have shipped the phone out days later or not at all. Now as it ,stands I do not have the phone but T-Mobile is requiring I pay for the phone and other fees are continually being added also. This type of business I don't understand. Upon speaking with customer care and being refused a credit for the phone and as my account continues to accrue additional fees now, I requested that my phone (technicality since I am being charged for it) be sent back to me. Of ,course this was refused also.
T-Mobile instead offered me a percentage off of the bill, which would have been okay if I was given a the percentage off and returned my phone to me. I can only presume that the entire dispute over this "returned" phone is because T-Mobile is only concerned with maximizing their profits to the demise of their customers. Why else am I being charged for a phone and all the additional fees that can be concocted while I dispute the charges? Why hasn't my phone been returned to me? I have made numerous calls and sent letters but have received no response except a mounting bill. If the phone has been refurbished and resold that's fine but then why charge me for it too?
I realize that as an item of inventory, the phone was sold for profit and refurbishing it is a way to maximize profits on the item. But this, this is pure and simple robbery and business at it worst. I believed in T-Mobile and I hoped this belief in their company could have been salvaged but it seems that hope was wasted.
Through miscommunication or a slow based return system, this problem has occurred but I expect it should not be hard to rectify. I consider myself to be a reasonable person but I also believe it is unreasonable to ask a customer to pay full price or even a discounted price for a phone when I do not possess the phone. I do not feel that I should have to pay $287+ mounting cost because no one could find a shipping address.
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2010
I was a T-Mobile customer for almost 7 years. When my daughter went off to college in the Rocky Mountains, T-Mobile did not have service in her area and the school phones only dialed locally. I asked to be let out of her contract so that I could provide her with a cell that had service where she was going to be living for two semesters. T-Mobile said that they would not let me out of her contract since I had a family plan; I had to terminate all three phones on the contract.
I negotiated a one-time $175 termination fee for all our phones and received a final bill from T-Mobile financial stating I had a final balance of $271.91. I made one payment on that balance and then the next month, I received a regular T-Mobile bill with no detail stating I needed to pay $1,192.09! When I called T-Mobile they said that they had no record at all of the negotiated deal and that they did not know why I received the first closing bill of $271.91 but that I really owed the $1,192.09 because, even though it was a family plan which prevented me from just terminating the one line for my daughter, I had to pay $200 for each of three phones I had for that family plan and then an additional $227.34 in additional charges along with the final bill of $271.91.
Reviewed Dec. 23, 2010
Hi! My name is Aude **, I am french and I have a problem with a T-Mobile distributor which never cancelled a contract I have with them. I opened a line in May 2009 in a T-Mobile Distributor in New York. I had just arrived in the country at that time and was supposed to stay 5 months only (J1 visa). I had no social security number when I opened the line. The manager of the store set up a contract and assured he would cancel the line when I would leave for France in September 2009.
In the meantime, I found a job and a sponsor. While waiting for my visa in France, I suspended the line until December 2009, when I was supposed to come back. At that time, since it would take a little longer for me to receive my Visa, I called the store to cancel the line which they never did. So, I have been paying for my contract for more that a year without using it and trying vainly to have the store cancelling it.
I am unable to cancel it myself since the line has been opened with a SS number that doesn't belong to me as a T-Mobile representative told me. I would like to know now, what is possible to do regarding this fraud in term of cancellation of the line. (I am still paying and I cannot afford it) and how and when will my bank account will be refunded of the full amount (around $1,000). Thank you so much for your help. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2010
I was billed doubly one month and disputed it via my bank. T-Mobile will not allow me to top up and have cut off my phone. I have tried to top up with credit card. This is the worst company I have ever encountered. Their billing practices are also suspect. I have no phone access. I am 79 years old and need at times medical attention.
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2010
I called and spoke to 3 customer care rep. Names are: Rachel ID #**, Evan ID #**, Sam ID #**. Total minutes I waited to these 3 customer rep is 1 hour, 25 minutes and 30 seconds and then they all hung up on me. I did an email to the executives Glenn ** last Nov. 23, 2010. No response to my email and I am very, very frustrated to their customer service and nobody is helping me. I have a question on my billing. I was talking and they hung and never called me back. Why is my billing twice in taxes? I really want to talk to the billing department and Evan said they are the billing department, then hung up on me.
When I signed a contract with T-mobile last 2007, they told me for 2 first lines is $99.99 then the rest is $40.00 each. I have 5 lines with them and why am I being charged double taxes on my second line and I was charged on the $99.99 for the first 2 lines. The second line should not be charged with taxes. What they did was they separated the second line and put the 3rd line and the 2nd line together, they charged me taxes 3 times. Since my phones and the 2nd line should be together, it's not supposed to be on the bills summary. But I saw that the T-mobile billing department put my phone which is the 1st and the 2nd phone, that's supposed to be the $99.99. They separated it, they put my phone in one column and they put the 2nd line in another column including the 4th line, so I will not see the difference.
Every time I look at my bill summary, I keep on looking at it and I know there is something wrong with my bill, but I can not point it out. Then all of a sudden, that's when I signed the contact last 2007. The 1st line and the 2nd line is $99.99 and plus whatever is included on that which is my international long distance calls, my installment plan and then the taxes, not separating the 1st line and the 2nd line and charged me another taxes. I have been doubting my bill summary since 2008 and I can not point it out. Now I see what is wrong with my bill summary. I supposed to see on my bill summary my 3rd line, 4th line and 5th line, not 1st line and the 2nd line. In their bill summary on websites, the way T-mobile charge is by straight column. So I have a big time doubt about my bill since 2008. But for some reason, you cannot understand what I mean.
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2010
I had T-mobile for several years. When I moved, I reported that I was having coverage issues and was told they would check into it. After almost 2 years of no coverage at my home, I decided to switch to another company. I called T-mobile and was told if I stop their service, I would only owe until I switched it before the billing cycle. I switched and now they want me to pay 3 months and I hadn't had a contract with them for at least 3 years. Keep in mind that I always paid my payment on time even though I was having coverage issues and my new cell company cancelled within 5 days of my billing cycle. I can't believe they treat customers this way!
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2010
We have a shared family plan with T-Mobile. The entire service has been very bad the quality of service is bad. It has been our experience that they will try to overcharge you the only thing consistent with T-Mobile is that they will bill you on time. They are overcharging consumers. You must check your bill from line to line or they will sneak in any little extra charges. I will never go have a contract with them again! We have spent at least $500 on replacement phone like the BlackBerry 2 (no good service) and the 3g not to all at our expense. Just because of dropped calls and echoes! The customer service department does not have a department that you can speak to someone right away, you must put it in writing and hope for a response.
Reviewed Dec. 19, 2010
I went into the T-Mobile store to open a new account. I was led to believe my first bill was going to be no more than $25. I received my bill two weeks after opening the account and it was $177.48. I went into the store and after arguing with the employee and the manager two weeks later, they removed the activation fees and now I am still stuck with a $92 bill. I have it in writing that I was only supposed to pay $25. Can you help me?
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2010
I had used T-Mobile as my cell provider for five years and had no problem with the service etc until I moved to another state; I then had very little service in the area I lived. I called TM many times over approximately 5 months about the lack of service. I then moved within the same area and no service. I complained to T-Mobile Customer Service department probably 10 times. I then was directed to another department.
I was told that 'someday' there would be a tower put in my area. I still had no service. I called several times again and was told to go to a local T-Mobile store to have a new card put in the phone which I did when I was visiting northern Kentucky in September, 2010. While I was in KY the phone of course worked fine but when I returned home to CA again no service. Again I called more than once.
Finally out of frustration with the employee again telling me a lot of nonsense about how I was in an area that showed some service I asked again to speak to a supervisor and the female supervisor I was passed to said my problem with lack of service wasn't where I lived but that my phone was antiquated.This phone was a year and a half old with no problems outside of the area where I live. She said she would send me new phones free of charge and that if this didn't work, she would waive the fee for early termination. I told her that I did not believe that it was the phone but I knew it was the area I now reside. She was insistent that she send the phone. I asked her, will taking this phone cause me to be subject to a new contract.
She guaranteed me it would not, I asked her several times, do you assure me I will not be charged for this phone, and she again guaranteed me I would not. Well the new phone didn't change a thing which I knew would be the case. I called probably another 4 or 5 times about the problem and finally I was told they would cancel my service and not charge for early termination.
If I went to the local T -Mobile store and show proof of residency. Which I did do immediately. Well I received my final bill and I was charged for the early termination fee $200 and charged for the phone plus the shipping fees. I called T-Mobile and went over the entire story and they said ok they would waive the fee but I would be charged for the phone, I told them I did not want the phone, did not request the phone and if they wanted it back to send me a mailing label which they said they would send. I have called them another 15 times requesting a mailer. I was give a confirmation number on November 30, 2010 and have yet to receive the mailer. At this point I have no clue what to do. I want to pay my final bill and they said to wait till I sent back the phone to waive the fee for the phone and mailing costs. As of this date, I have received nothing from them.
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2010
I sent in a phone I purchased from T-Mobile that was defective after less than a month of purchase. It was sent in on the contract of a one-year manufacturer's warranty. It was sent via USPS to 210 Wiley Rd, La Grange, GA 30240 on October 20, 2010. A replacement was sent out from the National T-Mobile Repairing Center to my address at ** via UPS with tracking number : **. However, UPS couldn't find my address and returned it to sender--to the dock at the repairing center. I was not made aware of this information until I cantacted T-Mobile on November 20, 2010.
A new order was put in on this date with reference number **. Still receiving no information in the status of my replacement phone, I had a research request put in on December 5, 2010. I was told by a technical support representative on December 6, 2010 that the normal 72 hours it would take to get information on the investigation on the whereabouts of my phone would now take eight business days because of the repairing center's change of location to Texas.
I then contacted T-Mobile technical support again for an update on December 15, 2010 only to discover no new information (i.e. nothing was done). I contacted tech support again today December 16, 2010 just to hear the same information. My phone has been pending shipping since November 20, 2010. From my many phone calls to this company, a representative informed me that it is because they do not know if they received the defective phone so they cannot send a new one out to me. The representative herself recognized there were some communications error and this has still not been corrected. I still do not have my phone after two months. All of my efforts seem worthless and I feel as though my phone has been stolen from me.
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2010
On December 2, 2010, I went into the T-Mobile store in Pinellas Park to pay my final bill. I had already called customer service and was told that as long as I paid my bill before the end of my billing cycle, on December 7, 2010, my total due would be $42.42. If I had incurred any extra charges during the month, I would receive another bill later, otherwise, I was done with T-Mobile. I was told by the person on the phone, at customer service, and at the store about the billing backward policy, and that was why I needed to pay before the end of my billing cycle, December 7, 2010.
So, I went in and paid $42.42 on December 2, 2010. On December 15, 2010, I received a bill for $49.53, which was the largest bill I had ever received from T-Mobile. I called and talked to Tasia, she agreed that the bill was larger than normal and agreed to make it at $42.42. She also recited the pay backwards policy and had no good answer for my last bill. She checked and saw that I had paid my bill on December 2, 2010, and that I had incurred no extra charges. So I asked for and received a supervisor Robert **. He also had no good answer. He did say that if I had paid my bill exactly on the last day of my billing cycle, that my bill would be different. It would be less because I was being charged for another month. Take my advice do not use T-Mobile!
Reviewed Dec. 15, 2010
I signed up for the unlimited data plan back when it was 25 dollars. My issue is pretty much the same as Trent ** with the data speed cap and misleading claim of unlimited. Now for the first time in about five years, I'm getting texts that say I've exceeded 5 gigs? The limit and my speeds will be reduced until the next billing cycle.
I don't care what the tiny hidden print says, if they settled with him, they should settle with me, as I assumed it's too late to join any class-action. I'm not getting what I paid for. I also don't have internet and I rely on my mobile data connection to apply for jobs.
Reviewed Dec. 15, 2010
My wife and I were with Cingular for 4 years. When they made their change over to AT&T, we decided to leave. We saw the TV/web advertisements for no annual contract with flex pay from T-Mobile. Since we had heard mixed reviews about T-Mobile's service in our area, we decided on this option as a way not to be locked down in to a company with bad service. After almost two years of dropped calls and bad reception, we decided to change to Sprint due to an agreement with my employer for a discount for our employees.
I called T-Mobile on the phone to find out about any fees. They said no, there would be none and helped me in porting our numbers to Sprint. Two months have passed and I received a bill from T-Mobile claiming "early termination fees". They have no record of the phone call or "note" of it in their records. And they state they have no contract and a contract version of flex pay. They said that I needed to deal with the guy who "duped" us into signing a contract instead of just a service agreement. Had I had known this at the time of my phone call to change, I would have waited till the end of Jan. 2011 before switching. T-Mobile has misled us since the day we walked into their building. Sadly, they have probably done this to many people. Stay away from T-Mobile at all costs.
Reviewed Dec. 15, 2010
They sent me a wrong phone and when i called them, they said too bad they were out of the phone i wanted. So I cancelled my contract. You lie to customers.
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2010
Fraudulent billing. I have my second line for son with a block for download content yet they allowed him to order internet service and are now charging me $100! They are crooks.
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2010
When I did my contract over the phone, they told I was going to pay $107 total including tax. My statements show I got to pay $132. I've already tried to fix this issue and every time, they make a new excuse. I got unlimited everything - text, calls, internet, etc. This time they told me they were charging me $9.99 for texting, which I have unlimited. Last time, I supposedly ordered an online game which is absolutely false and I was told they made a mistake and they would give me credit back for six months I got charged for a game I never ordered. I never got any credit on my statements.
On the recording when I did the contract, all I'm saying is there. However, they don't care and they raised my monthly payment for no reason. Somebody has to help us with companies like this one that rob us for no reason. The way the economy is now for me is a struggle and every month is stressful to fight with them to fix this to get the price they gave at first, but they absolutely don't care. I need help.
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2010
I've been a loyal T-mobile customer since 2004 and have four lines on a family plan. I called T-mobile to change my plan so we could have more data and less minutes and was told I would have to pay a $200 migration fee just for changing the plan! I don't know when T-mobile decided to implement this "migration" fee and for what purpose but I think this is a bad move on their part especially since changing the plan would not change my monthly payment by much. I am furious with T-mobile and will be changing carriers as each one of my lines approaches the end of the contract.
Reviewed Dec. 11, 2010
My daughter lost her cell phone and I contacted T-Mobile to have the phone inactivated so if someone found my phone they wouldn't be able to use my minutes. I had a flex account. When I contacted T-Mobile, they told me that I would have a charge if the phone was cancelled but I tried to explain to her that I didn't want it cancelled, just not active.
Then I received my bank statement and I have a charge of $186 so I contacted T-Mobile and after explaining the situation, the lady told me that they would credit my bank account. The amount in question was $186 and we hung up but I had a few more questions and called back. Again, I did ask his name but don't remember it. He explained to me that yes, the credit had been issued and I would see the credit in my next bank statement. Well, I did receive my bank statement and I don't have a $186 credit from T-Mobile. I called them to see what is going on, and to see where the $87.24 credit on my December was from to find out that the $87.24 was indeed the credit I was supposed to receive.
So I explained to her that I was told I would receive $186 total as a deposit in my bank account and that is when the fun started. I was transferred from one person to the next and I had to start all over again. The first time I was on the phone for 40 minutes and 51 seconds and for some reason, when I asked to speak with a supervisor, the call was disconnected. So I called back again to find myself explaining the situation three more times, and being told that when a line is cancelled, I have to pay that amount, which I do understand but my question is, why is it that when I called I was told, not once but twice by two different representatives working in the call center, that I would receive the amount in full in my bank account?
And now, they are using it to partial pay my December invoice and telling me that they won't credit me the difference. So I told them I have been a loyal customer for three years now and after being told twice that I will indeed receive this credit, you are telling me that the company will not honor their words? I told them that I am very upset that I just bought two new phones and signed another two-year agreement because I would cancel the phone and go find a different company that wouldn't treat a loyal customer that way. All they would tell me is...I'm sorry.
They have lost a loyal customer and I will make sure to tell anyone who wants to listen to my story. They don't keep their word and don't know how to treat a loyal customer. Very disappointing but I guess in this economy, all they want is the bottom line at anyone's expense, except for their own. So now, I have to go to the bank and have a stop "autopay" for their monthly billing. This way I will have control of what they bill me for.
Reviewed Dec. 10, 2010
Repeated demands for copies of all agreements I executed with T-Mobile have been ignored. My copies were accidentally lost with certain other paperwork. Despite my personal requests and demands made by my legal counsel for these documents, T-Mobile refuses to comply. I can provide copies of my attorney's written demand letters for you upon request. I am unable to determine all the provisions of the agreements, including but not limited to specific details about termination fees, changes in any monthly charges and when, etc.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2010
I am trying to make a customer complaint. I have been a customer for a lot longer than they have me listed because I changed numbers, but anyway. Last week I called about upgrading my 3 phones, my niece did hers at a T mobile store. I spoke to customer service, she told me that besides the $50 rebate, there was an extra discount on my account and I could get the newest $500 G4 phone for $39.99 with my discount, so I said great but I want to see what I could order for my dad, he just wants a simple slider phone, she recommended I check into Samsungs.
So I said I will check them out and then get back with her to order the phones. Well now a week later I call to get him a Samsungt249 and a G4 and they tell me they do not see the discount she was telling me I had and the phone will now cost me $149.00. This is not right how can you quote me one price and then tell me I can call back and order it and the price gets tripled. Then the rep turns it over to a loyalty rep and she was just rude and basically said that’s the price too bad. I have been with T-Mobile for at least 10 years now and I cannot believe that I am being scammed this way.
It is horrible that they lie to you and be rude to customers. Even when I told her I was not buying them for that price and I would have to search around and see what my options are with others since I do not have a contract right now. She rudely told me do what you have to do that’s fine. It’s a sad day when a company like t mobile has to start scamming their customers and hires rude people to represent them. When a loyal customer is mistreated it doesn't say much for you. I don't think it is an isolated case, but most people just silently walk away, where I normally would also, but this time I am too upset to let this go. Could someone please contact me on this matter? Thank You.
Reviewed Dec. 8, 2010
Misleading information in regards to my account. And they are also changing my account with out my permission. They give incorrect information regarding changes to my account that never took place. They are crediting then deducting the credit applied to the account with charges for services that were asked to removed for four days (December 4th, 5th, 6th and the 8th). I lost contact with family and business associates. This caused damage to business and personal image.
Reviewed Dec. 8, 2010
I called customer service and they said, "We have no towers in your area". I reminded them that I have gotten a signal all this time but in the last week, no signal. They said, "We don't know Ma'am". And the last guy I talked to even had the nerve to ask me if I knew someone else that might want my phone that did not live around me!
I will give the guy credit for his effort to get a new customer, but what about the customer he has now!? They finally said, "We know we have provided you with service/signal before, but now, well we can't and we don't know why. Once towers get built in your area, we hope you will come back as a T-Mobile customer". Seriously? No offers of a credit for not being able to use my phone for a week, nothing.
Reviewed Dec. 7, 2010
I purchased a myTouch T-mobile phone on 9/22/10. I have been double billed for 2 data packages for the last 2 mos. I called last month and spoke with Jared and I thought at that time that the account would be noted that I did not have a data package on both phones that are on my account. My husband and I both have a phone on the account; only my phone is the myTouch. He has a Motorola Razor. I was told tonight by Jillma that I put the myTouch data package on my husband's phone on 9/24/10 which is not the case as I stated earlier that my phone is the only myTouch on this account. I was advised that I must be mistaken and that I did add the data package.
I asked for a supervisor and was hung up on. I called back and asked for a supervisor. After being on hold for approximately 35 minutes, the call was answered by someone telling me they were a team lead but would not disclose her name. I explained to her the situation and that I did not put this data package on my plan for both phones and I was again told that I did. I asked this person how could I put a data package for a myTouch phone on a Razor phone when they are not even made by the same company and that package would not work on any other phone but a myTouch.
I was not answered but was told that the phone package was requested for my husband's phone. This person asked me why if the system showed that I added this phone on 9/24/10 was I just now disputing it. I advised her that I am on a flex pay account; the first bill I received was for 10/5/10 and this reflected the amount due of $134.05. The next billing cycle was for 11/5/10; this is the bill I disputed last month and it was reduced and I paid the amount of $189.05. I asked her why, if the billing was, correct did T-mobile correct it last month only to bill me again.
I called T-mobile on 9/24/10 to ensure that what I paid for on 9/22/10 in the amount of $81.38 was for shipping and the first month of my data plan on the new phone I purchased was not to add the data plan to my husband's phone as he does not have a phone that the myTouch data plan is compatible with.I called to find out why I was still being billed for this service and was treated poorly and with no respect. I still have not received satisfaction as I am still being billed for this service. I asked several times to have this removed and I was told each time that I was mistaken in thinking that I did not order this data plan. All I want is for this to be corrected I did not order the data plan for my husband's phone and I want this removed from my bill each month.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2010
Tmobile recently did a software update to my phone from 1.6 to 2.2.1 and since then my phone has been almost unusable. My phone freezes then it reboots, it will not allow me to make phone calls, and force closes. It is pretty much an expensive paper weight.
they are telling me they can't do anything to replace a new phone even when it was their update that caused this problem. It was working fine up until that point.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2010
They denied the rebate based on fine print in the form about buying from Costco and will not issue a written refusal. Instead they will only send a letter saying it was because the phone was from Sam's. Costco says if I get a letter saying the rejection reason it is because Costco made an error; they will make it good but T-Mobile refuses to provide a factually correct rejection letter.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2010
My wife and I were so fed up with the contracts and high prices demanded by T-mobile for cell phone service, that we decided to cancel the cell phone plan (after a long two year contract) and try another company. We called T-mobile and asked how to cancel our plan. One of their representatives lied to us and told us that we could cancel at the beginning of the pay period and incur no further charges. I was only slightly surprised to receive a bill charging us for the full month. Upon receipt of the bill, we called again.
51$ was stolen by T-mobile.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2010
T-Mobile put a check through my bank checking account twice. I made payment arrangements with this company to have the funds drafted from my account on 11/20. However, I wanted to use another bank for my transaction but I was told that I could only make payment arrangements if I set up a check payment over the phone.
So as a result of being rushed, I used an account in which I would have had to physically transfer funds to. I was not given the option of paying in the store as that would have been easier. I would like to know why was I made to write a check over the phone when I could have walked into any local T-Mobile store and paid at the store?
I was charged $35.00 twice by this company and $30.00 by my bank twice. The information of processing a payment twice was not disclosed to me by this company. It was only disclosed when I called to find out why my account had been drafted twice for the amount of $90.00. This is not the first time that this company has withheld information from me.
Reviewed Dec. 3, 2010
I have it in writing what my plan covers and amount of $49.99 this was in my plan. Back in July, there was a problem with my phone and this is my first free phone in 6 years. The service with T-Mobile is the worst, and they are lying and not honoring their own words, breaking contract, etc. I can't even get through to them online.
Reviewed Dec. 2, 2010
I had received a call from T-Mobile regarding of my account number ** regarding the amount of $141.25 that should have been credited into the account number ** on October 29, 2010 by the Customer Relations Department or Consumer Relations Department. They agreed to credit this into the other account in the amount of $141.25. They are refusing to credit this amount into the account. I'm requesting an investigation and the amount to be credited a.s.a.p before December 19, 2010.
I'm requesting an investigation on this account number **. I’m requesting a credit in the amount of $141.25 before December 19, 2010. That should had been done on October 29, 2010 from the Customer Relations Department or Consumer Relations Department; they agreed to credit this amount of $141.25. I'm looking forward for my account to be credited in this amount of $141.25 before December 19, 2010. That is my final request a.s.a.p.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2010
We added a third cell phone to our family cell plan in October. The salesperson at the official T-Mobile store told me that he will waive the activation fee to match Costco's offer. Guess what? The store didn't charge me the activation fee, but it shows up on my November T-mobile statement. I called the T-mobile corporate office (611) and they told me "what the local store offers has nothing to do with them".
I told them that is an official "T-mobile" store in a major shopping mall. They told me that still doesn't change a thing. Plus, T-mobile sucks. I get a lot of drop calls in my office, where they claim there should have strong signal around my office area. In fact, I get no bar to 2 bars (out of 5) signal strength in my office. I didn't even want to waste my time getting onto their 3G network in my office. I wonder what we will get where the area they consider as weak.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2010
We added a third cell phone to our family cell plan in October. The sales person at the official T-Mobile store told me that he will waive the activation fee to match Costco's offer. Guess what, the store didn't charge me the activation fee but it shows up on my November T-mobile statement. I called the T-mobile corporate office (611) and they told me "what the local store offer has nothing to do with them."
I told them that is an official "T-mobile" store in a major shopping mall. They told me that still doesn't change a thing. Plus, T-mobile sucks, I get a lot of drop calls in my office, where they claim there should have strong signal around my office area. In fact, I get no bar to 2 bars (out of 5) signal strength in my office. I didn't even want to waste my time getting onto their 3G network in my office. I wonder what we will get where the area they consider as weak.
I ended up going to the local store and challenged the salesman in person. They said they will try to work it out for me. We will have to wait and see. I wasted a lot of time talking to them on the phone, as well as going down to the store try to work something out with them. In regards to the drop calls, I think all I can do is to get out of T-mobile as soon as I fulfilled the two years contract. My co-worker's T-mobile phone has the same problem. But he gets lucky. He was on the pre-paid plan and be able to get out at anytime, which he already did.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2010
I was told on October 29, 2010 that they will credit my account with the balance of $141.25 and I pay the difference of $141.24. I called today the customer service department and was told that my cellphone service has been suspended due to the balance of $141.25 that should have been credit by customer relation. They had to credit this balance of $141.25 on October 29, 2010 and it was not promise as it was told by the supervisor from customer relation. I was told that I had to write a letter to Customer Relations T-Mobile PO BOX 37380 ALBUQUERQUE, MN 87176-7380 and request the credit of $141.25 that should had been credit into the account. Cellphone number is **.
I'm requesting an investigation on this account a.s.a.p. I will be looking forward to speak with an investigator on this matter or issue that is very important to me. They are refusing to credit my account in the amount of $141.25 like it was agree with consumer relations on October 29, 2010—that I pay my half of in the amount $141.24 and they will credit above balance in to my account, but it was never done. They didn't kept their promise like they agree to do.
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2010
The T-Mobile service was good for four years and then a software change was made. I no longer have service in my area. Several other people have been contacted and they have the same problem. We have to drive to a different location to get our messages and make calls. T-Mobile will not refund our money and they tell me the problem will not be fixed. I no longer have access to an emergency phone number. My outside communications has been lost.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2010
My phone doesn't work and hasn't during a period of 17 months, which they acknowledged but they want to have me try a new phone for an additional 2 years beyond my plan. I currently have 7 months left on my existing contract, and because the problem hasn't been "fixed" to their standards, I will be charged $200 for canceling service early because of faulty equipment. They aren't willing to work with me by allowing me to upgrade my phone (their fix) and seeing how things go for the next 7 months remaining on my plan.
If I accept their fix, I am hooked into another 2 years of their inferior technology and customer satisfaction. I use my cell phone for safety purposes and with its lack of productivity, I couldn't call AAA if I needed assistance and/or my family if I needed to. They demand $200 for early cancellation despite my phone not working. They don't care about customer satisfaction and/or my frustration. If I stay with them for the remaining 7 months, I will have paid them $350 for a useless phone. My $200 to them for early cancellation would be better spent on reliable technology and service with another company.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2010
I have been a loyal customer of T-Mobile for years. My daughter’s phone broke, so we went to get her a new one. T-Mobile wanted to charge us $100 more for the phone that a new customer could come in and purchase, which I thought was highly unfair. So I called T-Mobile customer service and closed my account. The woman I spoke with apologized and told me if I change my mind within 6 months, I could call and they would reinstate my service; however, she did not tell me if I didn’t call, they would automatically reinstate my service without my authorization and start charging me for service again.
I was irate when I got a bill six months later and said I did not reinstate my service and they said I would have to pay the bill anyway. Again, after another month after this discussion they billed me for another month. They are thieves and cheaters. I will never recommend them to anyone nor will I ever deal with them again.
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2010
I got a text massage stating: “Due to the amount of data you have used this billing cycle, your data speed will be slowed for the remainder of the cycle.” I called customer service regarding the mater. Despite the fact that I have unlimited, I was told that because I used more the 5G, there is nothing they can do for me. I asked to speak to a manager by the name of Elina, **, and before even hearing my complaint, she told me that she cannot do anything for me. They have a millions customers relying on them, and hang-up the phone.
I pay T-Mobile $35 per month for data usage compared to $14.99 for high speed Internet only. I am paying top dollar as I was convinced to having smart phone and unlimited service they promise. Due to the slow down, it is very inconsistent to my smart phone. And not only that, every time I try to surf the Internet, after a while, it starts saying error. So my question is why am paying unlimited when my plan had invertible limitation? Only T-Mobile can see and manage as they see fit. Thank you.
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2010
Greetings! My name is Rodney ** and I purchased several mobile blackberry phones with service contracts. The sales person explained to me about a no-credit check plan, which is called a “Flex plan.” It was explained to me that this is a pay-as-you-go plan, which I will pay monthly and my service can be interrupted; I could buy prepaid minutes and I would be able to make phone calls. I could pay my monthly bill when I have the funds.
I came into a hardship. I became very ill and I wasn't financially stable to make monthly payments. I was able to buy prepaid minutes when my service was canceled. I still had prepay time on my line. I've been a paying customer since February 2008 until July 2010. I called customer service and they told me that if my monthly bill within 90 days, so my service was terminated. I told her that I was explained that if I'm unable to make monthly payments, I can purchase prepaid minutes.
The operator told me that wasn't true and in order for me to restore service, I would have to pay two months service. So I sent an email to the president of T-Mobile to file a complaint on the company’s false advertisement, but I didn't receive a return email. I wrote him a letter and I never received a response. My wife have a same plan and she wasn't able to make monthly and she purchases prepaid minutes as well; she still retained her service for more than 90 days. I don't think this situation is fair and I would like action to be taken on this company with its poor business relations when it comes to a paying customer as my self.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2010
I called T-Mobile to send me a new phone because my insured Samsung Vibrant broke. The representative said that I would have to pay a $130 deductible. The only problem is T-Mobile failed to inform me of a deductible fee on the day I initially agreed to pay $8 extra a month for the insurance. That said, I feel I'm entitled to a free phone.
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2010
My "My Touch" phone was having trouble texting. I reported the problem to consumer service. He told me my phone was still under warranty and that this symptom was covered under warranty and he would send me out a new phone. When I purchased the phone, I also purchased an insurance against damage or loss. I was told this was covered as long as I didn't get the phone wet. When I received the new phone, I took the old phone to a T-Mobile store where they checked the phone out.
They opened it up and saw that the dot inside indicated no water exposure. They assured me this would be covered by the warranty. I recently received a letter from T-mobile informing me that I was being billed $215.00 because their repair facility determined that the phone had physical damage to the housing and/or keypad. The My Touch phone has no key pad and the housing had no damage as verified by the Saratoga Springs, UT store location.
I called T-Mobile to dispute the claim on the letter for the $215.00 charge. They told me the charge would have been covered by the insurance had I made an insurance claim. No one ever mentioned the possibility of needing to make such a claim. I was always assured the phone was covered by the 1 year warranty. I asked how a consumer was to protect themselves from T-Mobile simply making the claim that the phone was damaged by the consumer, especially when I went to such measures to have the phone checked out at the T-Mobile store.
I was told there was no other recourse but I would have to pay the $215.00. I would like T-Mobile to perform as they initially told me they would perform, that the phone was covered under the warranty. I was also told that there was paperwork in the new phone that informed me of the possibility of this problem. I see it as entrapment. Please help.
Reviewed Nov. 21, 2010
I upgraded my phone with this company on 11/10/10 but something was wrong with the phone so I went back the next day to get it replaced, they replace it with the same model. Today at around 1350 (11/20/10), I went back to the store and tried to exchange it with another model or return the phone but they would not accept it because they said the sale is final but they did not tell me that or give say that on any paperwork I received.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2010
My name is Qunjiao **. I was a former client of T-mobile. I had two numbers with T-mobile and I've canceled both numbers. The first number I had was **. I started this number at August or September of 2009 and I signed up for Easy Pay. Later, I added two more line under this account. On Feb. 6, 2010, I switched my number to ** at a local T-mobile store (address: 8003 W Florissant Ave. St Louis, MO 63136, 314-389-2632). I was told by the agent at that T-mobile store that I have nothing to do with my first number anymore. Also, I used to receive paper bills for ** and after I switched to **, I no longer receive any bills. I canceled my second line on Sept 2010.
Yesterday, when I checked my bank account, I realized I was continually charged by T-mobile after I canceled all my numbers. At first, I thought I was charged for my second number **, but later I went to a T-mobile store and talked to two agents on the phone. I realized I was charged for my first number ** continually since Feb. 6, 2010 for $71.35 per month after for so long I thought it was canceled. I was shocked and felt deceived by your company. While I was talking to the agent on the line, she told me I'll be refunded for only the last month's money and she'll cancel my lines for me. I consider that solution offer to me as unfair. The agent said because I didn't call to cancel (obviously, after I was told by T-mobile's agent I have nothing to do with ** anymore), T-mobile did not have the authorization to cancel my line. For my defense, I did not receive any paper bills or any email notice although the agent told me T-mobile sent me test messages to let me know I was billed, while I never thought of checking a not exiting number's message. Another evidence is, I told all my friends I changed my number to ** and I've never used ** after I thought the cancellation was finished.
I work 15.5 hours each week while taking 4 graduate level classes, so obviously I'm not rich. It makes absolutely no sense for me to pay for 3 lines (not even only for myself) with $71.35 each month and $713.5 in total while no one was using it and none of my friends knew I still have that number (**). I felt hurt by the result of the first attempt of canceling my number and not satisfied by the solution they offered.
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2010
TMobile is marketing their unlimited data plans as unlimited, yet they have a 5gb cap; after you hit this point, they reduce your speeds so slow the phone is almost unusable.
Reviewed Nov. 14, 2010
Just got a text message from tmobile. "Free T-Mobile Message: Due to the amount of data you have used this billing cycle, your data speed will be slowed for the remainder of the cycle." My bill cycle ends on the 29th, it's the 13th now. I am a cell phone consultant who needs my "full" data speed not reduced to 2g/edge speeds until the end of my billing cycle. The Tmobile customer care manager told me that despite my account having two Samsung galaxy smart phones he can not fix the throttling nor can he merge the two "unlimited plans" cover me.
Since one is being rarely used due to it being my gf's whom I live with. We use my phone for everything (which is why my usage is higher than hers). I don't have WiFi at home set up or this would not be a problem. A temporary situation as we just moved cross country from Cleveland. But nonetheless, I am now impacted by this slow speed. I cannot leave without a termination fee and believe I'm taking both lines with me. I'm irate over the lack of integrity for t-mobile and its training to employees to not disclose the "unlimited plan" catch, you know the one where it is not really unlimited. No visual clues or little footnotes or asterisks to let you know that there may be a catch, so ultimately need to trust that reps disclose to every customer who gets an "unlimited plan" to be aware of the real limit.
I would like to join any class action lawsuit regarding this or help as to take care of this matter to get what I was told out of the unlimited plan. You wouldn't lease a car to someone and then slow their cars speed in half just because they went over the mile limit set in the lease.
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2010
On November 9, 2010 by 6:30 p.m. the calls were dropping, or I was unable to place from T-Mobile phone. "Network Failure" appears on phone. On November 10, Network Failure continues all day. I called T-Mobile representative on son's phone. She had us remove and replace battery. The phone worked for a few minutes, then "network failure. "
Reviewed Nov. 9, 2010
I am forced to pay for services not rendered. I am not receiving texts, calls and no network. I have called multiple times. For all the same reasons, everyone else has on dropped calls, no service, terrible customer service, no network and same excuses that they give tower checks. Tech checks, the most recent 11/08/10 at 11:30 pm Pacific with Lynn agent #**. After receiving my 4th Mytouch 3G, I transferred all my information to the replacement Mytouch. Five hours later, it completely shuts off and won't turn on.
My husband on his 2nd Garminfone. It doesn't get network and text he gets a #5556 and receives only half of every text sent to him. After calling Lynn and arguing for 45 minutes trying to cancel my contract for services not rendered, she argues and try's to get me into a cheaper model phone with less features. At 12:15 am, Lynn finally transferred me to a manager/supervisor Erika, agent ID # **. After spending another 20 minutes arguing with her and explaining my problems again and actually crying from frustration, nothing was handled. She said she was technical support and not customer care. She informed us to call them and Erika kept trying to process replacement for obsolete phones, an old Blackberry or Motorola.
I would think if you pay for something, you would get equal value or an upgrade. So another waste of time and trapped in this terrible contract! It's a huge mistake leaving Verizion. Word of advice, stay away from T-Mobile. Two cans and a string work better.
Reviewed Nov. 6, 2010
As a customer of T-Mobile since Jun 2007, I paid a deductible and insurance premiums and received replacement cellphone by mail Aug 2010. I opened the box, read the directions, placed the broken phone in the self-addressed stamped white plastic envelope provided and dropped immediately in the mail at the post office for extra security(USPS).
I then immediately called T-Mobile to notify of the return. Representative identified that the phone should have been sent by UPS, not USPS in the other envelope. The representative stated that I should ask the post office to retrieve it before mailing and reported that a “handset order research” form was filed. I checked back weekly with T-Mobile for progress report.
After several weeks, I was relieved to be told by their representative that I was not to worry as I would not be charged. So I stopped checking, knowing that they would contact me when the phone was recovered in their system. On October 29, 2010, I stopped in the store with handset problems and was alerted by the clerk that I had a bill of $533.15 and discovered that I was now being charged for the phone after all. I called customer service and told I was charged a restocking order of $443.70 and was refused to speak with the supervisor after asking 3 times.
Directions in the box did not designate which envelope to use and the broken phone was returned to their system in their self-addressed envelope. It supposedly cannot be found and it is, therefore, not fair to charge me $443.70 for a phone that I already paid for and own so that they can sell it to someone else. On November 5, I was told that they would do a search again and have a supervisor call me on Monday about the situation and they would offer me a 30% discount. I would still be charged over $300.
Reviewed Nov. 6, 2010
My T-Mobile bill consistently has charges for services that are an error. It has happened month after month. I have called each month and it takes at least half an hour to get it resolved. Each time the rep says it is taken care of and will not happen again. Next bill comes with the same issue. Wonder if others are charged and don't notice. I said was going to cancel because of the ongoing hassle and they threatened me with a $200 cancellation charge. In my opinion, it’s the worst service and they can't get it right. There are repeated charges that are in error.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2010
I open a new Account Cell Phone from T-Mobile, after 2 days, I call T-Mobile costumer service and request to help me with the phone problem. When I try to make a phone call, the Phone pour and simple shut down. I explain to T-Mobile Costumer Service, the situation after I got transfer to a different department to explain the phone diagnostic problem, after a few seconds I heard a noise and there was no one there to talk to.
I call again from my friend phone and finally I spoke with some one and explain my Cell Phone problem after I got transfer to a different department to explain again the situation. I was told, they take care of this problem, I was on the phone with costumer service for all most one hour and I told them I can't afford all the time to waste so much time on the phone special I just sign up for this new contract.
The Phone was working for a few days with a very weak signal and start having the same problem. Since then, I call costumer service numerous time, I told them I hardly could use the phone service and I can't afford to pay for a service I can't use for my service. I call in for the last time from my friend Cell Phone and talk to Costumer Service to close my account service. I was asked, "What's the reason you close your account?" My answer was I can't afford to pay for something I can't use and I don't want to go over this again is too much already for me. I paid for a service I could not use for more than 2 months.
Now, I receive my lost bill for $228.91 included my contract fees for closing my contract early with T-Mobile. The lady I spoke last time on the phone, she did not care if my Cell Pone is working or not she told me you are responsible to pay for this contract cancellation. I told her, how in the world you want me to pay for a contract I can't use the service right and just lived open and pay the bill to T-Mobile.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2010
I opened a new account cell phone from T-Mobile. After two days, I called T-Mobile costumer service and request to help me with the phone problem. When I tried to make a phone call, the form pour and simply shuts down. I explained to T-Mobile customer service the situation after I got transferred to a different departments to explain the phone diagnostic problem. After a few seconds, I heard a noise and there was no one there to talk to.
I called again from my friend's phone and finally, I spoke with some one and explain my cell phone problem. After I got transferred to a different department to explain again the situation, I was told they take care of this problem. I was on the phone with customer service for all most one hour and I told them i can't afford all the time to waste so much time on the phone especially, I just signed up for this new contract.
The phone was working for a few days with a very weak signal and start having the same problem. Since then, I called customer service numerous time. I told them I hardly could use the phone service and I can't afford to pay for a service I can't not use for my service. I called in for the last time from my friend's cell phone and talk to customer service to close my account service. I was asked, "What's the reason you close your account?" My answer was, "I can't afford to pay for something I can't use and I don't wont to go over this again. It's too much already for me. I paid for a service I could not use for more than two months."
Now, I received my lost bill for $228.91 included my contract fees for closing my contract early with T-Mobile. The lady I spoke with last time on the phone, she did not care if my cell phone is working or not. She told me, "You are responsible to pay for this contract cancellation." I told her, "How in the world you want me to pay for a contract I can't use the service right and just lived open and pay the bill to T-Mobile?"
Reviewed Nov. 3, 2010
I joined T-Mobile in February 2009 after a bad experience with AT&T, but have now started to question if any cell phone providers are worth being with. When I first got my phone and service, I was paying almost $100 a month and had a limited amount of minutes. About a year later, T-Mobile brought out their unlimited plans for $69.99. I went into my local store and asked how I get on that plan. He said I can be "grandfathered" into the plan without a contract. I was so excited and continued my service without any problems. Then Sprint started offering $50 a month unlimited plans. I cancelled my service with T-Mobile and told them the plan was too expensive. The man on the phone took my information, asked a few questions, and confirmed everything. He said I would get a final prorated bill in the mail within a few weeks.
A few weeks later, I got my final bill in the mail for $155! They were charging me $55 for the prorated service which is understandable but $100 for contract cancellation! I called the customer service and spoke to a lady named Mary. She acted like she didn't have the time of day for me and would not refund the $100. I asked to speak to her supervisor and she stated he wouldn't be able to do anything else. I still insisted, so she got him on the phone. He ** me so bad that I forgot to ask for his name. I explained the situation that I changed to a "no contract plan" so I shouldn't be charged a contract cancellation fee. He said I was correct about not having an additional contract under my recent plan but I still had a couple of months on my previous contract! Are you kidding me? I have two contracts at once? The man in the store never told me that. And the man I cancelled with over the phone never mentioned it either! How can I be under two contracts at once but only one plan?
The supervisor continued talked down to me like I was a little child and told me they didn't have to tell me that and that I signed the contract. Thanks T-Mobile for using ambiguous and hidden verbiage to ** over a reliable customer. How about a little courtesy to your customers? I told the guy they were crazy and won't see a dime of the $100. I paid my $55 prorated service fee and told him he could go ahead and send the rest to collections because I am not paying it. I ended up paying it all because I looked at my contract and saw the tiny itty bitty few words statement saying I was still under my previous contract and didn't want it on my credit report.
I am so outraged with T-Mobile. Do not use them as your service provider! If they don't catch you at the beginning, they will catch you sometime. They will nickle and dime you to death. Ugh! Also, beware of their insurance plans you pay for each month. If your phone is defective, you still have to pay them $20 to ship you a new one! And they also charge you $1.50 a month for paper bills in the mail.
Reviewed Oct. 29, 2010
While traveling in Italy, I used my T-mobile phone. The roaming charges exceeded $3200 for the month.
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2010
I utilized the "free" upgrade on my account. I was charged a $18 upgrade fee for the free upgrade. I was not told about the charge by any sales or customer support personnel. I ordered a T-Mobile G2. The device is advertised to come with 4GB of internal storage. The phone came with 1.3GB of storage. When I complained, they first told me that I didn't know what I was talking about. Then they told me that all G2's are experiencing the problem and a replacement would not solve the issue. Then I was told that it is not a issue, it's just how the phone is designed. I was told I could contact the manufacturer for support.
When I contacted the manufacturer, they told me that they only provide support to their clients (network providers), and that they do not provide support to end users. I was not given any further explanation or offered any solution or compensation. I contacted T-Mobile executive office about the issue. They encouraged me to return the phone under the buyer's remorse clause they have for new phones.
I spent hours wasted on the phone with customer support. I returned the phone, but two weeks later have not been reimbursed and my account is not yet eligible for an upgrade. I am now considering switching to a different service provider. Unfortunately, all other providers plans that match my current one are about $20 more expensive per month or $240 a year.
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2010
Billing issues and phone not working properly. I talked to a customer service and it was like talking to bathroom tub.
Reviewed Oct. 24, 2010
I made a purchase of new service on 09-20-10. When my first payment was due, T-Mobile allegedly couldn’t locate the payment made on the purchase day even with proof faxed to them of the payment made on the day in question. Now they disconnected the service and refused to solve the matter and still can find the transaction even with my receipts and copies faxed to their office. I have no service and got no refund of funds.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2010
This is America quality through T-mobile barbaric tactics.
First, let me say I do not care who reads this. Tmobile today said they were shutting me off period because of Sec 11 in their contract. My phone says centennial all the time unless I stand in a yard 2 blocks up the street. I was told numerous times that since I had nationwide calling and unlimited everything, this was not an issue nor will ever be an issue if my cell has another carriers name on it.
Now I have 3 phones totaling 1200 dollars that don't work with any other carrier because of sim card issues. Tmobile says they will not issue me money back; they tell me that there is no way they can help me, we're shutting you off period. Two different Tmobile customer reps, one called me never left a message. Good service huh.
Second I called them. There were two different stories and explanations and reasoning for my issue. It is a barbaric tactic that proves you don't get more, it means we take more and you lose. My issues with another carrier on my phone about 65 percent of the time, was numerously addressed and I was told there was no problem, no issue. I actually read the contract few years ago, yet it is my fault that I didn't keep on it.
Yet, is it right that a company can promote, and speak of getting more? Is it the consumers fault that they can't do their own job correctly? Now the new meaning of kids talk free makes sense, seems to me the stock will show how fast they fall. Manipulating another into believing their service is the best and giving wrong information on the phone constantly between employees to a consumer is and always will be an injustice to society
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2010
I added my daughter to my cellphone plan on Christmas of 2007. It wasn't until I received the bill a month later that I realized that they had split my husband's phone off of my plan and then created a new "family plan" with just me and my daughter - thereby costing me approximately $50 more per month than if all three of us were on the same plan. When I asked why they did that and if they would fix it, they told me it would cost $399 to terminate my husband and put him on mine plan but both plans were in my name. They wouldn't budge about the "change fee" so I left the plans alone.
Then last January after my 2 years on the new plan, I tried to get my daughter's phone dropped from my plan because she was getting phone calls from adult men and I couldn't get those incoming calls blocked (p.s.: my daughter is 10). They told me that I had to have two phones on the family plan so it would be considered an early termination since I had upgraded my phone in August 2008.
So I have paid the extra $20 to have her on my phone until September 24, 1010 when I switched to Verizon. I switched my number and then contacted T-Mobile at the Verizon shop and made sure that the second phone number was also cancelled (I didn't want the same number my daughter had been receiving inappropriate calls on). They told me they would take care of that. I then called again on September 28 to make sure that the account was dead. They assured me that it was dead . They then asked me about my husband's phone number and I told them I didn't make any changes to that account. I just wanted to make sure that the other account was dead. They assured me that all was as I requested.
Today, I called because I am still getting billed for the first account. They told me that didn't have any report of a phone call on the 28th. I asked them to look at the other account and they realized that a call did come in on the 28th. I told them that was the call I made to make sure my account was dead. They said that because the phone call was recorded on the other account number (which is also in my name) that they couldn't go back and retroactively cancel the phone but that I had to pay the bill up to today.
They split the accounts and then they can't keep track of the accounts and I have to pay the bill. I have moved my husband's phone off T-Mobile now. They suck. I am removing my parent's Tracphone from T-Mobile after I finish posting this and I have emailed all 38 contacts I have with T-mobile letting them know what happened to me and that I will pay for their activation fee with Verizon if they can dump T-Mobile. It's only 38 people but at approximately $90/month per phone that should begin to hurt over time.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2010
I have been with T-Mobile for several years. I woke up this morning and I found out that someone paid my bill and opened two new phone lines. I called T-Mobile this morning and told them what had happened and they said that they will get to it. But two months ago, T-Mobile said that I made three phone calls to Spain and I don't know anyone who lives in Spain. I asked the T-Mobile rep two months ago if someone could be using an identical SIM card and make those calls. She was real rude when she told me no, but now, I believe otherwise.
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2010
I have a new (less than 2 months old) phone (family plan with 3 lines) and my phone has no sound. No rings, no alerts, no sound at all. I took the phone to the store that we set the account up with and they couldn't help and referred me to the 1-800 number. I called and the rep helped diagnose the problem and told me I needed a new phone and they would ship it to me, so I could put my Sim card, battery and back on to the new phone and be back up and running. She further explained that I would have to pay $9.99 for this exchange.
I didn't break the phone - there isn't a "store" that I can drive in to and get a replacement so why should I have to pay to have it shipped. This phone is new and I don't abuse my equipment in any way! (my son has the same phone and "uses" his and it is fine, but mine "broke" already). This sure isn't keeping this T-Mobile customer happy and sure isn't creating any future business with this family.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2010
Been with T-Mobile for 3 years but upon recently, I realize that T-Mobile has become nothing but thieves to me. Harsh word but true. Due to a recent death in my family, it has taken a financial toll on me. Making a lot overseas call to liaison back and forth in Jamaica, I ended up paying a costly price. Okay, I was making small payments and whenever I made a payment I would call the company to let a representative make note of it and in the midst doing that my phone line was cancelled. Just like that! Okay T-Mobile has their policy and they also have the right but oh my God, I was with the company since 2007.
Now, here is the real problem. Because I had lost my previous HTC HD2 phone, Assurion insurance would not honor the contract because I didn't have my sim card inside, again that is another policy. I purchased the phone with T-Mobile in September 2010 and because my phone was not fully active, I did not open the box until 2 days ago and started setting up my features. I had to reconnect my phone to avoid the cancellation fees of $400.00 for the family lines that I have.
They cancelled me and I still have to pay them and if I don't pay in time, they will send me to a collection agency. Now back to my complaint. When I open the box and set up the phone, the Transformer application and Guitar Hero application was not working, so I called the company and after speaking with the representative. It dawned on me that the SD memory card was not in it. The representative told me that she cannot take back the phone because of the 14 day return policy. Can you imagine at I was a blazing volcano. This is not right, it is not fair. Always people say bad things about T-Mobile and I defended them. Unfortunately they like to smile and help you when they are taking your money but when you are helpless, they turn their backs. Well, that is humans all over. But I am a customer for 3 yrs!
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2010
My T-Mobile mobile phone stopped working, after half an hour waiting on the line, the representative told me they lost my number in their network and that it would take them 3 to five days to restore my number.
I explained them it would be useless to me because I would have left the USA to be back home by that time and I would lose the US$ 50 I had on the phone and I expected to use to place calls. They said, there was nothing they could do about it. I explained I would like to have a refund on the credit card I used to pay the credit. I asked them to send me an email, so that we could have a way of communicating since their chat or online service doesn't work and I didn't want to wait on an international call for another 25 minutes. They said they couldn't send emails.
The representative transferred me to a third person and they left me waiting twenty minutes more and they hang up again. It is revolting the way they treat their customers. The nice talk of the representatives is useless, since they are not really interested in speaking to the customers. They leave us waiting and do not offer a simple email complain system. I want my money back.The best way to be in touch with me is by email **. I spent US$ 15 on the phone credited US$ 50 twice and the second recharge was untouched. Plus I spent almost one hour on the hotel phone waiting for their solution. God knows what the animal kingdom lodge will charge us for that.
Reviewed Oct. 14, 2010
T-Mobile is charging 40 cents for each additional minute when a person talks over their plan limits. T-Mobile and the other wireless phone companies are changing too much for their air minutes. A $2.00 calling card provides 60 or more minutes talk time; with the T-Mobile, I will pay $24 for the same time.
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2010
Hello!
I had two accounts with T-Mobile that consisted of seven phone lines. I was a customer of theirs for over seven years. My wife took a job in another state around October of last year. We went down to interview around August of 2009. During our stay, we experienced minimal cell phone coverage in the area. We returned home and as soon as my wife was informed that they wanted to hire her, I contacted T Mobile. At this time, I contacted T-Mobile and informed them of our plans to move, I also informed them about the coverage issues and inquired about what my options where.
One of T-Mobile representatives told me there was ample coverage in the area and there wasn't anything I could do except keep the phones or pay termination fees. I explained that when I was in the area, I could only get a signal in the center of town. After talking to a few people, T-Mobile finally agreed to remove all my termination fees. Of course, I wasn't ready to cancel my phones at that time, because I needed a way to continue my business and have communication with friends and family.
So, a couple of weeks later, I called back to make the proper arrangements and find out exactly what was need of me to make all the above conversation final. At that time, no one wanted to acknowledge my previous conversations with T-Mobile. I had to speak with at least four people and their supervisors to finally get them to review the notes and agree to what I was already promised. The supervisor informed me that for them to remove all termination fees, I would have to show proof of my new residents in person. At this time, I didn't have a hard copy of my lease or any bills due to me being over 500 miles away from my new address. So, I finally got a lease mailed to me so I could take it to a T-Mobile store for verification. When I showed it to the guy he didn't know what to do. He told me that he couldn't do anything with it and wasn't sure what I expected him to do.
I explained I needed a visual verification from T-Mobile to remove all my termination fees. He once again told me he had no idea what I was asking for. So I called T-Mobile and finally got a supervisor, explained to her what was asked of me. She reviewed the notes and asked to speak with the store representative. He verified my new address visually and verbally to the lady. I was handed back the phone and told the termination fees would be removed when I decided to cancel my service. I explained that I wanted my service until I moved, due to my business, friends, and family. The Lady told me to call back when I decided on a date. I would like to take the time to mention all this happened over a year ago and I am going off my memory and information received from T-Mobile, during our past conversation over the last year.
All the information stated here is to the best of my knowledge. Only dates should be questionable as far as I know. So, our move date is set for October 15th, I call and inform T-Mobile that I need to terminate my phones on the 16th of October. The representative informed me that my cycle ended on the first of November. I told them to end my service at the end of my cycle. That would be on both accounts and all phones. So we move and November 1st is approaching, I speak with my brother, he wants to continue one of my lines. He tells me that he has spoken with T-Mobile and they need me to call them.He calls them on three way, I speak with a representative. They go over my account, explain that I have a balance and they can't transfer a phone to a new account while I have a balance. We go over my bill, I ask if that was my final bill including all charges for that month. They informed me of my final balance, I asked if there where any termination fees applied. He found some termination fees that where applied. So, I had to speak with a supervisor to get them removed. Then I paid my final bill, and they transferred one of my lines over to my brother.
At this point, I was told and convinced that I didn't owe T-Mobile any money, that all my bills where paid, all termination fees removed, and my brother had his own line. I confirmed my new address and number with T-Mobile just in case. They told me they would send out a final statement saying I had a zero balance. About six months go by when I check my credit report online. I see that T-Mobile has posted negative and incorrect information on my credit report. I call them and speak with a representative. They told me at that time the information is correct and I had a balance of $452.00 (some where around this number). I explained that couldn't be right and they told me that it was correct, they also said they couldn't do anything because the account was taken over by a creditor. I got off the phone with them and called back. Got a new person and explained the whole story again, I think I had to do this a couple times.
Finally, someone actually looked over my account and found some problems. They told me that some of my terminations fees weren't waived. They went over it with the supervisor, finally they told me that before they could do anything they would have to request for the account to be returned. They said once they had the account they could make the appropriate changes and then they could send out a new bill. They informed me that the total owed would be around $52.00. I reconfirmed my address and contact info then told them thanks for the help. I forgot about the whole thing, I even forgot to look for a bill. One never came. Ten months later, about a month ago my wife and I was talking to a broker about getting a loan for a house. The lady informed me of T-Mobile being on my credit report. I was shocked to say the least. I've spent hours maybe days trying to resolve this issue, I could not understand why T-Mobile still refused to send me a bill and make wild accusations that I owed them $452.00. I called T-Mobile spoke to multiple representatives and supervisors. I finally got someone who wanted to review my account and look at the facts.
After speaking to her for over thirty minutes, she was figuring out the whole jigsaw puzzle of my account. She informed me that she saw where there were termination fees that still where not waived, also where I had previously spoke to a representative about six month prior to my current call. She was explaining the process and how she would have the fees removed, when I lost a signal and all hope of resolution.
I called back immediately, tried to get to the same person, but I was told it was impossible to speak with the same person. So, I tried to go through the whole process of explain this long drawn out sequence of events. The new representative didn't seem to get what I was telling him, he told me he didn't see a problem with my account and I owed $452.00, that there where no errors and he wasn't sure who I was talking to before or what she was doing to tell me that I had errors on the bill. I finally got of the phone with him tried a couple more and got the same response. I knew what the lady told me and wasn't sure why the other people were being so defensive. So I kept trying, I come to realize that some departments are set up to tell you nothing and some actually try to help. So, I couldn't get the same person but somehow I was able to get someone to transfer me over to the same department that the lady was in. Finally some results, at least this is what I thought.
Once again, I spend the time to tell this long story all from memory of course trying not to double back or miss any small detail that may put this whole thing together. The lady was very pleasant and understanding of me being irritated and annoyed. So, she goes over my account with me, informs me that there was never verification of my new address. I told her the whole spill of going to the store and having to call T-Mobile. She finds the notes, tells me she is making the appropriate notes, so if anyone checks the account it would be easy to find all the details.
She puts me on a brief hold to talk to her supervisor. She comes back and informs me that they will have to get my account back before making changes, which I've already heard this six months ago, I tell her. She reassures me that she has it under control and from their stand point I had a zero balance. I ask if she is sure, she tells me she is positive. I explained again that I heard this before six months ago. She said she was positive and if I had any concerns I could call back in two weeks for verification. I said thanks for all the help and let her go. She told me they would send out a final statement.
The next day, I got a voice message from a T-Mobile representative stating they had made the corrections and my balance was $252.00. I assumed this was the supervisor of the first lady I spoke with and she wasn't aware of the other changes that were made. I figured either way, I would get a final statement so I could review the changes and charges at question. Well, once again surprise from T-Mobile. I didn't receive a final statement, instead I get a call from a creditor. He informs me that T-Mobile had submitted an invoice with them. I once again was outraged and told him I needed to contact them. He told me the balance was $252.00. This was a different creditor then the last time and there were some adjustments of $200.00. He told me to contact them as soon as I had talked with T-Mobile and resolved the issue. About three days later, he calls back and leaves a message for me to contact him. A couple days later another lady from the same creditor calls. I explain to her that I've been extremely busy and had not had a chance to talk with T Mobile. She was very nice and understanding.
I explained my standing on the issue and she asked me to fax in a statement. I told her that I was outraged with T-Mobile and would just let my lawyer handle the issue. Due to my repeated attempts to resolve the issue, and me being told that the issue was resolved. Also I have never gotten a final bill to justify these charges they claimed I owed. She gave me the information to her firm and told me to contact her if I had and information for her. Once again, I couldn't understand why I keep getting mixed information. So, I call T-Mobile. Ask to speak with a supervisor. I was redirected to another department, which told me I would get a call back. They called me back very quickly, I explained to the lady I needed to speak with a supervisor. She told me that she couldn't transfer me until she knew why. So, I proceeded to explain once again. Finally, she got me to a supervisor. I started to explain what I was told and that I was contacted by a creditor that told me something different. I couldn't even finish tell her the whole story before she started interrupting me and telling me that the balance owed was correct. I informed her that she sounded upset and I needed to finish explaining all the conversations with the multiple representatives for her to actually understand what I was told and what had happened. She told me what she saw and why she felt I owed the balance.
I explained that I had been told multiple balances starting at $452.00 down to $0.00. I told her this caused concern for me and I didn't mind paying any balance owed. I asked her for a final bill or statement of the charges that I never received. She informed me that she didn't have access to that information. That only the creditor could get that information for me and I would need to contact them if I wanted that information. Some how she could see I owed money and verify it to herself and try to explain to me why I owed money, but she couldn't give me a final statement. I never received a final statement. I got off the phone with her and immediately contacted the creditor. I asked her for a detailed statement. She informed me that they didn't have access to that information, she could only send me an invoice. So let me get this straight, I am being billed a questionable amount and no one will provide me with a detailed statement of why I owe this money. I proceed to tell her the whole story, she apologizes for my haste and says she will try to help out. She ask her boss if they could get me a detailed statement, he informs her that they have access to the statement but are unable to send out detailed statements. She tells me she will look over everything and see if she can see where the misunderstanding is.
I then ask her what the charges are for. She tells me that the charges are for a early termination fee of $200.00 and remainder balance of $52.00. I tell her that I was informed that all termination fees were removed. She informs me that if I can get a letter to state, I don't owe any early termination fee she can remove that portion from the bill. I ask her if she can acquire that from T-Mobile, because I didn't believe they would do anything to help me. She said she would do what she could. Well, with high hope, so some resolution I started think about what the creditor told me, that if I got a letter stating that I don't owe any early termination fees things would be resolved. So I tried to give T-Mobile another chance. This time, I didn't bother with the supervisor, I just politely asked a representative for the information. Well that didn't work. The lady told me that my account was taken over by a creditor and they couldn't provide me with any documents or information.
So, now I wait until tomorrow where my story will probably take on a whole new path. But for now, here is my conclusion. T-Mobile sends me to a collection department when I call and there trained to deflect all questions or any information to a third party collection agency. They refuse to provide me with a detailed statement explaining my charges. They use the collection agency as a buffer, so I can't get the information needed to get my bill resolved. All I need is a detailed statement, to compare with my past bills and by bank statement. More of my time wasted and then I will know if I owe T-Mobile and how much.Thanks you for your time. My number with T-Mobile was **.
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2010
Unbeknown to me, T-Mobile signed me up for another 2-year contract with one of our cell phones. The contract was suppose to end in December 2010 but they said since I signed up for $5.00 a month charge, they automatically signed me up. If they told me right up front that they will automatically signed me up on my existing contract, I would never have signed up.
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2010
Yesterday, I call T-mobile because I found out that there were text messages send from my father's phone without him dialing them. T-mobile charge us $7.60 for this text message that we never send, that we don't know how that happen. They did not want to give us credit for this messages ,instead they offer us a plan for text-messages so that way we didn't have to pay their charges. I believe T-mobile is doing this so people accept their offers by over charging costumers. We did not accept this offer and they did not give us credit for those messages that were sent from the phone to the same phone. I don't think is fair.
Also, the manager wasn't professional, he was like making fun of the issue. The worse thing is that we have a contract for 2 long years, for this reason we have to stay with T-mobile, otherwise we have to pay the fee of cancellation of $200-300. Somebody have to do something for this abuse. We don't have to pay for something that we didn't do. Thank you.
Reviewed Oct. 10, 2010
I am a person dealing with cancer I am on disability T-mobile has put me through a horrible experience I called them to tell them I cannot afford their service anymore I found a cheaper non contract service, that I live on $1000 per month SSDI. They said I had 11 months left on my contract so I had to keep a $19.99 a month service 75 minutes during week 500 on weekends I was forced because they were going to charge me an immediate $200.00 for breaking contract. I told them I had to take my cell phone number to new service I could afford. They said they would give me a new phone number for the t-mobile service, to call back in 24 hours so I call back and they said that they can’t give me a new number unless I pay for it and start a whole new service again.
I told them to look at the notes for the agreement they had made with me about the $19.99, they said again I was in the wrong dept and they had to transfer me, I waited on hold 35 minutes no one came on phone. I have had service many years with them They changed their prices during this contract, messaging and 411 calls and I can’t pay all the extra money, even their contract says if it’s a hardship if they change prices during the contract I can cancel but they are not keeping to their own contract.
This is just not right to treat someone who is disabled this way. I really need help. I was honest with them from the beginning and told them what I had to do because of finances. I told them about their prices going up on 411 calls and messaging, but they still are using guerilla tactics to squeeze money. I’m hoping you can help me. Regarding an attorney I can’t pay an attorney unless they take this case without upfront payment please don’t call. Thanks.
Reviewed Oct. 10, 2010
I am a person dealing with cancer. I am on disability. T-mobile has put me through a horrible experience. I called them to tell them I cannot afford their service anymore; I found a cheaper non-contract service, that I live on $1000 per month SSDI. They said I had 11 months left on my contract so I had to keep a $19.99 a month service 75 minutes during the week, 500 on weekends. I was forced because they were going to charge me an immediate $200 for breaking the contract. I told them I had to take my cell phone number to a new service I could afford. They said they would give me a new phone number for the T-mobile service, to call back in 24 hours.
So, I call back and they said that they can't give me a new number unless I pay for it and start a whole new service again. I told them to look at the notes for the agreement they had made with me about the $19.99. They said again I was in the wrong dept and they had to transfer me. I waited on hold 35minutes, no one came on phone. I have had service many years with them. They changed their prices during this contract, messaging and 411 calls and I can't pay all the extra money. Even their contract says if it's a hardship if they change prices during the contract, I can cancel but they are not keeping to their own contract.
This is just not right to treat someone who is disabled this way. I really need help. I was honest with them from the beginning and told them what I had to do because of finances. I told them about their prices going up on 411 call and messaging, but they still are using guerilla tactics to squeeze money. I'm hoping you can help me.
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2010
I contracted with T-Mobile Wireless over a year ago. From the first day, I experienced reception problems. I called and reported it immediately and on almost every occasion because of my previous experience with a different provider. At the time, I was taking radiation therapy and bedridden. I needed contact with my physician but the majority of the time, it was not available.
After many months of the same aggravation, I was told I needed a different phone. I was informed that the Blackberry was known to have excellent reception. My service is no better after getting the Blackberry. I called to complain and was told to continue trying it. Still no better. When I called again, I was told it was too late to return or exchange it. I have had to go to the T-Mobile location and troubleshoot the phone, spending a minimum of 2 hours each visit in order to have them replace it. I pay insurance but I am forced to endure the same routine each time.
I have returned each phone but T-Mobile claims not to have received one of the four replacements. They are now trying to charge me $330.00 dollars 'restocking' fee. My service bill is paid but they cut off my service anyway. I called and it was cut on again after being on the phone 45 minutes. I was told two days ago that I live in a "moderate service area" which is defined as it being necessary to be outdoors in an open area in order to receive a call or to make one.
I pay for unlimited minutes, but the availability of minutes is extremely limited. It requires at least 20- 30 attempts at dialing a number in order for me to connect. I rarely receive a call because it doesn't register with my phone. It goes to voice mail. 90% of my calls are dropped relatively quickly into the call, or the person on the other end of the line eventually cannot hear my voice even though we are still connected.
I filed several complaints with the BBB, and T-Mobile's response was that they do not guarantee service. That's awfully convenient. What exactly am I paying $80.00 a month for if not service? And why is it advertised as 'unlimited'? I can't use minutes unless I have service. There have been times that I wasted a couple of hours on the phone trying to reach customer service. Before I could get anything resolved, the call would drop. All I get from T-Mobile are excuses or arguments.
Reviewed Oct. 5, 2010
I have been a costumer of this company for about 4 years, without any service turn off. Today, 10/05/2010, they decide they wanted to do a partial suspension of service for $27.00. I spoke to someone previously in regards to this and explained that the payment will be made at the end of the week, Friday. The customer service rep also explained that I would need to confirm a date for me to make another $217.00 payment for the following bill, which usually is only $177.00 per month, but because of some mystery equipment I am to pay extra? This is the 5th Blackberry 8520 they've sent to me due to a dysfunction, so why must I pay on their behalf, and I'm considered a loyal customer? In conclusion, the reception is terrible and I have had many dropped calls!
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2010
I've been with T-Mobile for many years and within the last six months I've been having service issues--dropped calls, unable to make calls or receive calls. I've complained over a dozen times.
I have four lines with them and have requested to get out of my contracts but they will only let me out of two which are done in a month anyway. Why should I have to pay for something I can not use? They even told me that it may be my phone, a g1 which I loved and gave me a Cliq to replace it. That wasn't the problem and now I'm stuck with a phone that I would have never gotten in the first place. They won't even give me my old phone back. I'm now stuck with the contract and a phone I don't want.
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2010
most of the time. I have no signal and getting worse, now almost all day especially at night and morning. I'm getting no signal all, zero bar. For 3 times, I complain to consumer service 1-800-937-8997, they said they can't do anything right now but there is plan to upgrade the system but it will take some months or a year. So, I requested to terminate service but I don`t want to pay any early termination charges. But they insisted that I need to pay $400 for the two lines that I want to terminate. This is unfair and I need help to resolve this issue. Thank you and hoping to hear from you about this problem.
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2010
My wife went in and got me a Bluetooth for birthday but she didn't know that I already had an expensive one which was working great, so she took it back a store out off town and they told her they can't refund it cause she didn't buy it from them and they told her to take it to a main branch and they would change it for her. She went with 2 kids to look after and finding a parking space she got there. Then they told her that she had to go to the place where she got the item in the first place. Ok, off she went. Now, they told her they don't have to refund her just because she didn't like the item.
I told them it's not even opened! They just said, "Don't care, by law we don't have to take it back just because you don't like them". Why didn't your branch tell me that in the 1st place instead of sending me from branch to branch with 2 kids. They wasted my day and money. Tossers. Not going with them again and when my contract ends then they are history. Good bye T-mobile.
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2010
On July 16, 2010, we, my husband, son, daughter-in-law and I appeared in person before the T-Mobile representative in the Provo, Utah, Costco. I had with me my current bill from T-Mobile along with all our cell phones from our T-Mobile account. Our contract of two years had been fully discharged and we were on a month-to-month basis with T-Mobile. Because our coverage at our home in Washington, D.C. received poor coverage, and because our contracts were expired, we decided to make the change to Verizon which provides better service coverage in the Washington, D.C. market.
The T-Mobile representative was articulate, knowledgeable and helpful. He ported two of our numbers to Verizon and cancelled the number belonging to our son who no longer needed a phone as he had recently reported for missionary service where a phone was not needed. We paid up our T-Mobile bill and returned to D.C.
Imagine my surprise then when two weeks later, we got a bill from T-Mobile. I called them. They had not canceled my son's phone and refused to accept responsibility that this was their mistake. Four people can tell you that we canceled all our phone service with T-Mobile that day. T-Mobile insists (rudely, and consistently in spite of appeals to a supervisor) that this was our mistake. How is this our mistake? When will T-Mobile realize that their insistence on collecting $43 for their mistake is nothing short of stupid? Nobody in my family, nor any other person who asks questions about providers will hear anything but negative feedback from me about their service. Shame on T-Mobile whose corporate policy seems to be never under any circumstances admit mistakes and don't speak politely and reasonably with customers who are leaving their service.
Reviewed Sept. 29, 2010
Started my contract with T-Mobile on 12/14/2008. It is a family plan, so even though it is in my name, my daughter, my son-in-law, and my oldest grandson are also on my plan. For over a year and a half no one had any problems with dropped calls. From time to time a few dropped calls but nothing major. Then in August it started being impossible for my daughter and her family to keep calls from dropping on them while in their house. They could step outside and no dropped calls but the moment they went inside their house the call would drop.
If they called the party back, it would drop again after a few minutes if they were still in their house. Go outside and they could talk forever. Their house is in Huber Heights, Ohio and my house is in Richmond, Indiana. I was not having any problems. I still am not having any problems except for Customer Service at T-Mobile. Contacted T-Mobile on the following dates: 8/26/2010- my daughter talked to someone at the T-mobile store in the mall. He suggested, she switch out her sim card. She wanted to back up her phone numbers before he did that. The dropped calls were not real bad then. She said she would come back. 9/11/2010, my daughter still having problems with dropped calls, so she went back to the mall and they switched out her sim card.
9/14/2010, still having dropped calls and getting worse, so my daughter went online and they said they would send out a tech to check the tower. Ticket number 3689656. 9/15/2010, still having dropped calls, so I got mad and called Customer Service. Called at 11:16 am and before customer service rep came to the phone I was disconnected. I wasn't having trouble with dropped calls in Indiana, it was my daughter who was having the problem in Ohio. Called back at 11:22 am and the call got terminated again before it reached customer service. Called back at 11:23 am and finally got a customer service person. She said that the call from the 14th had 72 hours for them to do something before she could enter another ticket on the problem. 9/17/2010 dropped calls problem still not solved so I called Customer Service back again. She said that she would send someone out again and to wait 72 hours again.
9/19/2010 - some text messages from this day did not come through until afternoon of 9/20/20109/22/2010. My son-in-law stood outside in the rain and called Customer Service because he could not call from inside the house. They bumped him up to tier 2 and he talked to them. They said that they would send a tech out to check some things out but to give them 72 hours again. 9/24/2010, called my son-in-law at work and told him the problem was fixed. He replied that was funny because his wife had just been dropped when she was trying to talk to her mother that morning. They said they would keep looking to find the problem. 9/28/2010, things did get a little better.
One call to my daughter lasted 10 minutes before dropping me. Then it went the other way again and it was 1 or 2 minutes before being dropped. I called and talked to a Customer Service lady and asked her right away for her supervisor. She put me on hold for a short time and finally got a supervisor. That supervisor checked and said that they had done all they could do and there wasn't anything else that could be done. I argued with her that this was unacceptable that we would have to put up with these dropped calls and her comment was we can't do anything else, we have done all we can do.
I asked to talk to her supervisor and she said she couldn't leave me on hold that long. I told her, I didn't care I wanted to talk to her supervisor. She left me on hold for over half an hour, checking to see if I was still there from time to time. I finally got another lady and she was nice but when she put me on hold to call Tech support she disconnected me. I assumed it was on purpose because she didn't call me back. 9/28/2010, my son-in-law called from work and told them he wanted it fixed.
He also told them the rude and nasty way that I had been treated that morning. They let him talk to tech support and they told him that it wasn't fixed and that if it had not been fixed by Friday (72 hours again) that they would send them WiFi phones. He has a Nextel that he uses for work and he has no problem with dropped calls in his house with it. He told them that too. They have 5 phones in that house and all but the Nextel drops calls after only a few minutes. It is hard talking to someone when the call is being dropped several times during the conversation.
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2010
The problem with this type of emails (T-Mobile billing statements) is that when you no longer have the T-Mobile account due to porting number to another company, AT&T, you cannot view the bill! I recently had this scenario, waiting for the final bill which did not come. Next thing I know I am getting a call from T-Mobile to tell me I am delinquent and did I want to pay the bill now for $96.38. This was on Tuesday, September 21, 2010. I said no, I certainly did not without seeing the bill and why it was so much higher than normal. I was told to go into a T-Mobile center and they would give me a print out of the bill and that I needed to do it soon as I would be turned over to collections.
I went into a T-Mobile center at Valley River Mall in Eugene, OR on 9/21/10 at 19:36:10 and was told they could not print the bill for me as it took too much paper (6 pages), but they could pull it up on the monitor and go over it with me. This is what I did, and paid the bill right then. At no time was it mentioned that the final bill was now $106.40, and would keep going on forever! All that viewed this account should have seen that I was no longer with T-Mobile and made sure there were no hanging charges. Now I get a bill to say I still owe! The call to customer service on 9/27/10 at 5:15 pm was another lesson in frustration and ineptitude. This is absolutely intolerable. I will never consider staying/returning to T-Mobile again. As soon as my contract is up for the T-Mobile Home (January 21, 2011), I will be canceling my mother-in-law’s cell phone account and the home phone and move all to another company. I certainly have learned a lesson, and they have lost a customer.
Reviewed Sept. 27, 2010
I’ve been with T-Mobile since ‘07 and been wondering why I stood with this company this long. All I do is got over charged and I got the attitude from customer service. Whatever happened to courtesy? After four years, my phone got disconnected over 11 bucks. Are you kidding me? And all customer service says, “Oh, well, guess you gotta wait till you get paid.” What type of ** is that coming from a phone company that states they are the best. Where? After my contract is over, I won’t be back. I had it up to here wasting my money on this service. To top it all, these customer service reps always tell you a different story like if they wasn’t trainees the same way and tell you, “Sorry, you been informed.” Funny, how I’ve been informed by the last customer service rep you work with and they can’t do nothing about anything but they are fast to disconnect your phone. Not cool.
Reviewed Sept. 25, 2010
Well this year T-Mobile’s reception and customer services is not good at all and thinking of switching over because customer service has had me hold for 53 minutes and kept repeating the same line over and over sorry for our inconvenience. Am like are you seriously it’s like T-Mobile don't care but when it comes getting the money.
Reviewed Sept. 24, 2010
I broke my phone and paid for insurance on it; they sent me the wrong phone 3 times, and fought with us until we finally got the right sidekick lx 2009 carbon. When finally, it was sent to me, they didn't give me the back or battery for this phone, so this would be the 4th day in a row we're on the phone with them taking an hour out of each day.
Then they sent the back for the phone and told us that they were going to have the battery one day later. I waited for my UPS truck to come and of course there's no battery, so I had to call back again.
I then talked with the insurance person and told them not to guarantee anything they couldn't come through with, and he told me that he was not responsible for another employee's mistake. So I then asked for the name of the other employee who guaranteed the battery in by Thursday 9/24/10 and he refused to give me either her name and his name. I asked when they would send it in and they then told me I had to wait until Wednesday, 9/29/10 and pretty much told me I was out of luck. I asked if they could send it in earlier because of the inconvenience they caused and they proceeded to tell me no. So now, I pay for insurance every month, and I've been without my phone for a little less than a month now. It makes me wonder why I'm paying for such terrible customer support. I'm honestly close to paying the 600 dollars to cancel my 3 phones, because in the long run, that would probably end up saving me more money.
Reviewed Sept. 24, 2010
I purchased a contact with T-Mobil in late June. Before I purchased I inquired about the service in my area and outside coverage and I was told that the coverage was great. I would have no problems. Since I received the phones, I have had no coverage. I called within the second week because I was waiting for the phones to arrive by mail. Once they go here, I was set up. Phones were not working properly, kept on calling, and they said that I would have to purchase a router for my home because sometimes it's hard to get service in homes. When I travel outside of my home, I get nothing, no coverage. I only get it when I am about 15 to 20 miles south of my home. If I travel more north, I get nothing.
They said that they had to send out a tech and find out what the problem is because I should have service and they don't understand why. I have been on the phone back and forth with them. I spent over three hours so that they could figure out what the problem was. I said to the women that I want to just cancel my contact and they said for me to wait, see what the tech said that would be checking the area for coverage. I never heard back from them. When I called again, it was the same thing, same excuse. I have three kids and one with a disability.
My husband is in the military and I need to be able to keep in touch with him. I am alone with my kids a lot and I need a reliable service for them and for me. They said that they would be happy to help me by paying $500 per phone and they would offer me a $75 return on them. I would like to just get out of this contract so that I may pursue another company that could give me what I need.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2010
In January 2010, I lost service on my cell phone and contacted T-Mobile regarding the issue. When I attempted to make a cell call, I continually got the message "Call Failed" and the call would not go through. I contacted customer service and was told to reset the network on my phone using the Network settings option. The issued continued and I called again. I was then told to reset the network each time I wanted to make a call or visit a retail outlet.
The retail outlet convinced me to get a new phone free of charge, which I did. The new phone had the same problem so I took it back and got a replacement that also did not work. Six months had lapsed without cell phone capability to make calls. In frustration I cancelled the plan. I am now being billed for a cancellation fee of $200 for cancelling the plan early. I was told that when I got the new phone I also entered a new contract.
I called customer service again on 09/22/10 to determine how I could appeal the discontinuation fee. After going through my dilemma with their service, I was told that there was no way to avoid the discontinuation fee. In further talking to the rep, there were no notes in their system regarding my non-service issues except for my first call in January. I asked what would be documented from the current call and was told that the documentation in the system was that I was given a explanation of my responsibility for the discontinuation fee. I asked why there was nothing about the issues that I had just expounded upon again, for the fourth time, and was told that there are documentation standards that are followed that did not include documenting the nature of my call.
I have paid in excess of $230 for the service that did not work between January, when first reported, and August when I cancelled the plan. T Mobile will not consider a refund of those payments nor will they consider waiving the discontinuation fee for terming the plan that did not work. I was further informed that if payment of the discontinuation fee was not received in 10 days, the account would go into collections. I would appreciate any assistance with getting the discontinuation fee waived or getting the service fees I have paid since February for the non-working service returned to me and an avoidance of collection activities. I have informed T-Mobile that I have no intention of paying the discontinuation fee and that was documented in their system.
Reviewed Sept. 21, 2010
On September 10, 2010, I entered the store to pay my phone bills. I have 3 lines and 2 separate accounts. The payment machine was down, so I was about to leave, but I was approached by a T-Mobile rep named Brian. We stood at the first kiosk and went over some of the products and services he was offering (hook ups). I said I just wanted to pay my bill because my phone was off. I told him my full name, and he pulled my info on the computer. I then gave him $100 for the first bill and $215 for the second.
He printed my receipt and I left. As I got in the car and started driving, I checked and my phone was back on. About 5 days later, I received a call from T-Mobile Customer Care saying my payment had been returned. The checking account did not exist. Since Oct 2008, I have always paid my bill in cash at the payment machine or at a different location. Their receipts all look different. This Brian, whom had on T-Mobile attire and was behind the counter but the store says he does not work there, took my $315 and called in a dummy payment.
Customer Care filed a fraud report, waived the return check charges, but still cut the phones off. I and my wife called repeatedly for hours, when then a customer care rep cut them back on. She called the store and the manager said to bring in the receipt and she will credit the account. I took the receipt in and because it was not a T-Mobile receipt (real), the rep told me they will start an investigation but in order to turn my phones back on I will have to double pay the phone bills.
Went to the store again the next day, talked to the manager and some employees, and they are aware of the scam but they said it is not in the store but in the parking lot. Mine happened in the store. So I went to the police and they also confirmed knowledge of the scam. They said it is more than 1 person, and it has been going on at that location for over a year, and that the perpetrator has threatened the manager and staff.
After being hung up on, and bounced from dept to dept with customer care, which is T-Mobile's 800 number, and going to the store several times, my phones were shut off again after being on for 1 day. They cut them back on after grueling conversations with T-Mobile staff, but will be shut back off on the 23rd because the bill is due for twice the regular amount. Even if this happened in a parking lot, abandoned building, where ever, this person misrepresented your company and I am sure it is not hurting your company to credit the several people's bill for the 1 time because i am sure it won't happen again. But instead, T-Mobile is shutting off phones, charging the bill again and not resolving the situation. And there is no reason this guy should be able to perform this scam at the same location for over a year without being caught unless somebody in the store is in on it. It is not fair for customers to have to eat the cost on this, especially when many people cannot even afford to.
Updated review: Sept. 29, 2015
T-Mobile responded to my complaint and made good on a refund. I was very satisfied.
Original Review: Sept. 19, 2010
I went on a road trip vacation with my family for sixteen days. For a little over two days, I was in Vancouver, CA. I have a roaming data plan with T-Mobile and they have charged me more than $1800 in roaming charges for the two days in Vancouver, though nowhere did I agree to such charges. I have expressed to them that a roaming charge of some sort might be reasonable, but $1800 isn't. I have an automatic prepay plan, and they yanked $2300 out of my bank account.
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2010
My cell phone contract was up on September 17, 2010. I called T-Mobile to make sure that my service stopped on that day. As of today, 9/18/10, my service was still in effect. I called today and was told that if I didn't have another cell phone company, my service would still be in effect until/unless I get a new cell phone company. I don't see how this would apply to T-Mobile since all I wanted them to do was to terminate my plan with them! Now they are going to bill me for an additional day because they didn't cancel the plan yesterday, but today, after I made a second call. Why couldn't they have just cancelled the plan when I made the first call? The number that I had I also had when I was with Sprint so it's not like it's their number. Just cancel the plan.
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2010
In June 2009, I called T-Mobile because my husband and I were going to purchase iPhones but T-Mobile does not service them. When I called, I was informed that my contract was 14 days away from expiring. I asked the gentleman if there was anyway to waive the early termination fee of $200 since I was so close to my contract being over and due to the fact they did not provide a phone with capabilities comparable to the iPhone. He stated that he hated to lose me as a customer since I had been one for so long, but agreed to waive the $200 fee.
After ending the conversation, I signed up with AT&T with an iPhone and figured that I was done with T-Mobile. Unbeknownst to me, that charming gentleman failed to waive that fee on my account. I was not notified of this (maybe due to the fact that I moved) until I received a letter in July of 2010 from a collection agency stating that I owed them $200 from T-Mobile.
I called T-Mobile and spoke with someone in customer service that stated, yes she did see where it should have been waived and that she would handle it. Then, I received a second notice. When I called back, apparently, the new rep I spoke with said that the woman did not forward it to the correct person with authorization to waive the fee. He said that he would take care of it.
I then, a couple of weeks later, received a call from a mediation department and spoke with a very rude woman who I debated back and forth with--that I should not be charged this fee and that their mistake ended up on my credit report (this is happening while my husband and I are trying to buy a house). She tells me that the representative that day told me that he would prorate my early termination fee due to my contract ending in 14 days. I stated no, that is not what he said, I should not owe anything.
Now, I have a collection on my credit report for $200. I recently called T-Mobile back and apparently, the amount due has been reduced (credited by some unknown person) and now I owe $33. The rep I spoke with said that he has no knowledge of a mediation department and that I need to speak with collection agency to get information. The collection agency says that all they can do is collect money and show a paid debt.
This week, the underwriter turned down our loan due to a recent collection from T-Mobile. T-Mobile has caused us to lose our house and now, my family of five have nowhere to live. We are scrambling to find a rental house or apartment. I will be attempting to call their corporate office but I don't know if I will be successful. Every time I call them, their stories, policies, information--they can access all changes, so why would corporate be any different? Please post this so others are not gauged by unlawful and deceitful business practices.
Reviewed Sept. 17, 2010
I got a new android phone from them. There was no manual or anything with it. While trying to figure out what all the icons are on the homepage, I clicked on Telenav. This application opened but I closed it. I did not sign up for it. Then I noticed I was being charged almost $3 month for Telenav. Good thing I looked. It was taken off but prior to that I was told misleadingly that it was for "GPS". Had I not pressed, I would have thought it was an extra charge to use GPS on the phone. It is not. GPS comes with the data plan. Very sneaky and I bet they caught a lot of people this way. Keep a close eye on your bill people!
Reviewed Sept. 17, 2010
I recently bought a prepaid phone and put a $25 on it. It is worth 250 minutes @ $0.10 per minute. Within a few days, though I used only an hour or so of talk time, my minutes were used up. T-mobile provides no phone records online. You have no idea where the minutes and dollars went. This is a huge issue. There are complaints from many T-mobile prepaid users and billions of dollars are being ripped off from consumers. Please provide an attorney and help me. I want my money back for this phone. I got it from Target and my $25 is hard-earned money. Thanks!
Reviewed Sept. 15, 2010
I signed up a contract with T-Mobile more than a year ago with the data plan since it was mandatory to buy that handset. It was a Samsung Behold. Little less than a year from the date I bought, I had problems with my touch screen, which got replaced with another instrument. Six months from then, I had the same problem for the last 3 weeks. I called the customer care and they wanted me to take it to any T-Mobile retail store to check with the representative. I took it to a store and was told that I need to replace my hand set. I spent almost 2 hours on the phone, explaining to customer service the problem. I took an extended warranty when I signed up for new account.
I explained this to them and they were convinced to send me a replacement. T-Mobile told me that they are going to send me Motorola Cliq with keypad feature since I am having problems with touch screen. When I open the pack, the instrument had no keypad but only touch screen. The second problem was the microphone was not working. People were not able to hear me at all. Third problem is that my internet was not working anymore. I went to the store again to discuss this issue and they agreed that T-Mobile sent me a defective piece.
Most aggravating situation was that they are asking me to pay $30 more for the data plan on top of my existing data plan. Their justification was the new instrument dies not support my old data plan. $30.00 a month is way too much for me at this time and I never asked for any fancy phones. All I requested was to give me some instrument which is similar to Samsung Behold where I can access internet and do some good stuffs. I am already hurting financially. Also, they messed up with my bill twice in the last few months.
They charged me for extra messaging where I signed up for unlimited messaging service. Anyways, going back to the topic. I spent another 2 hours and finally a rep told me that they are going to send me a Nokia or Samsung phone which requires $5 extra a month on data plan, but they wanted me to check back with them this morning. As said, I called T-Mobile again this morning and was talking to this gentleman who said he was the supervisor and there is no one else above him where I can take the complaint to.
Also, he said I will not be having data plan in my service anymore. He also mentioned I don't need to have a data plan. First of all, how can they tell customers to not to have something that they are already paying for? I told him I needed the data plan, which is what I was using all these days with a replacement phone. He denied offering me any help as he said the only option for me is to have a Motorola hand set with no data plans in it or else I have to pay $30.00. The worst factor was the way he was talking to me; it was so intimidating as at the end of the call he refused to give any phone numbers of superiors.
Also, he was intimidating by saying that the next step for me to take up this issue is to go through a lawyer. I cannot understand how and where in the world they can offer such a bad customer service to a loyal customer. I am really dissatisfied with the service and looking for some help to resolve this issue.
One more point to mention, I am having a loaner phone now and they promised to give me credit back, which is in jeopardy now since that person I talked to this morning said I might not get the money back since they delivered a hand set to me already. How can I use a cell phone where the microphone does not work? I am totally in a bad shape now with them. I wasted so much time spending my time explaining the issues to few different people. I had to leave work for 2 hours to fix the issue, which was never resolved. Also, I am missing all my calls from India and my family. It is way too much of mental tension to me and the way the supervisor acted was really intimidating. I am paying money. I’m not sure if it is bad to ask for the service I deserve.
Reviewed Sept. 14, 2010
On August 8, 2010, I traveled to Spain for a 15 day trip. I called T-Mobile’s customer service on 8/8/2010 at 3:33 pm to inquire about telephone usage abroad. I wanted to put international service on my phone because I am a responsible customer. The young lady with whom I spoke informed me that I would be charged $1.29 per minute, $0.35 per incoming text message and $15 per 10MB of data used. I was confused on what an MB would be, so I asked her: How much is one MB?
She went on to explain to me that 1 MB would be about 900 Facebook updates. I knew then that I would not use anywhere near that amount of data. She also told me to put my phone in airplane mode if I wanted to minimize my usage and receive voicemails, which I can check later. When I put my phone in airplane mode, it did not work at all.
I proceeded to call T-Mobile again on 8/14/2010 at 3:54 am. The gentlemen told me that airplane mode doesn't allow me to receive voicemail. He fixed my phone and I repeated the information that I received during my 8/8/2010 conversation and he agreed with the young lady. I then turned on my phone and it was able to work.
During my stay in Spain, I checked my account balance on the HSBC website 2 times, went on Facebook about 5 times and checked my email about 4 times. I never opened any attachments on my phone. My bill used an enormous amount of data.
I was completely misinformed by the T-Mobile staff and they gave me a completely inaccurate description of how much data is used based on the type of usage I told them that I do.
Today, I spoke with Corey (employee ID **); he was unable to remove any of the exorbitant charges on my phone. I am extremely disappointed with the level of service I received. T-Mobile was unable to pull phone records of the conversation I had proving that I received inaccurate information. Furthermore, they were unable to give me a clear and concise picture of the amount of data that is used while checking an email. Also, he stated that for having my phone on, I am charged data usage. This means that even if I don't go on my web browser, I am charged for having my phone on and that is outrageous! I think that T-Mobile definitely has to remove this charge from my bill because they couldn't provide me with accurate information and I wasn't able to make an informed decision.
I am more than happy to pay for my phone call usage and text message usage, which amounts to about $270. However, it is completely unfair and inappropriate of T-Mobile to charge me for usage that they clearly don't understand and that I don't understand either based on the information they gave. As a result, I have a pending bill of $1122.00. I am very concerned and hope that T-Mobile can resolve this issue as quickly as possible. Please help.
Reviewed Sept. 13, 2010
We cancelled our phone service in July. We are still being charged for a phone that we don't use. They said we didn't cancel it but we did. They are saying that although we haven't had service since July, we owe $573.80. I believe our bill should be no more than $305.97. I spent 2 hours on the phone with different people. I have excellent credit but am willing to have a bad mark on my credit because of the fraud. Also, I offered to pay the $305.97 if they would close my account, but she said no (Supervisor Coleen).
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2010
I signed on with T-Mobile several years ago. I have both a smart phone and data stick contract. Up until last January, I was very pleased with both. When I purchased the data stick from an authorized vendor in Syracuse, Utah, I was told that the data stick would work as long as I had phone coverage. Given the nature of my work, I travel a lot, and really liked the idea of always having internet coverage. What I wasn't told was that I would have coverage as long as I was in a T-Mobile area. Then I moved to Montana.
The nearest T-Mobile coverage area is some 3 hours away, stores are even further. Since last January, I have had the same conversation every month with T-Mobile, just like clockwork. I am being forced to pay for services that are not being rendered. I have been told that I would be reimbursed of the monies for the data stick coverage once they have received the proper documentation, i.e. a letter from my employer as well as a current utility bill. I have faxed the information on numerous occasions and still the problem remains.
Records show that I have not used the device clear back to last January. Still I'm being billed for it and every month told the same thing, "Send the information, and you will be credited." I faxed, mailed and made more calls than I can remember. Always the same thing until now. Now I am being told that my service will be terminated because of "extreme roaming" and any hopes of recovering the monies paid for services not being rendered will not be credited. They have finally received the proper documentation but will not act because they say the person that sent it in is not authorized to make changes to the account.
I sent the information they required, the letter from her as well as a utility bill. But since the letter was written by somebody other than myself, they assumed that she had sent the information. This has been nothing short of an exercise in futility and it being that, i have spoken to an attorney regarding contract law and have been told that small claims is the only route to take. For 9 months, this has been going on and I cannot get a phone number of someone I need to speak to so I can resolve this. I cannot even email the company directly. They continue with their platitudes and lies, and wonder why I get upset when I'm told the same thing I have been told time and time again. I have never dealt with a more incompetent and quite frankly devious company ever.
Reviewed Sept. 9, 2010
Over the course of two years, T-Mobile raised a price three times on different monthly charges which affected consumers in contract prior to the increase. The first I remember was an increase of 10 cents more for each over the limit minute fee. Last was a charge on a fee listed in service and taxes where T-Mobile clearly explained this is not a tax increase, but a fee they charge to recover some of their costs.
All three times was a nice colorful pamphlet explaining the increase and I was turned down by a customer service rep and a manager when I told them immediately I do not agree to the new pricing and explained the law that you can not expect someone to keep a contract with you when they originally signed with lower fees. If this was allowed, I could just see it now, my car's monthly lease could be raised every few months regardless of what I signed in contract. So after T-mobile pretended to state each time that I was wrong. I filed an online complaint with the FCC. After T-mobile responded to the FCC on my first two complaints that now they would terminate my contract, I figured I would be marked in their computer as the "Contract-know-it-all-who-always-wins".
For their third increase which was just two months ago, I figured they would cancel my contract before I went to the FCC after I told them in a way I was 2-0 with them on this same issue in the past and I understand the law. Nope, they denied me again, I filed my now third complaint with the FCC and I'm 3-0 without a contract again, still champion. This time when corporate office called me since they always do to respond to my FCC complaint, the female employee remembered me and my same complaint a few months back. What a nice reunion since I won again.
This leaves me to believe they train their associates to deny a consumers right with any contract complaint at first because they know the odds of having those that are unaware of this law and having inexperienced callers with this part of the law which makes it easy to turn down their confidence to even continue their complaint further, leaves people like me in the minority. They know the FCC either wants a company to respond to a consumer with, “I'm sorry, you're right,” or if they get lucky, a denied response if they, know no consumer laws are being broken. The FCC is not as strict in some ways with tallying the total amount of complaints like the BBB actually does so T-Mobile would rather take your bluff or complaint since the FCC forgives when everyone is happy.
In the end the BBB is not needed at this point and cover only particular complaints like the FCC but I would love for their info and interests to become one. So their complaints and consumer ranking show the truth. Both are great to have and I get a feeling of "Now my dad's gonna get ya" every time I contact them to protect our rights. T-mobile and all communication companies should be required to explain in the first sentence and same font size, “The following will allow you to terminate your contract if you do not agree to the changes within 30 days and continue to pay your bill without contacting us”, and then I want a little ~ symbol just with my initials to rub in in their face for how much they put me through.
Reviewed Sept. 9, 2010
I have been a T-mobile customer for our business account for about the last 8-9 years. I had a Blackberry phone and traveled internationally several times without any problems. I recently upgraded to a myTouch 3G phone and traveled to Croatia. During my visit, I accessed the internet like I did on previous visits and was charged $5,100 for 340 megabytes of download during my visit. I assumed that my phone features were the same as before with international access. However, that was not the case. T-Mobile is not willing to credit anything on my account. This practice is dishonest and the ambiguous language that is used for cell phone access is ridiculous. T-Mobile and other carriers should not be allowing access to the internet in these countries if the charges are so high. I suspect that the total costs of accessing the internet internationally is going to be around $6,000 for my trip.
Reviewed Sept. 8, 2010
On September 7th I call the customer billing service which billed me $458.22. I had just renewed my two year contract on the understanding my rate was $69.00 and my new phone would cost $100.00 spread over 4 payments. T-Mobile also markets renewal contract with the offer of $500.00 credit allowance. They misrepresent this credit as all they offer you are a line of credit which I did not need. There is a major loss of customer care and now way to get answers from supervisors, or via their the T-Mobile web site.
Reviewed Sept. 7, 2010
Beware of T-Mobile. Weigh your service provider options before signing a contract with this company. I have been a loyal customer to the T-Mobile brand for 10 years. The company first captured my value as a customer when I lived in Germany in which I was a loyal customer of Deutsche Telecom (T-Mobile is a subsidy of Deutsche Telecom). The value that I captured from Deutsche Telecom was satisfaction and a good customer relationship. Once I moved back to the U.S. I felt the brand was still worthy of capturing my value as a customer.
When I moved to an area where T-Mobile didn't have good service, I stood by the brand by getting T-Mobile at Home. This service allows you to make calls using a WiFi connection. I gladly paid the additional charge even though T-Mobile did not work with me to lower the cost of the service (that I had to use to stay with the brand). The additional T-Mobile at Home service more recently has been an additional charge on my tight budget, which was the cause of inflation and a decrease in pay just so I can keep my job. I eventually had to discontinue the service because I couldn't afford it. When my service was discontinued with T-Mobile, they charged me for three additional months of use and a $200 disconnection fee and a service fee of $140.
I was surprised when the service representative told me this because I thought there must of been an error on my bill. After talking with the representative, I asked to speak with a manager. He connected me to the manager's line and I waited five minutes or more just to be directed to a voicemail, which disconnected me before I could leave a message. T-Mobile was a brand that I would have stuck with for life, if I hadn't experienced financial difficulties, even though I would have paid less with other service providers.
As of today, I'm no longer a loyal customer to this brand, and as far as this company capturing future value from me, "that will never happen in this lifetime."For those of you thinking of considering T-Mobile as a service provider, look at what other phone service providers can offer you and if they cannot provide you with your service, then consider T-Mobile.
My monthly bill before I terminated my service was a little over a hundred dollars a month after my Boeing employee discount. My termination bill is over $600 dollars. As I told the representative, "I'll pay the bill, but you're losing a loyal customer and a customer who paid over $3,000 within the last year of service for your service."
Reviewed Sept. 7, 2010
I was on family plan with T-Mobile and switched carriers in June 2010. My daughter stayed on for 2 additional months until she switched in August. When I switched, my new carrier switched numbers over from T-Mobile. It should be obvious to T-Mobile that I was canceling. When my daughter switched carriers, her new carrier switched the number over as well. However, I just received a bill from T-Mobile. They are charging us $38.66 (regular $49.99) for 2 days of service. They said they are charging this because we did not call them to tell them my daughter was switching, even though it was obvious the number was no longer tied to T-Mobile.
During my telephone conversation with supervisor, Ben, he said he could not do anything because of the policy and we would have to pay this amount. Not being happy with answer, I read the back of the bill to see where I could lodge a complaint. T-Mobile says that if California customers have a complaint that we cannot resolve with them, we can write the California Public Utilities Commission or on their website. However, when I went go to that website, it specifically states that they do not handle complaints regarding cellular phone companies. Not only are they overcharging me, they are also misleading customers regarding where we can lodge further complaints.
Reviewed Sept. 6, 2010
I have been a T-Mobile customer for about two years now. Sometime in Aug. 2010, I went into T-Mobile store to pay my monthly bill where I was told that I have a credit of $350 on account. I asked the agent if he could tell me why. He says to me that the only thing he can see in my account is that there was a credit applied. I also asked the agent to see if I qualify for an upgrade in phone where he told me no, not a free upgrade. I left the store.
In Sept., I received my bill which was $350, $160 more than my original monthly bill. I immediately called T-Mobile where customer service said it was due to the upgraded phone I had, which i never received. I just asked the agent about where he stated I was not eligible. Well, customer service did not believe me. I asked to speak to supervisor which I did. She was very rude and told me just to pay the $350 because that's what I owed. I hung up on her because she was talking to me as if I was a five-year old child.
Next day, I went to T-Mobile store, explained to them what happened. They where on phone with customer service for two hours. Yes, I sat in store for two hours only to be told that I also did not pay my bill in July 2010 and that were some of credit went to, which is a lie because I did not even know about this credit until August when I tried to pay my bill and was told did not have to because of the credit. If I would have not paid my bill in July, my phone would've been turned off next day.
I am now switching cell phone company because I don't feel like I shouldn't have to pay for a mistake T-Mobile made. I paid my bill in July, tried to in August, never got an upgraded phone. So what am I suppose to pay $350 for? After I got off the phone with customer service, I was very upset crying. Couldn't believe that they would accuse me of having a upgraded phone when I was talking to them on phone I've had for two years. I was talked to as if I was a child. I wouldn't even want anybody to talk to my child in that type of way. Then I sat in T-Mobile store for two hours having to pay my children's babysitter overtime. I never got treated with any kind of respect or dignity.
Reviewed Sept. 6, 2010
When it does become semi-operational, I try resetting the calibration but it doesn't solve anything. Before I got this phone, I had other problems with other Tmobile phones, so I tried to switch companies but a $200 contract cancellation fee is required. Because I can't afford that, I decided to stay with Tmobile and try this current model phone. But of course once again, I am having problems with my Tmobile cell phone. How is it that no matter what model phone I have, I continue to have so many problems?
Reviewed Sept. 3, 2010
I purchased a $400.00 phone approx. 3 months ago. I have problems with the functions of the phone working correctly from the time I rec'd the phone. I initially went into the store for help. Then after that, since I continue to have the same issues with the phone, I called customer services, who tried to fix it over the phone. He was not able to correct the problem. So I was sent out another phone. This problem cont. with the phone. This is a touch screen phone, which sometimes the touch screen does not work, the screen goes black, so therefore I cannot use the phone. I am unable to look at mu e-mails because the screen will not move. I go to make a call and the phone dials someone else's number. I have to take the back off of the phone and remove the battery in order to turn the phone off because the screen is black and I cannot see anything.
I paid $400.00 for this phone that never worked correctly from the day I rec'd the phone. They have sent me a refurbished phone and want to send me out another refurbished phone. I will not accept a refurbished phone when I paid for a brand new phone. I have not been able to enjoy the luxury of all of the functions that I paid for. So therefore, I want a new phone not a refurbished phone. I have been with T-Mobile for over 4 yrs. I am paying for service every month and I want to be able to use this service as much as I want to, when I want to without issues.
Reviewed Sept. 2, 2010
I purchased a phone from this company in January of last year. I had to take the cellphone back to the company for repairs, they switched my cell phone with someone else's cell phone without my permission and I think that they defrauded me because I have someone else's data in my phone and I do not know who has my data in their phone. When they finally contacted me after I contacted The BBB to try to get the matter resolved but they still did not resolve the issue to an extent that was satisfactory to me after all of the stress that I have had to endure because of their fraudulent and nasty unprofessional way of handling customers and customer's complaints. I feel that I should be compensated at least $1500 and a new cell phone, not what they are trying to get me to settle for.
Reviewed Sept. 1, 2010
I ported my phone to another service provider on August 4th. T-Mobile is going to charge me for another month of service because I did not personally call in to formally cancel. This is ridiculous. 1.) A porting of the number should be an automatic cancellation. 2.) No service was provided during this month since, no minutes were used, and my T-Mobile cellphone was inoperable, too. This should be illegal. $67.23 for services not rendered and the amount would have been larger if I had not called on September 1st (26 days after porting).
Reviewed Aug. 30, 2010
I was about to cancel my service with T-mobile due to very bad service such as frequent dropped calls, no access to internet, etc. But then they offered nice free phones and they have the cheapest rates. I ordered two phones, but we didn't like them so I returned one and ordered the HTC HD2 for my husband. When it came, I loved it so I return my phone and ordered one for me along with the internet service which was required. The phone didn't come so I called to get a tracking number.
I was informed that not only did I not order the phone, the phones were not free. After a screaming match, they relented that my husband's phone was free but I would have to pay for mine and I had not ordered internet service which is required with the phone. Since I still had time on the buyer's remorse time, I canceled the contract and sent the phones back. I would rather pay more money, get good service and a real free phone. You get what you pay for. T-Mobile has ** and liars working for them and their service stinks.
Reviewed Aug. 27, 2010
My wife had called T-Mobile numerous times because they kept changing the due date for when they wanted payment. It so seemed that whenever I got paid my payment due was in between checks. She tried to fix this and they told her that she could not change the due date and lied stating that they did not change the due date themselves. From 2008 until a few months ago, the due date intermittently changed from the 19th to the 23rd to the 26th to the 27th and back to the 26th. Normally, it would not be a problem except when you think you need to pay your bill is not right because they would shut the phone off the day before and you have no opportunity to do anything.
Well, anyway, I am not the most intelligent man in the world, however, there were other problems too and it has begun to get aggravating. We changed the plan to make the amount go down so that there would be no problems in paying it and every time we have done that, the total taxes and fees have remained the same amount. One would think that if you paid an $80 bill that your taxes on it would be lower than that of a $100 bill. In the case of T-Mobile, you pay the same amount. It so seems that they must be upping the fees to balance it all out and you still pay the same amount. They have also in the course of changing my plan lied about the cost of a plan. I was lowered from 1800 minutes and unlimited text to 1500 minutes and unlimited text. The girl said I would save about $50. Well, the plan we were changed to did not include the text messaging in it and T-Mobile depleted my flex account to pay for texts, three of which were T-Mobile bill texts.
Well, they have circumvented the fact that they owe us $10 for that and because my wife threatened to call the BBB and to file a class action lawsuit, which was today, Shirley, the supervisor she was speaking to not only put her on hold but put her in cyberspace for over 40 minutes before my wife just hung up. Her phone is lost and I do not intend on getting her a new one because we have had enough. Voluntary suspension and waiting out the contract is the only way to get away from T-Mobile. Customer service stinks. It is all foreigners on the representative level that we have spoken to and you can't understand a darn thing they are saying.
The supervisor is understandable but does not want to deal with customer complaints. She is obviously not trained on how to handle people or their complaints. I cannot write everything here because there will be no room for others to complain. But here's the scoop people: T-Mobile is a ripoff to anyone and everyone of their customer service stinks and is left to be desired. You are better off getting some kind of local service or heck get a Magic Jack.
Reviewed Aug. 27, 2010
I have had cellular service with T-Mobile since 2008. I am on a family plan with my daughter in Virginia Beach. Since March 2010, I have been complaining about a problem with dropped calls, no signals, and the phone going into "Emergency calls only" mode. I have spoken with T-mobile on more than 20 occasions regarding this matter. I did relocate about an hour away in October 2009 from the original service area. I am disabled and live alone, and the phone and service are very critical to me.
T-Moblie has strung me along since March of this year and decided last Saturday, August 21, after telling me to go to the nearest T-Mobile Store and upgrade to WiFi to improve the service. I have to travel an hour and pay a $17.00 toll and gas to get to the nearest store, for them to tell me they are basically not going to do any thing if I don't pay extra money (that I don't have because I am on a fixed income) to get a more expensive phone with a data plan (that I cannot afford) to fix the problem.
I was also informed by them that I would be compensated back from March once the problem was fixed. Now, they are offering me one and a half month compensation. Please help me. I have not received the service I have paid for, and now, I am being told to kiss off, to put it nicely.
My son is in Afghanistan, and this is taking a toll on me and him, because he worries about me when we suddenly get disconnected and we can't get back to each other. The stress of dealing with this for such a long period of time is very stressful to me and my family. Paying on a monthly basis and not receiving the services I am paying for seems like a breach of contract.
Reviewed Aug. 27, 2010
I have had cellular service with T-Mobile since 2008. I am on a family plan with my daughter in Virginia Beach. Since March of 2010, I have been complaining about a problem with dropped calls, no signals and the phone going into "Emergency calls only" mode. I have spoken with T-Mobile on more than 20 occasions regarding this matter. I did relocate about an hour away in October of 2009 from the original service area. I am disabled and live alone and the phone and service is very critical to me.
T-Mobile has strung me along since March of this year, and decided last Saturday, August 21st, after telling me to go to the nearest T-Mobile Store and upgrade to wi-fi to improve the service. I have to travel an hour and pay a $17.00 toll and gas to get to the nearest store for them to tell me that they are basically not going to do anything if I don't pay extra money, that I don't have because I am on a fix income, to get a more expensive phone with a data plan that I cannot afford to fix the problem. I was informed by them that I was to be compensated back from March once the problem was fixed.
Now they are offering me one and a half month compensation. Please help me, I have not received the service which I have paid for and now I am being told to kiss-off to put it nicely.
My son is in Afghanistan and this is taking a toll on me and him because he worries about me when we suddenly get disconnected and we can't get back to each other. The stress of dealing with this for such a long period of time is very stressful on me and my family. The money being paid out on a monthly basis and not receiving the services that I am paying for seems like a breach of contract.
Reviewed Aug. 26, 2010
In December 2009, I changed from 10 years of service with AT&T mobile to T-Mobile. I purchased a G1 phone that did not work out of the box in the store; 4 phones and many hours of my time later, I was given a myTouch Slide phone. The new phone has been a nightmare. T-Mobile is well aware of the issues and has put out a software patch but many people are still experiencing the same problems as before. T-Mobile has replaced the myTouch Slide twice now even though they know it is not a hardware issue so replacing the phone will not fix the software problem.
Many people who have purchased the myTouch Slide are affected by poor performance issues and T-Mobile will not address the issues. I need a phone that works, I want credit for the service I have paid for and not received and I want T-Mobile to provide a stable phone that works! I have lost several customers because of either not receiving text messages or replying late to text messages that were either never delivered or were delivered very late. Additionally, I have spent over 30 documented hours working on these issues.
Reviewed Aug. 25, 2010
T-mobile saved my credit card information without my approval and 85 dollars were charged when the kids played. It took 4 calls to remove my credit card info from the T-mobile computer. The finance guy was rude. I had 31 dollars and after 5 days it became 3 dollars without much phone calls. When I called, they said these were for downloading games. Nothing was downloaded . We deleted all the games. Then they gave 13 dollar minutes. And they put a stop on downloading which I was not offered in the beginning. I was charged 85 dollars without my approval.
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2010
T Mobile Technical Support and Customer Service are incompetent. I have been a T Mobile subscriber for over three years. After my first phone quit working I purchased another, Samsung T239. I have had this phone since February 2010 and did not have a problem until Wednesday July 28 when I became unable to send or receive calls (calls would immediately drop). I contacted technical support on this date and after a lengthy conversation, I was told that I needed to go to a retail store and have the SIM card replaced.
On Thursday July 29, I visited a T-Mobile store in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After replacing the SIM card I was still unable to send or receive calls. I was told at the retail store that they would be unable to provide any further assistance and that I needed to again contact technical support. I returned home and again called technical support and was advised that I needed to wait 24 hours for the SIM card to activate. After another 24 hours this time on Friday, July 30, I again contacted technical support. After again another lengthy conversation, I was told that it was a tower issue and an engineer would be assigned to fix the problem.
On Monday August 2, I again contacted technical support as the problem was still not fixed. This time I was told that the problem was with my phone not their system. I was instructed to send my phone to a T-Mobile repair center in Georgia. I was told that my phone would be repaired or a replacement phone would be shipped and arrive within 7 business days.
On August 17, I called customer service to see why I hadn't received a phone yet. I was told that they did not show that they had received my phone (how convenient). I was told by the representative that he would initiate a research form to track down my phone. He assured me that I would receive a text message within 72 hours detailing the findings. After waiting another six days (August 23) I again contacted customer service and again after another lengthy conversation I was told that they had a backlog in researching lost phones and it would be another four days before they would have some sort of answer. I have been unable to use my phone (under warranty) for a month with no end in sight and the only help from customer service is sorry!
Reviewed Aug. 20, 2010
I was contacted today, August 19, 2010, by a T-Mobile representative. I was informed that my service would be cancelled as of Sept.13, 2010. I have had their service for a couple of years. The reasoning that they gave was that I was roaming too much! I was not suppose to have any roaming charges at all. The reason that they gave was that although it was not my fault that the phone was roaming all the time, they just could not afford to pay AT&T the cost for using their towers for me. I was totally stunned! They said that they would be cancelling a lot of peoples contracts because of this reason.
I have been told numerous times in the past when I had problems with my phone getting connection that it did not matter that I was showing to pick up through AT&T or Corr Wireless. They always stated that, that is how they do things. That they bounce off of other towers. I hope that you can help and I hope that the public will be made aware of this problem, before they find out like I did and end up with no service!
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2010
I signed up for T-Mobile service, signing a two year contract for service, in Dec of 2009. I had great service and added a second line in Feb of 2010. Today, 8/19/2010, I received a call from them stating they were going to turn off service to my line on 9/13/2010, stating all of my calls are out of the network area. My current plan includes 750 shared minutes between the two lines, unlimited internet usage for my line which costs $30 because my phone is a smart phone, and unlimited texting for both lines.
I pay approx $128.00 for the two lines. I hardly place or receive calls from either of my phones and never come close to the allotted 750 minutes. Internet usage on my line is at a bare minimum and I only access it for business when I am away from home. Now that they are going to shut my line off, I will have to pay the remainder of the 2 year contract, I will lose business because a lot of my customers get a hold of me by cellphone if I am not home and I need the capability to receive my emails and get online while I am away. I will also not be able to call my 10 year old daughter or text her to make sure she is okay, if I am not home or she has a problem or emergency at school. She has the second line phone on my plan. This is going to cost me approximately $400 per month by not having my cell service, plus the cost of the remaining months of my contract. I do not feel it is fair that T-Mobile has the right to cancel my service because my calls are out of their area.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2010
T-Mobile is clever. It hides in its terms and condition information pertaining to canceling your service. They are open in explaining that if you cancel before the end of the contract, you will be billed a $200.00 breach of contract fee. But what they fail to tell you and they expect you to read out of their book of terms and conditions is that if you complete your contract but cancel your service with no 30-day notice, you will be billed a full billing cycle. As for me, I was billed a full payment for 5-7 days of service. I just read and heard how a court found Wells Fargo's overdraft fees to be in the wrong and they forced them to pay them back to their members. I believe this would be the same kind of situation they are taking unearned money. Charging for services not provided is highway robbery.
Reviewed Aug. 18, 2010
T-mobile sent me a final bill of 77. 44 was call charges and 33 was early termination penalty. When I cancelled my contract the advisor never told me about the termination charge and have no idea about the call charges.
I have called them 5 times today and been on the phone for 3 hrs. Nobody is willing to help. Please help me with that. This is causing me a lot of stress as advisor I spoke to were very rude and arrogant.
Reviewed Aug. 18, 2010
Purchased vibrant because of the mobiketv. Unlimited minutes, text, internet, everything. Bought phone over the phone as upgrade for 2 more years service. 8/17 about 30 days after and having the phone received message data threshold reached. The customer service woman said if you watch 4 or 5 shows you can reach the the limit and they cut your data usage way down.
I had called because the phone will need send email and jet flicks will not work. Mobile will run 10 seconds after it loads for long period of time which runs the battery down but 10 seconds every few minutes makes show unwatchable. The phone is only usage for calls some text and very slow internet.
Do not have home phone or computer. Bought phone for entertainment points paying more for service and getting less than service than I had with last phone. No one told me I could not use phone. Unlimited, I thought meant unlimited.
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2010
I changed from T-Mobile to AT&T on July 18th and was still on T-Mobile for an extra 8 days into their billing cycle. They charged me for the whole month. Called customer support and they said they do not pro-rate charges and it's in their legal notice to charge for the whole cycle. That is a blatant rip off. No customers know about this and I was a loyal customer for years. I do not feel telecommunication companies have a right to charge you for services that you are no longer receiving. They are out to get as much money out of consumers as they possibly can. I was charged $100 for 8 days of T-Mobile phone service. I also have to pay for phone service with AT&T and consequently doubled my phone expenses.
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2010
I called T-Mobile in July to cancel contract because of shoddy coverage. What use is a phone that never works? The lady checked coverage map and stated we were in a low coverage area and would not be charged termination fees and they canceled the easy pay. No payment was taken out for July. August 12 2010, they took out $191.58, leaving me $1.47 in my account which means I could not pay my bills.
When I called and asked for a speedy refund, I was told I had not canceled my account. They would however refund my money. Five days later and after many phone calls in which I was told a different story every time, no record of what previous reps had told me but things I know we had not spoke of. I offended the rep I was speaking with by asking to talk to someone who did not have such a thick accent, so I could understand what they were saying but surely she had not said they can take money out anytime because they had my card information!
To make the long story short, I did not get my money back, went to the bank to dispute the charges and canceled my debit card. I called the BBB and am now refusing to pay them another dime!
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2010
My contract with TMobile expired in May 2010. However,a year into my contract, I began to have individuals access my account to make purchases. This continued for an entire year. I figured I'll stay with TMobile until my contract expires. Each billing cycle for a year, I had to dispute charges that were on my bill. I asked numerous times for TMobile to investigate who is making these purchases and to block my account for such activity. Even after my request, the purchases continued.
In May of 2010, my contract was up, less one phone of which the contract expires in February 2011. Unfortunately, I had to keep this phone with TMobile so as not to incur their penalty of $250.00. My plan was to be only $5.00/month. In June ,when I received my bill, I once again had charges of purchases being made on my account which I disputed. I asked TMobile to investigate and call me back when they had sorted out the problem. They never called me and when I did call, they made it seem like they were doing me favor to not charge me for the equipment that I never purchased. The month of August, I never received a bill and called TMobile to find out why. They then proceeded to tell me that I owed over $150.00. Of course that is impossible. They once again said that I purchased equipment and changed my address which is why I never got my bill.
Once again, I was on the phone with a representative for over an hour trying to sort this out. I had to repeat the story of my problems with TMobile all over again. I did not authorize any purchases and I did not change my address. They now want me to go to a TMobile store and show my ID to change back my address. How is it that TMobile is able to change my address without me being present and now when I want to sort things out they make me out to be the criminal? I want to get out of this contract with TMobile. I have spoken to representatives and their managers to no avail. No one at TMobile wants to take responsibility for this problem which stems at their company. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone with TMobile. Please help me get out of this contract with TMobile.
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2010
I canceled my account with T-Mobile on June 4th 2010; 2 days after a new 30 day charge period began. They immediately cut off my connection to their network and therefore I could not use my phone for the remainder of the month. Even though I did not have the ability to use their service, since they withdrew it from me, they now want to charge me for the full month (not pro-rate for the 2days used in the entire month as an honest company would do) for services not rendered.
Their policy is obviously in my opinion a greedy and dishonest one and have little concerned about integrity and the image of good character for their company. Even though I believe no court would force me to pay this unjust bill, it obviously would take more money to do justice and fight it than to bow to their coercive tactics, therefore I paid for the full month.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2010
I switched cell phone carriers due to the advertised special for the family plan so that I could add my 8-year-old daughter for minimal fees. I've been a customer with T-Mobile since the first part of April 2010. I've had to contact T-Mobile on numerous occasions to complain. My daughter receives many calls that are not for her. We were instructed to use the block feature on her phone, but that does not work and she continues to get calls from unknown callers. We've changed her number through T-Mobile twice. However, she still receives calls that aren't for her. Since she is 8, I have expressed my concern with T-Mobile that this is a safety concern. They have informed me that there is nothing they can do. We have opted for her not to carry her phone to avoid conversations with strangers. We have another line in which is currently suspended because of the frustration using the phone. My phone is still currently active and used daily.
I've had to contact T-Mobile numerous times because I do not get service within my home and I drop calls frequently. I've expressed that I use this phone for work and can't afford to have calls dropped 6-10 during a conversation. I also have had restraining orders in the past with my ex-husband and not having a phone that can be used is a safety concern for not only me but my family. They sent a technician out to my area on 8/6/10 and assured me that after that, the issue would be resolved. I was informed that if I still experienced issues that I could cancel my account. This technical representative was even on the phone trying to troubleshoot my problem when we lost connection. He returned my call and left a message laughing how ridiculous it was to have to deal with such service.
I've recently contacted T-Mobile again since it had exceeded the 72-hour window only to be caught back up into their Customer Service Department wanting to troubleshoot my problem, sell me an upgraded phone, and to be told that my "trial period" had ended which at no time was ever made known to me. The customer service representatives are often extremely rude and unprofessional on the phone. In one instance, I was put on hold for an exuberant amount of time after he became frustrated trying to resolve my daughter’s issue with unknown callers. My account was initially set-up incorrectly and had to be fixed, we've changed numbers twice, accidentally changed my number while making changes to the account which left me without a phone for 48 hours and I have a phone we can't use because of safety concerns.
I've only had the service for 4 months, have made numerous complaints of service and now they want to charge me with cancellation fees for a contract that I am paying for, but they aren't fulfilling. I simply want out of my contracts so that I can go back to my previous carrier! I have to have my phone for travel and work. I also need it so that I have access to everyone for purposes of my daughter. I can't continue to carry a cell phone that is inoperable 98% of the time.
I have extremely frustrated clients for work and my employer due to the amount of dropped calls and times of no service. My family members and friends are beyond frustrated and have resorted to text messaging only because of their inability to get in touch with me and keep a continuous call going. I am paying for 3 phones for a service that does not function well in my area. My daughter is 8 and needs to have a means of communication while visiting with her father, she is unable to carry her phone due to safety concerns I have of unknown callers to her number.
Reviewed Aug. 12, 2010
I have never been so insulted in my life. Please refer to my account, so I don't have to go into details again. After dealing with the "Night supervisor," I have had it with T-mobile. He treated me like I was "special, **." He kept saying to me, "How many times do I have to explain this to you, before you understand what I am telling you?" Then in a very condescending tone, "Are you alright? " Like I was on drugs or drunk. Worst case of customer service I have ever experienced. I deal with the public myself. I work at a library, if I ever treated anyone like that, I am sure there would have been very big consequences for me. I did not get his name, but he was the night supervisor for 08/11/2010. Rudest most disturbing person I have ever dealt with regarding a business issue. It makes me think that T-mobile is all about #1. Themselves.
Reviewed Aug. 11, 2010
There is a known problem with the T-Mobile HTC My Touch Android phone. The OS isn't compatible with the SD cards and when trying to execute functions (camera, ringtone) you get the message SD card error or no SD card. T-Mobile has sent me two replacement phones, and all 3 phones have had the identical problem. Instead of wasting money sending me replacement phones, why don't they correct the problem? Some web reviewers stated they corrected the problem by buying a class 6 SD card. I tried. Still didn't correct the problem. T Mobile customer service is very helpful, it's just a problem beyond customer service. Google: My Touch SD issues. Can't use the phone as intended. The camera and ringtones are important to me.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2010
I received spam texts that this company knew about that had information about my checking account ATM card. They did not inform any customers that this problem existed and resulted in me having to cancel my wifes card and get a new one. I asked for help in blocking these and they stated they could not do anything. I would like to get out of my contract and go to a carrier that can help. New atm card, and loss of use for my wife for over a week.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2010
I bought three HTC HD2 phones (by windows) in a T-mobile account ***. The device doesn't work at all and T-mobile refused to exchange the device for a different model. They exchange the phone for another the same that gives the same type of problems. No improvements whatsoever. The worst part of this situation is that we stay without a phone for 3-4 days delivery time for the exchange and there is no credit on the bill for the days without a phone. I need my phone to be changed for a different device with a good performance. I work on call so when my phone is not working I cant get my work assignments; therefore I can't work. Due to financial situation I don't have a home phone so I depend on the cell phone for all types of communication.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2010
After one year, my contract expired in 03/31/2010, the first week of April; I went to a local T-Mobile in Maricopa to return the cell phone and request to discontinue my cell phone service. The representative review my contract and advised me the one year service was over, I do not have to do nothing, he and I do not have to return the cell phone, he said the cell phone is mine thrown them away if I wish. Since T-Mobile is a big company with stores all over the United States, I believed the salesman.
Over one month, I received a bill from T-Mobile for the amount of $68.86. First two weeks, I think maybe mistake, then May 9 I received another bill for same amount $68.86, I contacted T-Mobile customer service at 1-800-, I spoke to a lady by the name either Sherrie or Cheryl who stated that local store does not have authority to allow the one year contract to be expired, I have to request customer service. I asked her why is not in my contract and why T-Mobile did not train the local store employees the proper information; she did not answer but stated she willing to take 50% off my bill she stated my final bill is $68.86 for me to pay $34.43 to closed my account with T-Mobile. I told her this is not fair as I have not use my cell phone since the first week of April as I thought the phone already terminated.
Although, again I believed in the employees at T-Mobile, I sent the payment of $ 34.43 in 06/14/2010 in which the statement from T-Mobile date 06-11-2010 amount due $34.43. In July 07/05/2010 I received an invoice from T-Mobile show amount due $70.86. I thought that maybe the promised to clear up my account not yet kick in. In August 5, I received another invoice claim that I owed $70.86 I call talk to the lady who confirmed that I have to pay T-Mobile $70.86 to will report me to all credit agency and sending to collection agency. The threatening gets my husband so upset and put him in pain.
My Husband is an 81 year old, a cancer and heart patient. I am still working to pay our bills, and I am worry such all date at work that T-Mobile or Collection Agency calling my home and get my husband upset. I did not renew my one year contract, I go out my way to save money, instead, T-Mobile continue to bill me the service that expired in 03/30/10. We have not missed a payment to them doing the one year contract, and we have not used the cell number since I requested to discontinue cell service the first time at local T-Mobile store. How I go about to end this problem. Please help me.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2010
I have the account with them for 6 years. They announce by TV, no more contracts. When I call them for any reason to make sure no contracts, I pay all times no discussion about it. But after the last 2 payments and an irrational charge of 45 cents per minute, I decided to change to another company on 6/29/10.
Now I recently received another bill for $519.98. In there is $200.00 for each line plus $99.00 for the account and plus $19.98 on the second line. I called them and they told me that even it was only one day of service, I have to pay the whole month, plus the active the contract because I bought a phone in March with a discount and that affects my contract and for that reason, they charge the $200.00 for each line.
They no have answer to my problem. Even if I told them that I pay them the monthly charge of $119.98, they override the $400.00. That I think is unfair and over charge. I can't believe that this is happening to me. I can't even sleep. I can't afford to pay them. It's discriminatory, what are they doing. What they said in the commercial is not true.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2010
I have the Nexus One phone I purchased my phone back in February. The problem I had was my ear jack not working and the phone freezing up. They trouble shoot it and it still did the same thing. I called back and we troubled shoot it again, still doing the same thing. Plus, know it keeps popping up that my Gmail is not responding. I purchased this phone brand new and it still looks brand new. I never dropped it and it doesn't have scratches or nothing.
They offered me a refurbished phone with a $539 deposit. I don't think that's fare when I purchased it brand new. I would like a different phone or I want to cancel my service and go some were else.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2010
I have complained for the two years that I was contracted with T-Mobile for about the lack of reception at my home. They do not even attempt to help. Customer service is lame and I am switching asap now that the contractual time period is over. Just want to let other victims know that T-Mobile is not what they attempt to be. A cellular phone company. Limited coverage and poor customer service.
Have a secure cell phone experience with another carrier like Verizon or AT&T!
Two years worth of monthly rates for non-coverage in my home at 37086. They just don't get it. Sucked me into another contract swearing it would work with their new towers and bam! No coverage. Very expensive lesson.
Reviewed Aug. 6, 2010
Go with the other carrier! T-mobile service is not satisfactory for the past year, and their customer service is disgraceful! I have been a loyal customer to t-mobile for over 5 years and before June 2009 had not one complaint or bad thing to say about t-mobile, boy did that change. In June of 2009 I made the mistake of locking myself in for another two years and upgrading to the Blackberry Curve 8900. Since then I have had to exchange this phone *four* times because of defects and issues with the phone (nice to know I spent $200 on a brand new phone to have a refurbished one in my hands a month later).
After being frustrated with having a faulty phone, or none at all because I'm waiting for a new one to come out, and the rude customer service reps I've had to deal with who like to jump to conclusions before hearing what you have to say just so that they don't have to help you - I simply requested after 5 1/2 years t-mobile release me from my contract and waive the termination fee so that I can go to a provider who cares about me as a customer and will provide me with a working phone that I won't have to waste hours with customer service to exchange every few months.
Well, I call customer service, get a woman who was polite but wanted to do anything but help me, transfers me to some clown who claims to be a floor supervisor, who had an attitude from the beginning of our conversation and went as far as to accuse me of trying to scam them because 2 weeks prior I requested a SIM unlock code (which by the way I am FULLY entitled to) because I was leaving the country on vacation for a week. I have always praised t-mobile and recommended them to others looking to make a change however I will never recommend them to anybody again. Their service is not not sufficient anymore and their customer service is horrendous.
Reviewed Aug. 6, 2010
I purchased a new Blackberry telephone a few months ago. There was some malfunction which led me to return the device. I was given a replacement and then on August 4, 2010, I experienced another problem with the Blackberry phone. I charged the phone and when I tried to turn on the device I receive an error message 523. I went to one of the retail location on Flatbush and Fulton. I spoke to a customer service representative and explained the problem. I was informed that I would need to speak with a technical support representative over the telephone. When I spoke to the representative, I was told that a replacement would be sent to me within 7 business days and that I would be able to have a loaner phone. However, the call was disconnected. I informed the representative of the issue and in turn the representative in-house re-dialed the number for the technical support department.
I spoke to a representative within the department by the name Dino which in turn gave me a credit of 5.00 dollars. I informed the representative of the previous conversation which was disconnected and informed him of the issue with the Blackberry. I was informed that I would be able to go to another location to get a loaner phone. However, no one in the original location or over telephone told me that there would be a $54.44 fee for the loaner phone. When I arrived at the other location, I spoke with the store manager Rhon who informed me that I would have to pay this fee in order to receive the loaner phone. I informed the manager that no one informed me of this fee for the loaner phone and I spoke with a representative in house and two representatives over the phone and no one informed me of this fee and I was left with out a phone for over 7 to 8 hours.
I followed up with the same department on August 5, 2010 to address this issue and have the matter investigated yet. I was not given any response as per why each representative of T-mobile gave me in accurate information and why I was informed to purchase a new phone during my visit with the Flatbush store or why I was not informed of policy and procedures of the company on loaner phones and fees. I was unable to receive an urgent message from a friend that was hospitalized on the same day.
Reviewed Aug. 5, 2010
I am unable to connect, the calls failed or dropped calls, with no internet access and I receive emails, texts and MMS 6 hours late or not at all. The reason behind is congestion. I’ve called several times to complain about reception and network issues but all they tell me to do is remove the battery. I'm an asset recovery agent and I need to be able to contact people and check the location of tracking devices from my blackberry.
Reviewed Aug. 4, 2010
I have multiple problems. I purchase two lines, two phones through Amazon with T-Mobile.
On May 12, 2010, I called T-Mobile because my phone was defective. In the call, they notified I had 23 minutes left from the 400 minute plan, and as a courtesy ,they would add 150 minutes for each line. At the end of the month, they were charging $37 extra for minutes over. The representative Corlie (ID# 1270786) stated their system had probably not updated on May 12 and I did not have 23 minutes left, and she could not verify when the bonus minutes took into effect. To summarize the story, Corlie stated I would receive $37 credit on June 2nd statement, because she could not verify when the free minutes took into effect. I never received the credit, and T-mobile supervisor says they have no notes on my account regarding this credit. I asked to verify if T-Mobile is accredited with the BBB and Kim, a representative (ID#0840127), stated that yes T-mobile was accredited.
After this, I had more problems with them receiving the defective phone. Representative Matt (ID#0840892) stated they have the defective phone in their possession as of August 3,2010 but they are still charging me restocking fee of $394.83 and I still have another year of contract. When I call, the reps say I am under investigation, as if to scare me because I asked about leaving the contract. They said $200 each line and then the rep said it would be lower later but no answer as to what the amount.
I purchased the defective phone through Amazon for $50 for 2 years. Once again, I asked if they are accredited with the BBB, and Matt stated he did not know what that was and then placed me on the line for a few minutes.When he came back, he said yes they were. I went to Colombia in June and I was told I could be charged .35 cents per text what they didn't tell me was that I would be charged for all incoming calls while I was away. I am now charged $38 for both phones for incoming calls while in Colombia, that I did not take. I have been making payments even though I have disputed these 3 charges. The past balance of $444.56 I have not payed for the cell phone that they have in their possession and are trying to add restocking fee as of July statement.
Throughout the multiple calls, I have been put on hold for more than 20 minutes, hanged up on, questions are evaded and they repeat the same sentence without answering my questions and I have had trouble getting transferred to a supervisor. When text messages come in or out, the same messages is sent more than once. Calls are cut off due to bad receptions. I have received complaints from family and friends that they have called and I did not show a missed call. Overall, I have been given misinformation from the representatives when I call, regarding their "whenever shared minutes" left on the phone. They also omitted information regarding roaming international minutes. And finally, $394.83 charge for restocking fee, of the defective phone that they already have in their possession. I was told once they receive the defective phone, I would not be charged restocking fee.
The most important issue I would like resolved is the defective cell phone which T-mobile stated I would not receive restocking fee once they had it in possession. Secondly, I was not informed of incoming calls which are charged regardless if you answer or not. I would have not have taken the phone and used the text messages in Colombia, if I would have been given the correct information. Third, I was told I had 23 minutes left on the account. It seems the representatives do not have up to date information on their system regarding minute usage and when free time bonus minutes start to apply. Therefore, I was charged extra. Representatives can tell the customer they will receive credit and omit this information on the account, and there is no credibility or way to verify this information in general. I would like to receive a credit, for these 3 issues and cancel the contract, for fear of future extra fee's that will be added and their supervisors do not take the time to investigate the fee's or problems arising from misinformation from the company. I would also like to know if the information given by the supervisors, that T-Mobile is accredited by the BBB, is a true statement.
$394.83 for defective phone, that would be accredited once they receive it. I paid $50 for this cell phone, not $394.83. $37 for credit that Corlie (ID#1270786) stated I would receive because I was still within my free bonus minutes. $14.95 roaming charges for one line, on calls made while I was away in Colombia; $23.92 for second line, for incoming calls not answered, while away in Colombia. Representative did not give me all the information regarding international usage, only information regarding the text messages. Total $470.70. The feeling of being threatened to the point I have to stay with T-Mobile because I'm afraid my credit score will be damaged. This issue has me worried and I honestly don't know where to go to or who to complain to.
Reviewed Aug. 4, 2010
T-mobile unlawfully charged me around $450 for restocking fees, which T-mobile customer service representatives assured me will not be charged as they did not send me the mailing slip on time. I returned their phone the day I received their slip, and during the whole time I kept customer service aware of the situation, and they informed me that the delay in the getting me the return slip has been noted on my account and that I not be charged a restocking fee.
This month, they went ahead and charged me around $450, and since I am enrolled in Easy Pay, they took it straight off of my account. Upon calling customer service, I had to argue and explain myself to them. If T-Mobile says that they have such good customer service, why would I have to explain myself for a mishap that they caused? According to T-Mobile, the amount has not been taken out of my account, but my bank differs on this. I had to take time out of my work schedule to file a dispute with the bank.
As of now, I am out of around $450, and T-Mobile representatives say that they cannot do anything about it. It goes to show what a third class service T-Mobile provides in a first world country like the US. I am extremely disappointed in how T-Mobile representatives have handled the issue. Once my contract expires, I will never ever again turn back to T-Mobile, and I hope other will see this and realize the poor service from T-Mobile. I am currently out of around $450, and have had to make several calls to my bank, and T-Mobile. Above all is the mental frustration this has caused me.
Reviewed Aug. 3, 2010
On June 9th, 2010, while still residing in Henderson, NV, I purchased a new phone from T-Mobile through their online store for the amount of $321.00, which includes charges for the new device, activation fee, and first month of service. I also made an additional payment of $108.00 on June 14th. When I moved to California on the 15th of June, I discovered that T-Mobile had a very poor coverage in my area, high frequency of dropped calls, and complete loss of signal for few minutes at a time. I have called T-Mobile and complained about the poor service I'm receiving and asked for a remedy. Despite all attempts I continued to receive poor and unreliable service.
On June 24th I switched my service to Verizon Wireless that had a much better coverage in my area. The Verizon Wireless agent informed me that I should be entitled to a refund from T-Mobile without a contract termination fee (buyer's remorse) because I only had the phone for 15 days. I have returned the phone to T-Mobile in a mint condition with original box, complete with all attachments using the prepaid shipping label they provided with the package. So far I did not receive any refund out of the $429 I prepaid. I called T-Mobile this morning and asked about a refund.
They informed me that I will still be charged an early termination fee of $198.90 even though I cancelled my contract before the 30 days because I did not call them prior to switching to another carrier, but they might issue me a credit for the unused portion of the monthly service, which is $108.00. Even with T-Mobile issuing a refund for $108, I will still suffer a loss of $321.00 for using their service for two weeks.
Reviewed Aug. 1, 2010
As T-Mobile customers for 8 years, my husband and I decided to upgrade our phones to the Samsung Memoir in February 2010. We changed our plan to a family plan and added a second line to our service. The camera was good on the Memoir, but the call quality itself was very weak and inferior. After speaking with T-Mobile customer service regarding the issue, they offered to send us Behold II phones as a replacement. When the phones arrived, we had issues with loosing contacts. The phones would say, "synchronizing, try again later" and render our contacts useless for hours at a time.
We contacted T-Mobile customer service and technical support regarding this issue on numerous occasions. They finally agreed to send us replacement phones and waive the shipping fees (so we were told, our current bill shows we were charged for shipping/handling). A local T-Mobile rep named Mark ** at the Saint Charles branch was in contact with T-Mobile tech support and attempted to explain the problem on our behalf. Once the new Behold II phones arrived, we immediately began having the same issue of contacts not being accessible. In addition the phones would power down automatically and drop calls. At this point we had invested quite a bit of money and time in these phones (and accessories) and were understandably frustrated!
We contacted T-Mobile customer service again and were told we would have to get the same phones through the manufacture's warranty (and pay shipping charges) or pay to upgrade to a new phone. My wife sent an email to T-Mobile corporate office and received a phone call from Jason **, T-Mobile Executive Customer Relations Department. When she explained to him the issues we were having with the phone and the lack of support with customer service, he became arrogant and condescending, and stated in so many words that the buck stopped with him and he wasn't willing to send us replacement phones at no cost or let us out of our contract (waive fees).
My wife explained the fact that for the last 8 years we have been loyal customers and never had a complaint until now. We expect to be treated fairly and have comparably-priced phones (as our original Memoirs) shipped to us at no expense. There is obviously a glitch in the Behold II, and we do not want to try a third set. He simply repeated his company jargon and had already made his mind up. He was not willing to attempt to rectify this situation. When my wife stated she would be forced to file complaints against T-Mobile, he responded with a very cavalier attitude that all the complaints would end up back with him and the outcome would be the same. When my wife asked for another Executive Customer Relations Representative to assist her because she felt there was a conflict of attitudes with him, he refused and said that she has to deal with him.
Funny how their "C" rating with the Better Business Bureau reflects that attitude. Maybe they need to revamp their websites' code of conduct which claims:
"We are passionate about our Customers' satisfaction. We are considerate of their valuable time and hard-earned money. We strive to find ways to improve customer service."
Jason **'s pompous, arrogant attitude is going to end up being a liability for T-Mobile. The company would be better served by hiring a team of Compassionate Professional Executive Customer Relation Reps that truly care about the direction of the company and the customers they service. After all, the customers are the reason they have jobs in the first place!
Reviewed July 29, 2010
Since May of 2010 my cell phone service has gone down hill. I don't get the reception I used to get. There are places that I don't get any reception and used to get some. Driving down the interstate, I get echoing on my phone and my my-faves icons won't stay customized. I have dropped calls and don't get some messages. I have been made to jump through thousands of hoops to complain, changed the SIM card, upgrade your phone. "Our responsibility is to have your service work outside of buildings." I have a few months of my contract left and they want to charge me to get out of my contract. I will not recommend T-mobile to anyone. I have missed some very important calls and have had no service where I babysit small children and need to have service.
Reviewed July 29, 2010
I agreed to get a new cell-phone through T-Mobile via a representative by phone. The agreement was that I can make payments of $50 a month until I paid it off since I've been a customer with them since 2006. The approximate charge for the phone was $200. Upon receiving my bill, I noted that the bill included the full charge of the phone $200 plus dollars and my normal monthly fees. I called into T-mobile to discuss the bill at that time I was told that the phone was billed to me in full and that there was notation on their records that I was eligible to make payments of $50 a month.
I explained to the representative the only reason that I agreed to the phone is because I was told that I would be able to make monthly payments and I could not afford to pay the phone in full. She informed me that there is nothing that she could do about it. I then told her well if I have to pay the phone in full, I would just send the phone back. She told me that was definitely an option and that I still had time to send the phone back. She then gave me the address of where to send the phone back and told me that I can use a carrier of my choice to send the phone back and once I send the phone back call them back with a tracking number.
I did just that. When I called to give the representative the tracking number, I was told that it was past the time allotted to send the phone back. I explained to that representative that I was told that I still had time to send the phone back. She then proceeded to tell me that she would set up a follow-up for the National Return Center to investigate what I was told and I would receive a call back on July 26, 2010 to let me know rather or not I would be credited the $200 back for the phone.
On July 26, 2010, I never received a call from anyone on July 28, 2010. I called to find out the status and was told that the charges will stand and no credit will be issued to me. I then asked to speak with a supervisor. I was told by the supervisor that there is nothing he could do and that I would have to pay for the phone. I told him I didn't feel that was accurate. I then asked them to disconnect my service with T-mobile effective immediately and he told me that he could not make it effective immediately but instead I would have to wait until Aug 1, 2010 to have the service disconnected. I told him that is unacceptable to me and I asked to speak to someone above him. He then told me that I could not speak to anyone else and said thank you for calling T-mobile and disconnected the line.
Reviewed July 28, 2010
I filed for two rebates, promised by T-Mobile for purchasing their phone. They referred me to InPhonic. In checking with InPhonic, I was told they had my two claims on file, one for $100 and one for $40. To date, I have received nothing. T-Mobile also needs to be reported, as they billed me after my 2-year contract was fulfilled on May 7, 2008 and paid in full. Now, a collection agency is harassing me for the $59 which I do not owe.
Reviewed July 25, 2010
I purchased two phones that are still under warranty and both phones are broken. One, the back keeps falling off and the other has a lot of static on it. I went to the store where I bought them to get my phones exchanged. I was told when I purchased them, that as long as I have the extended warranty, all I had to do was bring them back and they would be glad to replace them at no charge; hassle free. I first tried to get them to honor their word on July 23rd 2010. They would not honor their warranty yet there is no physical damage to the phones.
T-Mobile's technical support has already determined that they are manufacturer's problems and that I did what the store asked and contacted technical support. I went through all of their hoops to determine that the phones are defective. I was told that all I had to do was take them to a T-Mobile store and they would be happy to exchange them. I went to two different stores and they were anything but happy to exchange them.
It took an extremely angry call to a manager to get any resolve. Even then I was told that there may be a $100.00 charge if they find anything else wrong with the phone. I do not trust that there won't be something else wrong with it when I send them back. While I was in the store on Arlington in Riverside, California, there were six other people in the store that were just as angry as I was about T-Mobile.
I have been put into a position where I had to get extremely angry and potentially embarrassing situation inside of stores. I have been inconvenienced because my phones still don't work and I have had to run all over town trying to get decent customer service. I have lost time away from work, home and family trying to deal with this.
Reviewed July 22, 2010
The only complaint that I have of T-Mobile is that their reception is very bad. Like in stores, I don't get a lot of reception even though there is coverage. I see a lot of people walking and talking on the phone while I just go and exit buildings in order to receive reception. It sucks! I am mad about this!
Reviewed July 22, 2010
T-Mobile made illegitimate charges on my phone bill. They would not make any investigation nor any adjustments.
Reviewed July 21, 2010
We had huge monthly bill due to minute overage which I never did before. T-Mobile will send me text messages when a payment has been made, when my song is expiring, when new songs are out and yet, does not offer customers notification when approaching minute usage. Between customer service and the exec office (L.T.G.) the representatives spoke in circle allowing me to believe corrections/adjustments will be made only to hear from someone else, that nothing can be done, it is your fault; quick to blame and point fingers.
Customer Service does not listen; I advised them that I was at work, LT G. continued to talk and talked over me. I felt LT G. was unprofessional, for him to be from the executive office, he was not prepared, did not understand the situation, unprofessional, and refuses to let me talk to someone else. They refused to call me after my working hours; rather than build a customer relationship, he used trigger words including "you" statements and caused more frustrations.
LT G. was not able to provide me with different plan options and said that he would have to call me back the next day again, during my working hours. LT G. did call back the next day and again rather than work with his customer, he pointed fingers and blamed and stated that I was told when I increased my minutes that I could not go back to a lower plan, and the best he could do is change the plan for a $20 savings. It's a horrible experience and they have terrible customer service/treatment.
T-Mobile needs to stop sending their text messages to make money for sales or advertisements. They should protect the consumer and send text message when approaching the minute usage for the plan. T-Mobile needs to be able to provide callback options after 5 PM to avoid customers having to be on cell phones during working hours.
Reviewed July 19, 2010
I have been with T-Mobile since 2006. This time my old cell phone blew up; the battery cracked after I had been into the store 6 times complaining that the phone was getting hot. Then I spoke to a guy on the phone one Sunday morning, who left me feeling he had done me a favor since I was a week away from an upgrade and they could not locate a replacement battery.
I was set up with a new phone and I thought I would be able to pay it off in installments. When I spoke to 4 people on one phone call July 1, 2010, I was told by one lady to call back by the 21st of July and payment arrangements would be made. I would need to get a loaner from the nearest t-mobile store and mail this phone back for them to do it.
Today is July 19, 2010 and I have spoke to 6 different people. I was told 3 times I would be switched to financial care where I kept getting cut off. I feel I was lied to from the beginning so when I pay this last 2 year agreement off I will not be renewing my account. I will make the payments monthly as I always have. But I cannot give T-Mobile a good recommendation to anyone.
I should have known better. Now, I am stuck with a $300.00 bill of which I have to pay $175.00 for a phone. I have never in my life paid that much for a phone not even a dress or a pair of shoes. If I had known that I could not be put on an installment plan where the monthly payment would be less, I would have gone over to another carrier instead of stay with you people. I live on a fixed income. Now, I have to make a decision to let my medicine go and pay for this phone.
But I want to thank you for the lesson. Every old person should get one often to remind them never to trust anyone. So thank you very much for my lesson.
Reviewed July 17, 2010
On June 13th, I received a cell phone bill for $4,560.85 from T-Mobile. When I received this bill, I allowed my daughter to call (as me) because the phone was for my granddaughter. She handled anything that went wrong with the phone. Well, on May 19th, my daughter called T-Mobile because my granddaughter was going to Eastern Mediterranean for two weeks, and she wanted to know about international calling. My daughter spoke with the customer care representative.
He told her, “Don't use the Internet, and don't make any calls because it would be very costly.” He said she could text for 35 cents per text message and that would be cheaper. So, on the 21st, when my granddaughter was leaving, my daughter called again to make sure she was clear about texting international. The second customer care person told her to cut off her synchronization data and roaming data, but she will still be able to text for 35 cents outgoing and charged 20 cents per incoming text message. My granddaughter turned off all data, and on May 29th, she called her mom from the cruise line. She asked if she could call and find out why she could not send or receive text.
On the 29th, my daughter did what my granddaughter requested, and she called the customer care department. She talked to a female customer care representative. She told her that my granddaughter could not send or receive text messages. Then she said, “Let me check her data to see if everything was turned off right.” It was all okay, but she did not know why she could not text a message. After she went through the Internet work, she then told my daughter that she needed this free international roaming text on her phone, so she would be able to text.
My daughter asked if this would cause her to have a high phone bill, and she assured her that she would not. The only cost would be 35 cents per outgoing text. Also, she said she had unlimited text messaging, so she would not get charged for incoming text messages. The customer care representative then sent my granddaughter a text message from T-Mobile to see if it worked. The text read “Turn off your phone and cut back on. I am on the phone with your mom. Send a text to your mom.” After that, my granddaughter was able to send a text message to her mom.
When I received the bill, my daughter called and talk to six customer care representatives because the bill was not accurate. My granddaughter did not use the Internet. She knew that she was only allowed to send text messages. The charges started racking up the day my daughter called to fix the text messaging. They told me the charges were accurate, and I need to pay. My daughter disputed the charges. She asked to speak with a supervisor. A supervisor by the name of Heather was put on the phone and my daughter explained the situation.
She told her the same thing, that the charges are accurate. She was not trying to hear anything my daughter was saying, so my daughter asked to speak to her supervisor or to the complaints department, and she told my daughter, “No!” She asked if there was anything else she had to discuss other than the bill, and she said was hanging up. She did this while my daughter was still talking. The whole reason for my daughter calling was to make sure I did not get a high cell phone bill. I have been a faithful customer for four years. My daughter would not have allowed them to put any feature on the cell phone that would cause a high bill. It is T-Mobile's responsibility to educate a customer on everything. They should all be in one accord with information for the customers.
Reviewed July 14, 2010
I would like to express my experience with two of your stores. Recently, I had problems with my refurbished Blackberry 8700 curve. PIt appeared to be a track ball and keyboard problem. My first phone had a microphone short. The refurbished phone lasted a short time.
Service at T-Mobile had always been a good experience until I visited the store at I 45 and College, store # 8363 Houston, Texas. I had a very difficult time with an employee in training (Jessica) who informed me to go home and call customer service! How do I go home and call customer service on a phone that is not working? She said it was a warranty issue and I would get a phone in 3 to 4 days. The reason I stayed with T-Mobil until this time was because of consistent quality service. I carry a Blackberry because I have a business and employees and customers can contact me direct. I believe in customer service and it has rewarded me well. My old customers are 90% of my business. Without them, I would fail.
I decided to go through the chain of command because it was clear that this employee wanted me out of the store so she could make sales. I asked to the store manager who backed her employee confidently. Rola even gave me her dealer code of **. After several direct lies from Rola that the 8700 was an excellent phone with no track ball problems and that T-Mobile did not even have a new improved track pad, she seemed very happy with herself. I left the store heading for a new cell phone provider. Service with T-Mobile was now worthless to me
A friend, who was with me at that time, suggested that I try another store. He had worked in retail and could not believe the arrogance he was hearing. We stopped into I 45 and Almeda - Genoa and talked with a helpful employee named Bryan **. The customer service seemed to be his only concern. He introduced me to the store manager, Matt **, who was very helpful and I went out of the store with a loner phone.
Reviewed July 12, 2010
I was a customer of T-Mobile for three years, when suddenly, I was getting very poor service at my residence. I had just added a new person onto my account because I never had problems with them before. I called several times and was told to do different things, which I did. Finally, I asked them to check the tower in my area. They responded after checking the tower that indeed, it needed repair but it was not in their budget to fix it. I was told then that if I wanted to cancel my account I could with no fee because it was "not my fault".
I made sure that would be okay with the other person on my account, chose a new carrier, and then called back to cancel my account. When I did this I verified that I would not be charged an early termination fee. Later, I received a bill for about $600, for two early termination fees and the cost of a new phone which was supposed to be free. Magnanimously, they said they would cut this in half, even though I was rightfully charged the fees because there was "some coverage" in my area. It would only be possible for me not to be charged the fees if there was no coverage at all. Not only was I told I would not have to pay these early termination fees in the first place, but I would like to know what use a cellular service is if it only works a fraction of the time.
Reviewed July 8, 2010
I have had Tmobile service for over two years. I have never had to work so hard for something I am paying for. And still unable to use most of the time. Now the only way they will help me is if I sign another contract! Tmobile is the worst in costumer service and customer care.
Reviewed July 7, 2010
There are two cellular phones in my name. One is a two-year contract and the other is a flex pay that is not a contract. When I called to have the FleyPay put on the annual contract, I was told by one customer service representative that it will be $200.00. Then I decided to call back and spoke to another customer service person and she told me it will be $180.00. This is the type of information that you receive when you call T-Mobile. My Flex plan price a month is $64.00 for 1000 minutes and unlimited text and pictures and my monthly plan is unlimited Web, talk and text for $124.00. I had made payment on the FlexPay phone of $64.00 and asked to upgrade to unlimited talk and text and the customer service man said that it could be done.
When the following month came after that, I was told by another customer service lady that I was never on unlimited plan and I was on the 1000 minutes and unlimited text. I explained to her that if I thought that my plan was 1000 minutes I would not have let 300 minutes still be on my phone before the next billing cycle which is the 17th of every month. Thus, I would like to change my phone to another company, but at this time I am in a 2-year contract. I feel that T-Mobile is really taking advantage of the services that I was receiving and as different months go by and talking to different customer services persons that they do not care about their clients. They are rude and sometimes they will hang up the phone. The supervisors are no better to talk with. Thank you.
Reviewed July 6, 2010
Received call from T-Mobile rep. on July 29, 2010 at approx. 4:15 PM EST. While driving in an area with no cell calls allowed. Asked representative to return my call July 4 or 5th. To date, no return call. I was en route to airport and was driving. Initial issue not resolved. June 23 & 24, I tried to call home from Brussels, Belgium. Phone message 'emergency calls only.' Could not even make an emergency call. June 24, 6:00 PM from USA, I called T-mobile customer service. Was told to go back to Brussels and call T-Mobile from another phone to resolve problem. Then spoke with April who stated she understood problem, but was not sure how to fix it. I asked her three times to connect me with tech support. Spoke with Greg (tech support). He was professional and gave impression he had knowledge how to fix the problem. Call was dropped.
Called T-Mobile a third time. Spoke with Rick who reiterated I was to go back to Brussels and call from another phone. He refused to transfer call to tech support and stated no supervisor was available. Ability to call from Europe to USA was reason I chose T-Mobile, as an airline employee. Have been with company over three years. Phone was purchased in England over seven months ago. No problems until now. Did have same problem two phones ago in 2007, it was resolved in a very cooperative manner.
I am asking that T-Mobile honor their customer service agreement with me on this issue also, and also that I not be forced to speak with a T-Mobile representative while driving. I feel consideration should be given to me regarding my safety and time. Also verbal statement be honored on call backs. If not possible, may I please be released from my contract and early termination fees waved. It is imperative I have a phone that works when traveling to Europe four to five times a month. I need this for my job and personal contact with my family. Thank you for your time and assistance. Not able to contact anyone with traveling with certain countries of European community.
Reviewed July 6, 2010
I recently moved to get closer to work and took residence in a half basement apartment in a private home where I now receive no cell phone service signal. When I am in my apartment, my cell phone is completely dead and I am unable to make and receive calls. In order for me to make a call I must go outside my apartment and walk to the street!
I have called TMobile and spoke to their customer service reps as well as a supervisor named Ryan. All have been unable to help me and their solutions to the problem have been to purchase a WiFi internet device and service and then they can provide me cell phone service through my WiFi internet!? One of their customer service representatives asked me if I might consider moving? I pay almost $100.00 a month for cell phone service that I am not getting now when I am at home. I have a second job as a real estate salesperson and this requires me to be on the phone often during the evening hours. This problem has inconvenienced me greatly and I am infuriated at their lack of ability to provide me cell service in my apartment.
I have 8 months left on my contract and TMobile refuses to release me without charging me the $200.00 cancellation fee they charge their customers. I feel this is unfair because they are not able to provide me the service I am paying for and they are not living up to their end of the contract. The supervisor "Ryan" who I spoke with last on Saturday July 3, 2010 stated that they "cannot guarantee service in the home" but because I live in an area that shows good service they can not let me out of the contract without the termination fee! I can not believe how this is fair or good business. I have no cell phone service in my home and I am forced to go outside and walk around when I have to make calls and this is what I am paying for.
Again, their solutions have been completely unsatisfactory and have been nothing other than suggesting that I get WiFi, purchase wireless internet service and then buy one of their phones that work off of WiFi as if I do not spend enough money for my phone with them already! I have found out that the person who lived in this apartment before me had Verizon wireless cell service and had no problem so why can't TMobile provide the same? I have had a friend with Verizon come to my apartment and confirmed that Verizon does have cell service in my apartment. If other companies can offer service in my apartment then TMobile should as well which is why I feel they should not force me to honor the contract when they can not!
Can you please help me in anyway with this? All I ask is to be let go from TMobile without a cancellation fee because it is only fair! I am in need of your advocacy as TMobile has been completely uncooperative with this situation.
Reviewed July 2, 2010
Because of bad reception and dropped calls, I have switched from T Mobile to Sprint on 05/10/2010. My billing cycle with T Mobile was from the 10th to the 10th. Now I received a bill from T Mobile from 05/11/10 to 05/12/10 which was not prorated like all companies do, but they charged me the full month price for one day even though on 05/11/10, I was already with another carrier. When I called customer service, they explained to me that before I want to switch I have to give them 30 days notice. Do they have a right to do that?
Reviewed June 29, 2010
I replaced my cell in April of 2010 and have had a nightmare of a time since. I have had now seven (7) phones since and still no resolution to my missed calls, texts, can't access my voice mail, can't call out, can't text, etc. I have spent at least ten (10) times in T-Mobile stores, at UPS dropping off the return phones and Lord knows how many times on the phone with their customer service. I have well over 40-50 hours of my time trying to fix this issue and was told yesterday that I could get out of my contract but my children's line which are part of my bill had to stay.
Each phone they have sent is either the same one or a downgrade from my original. Their service is totally inconsistent and unreliable and they are not remotely providing a service they should that I have to continue to pay for or honor. How unreasonable is it for me to get a different provider and then lose mobile to mobile with my kids which causes me to pay more for something I did not do as well as all other costs associated with obtaining a new provider? I want to be released from the entire situation that I did not cause and they are not providing or living up to the service they agreed to provide to the consumer.
Reviewed June 28, 2010
We have had T-Mobile for over 10 years, and over the last 8 months, our service went from fine to nothing. I don't get text messages until 24 hours after they have been sent; I don't get calls. But all of a sudden, I got a "call missed" indicator on my T-mobile phone. What a lousy service! I started documenting these issues I have and what T mobile said about them.
Ironically, they blamed our phones, so we tried to upgrade. After a supervisor sent us to a local T-mobile store with all notes in our account for upgrades to another phone (their inexpensive model), the manager of the store told us they didn't have the model anymore. So I asked why it was still on display. He said they just didn't take it off yet. I didn't trust him. So I sent my daughter to the same store 2 hours later, and she asked for the same phone. And the manager brought it out. T-Mobile's manager lied to us. Don't trust them!
Reviewed June 27, 2010
We have had T-Mobile for several years. Recently, we cannot complete calls or send text. We get a "called failed" message immediately on both phones, even though we show 4 or 5 bars. Our daughter also has T-Mobile in a different city, and her phones will no longer work at our house when she visits. Customer support made us do all the normal take out battery, take out SIM card, etc., as if all the phones here suddenly went bad at once. As we expected, all their menu driven support did not resolve the problem. They said they would send someone out to our area to "check things out". They said we could drive about 7 miles away from our area and the phones should work fine. Wow, thank you very much! In the meantime, they will not adjust our bill for unavailable service days.
Reviewed June 25, 2010
In March of last year, I signed up for a T-mobile account. When I opened the account, I chose their flex-pay service which is basically monthly prepay with no contract. The service wasn't great to begin with, but got worse as time went by. Dropped calls, loss of signal for no reason right in the middle of calls, etc. I finally decided to switch to another cell phone company. I phoned T-mobile to disconnect my service and was told I'd have to pay an early termination fee because my contract was not up yet. I told them over and over again that I did not have a contract with them, I was a month to month customer. T-Mobile informed me there were two different kinds of accounts and when they signed me up, I got the other one with a contract. Not so. I wanted no contract.
Also, if you sign up with a contract, your phone is free. If you get a month to month without contract, you have to pay for the phone. I paid for my phone. I advised them not to bill my account but to send a paper bill. They absolutely refused to back off their stance that I had a contract. I've not signed a contract with them. I asked them to produce a signed contract. They don't have one. Flex-pay is a scam if you only want month to month. Either that or the employee who was putting in my info gets some kind of bonus or percentage for contracts and simply decided to help themselves to it. They want early termination fees that I do not owe them at around $200.00.
Reviewed June 25, 2010
My T-Mobile’s phone number is **. The account is over three years old. Originally, it was opened with employee discount for Delta Airlines employees. On June 23 and June 24, I tried to call home from Brussels, Belgium. Message on phone says, “Emergency calls only.” This is a new issue and can be verified from roaming charges paid each month for calls from Europe to USA. The average roaming charge is $50.00 to sometimes over $100.00 per month.
After my arrival home yesterday, June 24, 2010, at approximately 6:00 PM, I placed a call to T-Mobile Customer Service. (1) The representative told me to go back to Brussels and call T-Mobile in USA from another phone to resolve the problem. It could not be fixed in USA. (A) I spoke with a Supervisor, April, who informed me she understood, felt for me and she was not sure how the problem could be fixed. I had to ask April over three times to connect me to Tech Support.
Finally, the call was transferred to T-Mobile Technical Support. (2) I spoke with Greg, a T-Mobile Tech Support Employee. Greg was very professional and from the conversation, I felt assured he had the knowledge to fix the problem. However, the call was dropped. (3) I placed a third call in an attempt to be reconnected with Greg or another T-Mobile Tech Support Employee. I spoke with Customer Service representative Rick. It was reiterated by Rick, I was to go back to Brussels and call T-Mobile from another phone other than my T-Mobile cell. Rick refused to connect me with a T-Mobile Supervisor, as he stated none were available. Rick also would not transfer call to T-Mobile Tech Support.
At present, I feel very disappointed. Placing calls from Europe to USA was the reason I choice T-Mobile. This is a new problem. The phone I am using was purchased in England over seven months ago. I have not had this problem since 2007 and that was three phones ago. It was resolved in the past. If technology has changed and this problem cannot be resolved, I would like to be able to cancel my T-Mobile contract without any early termination fees. If that’s not the case, I would feel T-Mobile should assist me with having the phone service I was promised, have been using and paying for. Thank you for your time and assistance. If you contact me by phone and I do not pick up or return call immediately, please understand I could be in the airplane or in another country with no phone service.
Reviewed June 22, 2010
I've been with T-Mobile for the past 2yrs and in these 2yrs I've been thru numerous replacement units. They've changed my phone plan without notifying me and over charged me. When my former girlfriend got me a new plan, they signed me to another 2yr contract without notifying me again. I constantly have to call customer service to fix my bill or straighten out some other headache that T-Mobile has created. Last major incident, I was at work and I couldn't get a signal in the building I was working in and my son had been in a car accident and all I get from T-Mobile is I'm sorry. No more, please contact me. I lost wages due to the fact that T-Mobile hasn't told me the truth. My son was injured and I didn't hear about it till I got home.
Reviewed June 21, 2010
My husband and I recently signed a two-year contract with T-Mobile. We have been experiencing some pretty bad services, horrible service, for the majority of our service with them. I called several times to try and get this issue resolved. They have sent us new cell phones because they thought it was the phone that was causing us problems. They also sent engineers out to our areas to see if maybe there was something they could do. Our service is still the same. We both drop more calls than ever before and usually get an "SOS, X, or GSM" signal which doesn't allow us to be able to make or receive calls and text messages.
I called to try and resolve the issue once again and they were unwilling to let us out of our contract. They said that they would replace the SIM card, but that I would have to pay for it. They also asked that I continue to be patient while they work on their network. I asked how long that would take because we used our phones for business, and the manager stated he didn't know and that it could take a while. I then asked if we can just cancel our contract and have them waive the fee and he said there was no way to do this.
Reviewed June 18, 2010
On April 28th, I visited a T-Mobile kiosk stand in my local mall because, while on a trip to New York, I lost my cellphone. The sales associate, Gustavo, said he would do what he could to help me. I had 2 accounts with T-Mobile covering my cell phone number and a friend's cell phone number that I pay for. I spent nearly 2 hours with this sales associate Gustavo. What the result was that he told me I could get another phone and a free back-up phone if I signed an additional 2-year contract with T-Mobile. I agreed since I had not planned on canceling my service. The next day I received a large bill from T-Mobile and there were some charges that I disputed. In calling up customer service, the rep at T-Mobile stated that someone had gone into a store and opened up 2 new accounts and that she was reporting it to the fraud department. No one ever contacted me from fraud and I tried contacting them but was told I could not be put through to speak with them.
I went back to the kiosk and again told Gustavo what happened. I said that I never authorized 2 additional numbers to be added to my account and I wanted those 2 new numbers cancelled immediately. He said, "I'll take care of everything for you--don't worry about it.” He made a phone call (he said it was to T-Mobile customer care). He stated that everything was taken care of; he also was able to get a $25.00 charge removed from my bill. I thanked him, even paid my bill there and left the kiosk.
The next day (day 3) I called T-Mobile to find out why fraud never called me and after speaking to the customer service rep, she told me that I now had 4 phone numbers on my account instead of 2. I was now being billed for 2 additional numbers that I never authorized and these phone numbers were numbers I never had and did not recognize. The rep said the only way to cancel the 2 numbers was to return my equipment to the T-Mobile kiosk in the mall.
Once again, I went back and one of the other sales associates told me that they could not accept the extra equipment because the manager was not there and they did not know when the manager would be in, possibly the next day. I then went upstairs to the corporate sales office and the sales associate there told me that the kiosk salespeople were "idiots" but that they themselves could not help me because the kiosk people were independent contractors. By the way, they also told me that mine was the 3rd complaint of the day against the sales associates at the kiosk. It just became a terrible problem from that point on. I was so upset because I was being charged still for two new additional accounts. No one would accept the equipment. The sales associates at the kiosk, especially Gustavo, thought the whole episode was actually funny. Customer service at T-Mobile, when I got home and called again, refused to help me.
Reviewed June 16, 2010
Predicto charged $9.99/month on my bill phone (T-Mobile) and Weather Alerts charged $9.99/month on my bill phone (T-Mobile). T-Mobile, help me cancel two these plans. I want not to pay $19.98 on my bill for June.
Reviewed June 15, 2010
The flex pay system charged my credit card and didn't give me the services charged. I'm very upset. Long story short, I contacted customer service and got nowhere and it was my last little but of money I had to my name. The automated systems these days aren't good at all. It makes everything more difficult than what it is. If I had just gotten the customer service I deserved, I wouldn't be forced to complain like this.
Reviewed June 10, 2010
Once upon a time, this company was rated quite highly for customer care. I am finding this is not so much anymore and am very disappointed in the true care being provided by T-Mobile. I upgraded my account to a second line and chose the Sony-Ericson TM506 as the second phone. I have had several issues with this phone. They replaced it once and are now on the second phone to be replaced. The phone turns off randomly.
Initially, they replaced it quickly with no issues. This second go-round, they are making it more costly because the manufacturer will only pay for certain things. Why not suck it up and work with the customer versus the manufacturer? Customer service agents I talked to, agent 2 and 4 told me that there was not any known issue like mine. Agent 1 and 3 tell me there is. Going out to forums, it is clearly a known issue with users. Just because the manufacturer is not on top of it doesn't mean that the seller (T-Mobile) cannot be. They made me feel like they are intentionally telling a lie to make a profit.
Nowhere along the way through the last six months of this ridiculousness has the company offered to replace the phone with another brand at a reduced or fair fee. T-Mobile refuses to behave even remotely like a good retailer. They are hardly at par with Wal-Mart as far as taking care of the customer. Sears, Macy's and many other companies offer true concern for their customer and problem solving over and above the kind of response I have gotten to this point. It is unfortunate that this and other firms like it have yet to learn the lessons that others have, your customers must feel cared for and satisfied or your bottom line will feel it. Fortunately, I am not solely reliant on this phone or I would be less tolerant of the problem.
Reviewed June 8, 2010
I have Arizona cell number and summer in Montana where T-Mobile has no tower or number, so will roam as I have done since May 2004 with no hassle until now. Because I got an undated letter from Young America MN, P O box 2400, informing that roaming will no longer be allowed and my plan will be canceled in June 23, I ask how to get in touch with the loyalty department as a client since May 2004. This says roaming is part of the deal on this carrier: **. The letter says they will even unlock my phone to use on another carrier! I was told to write to a NM address about this ploy.
Reviewed June 7, 2010
I have been a T-Mobile for almost 10 years and I had never had a problem until now. It was my second time going to Peru and my first time carrying a smart phone with internet. I expected the roaming charges to be like the ones from my first trip to Peru. When I received my bill, I found a clear mistake. I called T-Mobile and asked them why I was being charged $1,336.20. The first three times I called, I was told that there was nothing they could do and all the charges were valid, even though I told them I didn’t use my phone that much.
The fourth person I talked to explained to me how internet usage was charged different than minute usage and that what probably happened was a result of apps that kept running on my phone. She arranged two payments of $100 each to be paid that day and the following Monday and transferred me to who she said was going to dispute the remaining charges. That is when I was told to call back with accurate information on what I used the internet for and based on that, the extra charges would be taken off. When I called to say I only used it to send a couple of emergency emails, they told me they couldn’t do anything and the charges were still valid. Based on the fact that I only sent two emails, I refuse to pay $1,336.20 worth of services.
I find a text message from T-Mobile telling me that I’m responsible for all roaming charges, is not enough warning to charge their customers $30 for an email depending on how many attachments the email has. I feel they have abused their power as a company in doing what they legally had to, to charge me an unthinkable amount of money. I am aware that there are many disputes over the same subject with T-Mobile from many other customers. I find really unfair to be charged so much money for minimal internet access. I also find very convenient for them to see I’m running an over $1,000 bill and just let it keep running without a phone call or text warning when that is more money than what I spend in a year with them.
Reviewed June 5, 2010
I have been having issues with the T-Mobile site for weeks. It will not display the bill or any other account information and I am being told it is my computer. However, I have tried on two other computers and have the same issue. The answer from them is that they see no issues, and that if there is an outage, then I will have to wait until it hits their system. That is crazy! I am sure I am not the only one with this issue. I do not get my bill in the mail any longer so I really want to see my bill.
Reviewed June 5, 2010
The run around and bad service I've been with the company for 7 years, I've placed an order and was sent the wrong item not to mention being told the wrong information from a number of techs. Cancellation based on customer service.
Reviewed June 4, 2010
The phones provided were poorly made and the cell service was even worse. When we complained, they offered to move us into an extended and high cost plan or sell us better phones at an added cost or indicated there was nothing more they could do. When we asked to cancel due to poor service, we were told to read the contract which basically says they are not responsible for poor service. When we threatened to just cancel, stop using the phone and stop paying, we were told they would turn us over to a collection agency.
Reviewed June 3, 2010
I have been a customer of T-Mobile for several years. I had insurance on my daughter's phone since I gave her a phone. And when she lost it or damaged it, I would call T-mobile and had it replaced with no problem. Last year, she lost her phone. I never reported it because she was given a new one as a gift. The problem is T-Mobile knew she had this phone because she registered it with T-Mobile so in case she lost it, they can replace it. I called T-mobile and told them she lost it and they connected me with Asurian, the insurance company that they deal with. Their address is P.O. Box Kansas City, MO 64141. The insurance Asurian said that even though it shows she has been using this phone, it is not covered because it was a gift to my daughter.
T-Mobile never had a problem having any phone I paid insurance for replaced. So now, I paid insurance for a phone they will not cover and they refuse to reimburse me for the insurance I have been paying for 2 years. Now, what is the purpose of T-Mobile charging me for two insurance policies on phones they will not cover. The money I spent on Insurance for two phones could have covered for two phones.
T-Mobile asked if I wanted insurance on these phones. In case they get lost or damaged, they will cover them. Now that I lost the phone, they are telling me that they will not replace it. Neither one of them want to return the insurance money back. Why promote insurance on a phone they will not cover? I paid over $200.00 on insurance to T-Mobile and I paid $130 for a phone and had to use upgrade privilege in order to get a phone replaced. This is not fair. I just paid for the insurance on my husband's phone only to find out that they will not cover that either. I want my money back.
Reviewed June 3, 2010
I bought a Fender phone from a T-Mobile store with an upgrade I had on my T-Mobile account on April 2, 2010. I paid $239.00. I've been a T-Mobile customer for 10 years. My first phone: camera and video didn't work after taking 2 photos because the phone doesn't recognize the SD card.
I sent that one back, and received another. The second phone has the same thing. I sent the second phone back and received another one. The third phone: same thing. I called Customer Service again. All they would offer is a lower grade Blackberry phone for exchange or send me another Fender Phone. From April 2, 2010 to now, I have had 3 Fender phones and none of them take photos--which is the main reason I upgraded, I wanted a camera phone.
I have spent countless hours on the customer service line troubleshooting the same problem in the same ways, and still no pictures or video. I have asked that American Express refund my $239 as I have the extended warranty with AmEx. I went to Costco to see if I could buy another phone. I can, but I am not able to use the upgrade as I used it with the Fender phone that doesn't work. So now, I would have to buy a phone for $400 - 600 full price.
I am so upset that I can't get a phone that works from T-Mobile. I hear the same thing over and over, and still I don't have a phone that fully works. I had my last phone for 7 years, a simple flip phone - and never a problem with the phone. I upgraded, paid more money, and I have a phone that doesn't fully work.
Reviewed June 3, 2010
T-Mobile does not care about their customers. T-Mobile customer service rather lose customers than provide their customers with good new phones when you first become a T-Mobile customer. All I got was two old used refurbished phones that don't work half of the time. I have been complaining and T-Mobile customer service has been giving me a hard time and still not solve my problem. I'm sure that other phone services care more about their customers keeping them happy giving them new phones just to keep them as customers but T-Mobile doesn't care about their customers. I guess I chose the wrong wireless service.
Reviewed June 3, 2010
Purchased a new My Touch Slide today. For me an upgrade from a G1 with an existing data plan. After coming home and repeatedly trying to set up my email account with no success, I called customer service. Long story short, the gentleman on the phone claimed the store made an error that he corrected and I would be good now. After a number of further unsuccessful attempts I called again. This time, the young lady insisted that we need to reboot as the system had somehow not recognized my phone. OK.
Now after several more attempts without success I call again. This time I am informed that it will take 48 hours for my new data plan to take effect and I cannot go back to using my G1 as they are different plans. When I insist I need my data plan and should have been informed of this issue to be able to adapt, I get only an apology and then a suggestion that I might try my G1 anyway as they will try to rollback the plan. When I ask what will become then of the My Touch, I am told that it might work but if not I can always try again.
Needless to say, I am upset that I was sold a communication device that I cannot use to communicate with for at least 48 hours with no courtesy of prior information of that fact. Now after being told 3 different stories by each representative, I have no idea what to believe or if my devices will work.Loss of communication with business contacts.
Reviewed May 30, 2010
T-mobile and Predicto have been charging me 703 dollars for things that I haven't asked for. I had two phone lines and one of the phone got lost. The same day I called and disconnected. Of course I thought they had done that but a month later I called my old phone number and it was ringing. It told me to leave a message.
Reviewed May 25, 2010
I called T-Mobile to make my phone international because I was going out of the country on vacation. I sign up for a text and picture message plan for 20 additional dollars to my bill. The T-Mobile rep told me that there may be roaming charges. I asked how much. He stated he did not know. I have Blackberry 9700. I use my Blackberry as a modem to get online with my laptop. T-Mobile has turned off my phone and has informed me that I have a 2,600.00 dollar bill for roaming charges for five days. They now inform me after the fact that they do not have a data plan and the rate for data is 15 dollars a megabyte.
I spoke to several T-Mobile reps and the only response I get is that they can set me up with a payment plan to get my phone cut back on. If I had known the rate data was 15.00 a megabyte, I would have never sign up for the international plan. I ask why they not cut the phone off when it got to 500.00 dollars, their response was they do not monitor international. I feel like been scammed. I have been with T-Mobile for two years and always pay my bill. Now for 5 days, I owe 2,600 dollars.
Reviewed May 25, 2010
On 04-23 10, I got an inactive sims and when I called, the representative said I was past due $255.98. I paid it and they turned my services on. I got my new bill and it said my family plan was canceled and they charged me $900 and someone cancelled my kid's unlimited text messages. I was charged two disconnection fees of $160. I made a payment $171.99 on 05-18-10. On 05-24-10 they disconnected my phones and asked for $477. I called and talked to a supervisor and two representatives and they will not give a payment arrangement. When I asked for a arrangement on 05-18-10, they said I had to wait. The computer would not allow one because my bill wasn't due yet. Usually, they give 30 days, now they want payments in full three days.
Reviewed May 20, 2010
My fiancé and I are sharing a 1000 minutes family plan for a T-Mobile. Last month (April 2010), we kept an eye on a minute used by checking against #646# until the last cycle day (on 20th of every month). We saw that we did not go over the 1000 minutes. However, when the bill came it showed that we overused about 24 minutes and charged by $10.80 (40 cent/min). When I called T-Mobile’s customer service to ask her about the discrepancy on using the feature #646# against the monthly billing, she kept repeating that we used over the limit of 1000. I requested to talk to the supervisor, but she (supervisor) did not want to talk to me. On top of this insult, on the bill we had been charged of voice mail access. I am very disappointed with the T-Mobile service. In the past, I thought T-Mobile is the reasonable wireless company to do the business with. I was wrong.
Reviewed May 18, 2010
Vacationing in New Port Richey for month of April 2010, and bought a pay as you go T-Mobile phone and a card at Target. The primary use for this phone was to call home to Canada. The home we rented did not have a land line. Used 2 phone cards too quickly, calling home, $35, and visited the store April 8th for expert assistance in finding a cheaper long distance calling method. Was sold a Flex Pay EvenmorePlus 500 for $47.68, and another Sim card for $20. Turns out initially when I was calling I was using up flex time and when this ran out realized I had a problem and returned to the store April 24th.
Manager Jay ** sent an email to "courtesy credit' as advised by FlexPau customer care and so far I have heard zip! I expect full remuneration. I was past the 10 day return policy due to misrepresentation by a T-Mobile salesman and no fault of my own. I have cancelled the phone on April 30th, as was my plan, and had hoped to reactivate when next visiting the USA. Hoping to hear from T-Mobile very soon. Thank you.
One month's use of a pay as you go T-Mobile phone cost me at least $150, possibly more, and I had to drive to a pay phone and buy a phone card, to call my children in Canada numerous times.
Reviewed May 15, 2010
Each time I speak with T-Mobile concerning an issue, they raise my bill. We have had T-Mobile for the last five years. They were our family choice because of the unlimited texting. I need some legal advice because we are being held hostage to our contract which changes at their will. I would be more than willing to sign any class action agreement against T-Mobile. They refuse to take responsibility for their action yet they want their customers to take all the cost and none of the service.
Reviewed May 7, 2010
I have been with T mobile for about three years, and I've always paid on time my bills by automatic payment. It was about $40-45 per month. Then One Month my bill jumped up $100, and I paid it. Then the next following month I'm getting a bill of over $250 that when I called them many times to find out why, I told them it is a mistake, but they continue to raise the total until the disconnected totally. I have a program called Pingo which much cheaper than their plan and every time I try to call on Pingo number, it was busy, and T mobile then takes over my International calls. That when I realized that I told them I'm not paying for these calls. Please help me get my line back to be active so employers can call me for an interview because I'm actively applying for many places. Please credit me with all international calls and also credit me the internet that I never used it but somehow was activated without my knowledge.
Reviewed May 5, 2010
A month ago, I purchased a My Touch phone from T-Mobile. From the moment I got it, I was in and out of the retail store and calling to get issues fixed. To make a long story short, after dealing with this for a month, I was told it was the SD card (that was sent out with the phone). I was also informed since it was the SD card, there was nothing they could do and that this is not covered by them even though they were the ones to send out a defective product. So now I get to spend roughly $60 to replace their defective merchandise. In some misdirected effort, they sent me yet another phone, no not an SD card like I was told was the issue but another phone, which of course still had the same issues due to the card being the problem and not the phone.
So I have to get that sent back in (as if I have nothing else to do). To add to irritation and inconvenience, when I purchased the phone, they sent me two and charged me for two and when I called denied charging my card twice. So not only was I charged twice but I had to eat part of the cost of sending back one of the phones as they only gave me a partial credit to ship back the phone. I have been with them for quite a few years and I do have to honestly say that anytime I have to deal with customer service, it is horrible. The customer service service crew is very polite in the way they tell you they are always so sorry they can't help and they are very understanding of your frustration but they have never actually "fixed" an issue.
Reviewed May 2, 2010
I have two cell phones and a prepaid plan with T-Mobile. I have had good coverage in home and the areas I travel. Two days ago neither phone could be used due to "no network coverage". I called in to customer service and was told that all towers were OK but she would file the info. I asked how long before I might get coverage back and was 72 hours to several weeks. Unacceptable. Any suggestions? My prepaid card runs out shortly. Why did I pay for service I'm not getting?!
Reviewed May 2, 2010
Original Complaint: "I had used T-Mobile for more than two years and recently switched my service provider. In that way, I have closed my account after using 10 days of my billing cycle. But still T-Mobile charged me for full billing cycle. Even the customer support is not willing to settle this up."
They did the same thing to me. I was told by the T-Mobile representative that it is T-Mobile's rule to charge a full month fee because I did not call them when I port my phone number to Pageplus eight days after billing cycle closing date. It is ridiculous that you have to call T-Mobile to tell them you are leaving T-Mobile. The porting process does not count as a notice. If you plan to leave T-Mobile, please call them and terminate your service on the first day you activated your service with your new carrier. Do not let them take advantage on your assumption that T-Mobile was notified when you port your phone number to a new carrier.
Reviewed May 1, 2010
At the beginning of February, I traveled to Bullhead to purchase a T-Mobile cell phone at Walmart, the only T-Mobile provider in the county. I chose T-Mobile because we have used them for years as both personal and business phones. We purchased the only phones the store had that day which did not require a contract, since we do not know where we will be living next year. The phones were to be set up as one account with 2 lines, and unlimited monthly service. We paid almost $400 for this service.
At the end of February, I made the regular monthly payment using the phone easy pay feature. Two days later, my phone was shut off. After multiple efforts to resolve the issue, we learned the company set us up as a minute by minute plan. We explained the problem and were assured the issue was resolved. The phones were turned on again, and then shut off a few days later. This time, we were told the payment was not made. When I checked my bank account, the payment was clearly withdrawn the same day I made it. T-Mobile next said I would need to send a copy of my bank statement to them. I did this and never heard back.
I contacted them again yesterday (4/30/10) to find out the status on my account. I was first transferred to the flex pay area, and informed they could not help me since I do not have a flex account. I was transferred to Natt and he was able to locate the missing payment of $107.85 and had his manager post the payment. Unfortunately, I was then told I had to pay additional fees for the flex account I never had and to restore service the company shut off after losing my payment. Four people later, this issue is still unresolved and I am looking for a new cell provider.
I cannot tell you how disappointed I am to be treated the way I was yesterday over a 3 hour phone call with a company I used to respect. I will no longer be using T-Mobile. My son changed phones today, and my daughter is getting a new phone on Friday. As each person we know is contacted, the wave will spread. We have 10 children, 9 old enough for phones of their own. They have spouses, friends, and children with phones. We also belong to many different organizations, with friends and family everywhere. This is how a company goes under.
Reviewed May 1, 2010
When I came back from an international trip on April 16, 2010, I told T-Mobile I lost my SIM card on my trip and I never used my SIM card on the trip. They told me to get new SIM card from T-Mobile store on April 17, 2010. On April 17, 2010, I lost my cell phone and called T-Mobile the same day. I requested T-Mobile to suspend my phone number on April 19, 2010. T-Mobile put in request to suspend on April 19th. On April T-Mobile called me at home and told me that they will be sending me a new phone for free without extending my contract on April 21, 2010. I received phone on April 21 and called T-Mobile to activate SIM card for new cell phone, which was sent with new cell phone that same night.
I called T-Mobile on April 24th and asked them why my phone line was still suspended. They told me there was high activity on that line and it was because of roaming charging after April 16, 2010. I refused to pay roaming charges because T-Mobile did not tell me about roaming charges on April 16th. I was disappointed in T-Mobile’s service in regards to this situation. I have been a customer for 3 years and this is how T-Mobile treats their loyal customers. I stayed with T-Mobile because of customer service and voice plans prices. But looks like T-Mobile doesn't value their loyal customers anymore.
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