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Verizon sells phones and phone plans across the United States. With stores and cell towers in every state, Verizon’s widespread reach allows customers to call, text or use data almost anywhere. Verizon customers can buy products from Apple, Samsung, Google and other phone manufacturers. The company also offers discounts for military members and first responders.
- 5G available in some areas
- Discounts on multiple lines
- Mix & match unlimited plans
- Parental control app
- Prices are higher for fewer lines
- 5G not available in all areas
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Reviewed July 8, 2019
Verizon billed my company for a mobile phone that did not belong to my company. I spent 3 months calling every department attempting to resolve the issue! I spoke to 30 or more people over the 3 months with no resolution. Last letter received was a collection letter for an account that did not belong to my company! I will have to make sure my company does not get reported to the credit bureaus and if so dispute the report.
Reviewed July 8, 2019
I had no intentions on trading in my phone the day I entered the store, nor was I ready to give up the phone I had for 3 years because it fit so well. I had plan on switching to Verizon because it's less expensive than AT&T (which was the service provider I was with) and better reception than AT&T due to the location of my home. But Cory found the right phone along with the right phone case to fit and put together a plan that worked and fit into my budget, so he made it easy for me to move forward on buying the phone, switching my services (also hot spot and tethering included, where I didn't have that with my previous carrier), it took a good minute to transfer all of my information, photos and messages to the new phone but it is a good deal and I am satisfied.
Reviewed July 8, 2019
Verizon constantly found ways to charge us more than our rate plan. They made mistakes which they admitted and still charged us $300 for the mistakes which were theirs. When we finished paying off the phones they added a new charge so the monthly bill would stay the same: they charged the line service fee and added a fee to use that line with the phones which we owned because we had payed them off. They WILL find ways to charge you MUCH MORE than your plan rate. AND the $240 phone of mine turned out to be available elsewhere for $79.
Reviewed July 8, 2019
Called to get help set up two new phones along with two phones on the account. I waited on hold for 30 minutes, no one picked up still. 55 minutes total. I finally got a representative on the phone. Very impatient with me after being on hold for an hour just waiting for someone to help me. I had a few problems with getting information from my kid's account. About time I did that the representative hung the phone up on me & when I called back now they are closed. Regret getting these phones. I'm going to return them now & get a different phone company now. Verizon sucks.
Reviewed July 6, 2019
If you are a veteran or active duty service member trying to apply the military discount, run far away from Verizon!!! My father is a disabled veteran who honorably served his country. He is currently a customer of another carrier, but was added to the account as a named user so we could get his discount. He brought the appropriate DD-214 form into a Verizon store and was told they didn't need that, only the veteran card. He went back the next day with the veteran card and they assured him the discount would be applied and that I would get a confirmation email in a few days. A week later, and no discount, no email. He went back to the store and showed the same veteran card that should've already been on file and was told that the discount would be applied. Another week, another no response from Verizon.
I contacted Verizon by phone after each attempt and they assured me it would be applied. I spoke to three people on the app chat and they assured me it would be taken care of and expect an email. Nothing!! I went to a local Verizon store with a photo of the veteran card and they told me it was not acceptable, it had to be the DD-214 form. I told them he already tried that in the store he went to in another state. I had to obtain a photo of that form and sent went back to the same store and finally it was applied after one month!! I asked the local store what they would do for my inconvenience and they said "sorry, nothing we can do, we are only a retailer, call the 1800 customer service number." Unacceptable!!
Now, I need to waste more time and get inconvenienced again. Upon calling, the representative told me the only thing they could do was apply the credit twice for this month only. Nothing could be done for my father's inconvenience! Not even a gift card?! This man served his country and is now disabled and this is how Verizon chooses to treat disabled veterans? Shame on Verizon! They should be embarrassed for this service, or lack thereof. I'm sure the news would love to cover a story of blatant disrespect and apathy towards veterans! Run away, veterans, run far away from Verizon!
Reviewed July 6, 2019
Not very happy with Verizon!! We transferred from Sprint to Verizon and took our phones with us and we were told that because we switched to Verizon and are porting our numbers we can each get a rebate, which we should get by June 19th. We got the rebate paperwork and turned it in, April 30th, I called them yesterday and they told me it would take up to 10 weeks to get the rebate. I got an email today saying there was a problem processing our rebates. So I contacted Verizon, they said because we brought our phone with us and are paying for it monthly we don't get the rebate!! So Verizon lied to us!! Very, very unhappy with Verizon!!!
Reviewed July 6, 2019
Sold us a used iPhone when we paid for a new one!! 1st one we bought would not turn on after a week, took it back and they gave us what we thought was another new phone (paid for new one). 2nd one was fine for about 5 weeks (when the warranty period is over). Of course the battery runs out in only a day and not even being used once in that time. Buyers go anywhere else but here. I am contacting Verizon’s headquarters!!!
Reviewed July 5, 2019
It took me 4 weeks plus hours of calling and three visits to the bank to resolve a billing issue. Verizon deduct an amount. The date was an error so they reversed it but the reversal showed up 4 days later and then I was charged two more times. I wrote to executive office who was incensed that I wrote to executive office. I spent another few hours and days going through it and a friend also looked. The error started with Verizon but they didn’t want to take ownership of initial mistake. Instead of being caring and seeing it was their initial error cause the same thing happened in June but I didn’t ask them to stop it!
Although resolved now the executive office was anything but sensitive and caring and I stead dismissive. I have been in retailing most of my life and regardless Amazon and BBB would never let a customer be disgruntled when it was their error and they tried to blame Chase. I am going to see if I can get rid of them. What horrible attitude. They could care less about customer. They just don’t want complaints! They really need to know good customer service so someone wants to continue to business with them! I don’t. I pray I find the right carrier.
Reviewed July 4, 2019
I have been a customer for many years, but there's been a problem with me trying to make a payment, both on 06/25 and 07/03. It was reversed both times. Because of all this non-sense, I was being threatened with disconnection, through NO fault of my own. I have called countless times and gone into chat without ANY resolution. Instead, you all blame me or my bank. Stating the reversal was due to a closed bank account, which is FALSE. I pay ALL my OTHER bills using the same checking account without issues, only issue has been with your company. I did an investigation of my own by attempting to pay again, this time using my debit card which is LINKED to my checking account, that seems to have gone through, but it didn't through the checking account directly. This is beyond acceptable. All I have gotten are empty promises and lies since this issue began. You all pass the buck and don't accept responsibility, which is shameful!
Reviewed July 4, 2019
There is only one account holder authorised to add or remove services to our account. We did not add safe wifi to our monthly bill, however it showed up. An extra 3.99 a month. It took some time to remove it from the account. I'm very upset that these things are added to my account without my knowledge. Also service drops all the time. And every other carrier has unlimited data except Verizon who charges an outrageous amount for a small amount of data.
Reviewed July 4, 2019
I went to the Verizon store after calling for hours because I don't live in the same town. I couldn't reach them so I had to go in. When I did, I had one stipulation, I want a cheap phone that's under $100/more. I had no idea until a week later, the rep had lied to me through my entire visit. I believe he just wanted to get a sale on a certain phone. He said I had a free upgrade, he charged me an upgrade fee. He said my taxes would be roughly $60, they were 80. He said this was the best deal I could get for a photo and it absolutely was not. I come to find out I have to pay $270/mo for the phone he set me up with. These blatant lies have costed me so much in time and my own personal money.
When I called the "help" center for... they couldn't get a hold of the store either. They couldn't get their "expert team" on the line. When he finally got back to me, their only solution was for me to go in and get another phone. Wasting more of my time and money I simply don't have. This is absolutely appalling business practices. They remind me of Wells Fargo with how they try to take your money. A company who charges $1,000/ per phone selling millions of phones daily, shouldn't have to trick their customers in order to gain a sale. I cannot believe the actions taking place here.
Reviewed July 1, 2019
So on Friday the 27th of June I paid a promise to pay. Well on the 28th they took out the other half which wasn't supposed to happen because I posted that I wanted it taken out the following week. So I called them and they did a refund. They told me to look at my account anywhere from 24-72 hours for it to be back in my bank. I looked this morning to see none of my money in my account so I called them. They tell me my refund was denied because it would make my account past due. Through this wait I didn't get no notification of them saying that the process was denied. No call, text, email nothing. So I'm broke, no gas, can't pay my other bills. Nothing. They tell me to contact my bank and I did. They said they would have to do an investigation which could take 15 days. This whole system is **. I'm pissed off and Verizon will hear from my lawyer and I will be changing services.
Reviewed July 1, 2019
I purchased a phone from Verizon and as per the rep, he said I will always get assistance with any issue I may have. I'm having so many issues with this phone and no rep can help me with anything. I just keep on getting transferred and staying on hold and in the end not even being helped. This is sick and so annoying.
Reviewed July 1, 2019
First off they accuse the customers of their loss of internet cause some friends and I play phone games and it just recently started in Wyoming and it hasn't happened before in the past couple of months. So I say don't go with this company.
Reviewed June 30, 2019
So, a few years ago, they refused to send me paper bills anymore even though I requested them and asked for them multiple times. Initially, they were sending bills via email (which I couldn't access) and text. Then, it turned into one or the other, eventually was just text. Except the past two months, I did not receive a bill at all... Then they add late fees.... What crooks! You would think they could figure out their own communication system.
Reviewed June 30, 2019
In the trucking Verizon ruled the coverage market until this past year. From what we noticed and I am talking about an industry wide awareness, Verizon must not have renewed contracts with AT&T and the other cell tower owners. Connectivity continues to deplete and fail in high volume areas. Like a busy highway, Truckstop or major city. I heard there will be bandwidth wars and it looks like it's right over the Verizon play on words.
Reviewed June 29, 2019
I was having issues in an area I normally do not and called in to 611. They said I had to use a chat. They sent me a link and I tried twice to open ticket but could not get ticket open. I tried to call in again but was given chat. I was having issues connected to 911 and I was not able to leave voicemail on my child’s phone. They use to have people to talk to. A chat that keeps disconnecting and they never called me back is horrible customer service. For a company that charges more than competitors they should have the best customer service.
Reviewed June 29, 2019
I asked to have a tablet disconnected. They disconnected my phone number which I use for business. It was disconnected for 3 days and for 3 days I did not have a phone. This was a terrible experience as I was replacing my phone that day due to I had dropped my phone and the screen was turning black, the Authorized dealer was awesome. They transferred my phone over to a new phone but I could not have the new phone until Verizon reconnected my phone number... Since my number was non exist they could not let me use the phone either. So for 3 days no contacts, calendar, text.... in business this is the worst. I was on the phone for approximately 6 to 7 hours over these 3 days and was went to the store 3 days in a row and was at the store each time for about 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours. So Verizon offered me $ 20 line fee to make it ok for their mistake. Really I am so disappointed in the lack of care.
I live in a very small town of 3500 people and when my phone rang for 3 days and the recording states disconnected... The assumption is I did not pay my bill. REALLY this is not good for one's reputation and again Verizon did not care. The End of the month is my busiest time and lost approximately $ 3,600 income...$20 Verizon said they would credit me $80 ($20 for a 4 lines) but it is NOT JUSTIFIED. WHAT!!!! They did give me $80 credit. WOW. SO UNHAPPY!! Jodie ** in Iowa.
Reviewed June 29, 2019
Usually dealing with the call center reps for mobile network carriers is a nightmare. Either you are speaking to someone with a very heavy accent and the language barriers between you and the agent are so frustrating you end up hanging up and calling back to get a new representative, or you talk to some snooty chick who acts like she has no reason to try and help you out in the slightest and how dare you ask for your bill to be reduced and you literally hear rolling her eyes at ever question you ask. Well, not with Verizon.!!!
I switched from Cricket Wireless which I subscribed to for the last five years over to Verizon about two months ago. Cricket's customer service department was entirely made up of extremely rude ** who disdainfully tell you that if you are unhappy with your bill or service, that you can leave and no longer be a customer but that no matter what they will not ever give you a discount or refund the BS fees that should not have been assessed to your account in the first place. Verizon is over three times as expensive per month but my goodness is it worth it. Not only are the wireless and cellular network services so much faster than any other carrier I have used, but the call center guys are the nicest and most helpful people I've ever had to deal with!
They broke down my issue for me, walked me thru it step by step even though it was uncomplicated and probably would take most people 2 minutes to get they it he stayed on with my for 42 minutes, taking tons of time with me to help me understand and answered all my stupid questions. He then helped me cut down on some services I was paying for which I didn't really want or need, and then set up a payment arrangement and waived the payment fee for me since it was going to add more to my balance owed than how much he had cut off my bill in the first place. I love Verizon and I will never switch again no matter how ridiculously expensive it gets. It's actually worth the money, like for real. :)
Reviewed June 28, 2019
I needed AA screen replacement. Long story short they charged, charged, charged and I still waited a week for any progress and they made the mistake and I never even got an apology and they made me pay for the mistake.
Reviewed June 27, 2019
It used to be that you could walk into a Verizon store to upgrade a phone and they would happily assist you in transferring your data, apps, and other information, they no longer offer this service. Brian, the sales representative said we had to back up our devices and then literally walked away. Another rep was kind enough to say this was a corporate decision and printed out instructions for us to do this from home. DO NOT USE A VERIZON STORE!!! PERIOD!!! I called an Apple store and they said they would be happy to assist, I believe Best Buy might do this as well. Verizon has obviously discontinued service as they up the prices on just about every other aspect of their business. They do have the best coverage and so they must feel they have us over a barrel. If it was not for the coverage needed I would immediately be going to another carrier. I have been with Verizon for over twenty years, this obviously counts for nothing.
Reviewed June 26, 2019
Talked to the rep to have new phone delivered next day as existing one died. It was extra to have delivery by 10:30 a.m. so I opted for the option of delivery by end of business day. Just found out that the STUPID, INCOMPETENT rep entered it as a 2-day delivery so still NO phone. This is a business account with over $500 per month in Verizon bills for phone and iPad service. So very mad that they didn't deliver as promised. I went over this 2-3 times with rep to be sure we would have be the end of the next day. We need our business phone now (we dispatch to the tech's phones), but still NO phone. So fuming mad. :(
Reviewed June 26, 2019
I've been a customer of Verizon for over 10 years. Prior to May 2019 we had great reception in our area of South Wasco County Oregon. Then our reception fell off to the point we cannot have a conversation on the phone. People all over the area are experiencing the same lack service. We have contact Verizon to report the problem, at first they telling they were having tower issues. Now they tell us we are in a poor reception area. We were not in a poor reception area before May 15th. Yesterday I was told in so many words. "Well, you're screwed. We don't want to hear from you again. We don't care about you as a customer. Tell anyone in your area, we don't care about you as customers!!!!" Now 100's of customers in south Wasco County Oregon have to find new service. Very sad.
Reviewed June 26, 2019
I just severed my cellphone service with Verizon. Supposedly in July 2018 I accepted a $6.00 discount on my bill to stay with Verizon. In June, I left Verizon. I'm told that the discount was for a year. Since I left in June, I am being charge $155.00 early termination fee. My June bill was paid before my termination, so I paid for a year. I do not recall an early termination fee being discussed. The Verizon rep I spoke with made numerous mistakes trying to explain why I was being charged (Including that I had bought 2 different items, which I hadn't). So, they are saying, I saved $6 a month and being charged an early termination fee of $155. I'm getting the shaft.
Reviewed June 25, 2019
We joined Verizon and everything was so smooth and organized! Abraham was extremely helpful in making sure we got everything we needed, and he went above and beyond! The store itself is clean and organized, and everyone was friendly. The service is already waaaay better than any other company we’ve been with!
Reviewed June 25, 2019
I have an issue with my Ellipsis Jetpack, that I've own for a year and use on a sporadic basis. Initially I was please with the purchase and plan but on June 10, after purchasing GB data for travelling I encounter a lack of use of the Jetpack, it appeared after purchasing 2GB of data. By the next day I had none left. Again I've been using the Jetpack for the last year so I know my usage while travelling. Since I needed the Jetpack I purchased another 2GB (at $35). After confirming that the purchase was made (note I just paid $70 in 1 day) my Verizon showed I still had no data to use. I called the customer service department to determine the issue and was told what was purchased was not Jetpack but for a tablet use. I never consented to that type of purchase and had no idea how that occurred. I spokw with a Joan who stated she would correct the issue, she w/o my consult changed the plan to a $50/month which ended on July first.
#1 this is unacceptable that this was done w/o my consent and never corrected the issue that I had no data left after 1 day and after adding additional date, my device still had no ability to connect. I've contacted customer service again, spoke with Renee and was told since I did not authorize the $50 plan she could change it back to $35. Your customer service department does NOT listen to the customer, the issue is 2) why and what happened to my data and why did my device not work after additional purchase. The only solution by your customer service dept is not correct the original issue or even listen to the customer. Your company is too big and I do not feel that the customer is relevant once a purchase or contract is signed.
The only request I had was to extend the date of service from July 1 to August 1. Renee was unable to do so, even after speaking with the supervisor. If you have such a terrible service that does not allow for adaptation due to errors you have no business selling this service to customers and taking their money when the error was on your side.
Once my balance is used I will go to another company to buy my mobile wifi device. You company needs to pay attention to all customers even those who use the prepaid plans and provide a better customer service who does not ADVISE the customer on how things work there at Verizon. I do not appreciate the condescending attitude. Thank you. Please note my social media and that of my family and friends will be inundated with reviews of how your company provides such poor service. Other people need to be aware of how you company does not provide good customer satisfaction.
Reviewed June 25, 2019
I have spoken with two stores and two agents, the last was named Anton. This is by far the worst customer service I have received by a customer service oriented company in years! The staff in the store and over the phone are condescending at best. They are completely unwilling to help, are terse and rude. I receive much better service through T-Mobile and AT&T.
Reviewed June 25, 2019
I was a Verizon Wireless customer for 7 years until I decided to give Sprint a try with their "cut your bill in half" promotion. I was satisfied overall with Sprint's service and ending up saving a lot of money. The only thing I'm not crazy about is their lease program. Because it was time for me to upgrade my phone, I decided to give Verizon another look. So, I found an inexpensive Motorola phone I liked and a plan that appeared to fit my needs. I placed the order online. The next day, I received an unexpected email stating that my order was cancelled and provided me a number to call if I felt this was done in error. No further explanation provided.
Frustrated, I called, and was directed right over to the fraud department to confirm my identification. They asked for specific documentation for me to fax them that I was unable to provide (such as a mortgage deed, rental lease, utility bill, or vehicle registration). I'm in seminary school and do not own or lease anything at this time. After explaining this and offering to provide them with other documentation such as bank statements and tax documents, they flat out refused and told me there was nothing they could do. I can understand the measures they are taking with all the fraud that occurs these days, but I was very disappointed they would not work with me in any other way. I even offered to go into the store in person to confirm my identity.
After asking why this fraud alert was triggered on their end, they would not provide me with an explanation. I have never done anything shady, I have perfect credit, and my credit report is sparkling clean. After that ordeal, I decided to stay with my carrier and go with a lease since I cannot afford to buy a new smartphone outright. Having past negative experiences with Verizon’s fees and especially after being treated like a criminal, I will never become a customer with them again.
Reviewed June 24, 2019
I will never in my life ever use this company again. Lied about service in my area, and does nothing to fix the service issues. Can't even use WiFi Calling. After many attempts to contact Verizon and have the issue addressed, they always beat around the bush or ignore the issue, with page loading errors, unavailability, etc. Worst customer service ever. Period. Dishonest in every area of a contract. The customer has to remain within the limits of the contract. However, Verizon breaches it constantly by providing the worst service. Please, do yourself a huge favor and stay away from this dishonest company.

Reviewed June 22, 2019
My recent purchase of cell phones, etc. from a Verizon store led me to have to talk with their customer service personnel after pure frustration using their online chat session. Their chat session was a complete waste of time until I encounter their customer service personnel which was worse! They provided merely robot like confusing information about my bill and my issue regarding a change to my account manager. It went on for almost a hour with nothing but more aggravation and frustration. The Verizon store person was the only person in this maze of confusing that assisted....
Reviewed June 20, 2019
Where do I start? I have been trying to get a replacement phone for the last 3 days with no luck. I wait forever only to be transfers 3 to 4 times and then the call drops and I get no call back. They have lied to me all the time and I only get 1 bar in most places. I live in a big city and they can't explain why their service is really bad! I have lost so many things on my phone and half the time I don't hear it ring! There is so much more, but cannot say it all here...
Reviewed June 20, 2019
I have been a Verizon Wireless customer for almost 30 years. Their customer service has always been terrible. But lately, they have absolutely taken the cake. Last year I got a Samsung Galaxy S7, which I really liked, but several months into using it, the charging port quit working, and since I have a warranty on the phone, I called Verizon to have them replace it. Of course, I had already done all the troubleshooting I could, but they insisted on redoing it, including a factory data reset, meaning I lose a ton of information stored on the phone.
I am a first responder, and having a working phone is extremely detrimental to my job. I need to be able to have access to my photos, text messages and call logs, and losing any one of those things means a job does not get done properly. They replaced the phone in February of 2019 and now, June 2019, I'm having the same issue with the phone, plus several more. So, I did three or four factory data resets, each time losing important data from the phone (in spite of having backup services).
Finally, I got annoyed, and it was time for my "free" upgrade, so I contacted Verizon via their chat assistance on their web page, and somehow managed to have a somewhat intelligible conversation with whatever third world country call center Verizon has working that function. After a lot of explaining and a lot of finagling, I reached an agreement for a new Galaxy S10, and after accepting all the terms and agreements, was told by the representative "Jamie" "thank you for choosing Verizon, love, hugs and kisses" which was just downright weird. But the phone never came. Instead I got an email explaining to me that I had to pay full price for the phone plus a $40.00 upgrade fee and a connection fee of $35.00 before they could send the phone. Then, I get another email saying that I haven't accepted the terms and conditions yet.
Ok, so I called Verizon on the phone, and spoke with someone who informed me that the order was not done correctly, and all I had to pay were the taxes on this $1000.00 phone. I explained that I had been told I would be able to have the taxes on the phone added to my next bill, to which I was informed that I would have to go into a store (the nearest store to where I live is almost 30 mile away) in order to do that, but if I want to change my order now, I could be charged a $200.00 change fee. At this point, I lost my patience, and asked them to forget the upgrade, and just use the warranty and get me a phone replacement. Ok, this apparently, the customer service person could do. She promptly transferred me to a "tech coach" who walked me through everything, and informed me that the order was in, and I would receive the order on June 18.
June 18 comes and goes, no phone. SO, I call Verizon customer service AGAIN, who tell me that the brilliant person I had spoken to never placed the order, AND in addition to that, she had never canceled the order for the Galaxy S10. I got irritated, and asked to speak to a manager. Twenty minutes on hold later, I got annoyed and hung up. I waited a short while, and called back and spoke with another person in customer service who informed me that she had a do a data factory reset for herself (policy BS) but was kind enough to back my phone up, offer to do the reset and then restore what she could to my phone. A MAJOR hassle nonetheless. But I had to work, and asked for a call back an hour and 20 minutes later. Ok, she informed me that she was putting everything in the notes, someone would call me back an hour and 20 minutes later, all is good with the world.
An hour and thirty minutes later, I get a text message from "Tech Coach" telling me that we can now message, instead of talking to a person, because isn't that terrific? When the "Coach" asked me to state my question, I texted "call me". Which of course, never happened. Then Jarelle the Tech Coach came on the line, he asked my name, my pin number, etc., and then asked me what could he help me with? That irritated me, because Jarelle was like the 5th or 6th person I would have been explaining the situation to, and I just didn't want to explain it again. So I typed in "Please read the notes on the account".
Twenty five minutes later, I texted again asking if he was still reading. Five minutes after that I texted "hello" and ten minutes after that I texted that if he couldn't help me, to just let me know so that I could change my wireless carrier. Never heard back from Jarelle. But, then I got another message from the tech coach computer saying "let's get our messaging session started" and at that point, George comes on the line. At this point, I was already holding via phone to speak to a human, so I told George to disconnect me from online tech coach and I left the session. WELL, I finally get a real honest to God living breathing (I hope) human being on the phone, and immediately ask for a supervisor. She asks me why I need to talk to a supervisor, because can't she try and help me, and I said please read the notes on the account, you cannot help me, put me through to a supervisor.
She asks what the problem is, because she can't just put me through to any supervisor, so (and yes, I am less than thrilled with my behavior at this point) I tell her to put me through to whomever deals with moronic idiotic customer service and tech coach employees. She asks me to hold. FORTY FIVE MINUTES into holding, I got incredibly annoyed and hung on. Today is day day SEVEN almost in this saga. I am going to attempt to reach an intelligent human at Verizon one more time, and if I don't, I'm switching to another wireless carrier, TODAY.
Reviewed June 20, 2019
Don't be fooled how they spin this. Be weary of this company. Apparently not all employees know what they're talking about. They will change your account without letting you know, they sell you on phones and after 14 days change Their agreement even though you have it in writing, once you're hooked they try to charge you later. We as a society can change how they operate because numbers create the rules not companies and corporations.
At&t is 1 of the items I can locate. They say my watch payment is $31 a month...and my 2 S10e phones (buy one get one)...which I ordered over the phone. I also have proof they are charging me over $60 and it should be $30. When asked, each Verizon rep, and it gets bad when you get transferred outside the US (which they do often, US people will tell you they are in the US, outside US, company policy states they're not allowed to tell you where they're at, ha google it) to someone who understands less apparently, comes up with a "new" reason why. Dictated but not read.
Reviewed June 19, 2019
For some reason the sales force in the stores have gotten worse and worse. They must be on total commission because they have one goal - to sell you more lines. And they lie about the cost to you. They are not knowledgeable about the product lines which I find most annoying. They are no longer helpful with phone conversions and make you do everything for yourself. But most of all their arrogance and ability to make you feel dumb is truly disappointing. I will be leaving the company after many years and big bills.
Reviewed June 19, 2019
Signed up for a 2 year contract and did not use the service much at all. Had set up automatic payments at the start and a few months into the service they just discontinued the automatic service. Got that straightened out, but then at the end of the contract I found we had made 26 payments on top of the initial plan and activation fee. Customer service said they could not go back and check on the payments we had made. Spent hours with customer service to no avail. Also, I called to discontinued service the day before the end of the contract, they would have charged another $40.00 so had to call again the next day. A real ripoff.
Reviewed June 19, 2019
I had my debit account stolen and the suspects purchased Verizon products online totaling $740.00. I called Verizon in hopes of stopping this thief from getting any products and they told me to call my bank. Of course, why would they stop the transaction from happening, they wouldn't get any money this way. Verizon is as big of a thief as the person who stole my bank card!!
Reviewed June 19, 2019
I cannot stress enough how horrible this phone company is. I have been having issue after issue since December 2018 and for 7 months now I have spent hours upon hours reaching out to Verizon for help and received absolutely NO help or satisfaction, yet I continue to pay my wireless phone bill on time each month for a service I do NOT receive. I call multiple times a day. I have emailed, I have done the live via chat online and I have physically walked into Verizon stores with my last in store experience asking for help turning into yet a wasted 3 plus hours of my time being a joke. Yes 3 hours inside store and absolutely no help or resolvement of my issues.
The Streetsboro,Ohio Verizon manager and store tech blatantly lied straight to my face about several things. And the tech actually told me to hang up on their Verizon fraud department while I stood at Verizon counter inside store talking to them on Verizon's Tech's phone asking for help, explaining my issues. He went so far as removing phone from my hand and hanging up saying he would help me, then he and manager both told me there was nothing they could do for me. The manager walked into back of store and the other gentleman told me after I had already spent 3 hours in store that because I wasn't actual account owner he could not further help me.
He had also changed my name and password on my cloud account as I stood there and asked him NOT TO CHANGE ANYTHING on my account. That my privacy and information had already been compromised and breached. I have called Verizon many times to say I am not receiving the service I am paying for, that my Verizon account constantly gets hacked and my calls are being forwarded to other numbers, that there is other names and address listed on my account that I do NOT recognize and does NOT belong to me, to let them know I do not receive my text messages and people I text do not receive the text.
My banking and credit cards have been breached and compromised. I have had 4 different phones with Verizon in just a few months and the last phone they sent me had not even been updated since May 4, 2018, see enclosed photos. I have had my number change several times in last few months and it continues, nothing has been corrected or fixed. And it has now been 7 months. Yet I continue to pay bill for a service I DO NOT receive. I would NOT recommend Verizon to anyone and cannot stress the poor quality of this company and do not see how they can say they are a quality company. All I am asking is I receive what I pay monthly for and I definitely DO NOT receive that or anywhere near that. If I wasn't in contract I would have ran away months ago. They do not even deserve 1 star.

Reviewed June 19, 2019
I have had phone service with every major carrier and Verizon is bar none the worst. Customer service is terrible. Customer satisfaction is terrible because effort to rectify issues is very minimal. Can't wait to get my phones paid off. That way I can go to a different carrier.
Reviewed June 18, 2019
I would rate lower if possible. In April we had someone fraudulently open an account in my husband's name. The customer service reps are awful in the fraud department. They are rude, disrespectful and could care less about your issues. They supposedly opened an investigation in April and it would be taken care of in two billing cycles. Well 3 billing cycles later, we call again, to be questioned about did we really return the phones? Really?
We already told one rep in April that we were not signing for them and they would be returned, as well as the bill showing them as returned. Then told AGAIN, they would need to open an investigation and it would take 1-2 billing cycles to be clear. REALLY? So we are now going to be 4-5 billing cycles dealing with this. I WILL NEVER use Verizon. I never have and with this experience, I never will. They give you the runaround and are the rudest reps I have ever talked to. I have AT&T and they are always pleasant and always get credits done immediately - never in 2-5 billing cycles.
Reviewed June 18, 2019
Verizon will rip you off. They tell you 20 bucks a line. Then you pay for access to your phone lines. Then you pay for internet access separately or face 100's and hundreds in overages. Then when you try to leave they hit you the hardest. Tell you that your bill wasn't current and you have over 700 dollars in past due service bills. If that doesn't work they will tell you it's from contract fees. I thought they had no contracts??? If you pay your bills like I do you know that's crap. Not a God fearing company, and I'm from Kansas where God still counts!!! They will get this, and no more. I have learned my lesson. I really knew better in all fairness, but my husband is a dreamer. My husband thought that he was really going to get phone lines for the family for 20 bucks each. I still love him though!!!
Reviewed June 17, 2019
I have spent well over 4 hours on the phone over the past 2 weeks. I call and they supposedly fixed my problem but really didn't. Call again and once again I think things are fixed and once again they are not. I wish I never signed up with Verizon. They lie and have no idea what they are telling you.
Reviewed June 16, 2019
Verizon Customer service was horrible. Instead of taking care of the issue, they made me us call back again in 2 weeks in order to take care of the issue. When I did call 2 weeks later, and mentioned that I am calling on behalf of the primary account holder, they got upset even though I am already on the account but not as primary account holder....Very rude representative- DAWN. Wish I don't have to call them again..since instead of solving the issues I might get asked to call back in two weeks.
Reviewed June 15, 2019
We bought a new iPhone 10. We had it less than 6 months and it factory resets every day. The only option they gave us was to send it in for a refurbished phone or pay for it. They said there was nothing we could do when my wife is pregnant and has to go to the doctor with very little notice. They also gave no option to replace it that day other than paying or adding to our bill that is already too high at over $230 for two phones.
Reviewed June 15, 2019
We have been consistently lied to by their sales reps and when you try to get them to make it right they of course will claim we misunderstood. We did not misunderstand. We were lied to. I would not recommend them. They have a culture of dishonesty.
Reviewed June 13, 2019
Constantly overcharging customers. They claim they disconnect and your phone never disconnects yet the charge is showing up in your bill. They do not work with customers and their Managers are even worst. The human part of customer services is totally forgotten when dealing with a customer. Calls drop even-though they claim to have the best service. Goodbye high prices!
Reviewed June 12, 2019
Recently had poor service in my home for tech and getting calls. Made call after 5 days, still hit and miss. So got hold of customer service and apparently towers in my area were updated and my old phone was not capable of working on low wifi. Called threatening to leave after 20 plus yrs and suggested I upgrade phone for 10 a month sale and would waive ball startup charged which I had to pay at store. My wife and I are very happy and even billing was correct on next bill which never happened before. So for now very happy, as long as things stay this way. Rates are little higher but not bad for #1 carrier as far as coverage. Only reason 4 stars cause of phone rates higher than most.
Reviewed June 11, 2019
First, I logged onto “My Verizon”. One of my lines switched to another carrier with phone number transported. The line was showing “suspended” but nowhere could I request deleting the line/phone from my account. Frustrated trying to get customer service. Live chat lacked an option pick, did not disconnect from phone after going to chat link. Frustrated, I called “611” again. Finally got through to a rep. Been with Verizon for many years (probably 20 + years). Worst experience ever!
Reviewed June 11, 2019
Purchased a one year contract service, the salesman told me (with my father present) that the bill would be 88.84 a month, I would be getting a 200.00 rebate credit card for switching and that my credit inquiry was a soft hit. So far my bill is 98.00 a month, never received the rebate check in the mail. Had to fight for them to apply the 200 towards my bill. And I have a hard hit on my credit. Not one bit of honesty or integrity with the company's salesman. This has me waiting for my contract to end. I will be moving back to MetroPCS. Respectably, Chris **
Reviewed June 10, 2019
I’ve used Verizon for many years and recently switched to Sprint because of costs. Verizon sent me the termination bill and I’ve been paying it off all the way down to $200 and they never sent me a final bill for that $200. They’ve been pretty good about sending updated bills with the remainder and I’ve paid 200-300 dollars at a time to bring the balance down. I was never able to pay online because the website always had issues and it was such a hassle so I waited. I then received a collections notice about a month or two after that payment. This is now on my credit report and I will have difficulty purchasing a house which I planned on in a couple of months due to having a baby less than a month ago.
Times have been a little tough but I never denied the fact that I had this balance and tried to pay it off. I called Verizon and they said that it will be on my credit report for 7 years and that there is nothing to be done. I was actually considering switching back to Verizon due to a move a couple of months ago to be closer to family, but I will look for other services at this time and switch over my parents and siblings from Verizon as well. Be warned about their practices and lack of support when in need.
Reviewed June 10, 2019
Terrible company. TERRIBLE! I cannot say that enough. I will leave this review anywhere I can. I will waste as much time and credibility of Verizon as I can. This company deserves to go under. Too bad they are too big to fail. They need to be broken up! We used their business service and had 17 lines, SEVENTEEN. They got our billing messed up right from the start (to their favor, of course). We were overbilled roughly $5,450 over the first eight months (while waiting for non-existent "credits" which we never fully received). We were supposed to receive $2,000 in credits for the ten iPhones we purchased on top of other bill credits because our rep quoted us the wrong amount THAT WE AGREED TO in writing. Oh but that's not good enough for Verizon, nope they can do whatever they want. Over our two years with them, I spent over 45 hours on the phone chasing my discounts and credits owed.
We were told that when we canceled, we wouldn't be given our remaining balance back (roughly $440) since that was due to courtesy credits and they don't issue checks for those (even though we were given those because they overbilled us and we paid them) -- just a terrible company with no compassion and no remorse. If you ever have to deal with the snakes in NJ that handle business disputes, your blood will boil. Threats of litigation and the like come out of their mouths. Just despicable. I will share this far and wide to make sure as many people as possible know how terrible Verizon is as a company. I'll waste as much of my free time as possible with them to make up for all the BS they caused us as a business. What a joke of a company.
Updated review: June 10, 2019
I just couldn't let this go and finally found someone from Verizon that helped me and did give me the deal that the original representative offered me. I was satisfied. I'll still keep the rating low as it took me 4 hrs and 4 representative's to help me.
Original Review: June 10, 2019
On Sunday June 9, 2019 I chatted with a representative regarding an upgrade. I was offered a deal to purchase 2 cellphones. I tried to purchase them online but was told I had to go to the store. The closest dealer was closed on Sunday. The representative knew this. When I tried to process the deal the following day they would not honor it. I have screenshots of the entire chat and have an authorization number. It has been a terrible experience with Verizon. I have been a customer for 15 years. They would not help us in any shape or form. The last chat was over an hour long. Very frustrating. Makes us feel unwanted as customers. They could care less.
Reviewed June 10, 2019
I had Verizon for 4 years and never missed a payment or paid late. I ended up getting laid off from my job and it took me a few months to find a new one. Verizon never once reported all the on time payments I made over 4 years but was quick to report the one time I couldn't pay. I paid the balance and they refuse to remove it off of my credit report. I was thinking of switching back to Verizon even though they are way more expensive than the other companies and definitely will not be now.
Reviewed June 8, 2019
I had been with another carrier for 12 years. The signal was fine at my house in North Carolina but I got practically no signal when I'd travel to Georgia where most of my family lives. I have my elderly father on my cellphone plan and we'd both decided to do away with our landlines and use our cellphones exclusively. I went to my carrier to update the phones and that's when the problems began. First I had to wait for 45 minutes before someone would help me. Then when it came to trading in the phones for new ones, they told me basically they don't give you anything for your old phones. The phones were iPhone 7s phones. My bill was going to be even higher, over $200, and they basically acted like they didn't care if I stayed with them or not. I've never paid a bill late in the entire 12 years I've been with them.
After asking them several times if they could do better I decided to go to the Verizon store across the street. I was greeted at the door by a CSR. They listened to my needs and within 30 mins. I had two new iPhone XR's, an unlimited plan for both, and they credited me for the phones I traded in. Plus, since my dad is a veteran I also got $30 off my monthly bill. I bought these phones during their "Dads and Grads" special so one of the phones was free. The signal is great on both of them and I'm very happy. They set up and activated both phones for me and showed me how to use them. I'm also paying $60 a month less than I did at my old carrier. If I sign up for autopay it will be an additional $10 off the bill. I bought these at the Shelby, NC store and I couldn't have asked for more. They were all very nice and very helpful.
Reviewed June 8, 2019
Avoid Verizon wireless. They have ridiculous coverage and agents who lie to you to try and get you to buy new products instead of fixing the faulty products that they tricked you into buying a month earlier. Then they make it impossible to pay your bill which then leads them into trying to bully you. Just awful awful awful. No other service treats you like you should get down and bow and thank the heavens that they allow you to pay them money to barely provide a service. Avoid!!!!
Reviewed June 7, 2019
I scheduled a payment to be taken out of my bank account on the day that I would have enough funds to cover it. I scheduled two other payments with other companies as well. Verizon went ahead and charged the amount as a "pending" charge and overdrafted my bank account. I did not have this issue with the other payments I scheduled with different companies, only Verizon. Don't EVER schedule a payment with these guys unless you can pay this instant!
Reviewed June 7, 2019
Doing a good review on products like the best wireless cellphone service is going with Verizon Wireless. Paying your bill on time so you can get allowance to use and buy things with a game console like Xbox One with Microsoft Windows.
Reviewed June 7, 2019
I was just on the phone with Verizon mobile for a half hour working to get my phone fixed. They sent me these phones last year and they were messed up from the beginning. The rep I was on the phone with did not do anything to fix the phone. I'm working on this for one year. You can come back and see all my complaints. Maybe nobody will get their service. If you do get their service use a flip phone not a smart phone. Their wireless is on all the time even when shut off. Last year one of my android phone melted in my hand. This was a spiteful replacement. Anyone that uses their service check your computer and make sure your phone is not wified to it. There is a big flaw in their mobile network and they are not fixing it. That is why they want to chat and chat is for kids not adults. I think they have very very poor service for a large corp MCI Communications.
Reviewed June 4, 2019
Everything was good but I think they should not give you a Refurbished phone for your replacement.. I have a S10+. If you going to give refurbished cell then the monthly insurance should be Less a month and your deposit should be less. Other than that it has be good.
Reviewed June 4, 2019
Since 03/07/2019, 03/11/2019 and several other times through Verizon Wireless Recorded lines, I have asked Customer Service, Recovery Department, Financial Services, Managers, Representatives and other Departments to close out/discontinue our account. MyVerizon Wireless Account was closed by Verizon since 03/07/2019. As of 03/07/2019 my balance was 180.31, I paid with my Wells Fargo account 120.17. Since 03/07/2019, I've been asking Customer Service and Recovery Dept to submit confirmation of closed account and my balance of 60.14. Instead Verizon fraudulently kept my account open and still wants to bill me 180.31 every month. And ruin my credit so as to bully me into continuing to pay them even though they should have closed my account at my request since 03/07/2019.

Reviewed June 3, 2019
Verizon is charging us for phone we don't have. We never had this phone. They are even charging for activation. There are 4 of us on our plan. We have been customers for many years. I cannot get this phone or the fees off our account.
Reviewed June 3, 2019
There are two problems with Verizon billing. They bill me for hard wired service and wireless service but don't distinguish which the bill is for. You have to examine the inside of the bill to figure it out and pay two separate entities. On top of that, even after I gave them explicit directions that I did not want electronic billing, they went ahead with it anyway. This after charging me $20 for a late payment while I was hospitalized. If your computer goes down or you miss your e-mail you can expect that $20 blood money will be on your next bill... Which you may or may not receive.
Reviewed June 1, 2019
Well just to share my experience last night I wanted to buy a Gizmo Watch for my son. He was very excited. He won a really good award for being good citizen and student. Well, just to find out the reality of the world due to a liar sale agent. Luckily I saved chat script to prove it. I asked her 2 times if I can get the watch with monthly payment and NO contract. Well she lie. She got me into a contract and I spent 2 hours last night and 2 hours this morning with customer services and fraud department canceling everything.
Very disappointed because my son was very happy to get the watch. He deserved it, but I honestly do not believe in Verizon. Yes I contact customer service. They will cancel and give me the $ back. But the dishonest behavior and the lie is unacceptable. My son is unhappy and I am upset. How to explain a child that you teach values and morals, he cannot get his gift due to a dishonest person. *Real life lesson.* A child get screwed because a dishonest sale agent.“

Reviewed May 30, 2019
I have been a loyal customer since 1998. I was recently promised a promotion for 55 or older. I was given the discount for 1 billing cycle, and it was taken away without notice. Horrible customer service.
Reviewed May 30, 2019
So I left Verizon over many customer service issues and moved to Tmobile. T Mobile has a little less of a network but their customer support is the best. If you get the TMobile in Home Booster they have great signal regardless. So Verizon. After leaving Verizon I paid my bill and all my phones off early. Left and paid an early termination fee. I have a zero balance on all accounts. One year later my son breaks his phone and I want to give him one of the old I phones I had.
Day one I was told by TMobile Verizon had put my phones on the stolen list. I called Verizon and spent 90 minutes on the phone with customer care only to have them tell me they had to transfer this to business services. But business services was not open past 7 PM. Day Two Called Verizon 30 Minutes in Customer care puts me in contact with business department. They claim the phone was reported stolen and he essentially hung up on me. Called back waited another 45 Minutes and the business department again said the phone had to be reactivated by the fraud department, transferred over to fraud was on hold another 20 minutes.
Decided to leave this review while I am still on the phone with the fraud department who claims this is a matter for customer service, not a fraud. I asked could they please work together between the departments, maybe communicate with each other to resolve my issue and was told no they are different departments and I need to be transferred to resolve the issue.
So in short even one year later after I paid everything, zero bills, paid all the devices off in full Verizon has still kept me entangled in their web of terrible customer service and their poor management of devices is still impacting me a year later. FYI I am still on hold now and have spent almost three hours on day two trying to get this resolved. Use anything but Verizon.
Reviewed May 29, 2019
I was a victim of identity fraud. An account was opened up in my name at Verizon Wireless. After I filed the police report and contacted Verizon to remedy the situation, they treated me like garbage. Special shout out going to Jamal, Brittany, Judy, and Sarah. I do not know how they can work for such a big company and have attitudes like they do. I am with ATT and I have always had great customer service with them. Do not go through Verizon. They will treat you like ____.
Reviewed May 29, 2019
Verizon is an amazing cell phone provider. My family is ever so grateful for Verizon. It was so difficult to pay my bills. Verizon worked with me. Verizon customer service was always professional. Very kind and did what it took to assist my family and I at one of the lowest parts of my life. It's not easy not being able to stay in touch with my children. With no cell phone service. Verizon did not allow that. It was important to Verizon that I stayed in touch. They did not turn my phone off. I'm now working a full time job. I am proud to say. Verizon thank you so much for caring for my Family and I. I'm thankful for everyone I spoke to. who helped me. I appreciate each of you for putting my family first. I'm going to keep my promise to pay. I'm working now. I love you Verizon Cell Phone Company. You are the best.
Reviewed May 28, 2019
Pete in the Levelled store was excellent. Very informative, intelligent as well as informative. I am happy that my father and I were lucky to see him again, as he served us during our last visit. I hope to eventually switch from Cricket to Verizon as Cricket does not honor vets like Verizon does. Thank you Pete.
Reviewed May 27, 2019
I have been paying insurance on this phone and spent more than an hour waiting and being transferred to different departments because I need replacement phone. My phone will not hold a charge. I have not dropped it, gotten it wet, lost it or damaged it. This phone is actually a replacement Verizon issued me (within 2 weeks of purchasing) after the original phone I bought from them kept crashing. And the replacement NEVER held a charge well, it was always a problem, just kept getting worse and worse. I was told by Esurance that my phone (over 2 years old) is still under warranty so they will not issue a replacement. I was allegedly transferred to the warranty department, then sent right back into the horrible voicemail systems, and got nowhere, and was dropped - twice. So they seem to be making sure that I cannot get a replacement phone.
Reviewed May 26, 2019
I would give negative stars if I could. It doesn’t matter which store you go to, the wait is horrendous for no apparent reason. After paying over $350/year for 7 years, it was time for a change. So I call them to tell them I switched and pay my bill. Guess what, I couldn’t pay my bill because I was no longer a customer. Go down to the store to pay. What they neglected to tell me was I still owed for the entire billing month even though I was 2 days into it. Yes, they charge the entire month even though I switched. I didn’t even know until they sent a letter saying I was behind on my bill. So I call to find out what that was all about. Yeah, I get to pay them more money. The best part, I can’t do it over the phone yet again, as I told the customer service rep because, are you ready for this, I am no longer a customer. They are not the best, just the most expensive.
Reviewed May 25, 2019
I live in a small town in southwestern Missouri and when I came home the AT&T towers were down for over 3 days. I said screw it and went to the Verizon store in my town and switched from a 8 plus to the XR and I had signal from Verizon when I left and has never turned off, plus Verizon is cheaper than what I had with AT&T.
Reviewed May 23, 2019
I've been with Verizon service for a few years now. I've gone out of state. I'm very impressed with Verizon cell service. I have very good coverage never have any problems. I will always be with Verizon as long as I get this service.
Reviewed May 23, 2019
Verizon Wireless cell phone service is not what they use to be. In my area the service use to be great. I only had issues in low line or tree line areas. The problem is getting worse instead of better. I never had one bad thing to say about them before this. I've been with the same provider since it was called Bell Atlantic mobile. Then it was switched to Verizon Wireless. I ask that why can't they fix the issues to have better signal? I hope to have better service soon or I will be going elsewhere.
Reviewed May 22, 2019
My cable boxes were malfunctioning and I called for service. Now they are charging me for the service visit and they refuse to waive the $99 charge to replace their broken equipment. Even though the repairman informed me there would be no charge.
Reviewed May 21, 2019
I have tried for almost 3 months to get a refund on a closed account. Chatted with support on 3/2/19, told the check would go out 4/2, verified mailing address. Called again 4/9 to verify check was issued, verified my mailing address, told the check did not go out 4/2, that it would go out 5/2, So it is no 5/20 and the refund check has not been issued and I have now been transferred to 4 different people and none of them can assist me!
Reviewed May 20, 2019
Verizon it appears sells numbers to SPAM and Telemarketers when a new or transfer customer joins this network. Eleven years with T-Mobile and never once did I get unwanted calls, text etc. Now I'm with Verizon since February of this year, nothing but SPAM and telemarketers. The monthly fee is far greater than T-Mobile. The only good thing about this company is that service is good in some far away, tight places or deep within a sub basement of a hospital. Maybe the FCC should look into the practice of this company selling numbers to outside companies once issued. If I knew then what I know now, I'd stayed with T-Mobile. T. **, Bristol Tennessee.
Reviewed May 18, 2019
Poor etiquette all around. I have been a Verizon customer for many many years including Fios. Not extremely happy about the pricing but have gotten them to adjust pricing to make it feasible. I recently had an incident with customer service about my bill. Verizon decided to change my due date a year or so ago without an opportunity to fight it. It was being changed. PERIOD... End of story. I called advising I cannot make payment on that date. I am disabled military and get a check once a month. Customer service said, "That’s ok. Just try to make a double payment and you’ll always be ahead." Uhmmm I believe I just told him I couldn’t do that because of how I get paid by the military. Called several times, one late fee waived but no compromise to the due date.
I talk to customer service yesterday to be told he doesn’t care about my military ranking or that I made a promise to pay. He shut my phone down. I have an enormous amount of data that continues to roll over that is ALREADY paid for! So rolling over data means nothing, you lose it either way. I made my payment and they still have not turned my phones back on. I will be leaving Verizon and never to return, not even for Fios. Customer service stated they don’t care if they lose my service, so it will be lost. Management needs to school their employees on customer etiquette. I’m not asking for special service because I’m a disabled veteran; I would think they would have respect for someone who fought two wars for this country.
Reviewed May 17, 2019
I've had the Verizon to the last nearly 20 years and I have never had the problems that I'm having right now. I work for a delivery company. I have to get my notifications on my phone. I have to get them on time. My phone started acting up and I will get back as with notifications about 30 to 50 at a time stuff that I can tell I've been was old so I assumed it was my phone. I called it Motorola. They replace my phone for nearly $25.
After that didn't seem to crack my problem I went tech support for my company telling them my notifications are not coming on time and days we're sure that it was Verizon. After changing all the settings on all the stuff on my app I finally determined that it was Verizon because the notifications were late on everything on my phone, Facebook, everything that's online.. It's not only my apps. It's literally everything on my phone. I reinstalled all the apps are we gotten a new phone I changed all the settings of thousand times. I've uninstalled everything on my phone to reinstall it. I've done every troubleshoot that the delivery company tells me to do that Motorola tells me to do and Verizon tells me to do but I'm still getting my notifications late by hours and hours like some hunter hour late. Sometimes there's five or six hours.
They sent me a hums my car not really sure if that's helping me. They sent me a MiFi for my house after the fact I realized I didn't need it and they demanded a refund on it. They gave me a network extender in my house that doesn't seem to be helping me at all. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do next I believe what is going on is Verizon is forcing me to upgrade my phone. I have the Motorola Z2 my daughter has a Motorola Z3 and she doesn't think she's having the same problem so that's really hard to determine.
Verizon is sure that the problem is at my house but I have experienced it everywhere. I walked out of the store and got 50 notifications from all of my stuff on my phone so it's happening everywhere. It's not only happening at home life is if my network is not good at my house. I've lived in our house for nearly 10 years and I've never had this problem. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do now but I'm going to end up losing my job if I can't figure out how to fix it.
Reviewed May 17, 2019
I shifted from T-Mobile to Verizon. OMG such a waste of time In Verizon.The sales told me there is no charges on equipment .Now charges comes up on the account. We have 2 Lines and he told us the bills will be around $270 and we agree. Now the first bill I received is $454 and now I received another bill of $649. I asked the store, "What's this?" He says, "I don't know. You have to call customer care". OMG. Are you serious? The phone numbers are disconnected now after 45 days and when I called them only thing I heard is, "Make the Payment". I don't think any professional attitudes with you guys. Sorry those kind of service still exist. Harassment, improper product knowledge, worse attitude, and lack of common courtesy to listen. I am here writing this as I was working with telecom for 8 years 10 years back, I have never encountered these stuffs. Sorry Verizon!!! I feel pity for you.
Reviewed May 17, 2019
Verizon’s customer service reps are now outright lying to customers about all sorts of things. They do not care about customers. And they cannot be trusted to do what they promise. In my case, they offered a no-strings-attached discount to keep me as customer, which Rep lied and Verizon did not honor. Then charged me $185 termination fee when I switched to Comcast. Details follow.
I was a customer of VZW for many years. I called them to let them know I was switching to Comcast, due to much better rates. The customer service person offered to reduce my bill by 20% to entice me to stay with them. I agreed to give it a try. After a couple of months, I decided to go ahead and switch to Comcast, due to the compelling savings over Verizon they are offering. A week later, I get a bill from Verizon for $180, for early termination fees! There was no early termination of any sort; I owned my phone, and I had no contract. When I called them about it, I got a huge runaround. After many phone calls, transfers to other departments, hang-ups, etc, I went to a Verizon store. After much effort, the people at the store got to the bottom of it.
Verizon was charging me an early termination fee because of the (fake) 20% price reduction they had given me. They claimed that it came with a 12 month contract. They did not state anything about a contract at time of discount. In fact, I had asked at time of offer if there were any sort of strings attached to the offer, and was told a definite NO! I would not have locked myself into a contract, since I was considering switching.
If you are considering doing business with Verizon, don’t. You’ll be sorry. Much better pricing at Comcast. Better customer service. And they use the Verizon network - exact same towers, etc. Best of all, our phone bill went from over $100 per month for two phones at Verizon, to $12 per month for two phones at Comcast. STAY AWAY FROM VERIZON! If there were a zero rating, I would use it.
Reviewed May 16, 2019
I just had the WORST experience with Verizon's fraud department, and I mean WORST. I have been with Verizon since the first cell phones were introduced into the market (yes that makes me old) and I currently have five members of my family on a Verizon plan. My bill is $450/mo and has been for years. I just returned from a business trip and found a FedEx package with 6 phones on my doorstep, brand new iPhone Xs. Clearly a huge order that I did not order. As a courtesy I called the Verizon fraud department, this is what happened:
1. The rep only cared about his phones, could not care less about me. 2. He told me to bring them to a local store and they would ship them back for free (how generous!). 3. I asked how these phones could be ordered in my name, his response was it's fraud. 4. I asked for more information about how the phones were ordered, he was clueless and borderline rude. 5. He said somebody filled out an Application in my name, I asked for help finding out how someone knew about me, social security number, account, pass codes, etc.
6. His answer was send in a Subpoena to law department. This is laughable. 7. He was NOT helpful in any way whatsoever. A complete jerk to be honest and not a very smart one at that. 8. I asked for a supervisor, I have now been on hold for 50 minutes and nobody will pick up. It is unreal how Verizon only cared about getting their phones back, not a care in the world about me their customer. Really pathetic. Michael **
Reviewed May 16, 2019
Your representatives are trained improperly, and have trouble answering simple questions.. They can't seem to grasp the concept of actually resolving the issue at hand, or giving a resolution to the issues/ question.. My representative just kept repeating my questions back to me like that was actually a dignified answer.. His training clearly wasn't soaked up by his brain or your trainers need to be more consistent in actually teaching your employees. If an employee can not seem to give a valid correct educated response he should reach out to someone who has the brains to do so or just inform the customer he does not know the correct response/answer instead of beating around the bush and acting like repeating your questions/concerns repeatedly is a helpful solution.
There was zero benefits from having the conversation with your employee about my bill. Just a lot of Repetition and your employee not know how to properly answer any question at hand. He clearly was unsure of how to utilize the proper resources the find the answer to any of my questions or he just didn't feel the need or want to do so.. Either way my expectations are not set very high when it comes to your company or your employees.

Reviewed May 15, 2019
Verizon and Samsung together pushed out an update that knocked my phone into a frenzy. I lost apps, break up and calls and issues with Wi-Fi, texting and calling. I tried for 3 weeks to have someone at Verizon and even Samsung take care of the situation and all I got was repetitive comments that if you pay off the phone we could see what we could do. Verizon pushed out an app and they want me to pay them to have working service. They should make good on this problem. I will be looking at a another service provider with better customer support. Hopefully better customer support and guidelines.
Reviewed May 14, 2019
I won't go into extensive details, but a few years ago they canceled my plan, leaving me without internet. I canceled my service. Then my grandmother was being charged over $180 for phone and internet every month, now she's paying $60; hint, it's not through Verizon. Absolutely one of the worst companies I've ever had the displeasure of doing business with. Highly not recommended.
Reviewed May 14, 2019
I have been using Verizon only 2 months for my phone. I have unlimited data with my wife, they promised it would cost us 156$. First month they sent 170$ bill, it was my fault because I forgot to set auto pay option on bank account. Next month they sent second bill 191$. What?? I used 4 years ATT before Verizon, my mistake was I listened my friend and change my provider. My home is located at 75244, one story house, internet speed is under 1Mbps for 4g. This company is joke. Everyday I'm taking green line train for going to my work (at downtown), video conference call stops to work at least 4 times. Verizon coverage map is just lie, company is cheater. I deceived me for 2 Samsung S10+ for 1250$, who cares?? I will pay them ** it $750 more to cancel the service with them. They are just cheaters. By the way ATT also started to fracture its bills but service was good. Not sure about T-Mobile yet.
Reviewed May 13, 2019
I’ve always heard Verizon was the best but, not so much. 12 hrs of my life in turmoil. Bought two new phones and wanted to add two. They created three separate accounts. Which I was told was impossible with an attitude. Then everyone was baffled about who could handle this. Call Verizon, no go into a location. Was supposed to be a mother’s day gift, but my wife ended up spending mother’s day in Verizon dealing with this huge mess. After I spend two separate days trying to resolve the issue. I sure hope the service is worth all the time I’ve wasted, as well as my wife’s Mother’s Day.
Reviewed May 13, 2019
Verizon stole our iPhones. They never sent us money for them. We had the confirmation. They received the phones and they never paid us. They also said they would pay our last bill from T-mobile and they never did that either. They can come after you for not paying for your phone but they will steal the phones from customers. Sell your own phone. Don't give it to them.... and they LIE about everything.
Reviewed May 13, 2019
We purchased two identical iPhones with Verizon together with their pre-paid SIM card. According to our agreement, the phones were supposed to unlock automatically after 12 months. One of them did and the other one didn't. We reached out to their support several times only and after hours on the phone they simply will not do anything. First they told us that they do not lock phones, then they told us it was Apple's fault and finally they acknowledged that the phone is locked to carrier and should have unlocked it but that they are not able to do it.
In the end we have spent hours on hold with Verizon and went twice to Apple, that of course cannot do anything because it is locked by the carrier. Most recently, Verizon technical support was supposed to call us back to figure it out with Apple but simply didn't. This is in violation of our agreement with Verizon but they are simply ignoring us and I find it outrageous that they can get away with this kind of behavior.
Reviewed May 11, 2019
When joining Verizon Prepaid they mistakenly overcharged me due their negligence and then “returned” the amount as credit on my account. After a month I left Verizon prepaid because of poor service and they forfeited the credit on my account. Overall, they chose to keep the money that they mistakenly overcharged me with. Not much different than a common thief.
Reviewed May 11, 2019
After buying a Hum device for roadside assistance (something Verizon set me up with) I found out that I already had roadside assistance through my car insurance. So I took it back the very same day and canceled it. On my bill they charged me a crazy amount! For both the device and all of the different fees that came with it. I called Verizon and they said I would getting my money back, but not until my next bill was due. In other words she said my next bill would be significantly lower than what I usually pay because I would be getting $60 taken off my normal bill. My next bill came around and it was higher than what I normally pay. So Verizon kept what they stole and charged me more than normal the following month. I'm definitely going to be paying for my phone outright and dropping Verizon. Here is an example - normal bill=$80, mischarged bill=$145, following bill=$100 ???
Reviewed May 10, 2019
Making the choice can be difficult but in my case not so much, I have switch from Cox to Verizon! As a what should’ve been lifetime Cox customer with nothing but poor service and being ripped off ** (assistant manager) and ** (technician) made it a flawless transition for getting my needs met. Cox technician drilled into in the furthest part of my 1800sq ft brick ranch home leaving me exposed to water damage by not sealing the hole and restricting WiFi access throughout the home! Whereas Verizon tech asked where I preferred my router having to crawl into the crawl space to make the location achievable.
I am forever a Verizon loyal customer from here on out after experience a flawless switch and excellent service treating you how you should be treated. I mowed my yard during the install period while ** worked and finished by the time I did in under an hour with no issues from my large mastiff hound inside. You can find these extravagant individuals in Hampton Roads at 7721 Hampton Blvd Verizon????
Reviewed May 9, 2019
Worthless customer service. Worst experience. I contacted them a total of five times in the span of a month, with the simple request of separating my account from my wife's. That was just too much for the idiots in customer service. My average wait time on the phone with them each time I called was over an hour. Finally, out of sheer frustration, I gave up and switched to AT&T. I'm happy with my decision. I would STRONGLY ADVISE NOT USING VERIZON WIRELESS!
Reviewed May 9, 2019
I just traveled abroad, and now I can't pay my freaking phone bill because, for whatever reason, I'm locked out of my Verizon Wireless account. I've tried resetting my password countless times, but it keeps giving me the same stupid error message. So now they're penalizing me for not paying my bill on the due date, despite not being able to sign into my account. The Internet and mobile networks here are also very weak, so I am unable to call Verizon Customer Service in the United States. It seems that they do this on purpose so that they can take as much money from you as they possibly can! Shame on them!
Reviewed May 9, 2019
The wireless company scammed me and my entire family, with the buy one get one free promotion! They never thought told us that, if we paid the buy one off early, that we would lose the free ones! Now they’re charging us for the FREE phone every month! DO NOT USE THEM FOR YOUR WIRELESS SERVICE! They are nothing but SCAMMERS!???
Reviewed May 8, 2019
I recently learned that Verizon was overcharging my count for over 2 years because of an account that remained on my bill that was supposed to have been removed. After speaking with customer service and being redirected to the manager of customer service they decided to reimburse me $90. So to be clear, they overcharged me almost $900 and reimbursed $90. With over 150 million subscribers apparently $800 is going to break the bank.
Reviewed May 8, 2019
When I went in to discuss possibly purchasing a new cell phone, as my current one was obviously not going to last much longer—After much discussion, a particular phone was settled upon and I was “promised” my monthly charges would be “x” amount. That has never happened. IT HAS BEEN THREE MONTHS SINCE I RECEIVED THE NEW PHONE, THE CHARGES ARE NOWHERE CLOSE TO WHAT I WAS PROMISED. Now I am told that since the 14 day return window has expired for returning the phones, I could take them in my local store but they would just lay there. Nothing would be done and I would not get credit for them. There is supposedly no way to reduce my bill. This is just nuts. I am so frustrated and left with such a poor opinion of Verizon. Once I am able to get out of this contract I will never deal with them again, and certainly never give them any positive comments.
Reviewed May 8, 2019
I can no longer actually speak to anyone about a service problem. No matter what I say, the automated voice tells "that request can be handled by our automated assistant" and the online site only allows "chats" from canned topics. Verizon is losing my business, I am more important than apparently they want to treat me. I am not a number.
Reviewed May 7, 2019
Service is pretty good and plans are competitive but you cannot set a notification to pay your bill. You can only get a notification when your "bill is ready" about 3 weeks before it is due then they will notify you a day after it is due hoping you forget and then they tack on a $5 late fee. There are no other options. This is a purposeful scam.
Reviewed May 5, 2019
I was making the switch back to Verizon (great experience with them years ago). Ordered new phone. Gave credit card for down payment etc.. Get an email that I have to call fraud department which I did only to be treated rudely when asked questions about my identity.. Gave every bit of info they asked for, scammed DL to them credit card and SS# and then get told my account is fraudulent and I am not getting anything and the agent laughed at me when I was blown away... Then Verizon proceeded to charge my credit card anyway!! Call them back (hold times ridiculous) only to be told that bummer, maybe is 5-7 biz days my card will be credited? If I am a fraud why did you put the charge thru in the first place? Worst company ever to deal with! Rude and non-caring whatsoever!
Reviewed May 4, 2019
I personally have nothing against Verizon, but what has me concerned in the 5G smartphone they’re selling. If people aren’t made aware of the 5G rollout/smart grid and the dangers associated with the high levels of RF and EMF radiation these phones will emit, a lot of people will suffer. First of all 5G cellular technology is dangerous because it emits Radio Frequency (RF) Radiation. And it does so at ultra high frequencies and with ultra high intensity, compared to earlier technologies. The World Health Organization classified RF Radiation as a possible “carcinogenic” in 2011. And there are literally hundreds of peer reviewed scientific studies linking RF Radiation to things like cancer, crib death, DNA damage (especially in infants and fetuses) and male infertility.
Also because of the limits of the frequencies used, in order for users to have good reception it is estimated they will need to put a mini cell station every 2 to 8 houses. This will multiply significantly the amount of RF Radiation we will be exposed to. If these companies claim that this technology is safe, they’re not being truthful. If they tell their customers that there isn’t enough information out there to make an informed decision, they’re not being truthful. In 1972 the US Navy commissioned a study on RF and EMF radiation on the human body, and less than a month into their testing, logged over 125 harmful side effects, so many that they stopped the study...some of the effects: leukemia, migraines, loss of eyesight, confusion, violent mood swings.
What I don’t understand is why this is even being allowed! I mean, I’m just an average person, and I’ve found a plethora of information, so it’s hard to believe that companies like Verizon aren’t aware of the risks they’re taking with the health of millions of people. Thank goodness the medical professionals are speaking out! According to the 5G appeal website, ”the recent years over 240 scientists from more than 40 countries have expressed their “serious concerns”, via EMF Scientists Appeal, regarding the ubiquitous and increasing exposure to EMF generated by electric and wireless devices – already before the additional 5G roll-out. The over 240 scientists refer to the fact that ”numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines”.
Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being in humans. Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plants and animals. Is a phone that could cause you or a loved one to get sick truly worth it? Is downloading a movie or a song at hyper fast speeds worth a life? This rollout will bring nothing but a world full of sick people, so for your own good, and the good of those you love, think twice. Say no to 5G!
Reviewed May 4, 2019
I've been with VZW all of 2 months. I switched from another provider to come to the world's fastest network and it's been the WORST. My SMS comes in delay 2-3 hours (example: my spouse messaged me at 4:30 to tell me she was on the way to drop our son off to class and I received the message at 7:30 pm when I was picking him up), people call me and my phone doesn't ring (example: my daughter called me while sitting next to me and my phone didn't ring, but on her end it rang 4 times and want to my VM), my data runs like dial up or 2g speeds no matter where I'm at. Home, work, school, the supermarket, even the VZW store I barely get to bars, my upload speeds is 0.50 and download speeds is 1.83. I've called since day 1 and spoken to several reps over the phone and live chat and I still have no resolution!!! The tier 2 technical support representative even told me I may just want to switch carriers!! And the other guy tried to sell me a higher priced plan...
Reviewed May 3, 2019
The front of my iPhone screen was pixelated, so I was forwarded to the phoneclaim.com department, they didn't want to pay for it, so they forwarded me to the Verizon warranty department. After countless questions they also didn't want to pay for the defective phone. One hour later they said I have 3 options to get that phone replaced. The only problem now was that I couldn't hear the wtf he was trying to tell me. The audio was so bad that I could hear anything. He then got offended and said he was going to transfer me to someone with better audio. He kept me on hold for 1 hour. I gave up so I finally hang-up and dialed again.
Reviewed May 2, 2019
Call center is horrible. I was transferred to 3-4 different people each time I called. Had an issue I was not made aware of until it hit my credit report. I immediately paid my $91, even though there was no attempts by Verizon to contact me until they sent it to collections (which is when I actually learned I had a bill with them). Agents were rude and kept wanting to pass me around. Now I understand they deal with people all the time who do not pay their bills, however, I had I actually known I had a bill with them I could of paid it. Makes me glad I left this cell phone company.
Reviewed May 1, 2019
Paid in advance for cellphone service but cancelled service. Verizon refused to refund my $40 pre-payment and suggested that I dispute the charge with my bank. After three tries the bank stated I exhausted all avenues to reclaim money. Never again VERIZON.
Reviewed May 1, 2019
On 4/27/19, I spoke to a customer service representative about upgrading two of the phones on my plan. I was told that I would have to pay the phones off before I could upgrade. I was under the impression that I could pay half of the price of each phone. She gave me three options as to how I could upgrade the phones after speaking with her supervisor. She told me I could trade the phones, she gave me a trade in price and the difference after the trade. I wrote down what I was told. She told me to go into the store and that she would note everything she told me on my account.
When I went to the store I was told that the phones could not be traded in and that they would have to be paid in full before I could upgrade. The customer service representative led me to believe that I was going to be able to trade the phones in, pay the difference and upgrade. This was not the case. I called Verizon and spoke to another customer service representative and was told that they were sorry for the misinformation. I was not told when I upgraded the last phone that I would have to pay it off in full before upgrading. Nothing was done, I was lied to. I've been with Verizon for a long time. Verizon do not honor what they tell you.
Reviewed April 30, 2019
Be very careful about using Verizon Wireless International Plans. They are very deceiving and their customer service will not assist you if your bill is wrong. I have been using their International Plans for about 6 months and it has been nothing but grief. I am now giving up and finding someone else that can provide an honest International service. If you are a budget minded person you really need to decide if you are willing to risk how much this will cost you (most likely several hundred dollars per month) and what you will do when you receive this huge bill. They really don't care if you leave them and they will take this as an opportunity to inflate your bill and they will tell you that you agreed to the amount they are charging. You will have to be prepared to present paper documentation of all your transactions or you will be stuck with a very large bill.
I have been a customer for 16 years and have rarely had an issue until I tried to use their International Services and the customer service rep named Julia told me that just because I have been with them for 16 years doesn't matter. She stated that their system is never wrong and unless I have proof I have to pay it. She was very patronizing and kept repeating her script over and over and had no interest in what I was saying.
Reviewed April 29, 2019
I just got my service installed Thursday afternoon 4/25/19 # 3pm. I was happy with the gentleman who installed it as he was polite but the rest of my experience has been AWFUL. My bill is not due till May 25th and it clearly states it in my app that I even took a screenshot if to prove I am not a liar and don't pay my bills. My child is home sick today and has nothing to keep him occupied. Nevertheless I am work trying to sort this out. Coming back to work from a sick leave myself. After being transferred numerous times I am being told I need to pay. Funny I haven't even had the service a week. I am transferring to COX today. I will write a reviews as well. I am in disbelief of how I got treated today as a new customer nevermore having to explain my situation 6 times. Here is the screenshot they can come pick up their measly router as I am done with this aggravation.
Reviewed April 28, 2019
After I paid my bill in January of this year, I tried to pay Feb bill. Because they charge $ 7.00 to pay your bill through the customer service OR financial line I went into a “chat” to pay my bill. They took out the money twice. I am on a fixed income and cannot afford that. They reversed the charge but not before I bounced two checks for my utilities ($70.00). I assumed all was fixed until I get March’s bill! It was 600 dollars!!! Evidently they messed up the bill in December unbeknownst to anyone.
Anyway, they set me up on a payment plan and I was so flustered that I gave them the wrong Friday pay date (I get paid every other Friday). I tried to change the payment date via the phone app but it kept telling me by text that it was today! I tried everything and then called someone in financial care who could BARELY speak English. I tried to explain to her that I simply wanted to change Fridays to my payday. She finally gave me to customer care, despite being transferred back and forth 4 times!
I was told by some snotty and rude girl named Christina that it would be a $ 7.00 fee to change it to every payday for me. A charge to get customer service to do their job! Then she threatened me because I was complaining, telling me that I wasn’t getting anywhere with her by complaining. I told her that if I am paying $7.00 for a minute of her time, that I could be as angry and unpleasant as I wanted to be! She continued to say how I wasn’t getting any help from her if I didn’t start being nice.
Thanks. Verizon, for putting a whole new meaning to “Customer Service”. You farm out calls to other countries who cannot answer our questions, then CHARGE us to speak to us on the phone. Are you having financial difficulty, so you cannot provide “customer service” to your “customers”, without charging a fee that could pay for 2 dinners for them? I am leaving both Verizon and AT&T because of the exact same practices in lack of customer service! Who do these people think they are? Seems like they are getting a bit too big for their britches, as my momma used to say.
Reviewed April 27, 2019
When we opened our account last Nov 2018 we gave our mailing address and requested billing by mail. Twice they mailed our bills to wrong address and as a result we never got the bill. Now they are charging us a reconnect fee and they refuse to give us a credit for what was their fault. You can't even talk to the actual billing department. They have someone else talk that just repeats the same lines over and over. So there is zero customer service.
Reviewed April 27, 2019
In a rural area so far adequate coverage (lack of cell towers). Have used Verizon for over 25 years. Late in 2018 I opted to upgrade to a new phone and a somewhat pricier plan. Contracted a new phone at $750. Incurred extra charges just for a plan change and to top it off, six weeks after the purchase the same phone was advertised online for $350. If you want to get screwed for being a loyal customer just stick with Verizon. Verizon's same lower cost was for NEW customers only!
Reviewed April 26, 2019
I have been a customer for years and have noticed my service has gotten drastically worse the last couple of weeks. I'm dropping calls and have one or no bars where I normally do. Wondering if Verizon is doing something shady to try and make people with older phones upgrade. Frustrated and considering switching providers.
Reviewed April 26, 2019
My iPhone 6 Plus stopped functioning, so I purchased a new iPhone 6S for $120.00 from Verizon. I decided to pay $5.00 a month for 24 months. I didn't activate it immediately, because my iPhone 6 Plus started working again, and I prefer the bigger screen. My first bill was $5.00 (as promised by Verizon), however the following month the bill became $20.00 a month. I called Verizon asking why, and they explained since I had not activated the 6S phone the cost had increased substantially, but would decrease once activated. I could no longer return the phone, so I decided to activate it.
The Verizon representative explained that after a month of activation the bill would return to $5.00 a month, and I would be credited any overage. Unfortunately, this did not happen. Verizon now claims that I purchased the phone for almost $500.00 (I would never pay this amount for the iPhone 6S) and the $20.00 a month is correct. I questioned why the initial charge was only $5.00, and they claim this was a mistake on their part, and I should be happy I received the discount. I explained that I had a receipt showing I should only be paying $120.00, and then they allege I had to add a line to get the deal.
Needless to say their story changed over and over again. After two hours of being on the phone with three different representatives, they credited my account $140.00 since I am a "valued customer of 8 years". This still gives Verizon a lot more money than what they ethically deserve. Today, not only did I cancel my line but also, my boyfriend and his two daughters, and my sister's family. Apparently, they do not need our money. These companies are monopolizing, new companies cannot compete, and they no longer care about their customers. And, they allow their employees to lie.
Reviewed April 24, 2019
Not enough words to describe. These monsters do not care to help and the'll tell you so. A rude 'there's nothing i can do' comes out fast! They forget who pays their check, US, the acc holders! They wouldn't help me have access to my account because I had no pin. I had to go to the store which was about 20 something miles away, I was staying in a small small town due to to work and no Verizon around. Long story short, the CSR was VERY rude and quick to get off the phone, very heavy accent, like he didn't really want to talk much because he probably didn't understand much either. He wouldn't help or offer to get someone else to help get my pin back. Just kept saying, 'I'm sorry, I cant help you' time after time. That irritated me to no end, made my payment and kept asking if there was another way, he kept saying the same, 'no PIN, No access to account, sorry, cant help'
They denied me the chance to set up the payment plan over a PIN, A DAMN PIN! I can call the bank and give my SSN to access anything I want to know, and these morons want to deny me access to a cell phone account because of a PIN?? Needless to say that ruin me. I was placed under 'collections/ paid in full' even though I made the full payment 4 days after it went through the bureau. All over a PIN. All that guy had to do is help me create a new PIN or talk to a manager to verify who I was to help me with the payment plan. That was it. That person decided not to help because?? That's what they are taught during training??? It's their way or the highway. Don't help if they don't have a PIN??
A reason why I had stopped using their service (I had put my numbers on PAUSE, no service at all) was that the Samsung 7 I got (2 of them) were crappy. Turned off on their own all the time, left me stranded or lost on the road more than once. GPS signal lost and there I was, L O S T. Wanted to use the phone and... OH NO, THE PHONE TURNED OFF!! In the middle of a LONG LONG WAIT with X governmental institution and the phone TURNS OFF ON ITS OWN A G A I N !!! LOST MY SPOT. ANOTHER HOUR WAIT. I sent the phones in to check them out once and probably didn't check them because it kept happening!!
Overall is a horrible service and experience, I can't emphasize it enough, DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS COMPANY. They don't report your good payment history, they report when you do not pay, they don't tell the world THEY HAVE A CRAPPY SERVICE AND PHONES, but they want you to honor the contract and suck it up with whatever 1000 dollar phone you signed your life away for. Hell, I got 2!! Where are they now? IN MY KID'S TOY BOX. Because there is where they belong. Expensive and useless toys.
Just stick to prepaid, don't get any expensive phones because most are junk anyway. CRICKET has way better service IMO. At least it worked when Verizon didn't. I had both services when I decided it was time to switch and Verizon's phone did not work in Wisconsin back roads, Cricket did and got me back on the road. A coworker just got Verizon and he sounds like he's under water and no signal in the boonies, Cricket works just fine. He made the same mistake, signed his life away with a 1000 iPhone. I feel sorry for him because he's already complaining about it. Hey, should have listened to me.
Reviewed April 24, 2019
Verizon has lost it in the last several months. Dial their support number or 611 and they send you a text message with a link to click on. I have tried opting out of this forced on text message but can't. I have called them 5 times and now they blocked my text messaging instead. I have had other bad experiences with them lately and they are not near what they used to be. I am on a unlimited plan so my cell gets 22GB data but my home internet device that they call a hotspot only gets 15GB total period. This is not the leading mobile provider anymore.
Reviewed April 23, 2019
About six months ago I bought the insurance. I dropped the insurance years ago for the fact that the deductibles were sky high. The only reason I changed was because I was told the insurance extends the factory warranty on defects indefinitely, so if a defect happens that I am not responsible for they will cover it. They kept their word the first time but the second they would not. Spent four hours on the phone for nothing, the phones speaker, battery, and screen were glitching but still would not uphold the warranty. Wanted me to upgrade. I am dropping them tomorrow.
Reviewed April 23, 2019
Verizon are pure evil. Satanic worshiping monsters from the depths of the blackest hole in our universe. Maniac greed, convoluted evil billing schemes and greedy overbilling. Disgusting customer service. Stick with Cricket or companies that won't pillage your life and drag on your soul with their aggressive violent evil collection agency schemes...
Reviewed April 23, 2019
DO NOT under any circumstances consider signing on with Verizon Wireless for your cell phone service. I have had nothing but problems with them from the very beginning and I HAVE ONLY HAD THEIR SERVICE FOR A LITTLE OVER ONE MONTH!!! Calls to their customer reps had absolutely no effect, they will not accept responsibility for their billing errors and will not work with their customers to make sure they are happy. I signed up for the 55+ plan which is $55.00 per month and the first bill was $176.00!!! THEN THEY DISCONNECTED MY SERVICE because they claim they mailed me a bill which I never received.
The rep shifted the blame to the postal service and told me to contact them, (again no accountability). When I stated that I have never had a problem receiving mail from everyone else, she stated well we say we mailed the bill and you state you didn't receive it so there is nothing to discuss, BASICALLY CALLING ME A LIAR. All this from someone who is purported to be a supervisor! I switched over from another cell phone carrier and this is how they appreciate my business! Again stay clear from this company. No accountability, no customer service and no customer loyalty.
Reviewed April 23, 2019
Often text messages and phone calls never make it to their intended recipient. There is a dead zone where I work so I can't even use my phone when I am at work. It isn't cheap to go with Verizon either; I've been with them for several years and the service seems to get worse as time goes on.
Reviewed April 22, 2019
I have spent about 2 years with Verizon now and I hated it. Their prices are so expensive, for what you pay for 2gbs you can get unlimited with T-Mobile. Paid off my phone and switched. However, I was left in the dark. When I asked customer service what the process was and when/how to get my last bill, they said they would send it. I never received my last bill. Tried to pay it online, but my account no longer had access, even when I tried using their FAQs for disconnected accounts. My last bill was NEARLY TWICE what I typically pay and was never told why or given any breakdown. Then I was charged $8 to talk to a human for less than 30 secs while she took my payment (one that I should have been able to pay online). They clearly don't care about their customers at all. Oh, its also a $200 deductible for a cracked screen, despite paying for insurance. I'd rather upgrade and put down a down payment for that much, its about the same. Overall, extremely angry and disappointed in their lack of service and money grabbing.
Reviewed April 22, 2019
Never have I experienced so many dropped calls. It sucks. I literally cannot talk on my phone because I never have enough service to call. I usually have enough to text but even that sometimes doesn't go through. I pay a ton for unlimited data only to find that I never have it when I am out anyways. Disappointed.
Reviewed April 22, 2019
My service for my phone and MiFi has done nothing but continues to go down. I have lived in my house for over 30 years. Yesterday my wifi has gone to no service. Verizon has researched my devices. Within a mile from my house full service. I'm sure it's Verizon's equipment, not mine. No longer receive or connect calls in my house in the basement. I've been a customer for years. Why having problems now. I'm not in a rural area. Come on Verizon, quit blaming it on me and you not taking responsibility. Looking to maybe switching to AT&T as soon as my 2 year agreement is over. Totally frustrated.
Reviewed April 20, 2019
Verizon Enterprise has a special arrogance, a nastiness in attitude that screams, "we do not care. You should probably switch to AT&T." We made the mistake of switching our company wireless business from AT&T to Verizon Enterprise and it's been one regret after another. From more dropped calls and call failures than we ever had with AT&T to a billing system which works sometimes and doesn't work others so that something as simple as paying our company bill online can be impossible.
The company apologizes but does not have the decency nor kindness to discount or credit our account for numerous dropped calls or being completely unable to log into their website to even view our invoice or see usage. "Our systems are down and we're aware of it and we do not know when they will be up again" is all they say. Their online billing system would crash and their phone tech support dept. said the problem had to be on our end because they're a Fortune 20 company with thousands of customers so its unlikely there's a problem with their system. Blame the customer. Always a bad practice.
Of course it turned out to be bad programming on Verizon's part which ultimately resulted in calls to Verizon's Executive Corporate Offices and conference calls with their developers in India where they outsource their entire website and billing development. Sad that a Fortune 20 company can't afford to hire their own inhouse engineers and developers. Verizon is a sad, disgraceful wireless provider who does the bare minimum.
Reviewed April 19, 2019
I have been a customer of Verizon for 25 + years. I have purchased multiple phones for my family throughout these years. I recently purchased a new Google+ 3 phone from Verizon for one of my daughters. So the screen cracked and I contacted Verizon to replace the phone using the insurance I have paid for every month for the past 25+ years. They send me a new phone but the SIMS tray is missing. I contact Verizon customer service and they tell me to send the replacement phone back to Verizon and they will send me another phone. OK, Receive phone, all's good. Then I receive my bill. There is a $50.99 charge for a retail device trade-in adjustment. I contact customer service regarding the charge. They tell me that the second phone I returned that was missing the SIMS tray was from a different carrier.
I explain to them they were the ones who sent me the phone in the first place and all transactions have been handled through Verizon. So how could it be from a different carrier. They could not give me an explanation but would credit my account 19.01 from where they reduced the trade-in value on an iPhone 8 I recently traded in for a new iPhone 10 for my other daughter. I told the customer service representative that the iPhone charges did not have anything to do with the Google phone. He apologized and offered to credit me an additional $5.00. Why should I have to pay for a device adjustment on a phone they sent me to begin with. A $50.99 charge at that. I paid for my insurance every month. Paid the deductible for the replacement, But now I have to pay an additional $50.00 for a mistake they made? I do not think this is how they should treat their loyal customers and I will be shopping for other services.
Reviewed April 19, 2019
I've been reaching out to Verizon to lower cost and after being a loyal customer for over 15 years and having 5 lines I was told there is nothing they could do for me. Needless to say Verizon prices are higher than all of the other phone companies out there today, and this shows me how they do not value loyal customers. After 15 years with Verizon I will be leaving them today! For much cheaper deal new phone and unlimited data for almost free. ****Loyal customers Verizon does not appreciate our business and it's been proven today!****
Reviewed April 19, 2019
Traps you into high cost contract with excessive fees. Verizon has extremely high priced mobile service contracts. I was thinking of leaving, and was offered a discount in January. When I finally left in April after 3 years and no contract was charged $185.
Reviewed April 19, 2019
I went in to Verizon today to switch my phone to a different model, in fact a number MotoG model, currently however I'm still stuck with my Turbo 2 that has a bad battery. I was told I can switch phones because the other one is also 4G. Basically I'm stuck with one ** phone that's 4G that's been grandfathered in, and I can't even switch to a newer model. So why the ** do I have a contract with these ** if I can't even switch 4G phones. I get it morons have been begging for 5G now - I'm not going to be one of the people who contribute paying for extremely expensive phones just to have data, and buying into tumors. Congrats idiots and ** you Verizon, I'll review my contract and hopefully I'll find a loophole through your **.
Reviewed April 18, 2019
I've had the 4G "Hot Spot" for many years. At first paid monthly $50/month. Two or three years ago went to "pay as you go". Since then constant trouble logging in. Every time I tried a different procedure. Today got the message: "This email is to confirm that you have been de-enrolled from My Account. If you would like online access to your Verizon Wireless account in the future, please visit www.verizonwireless.com and re-register at My Account."
Tried to re-register but, again, went round and round with frustrating, misleading instructions and no live person to get direction from. I'm now POSITIVE that Verizon management does this purposely to discourage "pay as you go" customers but then the other comments on this review page suggest that Verizon is just a terrible company to do business with! Yet, they are the largest and dominate the cellular market. Go figure! Hope they self destruct!
Reviewed April 18, 2019
Not available 24/7 as noted. Need for help happens at all hours. Got new service and MOTO E5 phone. Sign up ok, but agent said set up was $25 (?). She did most of it, did not charge. I need more help to use. Verizon closed after 9 pm. Closed. Can't log in. Closed! SUX!! Most companies want our money and to do as little as possible. Verizon too. Bad customer service from the start. Bad approach for increasing sales. Won't accept my cell #, says it is incorrect. NOT TRUE. NEED A HUMAN TO SOLVE, NOT A "ROBOT" CHAT AGENT!!! Really angers me and turns me off to Verizon. A VERY BAD INDUSTRY.
Reviewed April 16, 2019
Verizon seems uniquely adept at alienating and frustrating good, long term customers, don’t they? I never selected Verizon…they just took over the company I had selected like a street gang collecting digital territory. I contacted them because I received a past due notice which stuck out as odd since the account (like all my accounts) is on autopay. This is how I pay virtually all my bills. So I called the number on the notice and Drone #1 answers, asks for my name, account number, address, yada yada yada…then proceeds to inform me of my delinquent status and can I make a payment. I inform Drone 1 that this account is on and has always been on autopay and the last time this happened (a decade earlier) they blamed it on a software upgrade and had to manually re-input the payment data to reinstate autopay. They then advise me they must transfer me to another department and after a series of clicks I am disconnected.
I hit redial and Drone #2 answers, runs through the same long list of questions including “a callback number in case we get disconnected.” When we get to the part where they transfer me to the right department I am again disconnected. I wait for their callback. I might as well be waiting for the popcorn to pop twice. I call again and Drone #3 repeats the cycle of useless questioning except this time I’m not going to be transferred to the Customer Service department because I have a delinquent account. The condescension is palatable.
Apparently Clone 3 believes everyone with an account balance that is past due is a some lying lowlife who needs edjamacation. I own two businesses, employ lots of people, have an 800 FICO and this woman is treating me like someone she loaned $20 to last week and isn’t getting it back. OMG! Never have I hated a stranger this much in my life. To her I am a scumbag who doesn’t pay his bills. Had she bothered to review the account she might have noticed that it was always paid on the same date since 2004 and considered the possibility that the error was Verizon’s but no…that was not the case. Now at this point I have wasted 35 minutes trying to get this miserable company to fix their mistake and I am getting upset.
"You don’t treat good customers like this! I don’t care how small their account is…YOU DON’T MISTREAT CONSUMERS LIKE THIS!" I told off Drone 3 and hung up. I am now looking for a replacement because Verizon’s ignorant and abusive drones have exhausted my patience. Shame on them! This company is run like a dysfunctional ma & pa operation who stop taking their mood medications. I would recommend someone at the top of Verizon’s high tower climb down from their lofty pedestal and call their billing staff pretending to be a consumer to experience the sick and negative culture brewing down there. This is all your fault! You built this.
Reviewed April 16, 2019
I tried to pay my bill on the phone but all of sudden their pay on their phone system no longer worked and kept me throwing for a crazy loop. Called in 3 times. Each time the same mess. So I try to call in customer service only to get snotty answers and even the supervisor is unhelpful. Supervisor does NOT know how to fix either the non-working phone system NOR the online log-in system, which by now I also tried and also is not working. Customer service has no clue how to fix it either of them. I tell her, "I am going to switch from Verizon to Spectrum." She does not ask how she could be of help to keep me at Verizon - which is just as well.
Then I call in trying to find out if my phone is locked with Verizon since by now I have enough of Verizon and want to switch to another provider. After a 15 min hold, someone answers. Only they leave me hanging while I can hear them chatting and joking on the line, apparently unaware that they have a customer on the line - just for fun I hang on until I guess after 2 min they realize it and hang up. Then I call in AGAIN but this time from my Gmail rather than my cell. Again ca 15 wait and this time I finally after ca an hour I finally get the answer I need. I have no idea how they retain their customers since they mess up over and over and over again. Draw of the luck if among ca 6 representatives you get ONE who actually has any idea. Don't count on their supervisors either since they are equally snotty and incompetent.
Reviewed April 15, 2019
They may have a larger coverage area, but the service in their network is poor. Service very spotty. For a plan that is more expensive than most the reliability is awful. My phone loses service constantly. Not worth the price.
Reviewed April 15, 2019
Verizon Wireless truly is one of the better cell phone providers regarding reception areas and they use this to their advantage. It’s also one of the most expensive. Their unlimited plan is really unlimited, however once you hit a certain cap on data usage they slow your data speed down. Videos don’t play through and take extensive times to buffer. Download speeds are at a crawl. Webpages and searches take extra long to download. So while they do allow limitless data on some of their expensive and overpriced plans be prepared to receive slow service once you hit that data cap. They also charge $7.00 now if you need to talk to customer service regarding your bill.

Reviewed April 13, 2019
We have a plan for 24Gb a month, and in the past 4 months, all of a sudden we're going through them like crazy. For the last couple years we always had leftover GB that carried over. Our usage no more than before actually I believe it's less, according to Verizon, we're going through data like crazy.
Reviewed April 13, 2019
For the first two plus years, my reception was perfect. One day in August of 2018 it went haywire. Nobody could hear me if I called from home. Verizon made every excuse under the sun for months. Finally, a tier two tech told me the truth. They're changing their towers. I either go with another carrier or just wait it out. I spend a lot of $$ for lousy service.
Reviewed April 13, 2019
We attempted to close out my elderly father's Verizon account by buying out the phones he obtained from Verizon and paying off the monthly bill, only later to find out the Verizon store did not close out all three lines as we requested (and the store personnel assured us they had closed out) thus Verizon continued to bill him for one of the lines. When we asked them to correct their mistake they refused. In order to finally get the account closed, we had to pay their unjustified bill for services we had asked to be discontinued and which they assured us they had discontinued. Verizon is a bad company to do business with. One might as well beat one's head against a brick wall as try to get Verizon to resolve their own mistakes.
Reviewed April 12, 2019
I am trying to replace my phone through my insurance, and was told by a Verizon store employee that it was an "easy" fix. After 2 hours on hold and one employee who hung up on me and never called back, I didn't find it so easy. I was constantly told inconsistent information depending on the support staff, and was asked for my information again and again and again. After prompting multiple people, I was eventually told the drawn out process of getting a new phone setting reset, backup, factory reset, verification, and and twice I had to call the primary account holder to verify that I was able to do this. Overall a satisfying representation of how cell conglomerates and insurance companies scam people into buying new, more expensive phones instead of replacing insured ones.
Reviewed April 11, 2019
We bought 2 Samsung Galaxy Note 9 phone during Thanksgiving. But there was a problem with one of the phone which the customer service was not able to solve. So they sent me a new one and I sent the defective one back. For some reason, they tagged the return phone to the other line on my account and as a result charged me $999 for unreturned phone.
Since then, I have called Customer Service 7 times and numerous hours of explaining this to each agent and supervisor. They are all able to see the returned phone but did not understand the charge. Each of them promised me that it will be credited back in "3-5 business days" but nothing happens and I still have that charge on the bill. Each of the agents promise me that they will call back to confirm but do not. This has been the worst experience, especially since I have been their customers since the beginning (20 + years).
Reviewed April 10, 2019
I have had nothing but terrible customer service with Verizon. I bought a new phone, it was defective. They sent me a new phone... which is refurbished and also defective. The phone disconnects me from wifi continuously. We have 6 phones and are on limited data because we cannot afford unlimited data through Verizon. Because my phone disconnects from wifi, I ended up using over 4x the data that I use each month. My family was without data for 2 weeks because of this. They will not reimburse me for the data I used.
I have been on the phone with tech support factory resetting my phone. They told me they will again send me a replacement, refurbished phone. They said it would arrive today night by 8pm. As of Wednesday @ 6pm, no phone. When I asked the rude CSR Jennifer, she says there are no notes that they are sending me a new phone. She said it's a Samsung phone not a Verizon phone, so she cannot help they're junk. Any time I have called I have gotten terrible customer service. Jennifer was really rude on the phone and was of no assistance. She put me on hold for 10 minutes while trying to reach tech support. I hung up. She called back and couldn't figure out why I was frustrated. No apologies!!!
Reviewed April 10, 2019
I have been a Verizon customer for several years paying several thousands of dollars. I have my mom & dad on my account and have been very loyal. I have also used them in my 20 years in business of Property Management. They are not the same company as in the past. You have to work with customer service for several hours & days and still do not get satisfaction. They want to take your money monthly for years but treat you as a number. I will be looking at other options as I deserve to be respected as a long term customer not a number.
Reviewed April 9, 2019
I will never recommend anyone to use Verizon. Their customer service is horrible and their service is horribly over-priced. Switch to Spectrum for the same service at half of the cost. NEVER AGAIN WILL I EVER USE VERIZON.
Reviewed April 9, 2019
Had internet and phone for 1 month, then canceled service. Was overcharged by their admission... $40 on my first bill. There is nothing high speed about 1 Mbps. I will never order services through this company, not even Fios.
Reviewed April 8, 2019
We decided to make the investment to buy a couple of new phones. The one for my husband didn't last 3 months. Verizon's answer was to send us someone else's old one that was refurbished. Their explanation was it was a certified refurbished. However, after 5 months that phone died. We went into the store and they tried to get out of replacing it or fixing it. They said that since it was a third party phone off of a business line the warranty is null and void. The person who had the phone before they refurbished it had a business evidently that was tied to that phone but had nothing to do with us as we don't have a business. It was a way that can try to not have to fix it. Their answer was to buy a new one.
We are making payments for the next 2 years on this phone that didn't even last 7 months! This company bold faced lied to us and also scammed us. How can you buy a brand new phone and have it only last 7 months and have a year warranty on it and even then they try to use anything they can to not fix it. The guys in the store on Signal Butte and Baseline in Mesa, AZ were rude and laughed at us being upset! I would NOT recommend this product and run as fast as you can away from this store and Verizon! It is going to cost us almost $200. still to get this fixed. They think they are actually doing a good thing! This is not right!
Reviewed April 8, 2019
Unfortunately Verizon doubles their mifi prices from $60 every two months to $50 every month for the same product. I tried to cancel my membership and get a refund, not realizing it’s impossible. Verizon will let you cancel, but will not give you any money back, so you lose $50 just trying to cancel. It’s a below the belt approach to customer retention. I spoke with three different managers and none would help. Never going back to Verizon after this experience.
Reviewed April 8, 2019
Worst customer experience of my life. I wasted $200 on a Prepaid MiFi plan with Verizon which was considering moving to a family plan - but that’s definitely not happening anymore. My MiFi started getting really hot and restarting itself over and over all day long so I called customer service and they told me they can’t do anything about it. I told them it’s obviously a technical problem because I’ve been charging it appropriately and I taking the charger off when it’s fully charged, they kept telling me it’s not their problem because I’m a prepaid customer and then finally someone said I have to go back to the store I bought it from to exchange it.
Well, did that and not only did the manager argue with me (another customer walked out because they saw how I was being treated) but they also said they couldn’t help me. I’ve called customer service about 6 times now and everyone keeps telling me the same thing - that they can’t help me. Even though I have a 90 day warranty, they “can’t help me”. I feel like they’re trying to push out my warranty so they don’t have to give me anything. This is not how a company is supposed to treat their customers - it doesn’t matter prepaid or contract.
Reviewed April 6, 2019
I called Verizon Wireless because, I ported my number on 4/30/19 and now on 4/6/19 my phone was no longer making or accepting calls saying my port didn't go thru. Kierra was my customer service representative, She was Polite and knew exactly how to help me. She called Walmart Family Mobile to assist in the port. The Walmart Family Mobile representative who answered didn't speak English clearly and proceeded to tell me that my number was deactivated and I needed to reactivate my old phone to port the number. Kierra asked him a question about network speed, he was confused, she asked him if he was from the porting department and he replied with no. She asked to please be transferred to the correct department. The porting department answered and Kierra explained the situation and got my number ported over quickly.
I switched to Verizon because I moved to a place where I had NO service at all. I am paying about $30.00 more for service now but, at least when I call for assistance I know that they will be happy to assist me in English so I can fully understand and are going to look out for my best interest. Thank You Verizon Wireless for hiring such a wonderful person such as Kierra. She not only helped me but she prevented Walmart Family Mobile from giving me the runaround and taking my money. Nicole
Reviewed April 6, 2019
I logged onto the Verizon app and selected a $50 plan and attempted to pay for it. Instead I was charged for a $70 plan. I then called the customer service number and had to wait about 25 minutes before someone picked up the phone that I could barely understand. I explained the situation and requested that the $70 charge be reversed. The foreign woman told me that was not an option. I told her she was wrong and that the charge can be reversed (many other businesses have done this successfully because it is how credit cards and banks work) and she argued with me. I asked to speak to a manager multiple times before she put me on hold then came back herself and merely reiterated the incorrect information I had already rejected.
I then had to bluntly demand to speak with a manager about 6 times before being put on hold again and finally speaking with a manager. He clearly told me that he could absolutely reverse the charge back to my bank account, but then instead he refunded $20 back to my Verizon account, making the money unusable via my bank account. I explained to him that this is not what he said he was going to do then he told me that I misunderstood and that writing was doing ME a COURTESY by even attempting to refund any money and that I should MEET THEM HALF WAY. He literally admitted that Verizon does NOT take responsibility for their mistakes and does not have any obligation to right their wrongs. Unbelievable business practices. Leaving a review seems entirely insufficient. I will be changing carriers and never using Verizon again. Their employees are apparently highly unintelligent, rude, and flat out asinine.
Reviewed April 3, 2019
My phone died on me a couple days before I planned to leave the country. With tons of other loose ends to tie up before leaving, I wondered how I would manage to get a new phone. I stopped by the Verizon store in Littleton and Jordan set me up with a new phone very quickly and efficiently. I was pretty impressed with the professional service! Thanks very much Jordan!
Reviewed April 1, 2019
I bought a Verizon phone last summer. They charged me $100 bucks just for one line. Then a few months down I was told I had to pay over $300 three times for a month alone. I am on disability and couldn’t afford this! I talked to a representative over the phone via chat. They said they couldn’t bring down the cost too much, only $11 dollars less than what I’m paying now.
I abandoned the payments and talked to someone and he took me to his friend who worked at Boost Mobile up in Vancouver Washington mall. They both helped me by switching to their services and got a new free phone that I heard was all the rage. And so I quit paying Verizon bills. I just rip them up without opening them and throw them away. Verizon has lost a customer just because they got so greedy! So anyone thinking of buying Verizon’s Phones - Don't bother! They have horrible services and deliberately overcharging me for my phone. I even got a new number so Verizon can’t call me.
Reviewed April 1, 2019
If you are traveling overseas with a Verizon phone and the phone is lost or stolen, you can count on Verizon being unable to help you. At best, every single incompetent moron you speak to there will waste your time. You will think you are able to report the phone and order another. But instead, you will get another message later saying the order wasn't placed.
In the end, probably ruining your entire vacation, you will find that Verizon US simply does not allow communication with servers or phones outside of the US, and the way they do this is by flagging these communications as fraud. The morons who work at Verizon, who you will communicate with via internet or or another phone, may not even be aware this is the case. Many times, you will find that in order to go to a next step in this process, you will need to obtain a code, texted to -- you guessed it -- your lost phone! This company is way behind the times here. My suggestion: Don't use Verizon if you are traveling.
Reviewed April 1, 2019
I have nothing good say about my experience. I was told about a bogo deal and decided to purchase an extra phone and all I had to do add an extra line. Then was told I had to wait 3 months to get the credits applied back to my phone. Well now 4 months have passed and called 6 times and was told a different story every time. My last call from Verizon said there wasn’t any bogo deal and I’m not getting any credit. So I was lied to from the get go. The employee lied to me just to make a sale. Do not go here.
Reviewed March 31, 2019
Verizon emails say, "Unlimited data if you agree to let Verizon get their payment directly from your bank account." I bought a Verizon Jetpack, cancelled our landline that also had unlimited data, because most the calls that come on our landline were scams anyway and now I have unlimited data through Verizon. Also there is a Verizon tower less than mile from my house. So I am all fixed up with my mobile Jetpack and unlimited Data. Ha Ha Ha. Goes good for few days then am informed by text that my unlimited data is almost used up with 20 days to go. Verizon evidently make their dictionary, because their definition of unlimited does not agree with Webster’s. How are they allowed to get away with this Obvious bait and switch???
Reviewed March 30, 2019
My father, whom is elderly, came into the Verizon store with the intentions of purchasing another phone and putting it on his current plan. He was not told of many surcharges that would be on the first bill. Much to his surprise the bill was outrageous and unaffordable. Upon calling several times to understand the bill, more charges incurred. I feel that they took advantage of an elderly person and things need to be change. I, his daughter, called to straighten this matter out and got nowhere. My final straw was to bring the device back and put him on his old plan with another company and they told me that we would be responsible for the outstanding balance of the new device. We as consumers should take a stand for our elderly parents and do what is possible to have companies treat them with the respect they deserve.
Reviewed March 30, 2019
Upgraded one of my phones on my account through Verizon call desk. Ensured that shipping would have phone in my hand by Sat 3/30/2019. Received confirmation email stating such. 3/30 today no phone. Chat (David) blamed it on FEDEX. No work around and my Mother will have to vacation without phone. Also messed up billing. Attempted to charge me 45/mo more by opening new account instead of adding to existing.
Reviewed March 30, 2019
I was told for two weeks from several different customer service reps through 5 different phone calls that my refund was issued only to find out on day 14 from a supervisor that my refund was never issued. All kids with bad attitudes in this company on the phones. Shops elsewhere!
Reviewed March 29, 2019
I went to the store in Abingdon on Thursday afternoon and was immediately greeted with smiling faces. I was then led to John's desk where he was very accommodating and had quite a few solutions to my major problems. He was able to look over each part of my account and wasn't afraid to double check with Logan, another friendly coworker, at the desk near his when I threw him for a loop a time or two. John and Logan definitely changed my past impression of going to the Verizon store with a negative demeanor. Now, I will never hesitate to walk into the store because I know I will be helped efficiently and in the best manner. I left the store with a new phone, lower bill, still some money in my pocket, and a better peace of mind. Thanks to the new employees at Verizon in Abingdon!! I will now love giving my business to you all. -Kate
Reviewed March 29, 2019
I lost time and money trying to activate my new phone the Galaxy S10+, Verizon never figured out why the phone couldn't active. The worst part of the experience is how one tech tried blaming me. After reactivating my phone old phone I plan on return the S10+ and switching to a company that cares.
Reviewed March 28, 2019
My iPhone 7 stopped working. The Apple store said it had quality issues that they would fix no charge but when Apple saw the receipt, they said the phone was refurbished. So Apple said take it back to Verizon. We thought we bought a brand new phone at the local Verizon Store. Verizon said take it back to Apple. I called Verizon 800# support a week ago. We came to a reasonable agreement for a replacement phone. Since I hadn't heard anything, today I called Verizon 800#. Nothing had been done for a replacement phone. Nothing was noted on my account for our 'reasonable' agreement. No resolution. But Verizon will be happy to sell me a new phone.
Reviewed March 28, 2019
Verizon overcharges on this iPhone and the only way that you can get your Bill down to a reasonable fee is to allow them to put this phone on your Credit Card so it no longer costs you an arm and a leg. I am no longer working, so I ask to reduce the cost of the phone as I have a landline--I got it down to $40 but it has to go on my Discover Card. I have had this phone for 11 years and I am really disappointed that they insist that I put it on my Discover Card.
Reviewed March 28, 2019
Verizon offers buy one get one free deals telling customers it will take up to 3 months to credit payments to the account. They never credit account. When contacting customer service they then claim phone does not qualify for promotion. They flat out lie to customers and steal your money.
Reviewed March 27, 2019
The service really is pretty good. Living in the country we are more satisfied with Verizon than any other company that we have tried. We have not yet tried AT&T. They are promptly responsive and they guide you through set up in a smooth transition. Have never had any major issues with them. I do think they are a bit on the pricey end and could still do well if they charged a bit less. I rarely give any company a tip top rating but I will if I truly believe they have done everything in their power to please customers. I do not think that they have or do however again they are a really good company.
Reviewed March 26, 2019
On December 29, 2018 my wife and I went to our local Verizon store here in Orting, WA. Verizon had iPhones and Google Pixel 3 phones on sale. We met with Brandon **, who from my understanding was the store manager. After he went over the positives and negatives of each phone, we decided to purchase the Google Pixel 3. The regular price was $830 with a sale price of $630. In addition, we purchased cases and screen protection for the phones. When he gave us the total price due it did not include the phones. When I asked, he said the price of the phones would be added into our next twenty-four payments. I told him that was not acceptable, I wanted to pay for the phones up front, so I didn’t have a monthly payment. He told us it would take two or three billing cycles and then the full credit would be applied, and we would then be able to pay the phones in full.
I explained that I absolutely did not want a monthly payment for the phone. He promised that there would be no problem, that I would be able to pay off the phones with the full discount applied but it would take two or three billing cycles. When I expressed concern his remark was that he had no reason to lie, he would not lie to a customer since he was not going anywhere and didn’t want any negative reactions in the community. Well, apparently, he was either flat out lying or if he thought he was telling the truth he was obviously incorrect. Either way what we were promised is what we should receive.
After the second billing cycle I tried to pay the phones off, but the full discount had not been applied. I visited the Verizon store and the clerk told me it would take another billing cycle but assured me it would be applied. I waited until the March 13th (three months) and still not able to pay off the phones. Went back to the store and was told it would be another billing cycle before I could pay them off in full.
I went home and contacted Verizon customer service through their chat feature. After a lengthy conversation I was told I the agent could not help me and the problem would be escalated, and I would hear from a Verizon manager within 4-5 days. I waited until today, March 26th, and contacted Verizon via chat service. After another lengthy chat the agent apologized to me and offered a $50 credit for my inconvenience since the store manager had given me incorrect information. I told him that was not satisfactory, and I would be filing a complaint with the appropriate govt agency.
Reviewed March 26, 2019
Verizon stability as a network by far exceeds the rest, although their customer service skills when it comes to any issues and showing flexibility which network issues or device complaints is beneath the other competitors.
Reviewed March 25, 2019
I had been a customer of Verizon for the last 7 years for my cable/phone and internet. Over that time I have paid this company more than $13,000 for their services. This year I started to have some financial issues and needed to reduce my monthly payments. I called and tried to get a better rate and was basically told they could not adjust it. I had to cancel the services. I was told that because my current contract I was going to have to pay $140 to break it. I called customer service and after being on hold for over 30 minutes I spoke with a rep who said I would need to speak with a supervisor. I asked to speak with the supervisor and was told they were in a meeting. She said she would transfer me to their voicemail but instead she disconnected me when I called back. It was now after customer service hours.
I called back the next day and was on hold for 40 min and finally spoke with someone who said she could help me out but my account was in cancel status and she would need to call me back the next day between 11-11:30. The next day came and surprise! No call. I called back and spoke with a supervisor named Jason (Badge#**). Who said there was nothing he could do. I asked to speak with his supervisor and he refused and said "You've reached the top" and there's nothing I can do. Again 7 year customer, over $12k in payments and I got treated like I was not worth their time. I'm sure there are a lot of sites like this one that I can vent on and share my experience about Verizon. The customer service is much better at AT&T and Comcast. They respect their customers. Avoid Verizon unless you enjoy standing on hold waiting for unprofessional representatives.
Reviewed March 25, 2019
The only problem that I seem to have with Verizon is that sometimes the single fades because of air wave overload. The agents are very good about solving the problems by switching me to another tower. They are very good at replacing the phone when it goes bad, just call them another phone is sent out and you send the detective one back. All in all I like the company and service.
Reviewed March 24, 2019
In November of 2018 Leanne an operator for Verizon cancel my plans. Since that time I've been trying to get it back. I've been promised by several operators, talked to at least 20 that things were going to work out. Hasn't happened. They are now charging me $70 above and beyond what my old Plan used to be. In the old plan was 700 talk and share minutes, unlimited data and unlimited hotspot with a thousand text messages for $168. Now I pay $220 for 2GB data and hotspot for 2GB. Every time I call they say, "We'll take care of it. Will take care of it." Nothing ever happens. If not for all my friends and and family being on Verizon I would drop this company so fast and make their head swim. Integrity is something that they lack completely. I might add I had an extra line on my old plan. I since dropped it. And to be fair they did reduce bill by $35.
Reviewed March 24, 2019
Verizon has to be one of the most expensive mobile carriers around. I have been a customer for over 10 years and waiting for my most recent device to get paid off so I can switch providers. Verizon has good coverage and you pay for it. Their customer service leaves a lot to be desired, so I try to use forums to find answers to my issues. I’d look into other carriers first before using Verizon.
Reviewed March 23, 2019
I’ve been with Verizon for 6 years or more. They’re great as long as you don’t have any type of issue. One of my phones hasn’t been working for over 2 months. I’m still being billed though. I have called in and went through chat numerous of times. I’ve been promised ticket after ticket have been opened only to find out they never opened a ticket to begin with. I have asked for manager after manager only to be told one would call me and they never do. I have spoken to a manager only to find out they aren’t a manager and even though it’s been an on going issue they refuse to escalate the situation. Just this week alone I have been hung up on more times than I can count on top of spending already over 5 hours on the phone with these people.
So I’m being charged for a phone, and a service they have admitted isn't working due to their system not any fault of my own. I have emailed corporate still waiting on that call as well. I have screen shots of the time I’ve spent on the phone, and chats I’ve had. I am also going to the BBB and then also seeing what else can be done. This is the WORST COMPANY FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE I have ever experienced.
Reviewed March 23, 2019
Verizon Wireless is the worst company to be with. They are a freaking rip offs. They cut your phones off while on the phone making a payment then charge you reconnect fee which is a ** joke. Then charge you a rep assistant charge because you can’t do it online. Switching ASAP. Not to mention the hold time to get someone in the wrong department.
Reviewed March 23, 2019
I was a Verizon customer from day one - literally day one - 26 years ago if I remember right. A few months ago I had to call customer service because - you guessed it - a "mistake" on my bill - once again in their favor. I lost count of how many times over the years that happened. I told whoever I was talking to that particular time "you know, I have paid auto insurance many years longer than I have paid cell phone coverage, and there has never once been a discrepancy in my bill - NEVER ONCE!, how is it I'm on the phone with you every other month trying to figure out why you're saying I owe you more than I do??"
Anyway - long story short (trust me, I could go on!) over the course of the next 3 months my "past due amount" increased, my data cycle date was changed, someone took it upon themselves to change the amount I normally pay to one and a half times the normal amount and then half the following month - I didn't know about, or approve any of this. Finally on the 1st of this month I decided to just switch to a prepaid account - still with Verizon. The rep told me you get 3 gigs 4g then "slows down" to 3 gigs during "high traffic times". I said ok, let's do it - I switched to a pre paid account. Guess what - they lied! 3 gigs seems to zoom by incredibly fast (remember, Ive been a customer 26 years) and then it slows down to un-usable.
Also I discovered my incoming call service was "accidently" turned off - I couldnt recieve calls and didnt even know it. I called pre paid customer service again today and a very pleasant young lady explained to me that it slows down to 2g "which is designed really just for checking your email". And she didn't know why my incoming call service was turned off, but turned it back on for me. God! I could go on all night!
Anyway! Do NOT go with pre paid unless that's all you can do and go with anyone besides Verizon if you do. At the end of this month I am switching to someone else - anyone else! And verizon will never get another dime of my money! They are specially trained to rip you off - no joke, I've seen it countless times. "Corporate money mongers". Look closely at their "advanced billing system" That's one of their favorite ways to get you.
And this whole "buying data" thing isn't even real! The cellular signal is in the air free 24/7 - you pay them to not block your device. You're buying time, not data. Another thing that's ridiculous - they push this "LTE" service? You know what LTE stands for? Long term endeavor - it doesn't mean a thing. I better stop or I'll start (?) sounding like a nutcase. Do yourself a favor and avoid all the headaches - go with someone else. If enough people do Verizon will cease to exist - and the money mongers can slither off to some other scheme.
Reviewed March 23, 2019
I had been with a competing wireless carrier for 10 years. I had many issues with that carrier but I stayed with them out of loyalty (my son worked for them). I had trouble getting a signal in my own home and no signal in our little cabin in the woods. Every time I called customer service this carrier promised me that new towers were being built as we spoke. They said in 6 months "you will get a signal with no problem." They told me the same story for years! About six months ago I called once again for the same reason. They have me the spiel of new towers and I got very upset. The customer service agent was short with me and I got more upset. I called right back and talked to a different person who said he would send me a "booster." He took all my information, told me it would be 8 to 10 days to get here. Long story short (ha) it never came and there is no such "booster" that they send to people to get a signal. This company lies consistently.
I finally realized that I had been a fool to stay so long with this other company. I researched my options and chose Verizon to switch to. What a pleasant surprise. After getting my new phone, the Verizon store was eager to help me get set up. The salesperson has called me a few times to be sure I was getting everything I expected from my new phone and carrier. The reception is amazing everywhere. I have not had one issue in three months.
Reviewed March 22, 2019
Verizon wireless are scam artist and a bunch of hustlers! They will tell you one thing and your bill will show another. Do not buy anything from them. They are the worst cell phone company ever!! The worst.
Reviewed March 21, 2019
I few weeks ago I purchased a new computer system. We were not able to download or install all the needed software to use this new computer. Not enough speed. Contacted Verizon who told me there was nothing they could do about the speed. Per the tech that was scheduled to come out it seems that our area has grown so much and so many people are using Verizon that it has slowed down a lot. That is a crock of **...I was scheduled to have a new outside antenna installed to see if that would help. He said it wouldn't so did not even come out. I was told if I wanted to cancel my contract that would be fine and they would not charge me a fee for that! They are jerks!!
Reviewed March 21, 2019
Yesterday my new iPhone crashed. Went to the store and was told the only thing that they could do was overnight a replacement or pay off the new phone and repurchase. Because my kids are out of the country for spring break I went to Xfinity and purchased a phone. I can’t believe that there was nothing else that could be done. We'll definitely be switching carriers as soon as the phone is paid off.
Reviewed March 20, 2019
I have been with Verizon for over 12 years and until recently I have been very satisfied with their service. That is why I stayed with them so long, even though they have been the most expensive. But for the past 5 months I've only been able to receive a very unsatisfactory percentage of calls (This is my business phone). I have been through customer service representative as well as their tier 2 technicians. They've run tests after tests, I've reset and factory reset. They've sent a replacement phone, all without resolving the problem. Today I called and again the same protocol, except this time the tier 2 technician asked what problems I have and as I was there explaining their phone disconnected. I know it was theirs because I was speaking to them from a landline. I guess it's time to switch!
Reviewed March 19, 2019
I got approved by Verizon for a phone, tablet and a jetpack. I was happy with that. I'm a OTR truck driver so I was on the phone with Verizon representative to help me set up for the account so I can see the bill on my tablet. He told me that he also can set it up for my girlfriend to be added to the account since she helps me paid my bills when I get paid so nothing would be late. As we talked more about it he also said that he can also get her a phone as well and have it sent to her address instead of the address of my mom's, which is the address on my license.
So the next day my girlfriend and I was talking, we both thought it was a good idea to protect our investment so she paid on a card for the accessories, the screen protective covers and the cases to prevent them from getting damaged. Well would you know it Verizon decided that it was suspicious and turned it over to the fraud department. So they emailed me and I called them to get everything situated and cleared up they then said it was all taken care of. Well it wasn't, so I called back again then they needed proof of address, okay.
One I'm a OTR truck driver. I live in my truck so there for I don't have the following: a lease, a light bill, a car registration (I don't have a car), voter registration. I live in my truck for God's sake. I'm not going to have them type of bills. So the lady told me that I got 72 hours to get registered to vote and provide them with a copy. There's a problem I'm from NC voter registration is the same as the driver's license. You go in you get a paper license and then they mail you the hard copy. It's all the same. The phone bill ain't due so that ain't a excuse. So now I'm without service just because I don't have a voter registration. So why should I go out and pay all that extra money for a place that I won't ever go to waste of money. This is definitely not right at all.
Reviewed March 19, 2019
For 18 and a half hours (so far) I've been without a phone. Now this may not be such a bad thing if I were 16, and all I had to worry about was a pissed off girlfriend that couldn't get a hold of me. No, I'm a small business owner who couldn't reach ANY of his vendors today, nor could they reach me. I dealt away with a landline years ago, as I'm always on the go. Come to find out, Verizon scheduled tower maintenance today with absolutely no warning to customers. As a result, I missed out on 3 bids! This is how I support my family and household, and really don't like the fact that it was interrupted with no warning, or way of a plan B. I get the fact that it has to be done. But having some way of letting people know that this is in fact gonna happen, so they can in fact have some other option, wouldn't be such a bad idea. Cheers Verizon, and thanks for the sandpaper today...???
Reviewed March 18, 2019
Had 2 installation dates, have nothing! They didn't notify me or anything. Needed me to re-send a bill, then they mixed me up with another customer's account. I went out and faxed to them, to no avail!
Reviewed March 17, 2019
I ordered a Gizmo Watch for my daughter (whom is special needs) on the 6th, spent 200.00 paid in full for the watch. Received it on the 8th. Was on the phone with tech support for several hours troubleshooting, Watch did not work so they told me I could go to the corp store that was 30 miles from me and get a replacement. I drove there on the 9th (the service in the store was very poor). So, I left the store thinking that the watch was in working order. Did some shopping. After getting home put it on charge for the night. On the 10th I left for work and tried to call the phone several times throughout the day to no avail. It would not take calls nor would it call out.
After getting home about 3:45 pm I called tech support again and again was on the line with them for several hours... The watch would not pair so again I went back to the store on the 12th to get help and all he did was try to refreshed it and so it's working and sent me on my way after he put the phone back in the box. As I was walking out the door the top came open and the watch fell out and YES broke. I walked back in and he said, "No problem. You have insurance and you can pay 20.00 and get a replacement overnighted to you." I did and we received it on the 13th and this watch would not connect to Verizon...
Long story short I am now on my 5th device and am just now being told that in our area the tower fell in 01/17/2019 and that the tower does not belong to Verizon. That the company that owns it says it could be 6+months till rebuilt and the temp one that Verizon put there near it will not service the area that the former tower did. I'm so disappointed in the service and the knowledge that has been shown during my experience all within 10 days of NO resolution!!!! I am going to return the watch and sever ties with Verizon!! My First experience was the worst with this co. Rebekah **
Reviewed March 17, 2019
This is a very low level service! I ordered an iPhone and within two days they had to deliver the order. The order was paid from the bank card, but the order was not delivered, because their team in the fight against fraud closed the order and did not notify me about it. I don't have a bad credit history or crime etc. But this team of scammers did not return my first payment when they closed order! Who is a crook?! Order Number: ** Order Location: Q374001 Order Date: 03/13/2019
Reviewed March 17, 2019
I had a Galaxy S7 Edge & I noticed my monthly bill rising up, after going to the store there was many people complaining also. After, I lost my job & filed chapter 7 bankruptcy, Verizon started hiking my phone, turned off my internet, other & my phone started getting very hot!
Reviewed March 16, 2019
I went to my local Target with intentions of switching from Metro PCS and the young man (I'm 73) Talked me out of it, saying if I'm going to be doing genealogy research I'd be better off, with Verizon's 55 + plan which is an unlimited call, text, internet service for seniors and costs $60 @ month. I ended up on a 4 line family plan that costs over a $100 dollars a month, pretty sad that Verizon and Target allows that practice. To top it off I get very weak limited internet, weak or no phone service. I went to my local Verizon store to straighten out the wrong plan I was on, they sent me back to Target, and after dealing with phone salesman and 2 mgrs. 1 of which I waited 2 hours or more to arrive, they finally contacted a Verizon rep. who was able to get me on correct plan.
To top it off my bill comes in Spanish type, and I dont understand what's on it, so just pay $ amount, have yet to get this corrected from almost a year ago. I think this is a ploy to keep the service? As soon as my contract is up I will be switching to a diff. carrier!! I'm in Target to shop (groceries) and constantly warn people by phone kiosk to beware of Verizon. Was asked to leave store on a couple of occasions. Just not the way to treat people and take advantage of our seniors. Currently doing my genealogy searches at the library, which is a pain. Just beware of crooked salespeople and Verizon. Thank you. Barry **.
Reviewed March 16, 2019
Beware. When I sent back my equipment via UPS it was lost. UPS could not verify the tracking label sent to me, nor locate the package. Verizon (who uses UPS) said this was my issue and turned over to collections for $900 in equipment returns. I have a history of returning equipment on time with them but they did not care. Numerous calls to Verizon and Susan ** were not returned. Shortly after they turned me over to collections they called to ask if I would come back after I had switched to Comcast. Shows total lack of systems to know this consumer and everyone he comes in contact with will never support this brand again.
Reviewed March 16, 2019
Well, not a fan of Comcast which I had one time. Check out AT&T one time, not crazy about the salesperson or price. Other house is Medicom. Meh. Verizon is getting crazy on price, dependable for sure. Looking in the future of dropping the cable and try out a Roku.
Reviewed March 15, 2019
Several years ago, I saw a commercial for Verizon, whom I was already a customer of, so I called to take advantage of the offer. I should have known when the commercial only played for a week and then morphed the following week into another type of offer. However, the agent assured me, I would have 10 gigs for $80 a month for a multi-line plan. When the bill came, it was not what was promised, which had been the case almost every time I changed plans with them. When I called to investigate, I asked for CUSTOMER RETENTION, not customer service.
Andrew, a very helpful rep, reviewed my plan for few minutes and came back asking, "why do you have an international plan?" I said, "you have got to be kidding me, I cancelled that 2 years ago on the 25th of the month as instructed because that is the end of the billing cycle. I know I took care of it, cuz my calendar was marked for an entire month." He said, "well, we have been charging you for 2 years," to which I responded, "I cannot see that anywhere on my bill." He replied, "that is because you are paperless." After a brief hold, Andrew came back to tell me that Verizon owed me approximately $600. I can't remember the exact amount, but he credited me $200 immediately and promised that the rest would be on my account in 7 days.
I went on a work trip and came home thinking the mentioned time has passed, let's take a look. NOTHING. So I called back CUSTOMER RETENTION and got another rep, whose name has escaped me. She said, "oh yes, I see the credit of $400 and something dollars pending, so don't pay your bill and it will take care of your balance for this pay cycle." I said, "really, you are telling me not to pay? Won't I incur a late fee?" She said, "yes, but it's only $5." So, I took her advice. The next month, my bill was double and no credit had been issued as promised once again. I call back and this time, I was on hold with another customer retention rep who took almost an hour of my time to tell me that they decided not to give me the credit.
She offered me $30 that I turned down and said, "I don't want that as a consolation, I want what I was promised." I paid the bill immediately and went to a store, where I was told by a manager that me paying my bill was me agreeing to their terms. I said, "I paid my bill to continue service for the household, but Verizon owes me. Not the other way around." I was fuming! I called my bank, BOA, who disputed the transaction for me and I won. I went to Sprint immediately and changed service. The weeks that followed, I would walk to the Verizon store near my work and make payments on the remaining balance. I NEVER WENT DELINQUENT OR MISSED ANY PAYMENTS. IN ADDITION, VERIZON ADDED THE AMOUNT BOA HAD WON BACK FOR ME BACK TO MY BILL.
I still continued to pay. One day, I walked in and I was told that they could not accept my payment. I was then notified by mail I was sent to collections. They owe me! THEY OVER CHARGED ME FOR 2 YEARS AND NOW THEY WANT TO RUIN MY CREDIT REPORT WITH THIS UNACCEPTABLE BILLING. And what about the false advertising? That was never addressed either. Verizon is horrible. They over charge knowingly and misrepresent their products as well as service. "Yes, that has been removed." "Yes, that is how much you will pay." "Yes, we owe YOU," but the reality is they don't have to stick with their promises.
I will tell everyone and anyone who will listen that Verizon will treat you how they want, leave you no avenue to dispute, and even try to ruin your credit if they choose. I have tried disputing through TransUnion since they have the wrong amount and since I had never been delinquent, but they side with the big dog, not little people like me who are loyal and pay their bills.
Food for thought: If you go to Target or Walmart because you were over charged for a TV and the rep gives you $200 cash instead of the $600 you are owed, closes the register and walks away. Do you just walk away too because they decided they are done? NO! You fight for what is rightly yours and you tell the world not to trust them. So, with that said, "DO NOT TRUST VERIZON OR ANY OF THEIR REPS!" In the store you get one thing and over the phone it is another.

Reviewed March 15, 2019
I went from Cricket to Verizon and regretting every minute! I am always out of service, I guess they don't have enough towers? Now I am stuck in a 2 yr contract that is lousy! Cricket seems to be the best service I have had and I was never out of service with them. I guess you get what you pay for and I am paying dearly. My advice, go with Cricket! Unlimited service for $60 and you are never out of range like I seem to always be with Verizon. I hate this crappy service.
Reviewed March 15, 2019
I was at your store at Walnut Hill and Skilliam Ave, Dallas, TX. I was greeted when I first walked in and the sales associate was Victor. Great smile, happy to be helping and ask the right questions to pinpoint my needs. He is a asset to your brand.
Reviewed March 15, 2019
Two years ago, I went to Verizon Wireless store to change upgrade cell phones for the whole family. We got 4 new phones and we terminated a old phone number that had area code of an area where I used live. However Verizon kept on charging our credit card for about $130 per month. After two and a half years of fraudulent charges, we have complained to multiple people in the organization. They agreed to pay out 1 and a half year worth of fraudulent charges in credits to our current bill. When we reviewed the statement and found out that they provided about $700 ($40 x 18 months), not $2,340 ($130 x 18 months). When we complained again, they indicated they cannot reimburse data, text, taxes, 2nd line access fee and etc. Verizon fraudulently took our money and refused to give us money back and told us to sue them if we would like. They told us that we will just end up using more money in court. They have robbed, lied and threaten us.
Reviewed March 14, 2019
Verizon Wireless used to have good customer service. I would call the 800 customer service number and get a rep to help me right away. Verizon does not have phone reps anymore. Must have been too costly so now they've transitioned to "Digital Assistant" which is essentially a live chat customer service. Last night I had a simple question that on the phone could be answered in a 5 min or less phone call. Because of the technology and typing involved (and losing connections as you go from retrieving a code from them via text to trying to find the live chat screen again) I spent approx. 3 hours with Verizon last evening when it could have been handled in a 5 minute phone call. Live chat is nowhere near the efficiency that a live phone rep can offer.
Verizon's decision to go digital in their customer service is going to frustrate their customers and make them leave for other providers who are in touch with how to treat their customers effectively in a timely manner. I know because I've experienced the new Verizon Digital Customer Service and it is terrible!! Stay away from Verizon if Customer Service is important to you.
Reviewed March 14, 2019
I have been paying for my mother's cell phone service for years. She passed away late January. I left the phone running for February to field any calls, etc, end of life stuff. I used her phone and Verizon's online support to cancel the account for both her phone and iPad. This seemed to go well. The service was definitely cancelled. I cancelled on the 9th of this month (March), which was one day before the cycle ended. A few days later, they still charged me. This isn't even the problem, life happens, billing didn't get the memo, whatever. I wasn't mad, as it seemed pretty simple to rectify. I am the person on file as having cancelled the account so I'm thinking this is cut and dry, easy. But this is where my problems began...
This morning, I called customer care, who informed me that even though my mother had passed away, and I am the person who reported and canceled the account, they can't get into it... Without her...Pin number. Ok, say that out loud slowly - you want me to ask my dead mom her pin number?? Oh but I can call Financial Services and they will straighten this out... Mind you, I've already dealt with considerable hold times.
So I call the number they give me, and the person does get me into the account. He says he has a "back door" for this situation. But he doesn't see the $101.24 recent charge, just that they owe me $30. I don't even know where this number comes from and he won't tell me. It's certainly nowhere near $101. And he is so clueless, I'm pretty concerned that they are going to keep charging my card for nothing. So he says that now the account is open, he needs to transfer me back to Customer Care. He can't do refunds or account stuff, he says. Remember, I'm talking to FINANCIAL SERVICES.
So I'm transferred back, the hold time is awful, and I get a sympathetic person. He asks for the pin number. I tell him Financial Services unlocked it and I've been transferred to him. He says he just needs to put me on hold a second. Mind you, I've been very patient and never once raised my voice. People on the phone, it isn't their fault, you know?
So about 40 minutes later, this person has not come back to even check in with me, nothing. I start to suspect I'm being gaslighted. I press buttons trying to get a response, nothing. I wait until it hits the hour mark and hang up. I call customer care again and no one answers. I call Financial Services to get some help again that is at least kind of competent. The woman I get is very rude, and tells me she can't get in without a pin number. "I'm sorry," I tell her, "Mom took that to the grave". And explain how Financial Services unlocked the account. And customer care just left me on hold for an hour. I am still nice to her. She tells me to speak with customer care because she can't do anything. She transfers me, and... I'm on hold for 30 minutes, no one picks up.
I call again but they ask for a phone number when you call in so... No one ever answers my call ever again. I even tried to get in as a new customer, and the person punched in the number and tried to transfer me direct to the dept and they still never answered. All they had to tell me was that their system creates a redundancy of incompetence and that I should just dispute with my credit card. But no one has the guts to tell me that, even though I have a light voice and was by no means loud or irate. Just asked "Why is this so hard?" An answer I'll never have. Even though this is on MY credit card - wow!
Funny thing is, I've had to cancel so many credit cards and bank accounts of mom's, I have death certificates, power of attorney as Trustee, notarized documents, the works, and have had very little trouble with other companies. These guys are rude, hard to get a hold of, and very incompetent dealing with what should have been a simple matter. Perhaps phone tree revision and a much better process for dealing with deceased clients is a place to start for fixing this. And not charging the dead, perhaps. Mom went unexpectedly and way too young. The last thing I want to deal with is this. And charging for a dead woman's phone that is already deactivated, and not caring enough to fix the problem - there has to be a special place in hell for that!
Reviewed March 14, 2019
Verizon is a good company but their pricing and policies need an update. They are too expensive and you should be able to keep all unused data indefinitely. Do away with Verizon up rewards, that is a waste of time and money. Focus on better prices and plans.
Reviewed March 13, 2019
Had Android service for 20+ years with Verizon, this year husband and I decided to try out the iPhones since most of family are using now a days. We purchased two iPhone XRs that were sent to our home. Bad experience since the beginning... No instructions on how to port from android to IOS, and for over two months now been back and forth with customer service over continuous dropped calls.
Verizon customer service had us restore network, factory, change SIM card amongst other things and then we were sent to Apple who said we need to send our phones in and wait for the repair! Huh, no phones! Or they charge our credit card for a loaner to use meantime which means uploading all important everyday apps, contacts and so forth... then do it all again when repair is fixed. Apparently we both were sent a bad batch and she just be replaced. We have an extra android still on our plan and an iPhone daughter uses no problems with either of those. Just the two we aren’t getting taken care of.
Reviewed March 13, 2019
I am tired of them selling "Unlimited Data Plans" for an exorbitant amount of money and then throttling the speedway back to the point a simple YouTube video will not play. This is false advertising and is the reason I will be ending my business with this horrible excuse for a company.
Reviewed March 13, 2019
I paid cash for a Samsung J3. It was activated with a $40.00 per month plan. On the third month, 2 days after paying for that month, my wife made a 3 min. call to Canada. The charge was just over $2.00. 1 day into the month they shut off the phone with no notice. They send texts for every other reason, but not this. They still have 95% of my $40. The call is covered. When customer service told me why they shut it off, I told them it was a thoughtless way to treat a customer relying on their service. They were out Nothing. The Rep. waived the charge and turned the phone back on. 3 years ago I had Verizon for 6 months and said Never again. In this new location I have no other choice. Same old Verizon.
Reviewed March 13, 2019
In the 20 or so years I have been a Verizon Wireless customer I have experienced first hand the continuous shift away from honest ethical business practices in its middle management who take no responsibility for their front line staffs actions both unintended and nefarious. The corporate lack of oversight and policies adopted by Verizon Wireless have made it too expensive for consumers to fight for fair and equitable treatment when problems arise with service and when manipulative staff try to meet their internal goals at the expense of consumers.
Reviewed March 13, 2019
I think it is ridiculous. You can only pay the devices off in one lump sum and are not able to make extra payments toward the principal balance throughout the contract period. Not to mention that the plans are overpriced when you can go to other providers that charge one set price for talk, text and data usage.
Reviewed March 12, 2019
We pay over $200 a month for unlimited Service but it is not unlimited. If you can't talk without a dropped call, you can't text, you can't watch a video because they have throttled your signal, then it is not unlimited. If they are charging you for a service then they need to supply what they are charging you for. If not that's called stealing. If they cannot give you what you are paying for then they need to stop taking people's money for it.
Reviewed March 11, 2019
Been on the phone for over an hour for these morons to turn on my prepaid service that I paid for 4 days ago. Literally been through 10 foreign speaking operators, keep getting transferred only to have to give all my information again. This is pathetic. You can't even be decent when I'm trying to buy your service. Maybe I should tell them to piss off and go back to Straight Talk. Never dealt with crap like this from any company. Get your business together, and work on your customer service.
Reviewed March 10, 2019
iPhone went dead. Brought it to Verizon Wireless store on Old Country road in Plainview. Said my phone dead and I had to purchase new iPhone, which I did. When I returned home and contacted Apple, they were able to restore all data back to original phone. I went immediately back to return phone and dealer refused to refund my money. I was able to contact the Verizon Wireless Corporate Regional Manager. He was wonderful. I returned to store and dealer was forced to give refund immediately. No bully tactics this time. Verizon Wireless you rock. Just go to an authorized dealership and stay away from the store in Morton Village Shopping Center in Plainview.
Reviewed March 9, 2019
Verizon claims to be the fastest network with the best service, but its a lie. In my home I have no service at all, my phone only works on wifi. And even around my area, I cant even use internet. They make you pay for unlimited internet, but it does not even work. The hotspot feature is the slowest processing I have ever seen on a phone. They tell you the iPhone will be able to download things super fast, but in actuality it takes hours. I should have never got this service, stay away. Go with AT&T or T-Mobile if you can.
Reviewed March 9, 2019
I have been with Verizon for more than 8 years. Last month, I called them if they can offer new customers some good plan. A lady told me that I will pay $130 (including 1 phone payment $23 - two month haven't paid off yet) including everything. After I paid offer my phone I will only need pay for $105 plus tax $6 which is total $110 everything included. But after that I received a message says that my month bill will be $149 and I called right back. The lady put me on the phone for 1 hour and then she texted me with the previous price confirmed $105 plus tax. Now when I check my bill, it's back to $155 again. I called them and they just said they can not do that price anymore and they want I enroll auto pay. How ridiculous that is? Will you trust a company like this? NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH VERIZON!!!!
Reviewed March 7, 2019
If you ever go to a store that says Verizon, document everything! They lie, cheat and steal and it is up to you to prove it. We took my 85 year old dad in to close his account and three of us witnessed the transaction. He was told he could close with a zero balance. Furthermore, the rep verbally trashed the product, because their broadband is a horrendous ripoff. We left satisfied and then my dad got a $710 bill. First, they made me physically track down their lying staff in multiple locations...and they keep lying. After multiple written complaints I ended up speaking with executive offices but they don't care... If you can't prove they lied, then you have no standing. Yes, they videotape transactions, but they won't even look if it is against their benefit.
TAKE A WITNESS AND VIDEOTAPE THE CONVERSATION. GET IT IN WRITING and don't leave until you review the agreement. DOCUMENT NAMES AND DETAILS. Otherwise, they can tell you anything they want and you have no recourse. If you didn't get it in writing, it does not exist to them. Their executive staff lies too...say they will call back and don't, set phone appointments and don't call. You are your only advocate with this wretched organization, protect yourself upfront.
Verizon Wireless Company Information
- Company Name:
- Verizon Wireless
- Website:
- www.verizonwireless.com