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September 6, 2007
Poor service!
Congratulations Verizon Wireless. You have the only PERFECT website in the entire world. Your website NEVER has any glitches and there are NEVER any problems with it. The only possible errors are those of your stupid consumers who obviously can't do anything correctly. And your customer service is absolutely outstanding! The representative I talked with was only mildly snotty to me when I expressed my request for a credit on my bill. She could have cursed and called me names, but her smug attitude was a perfect reminder of your wonderful customer service representatives. And her ability to not even attempt to make things right is great for your company. After all, how can a huge corporation like Verizon afford to lose $25.00 because of what was obvious (according to your records) completely 100% my fault. I must be held responsible for going online to pay my bill and completely changing my bank account information (which by the way, was done without even going to the section of the website to change this information), to some random account that is not even remotely close to the bank account I've been paying my bill with since I started my Verizon contract. There is absolutely no possible way that there could have been a glitch somewhere in your website. How stupid of me to think that. And so, again, I want to thank you for your PERFECT website. There is truly no other website that can compete with yours. I will be sure to tell everyone I know about this exceptional experience I had in dealing with your company. Thank you Verizon Wireless.
August 2, 2007
Tasty complaint
Here's a tasty complaint about Verizon Wireless that everyone should pay attention to... there will be words of wisdom after I give a brief overview of the sheer thievery that goes on with not just Verizon Wireless I'm sure, but all of the too rich and powerful companies like this. Summary as follows:

On February 27, 2007 I receive a call from Verizon asking for my authorization to transfer a 3rd phone on my account. I agreed to the transfer since I did contact them asking if I could avoid early termination fee by finding someone who wanted to take ownership.

In April 2007, I contacted Verizon Wireless because I noticed I was still being charged for that 3rd phone. At that time, I was told that the transfer never took place as the person who agreed to it never completed the transaction by going into a Verizon Wireless store and putting down a "required deposit". Of course, no one ever told me what had happened (in writing or via a CELL PHONE call... which is their business?). I advised the person I spoke to that this was unacceptable, not my fault and most importantly, not my problem. Verizon Wireless did not care and would not remove the phone from my account. Even though I was out a phone (a "chocolate") that I recently purchased, Verizon Wireless wouldn't waive a single fee charged from 2/27/07 or even the infamous "early termination fee" ($175).

Taking matters into my own hands... I cancelled the auto deduct payment option before the next billing cycle at the end of May. Then, after at least 2 e-mails and 2 phone calls were promptly ignored (don't forget, you can't talk to anyone higher in the chain than a Supervisor), I wrote a letter and mailed it to an address I was given previously, on July 5th. To date, have I even gotten a response? Nope. All I've gotten was my 2 cell phones deactivated by Verizon Wireless... for non-payment of course. Does anyone at Verizon Wireless care? Nope. All they care about is getting their money...and they do not have to make any concessions (in their minds anyway).

Here comes the wisdom folks... TAKE BACK YOUR RIGHTS FROM THESE CORPORATE, JUGGERNAUT, IDIOTS! Am I going to sit there and worry about my balance with them because they're going to send a Collection Agency after me? Nope. I'm going to use Verizon Wireless's lack of customer service against them.

All you need to do (and I've done this to Cingular already) is write a letter (like I did) and wait for them to ignore you. When the collection agency sends you a notice, send it back to them with a copy of your ignored letter. Advise them that you disputed your balance with no response and therefore it LEGALLY CANNOT BE REPORTED TO A CREDIT REPORTING AGENCY nor can they collect any debt that you have disputed. Like a small customer service miracle, you will never hear from them again because Verizon had already sold the debt to the agency and if Verizon cannot prove that the debt was never argued to a resolution, Verizon and the Collection Agency are both out the money. You get to move on to a cell phone service that cares about you (LET ME KNOW WHO THAT IS PLEASE).

Remember, don't get stressed. STOP PAYING THEM AND WRITE LETTERS FOR THEM TO IGNORE. They don't care about you and me folks... they only care about the 20 or so million they have as a whole. Only when 1 million customers cancel will they start to care. Executive Management at Verizon does not get paid enough millions to care about everyone you know...

Good luck with your complaint.
June 14, 2007
No cell phone rebate received!
I have previously sent an email to customer service and received no response. I renewed my service plan with Verizon on 4/22. At that time I purchased 3 Samsung phones and was advised I would receive a rebate of $100.00 for two of the phones. I wasn't advised at the time of a form to fill out or anything else I need to do. I was under the impression that the service person had taken care of all my needs. When I didn't receive the rebate I called customer service who advised I needed to fill out a rebate form and that it could be done on line. When I went to the website I was unable to do this. I then emailed customer service and advised them. They never responded to my email... In my email to customer service I asked how I could obtain my rebate and if the $100.00 could just be applied to my future bill.

Hopefully someone can give me an answer...
February 2, 2007
Billing problems
I received a bill for my wireless account I have had for 5 years. The amount was 271.23, I called Verizon and they explained I went over my minutes and did not have free Verizon to Verizon on my plan. Albert the rep. in Texas offer to reduce the amount if I changed plans at an additional 10.00 a month cost. We agreed on the a reduction in the amount of 153.85 leaving an amount of 117.88. He spoke to a supervisor and they approved that amount and I upgraded my service and upgraded my phones. I attempted to make the online payment and it reflected the amount of 146.23. I called customer service and they stated that amount had not been approved. It was only for 125.00 and not the 153.85 as Albert had told me. I complained and they spoke to a supervisor who said the amount was not approved and I would have to pay it. My argument is, their rep. Albert told me the amount was approved. I upgraded my service and my phones as we agreed, then they backed out of the deal. Since their rep. made the deal they should honor it out of fairness to the consumer. I have had nothing but good luck with Verizon for over 5 years. I have been a loyal customer and sent many friends and family to Verizon because of the service and excellent customer service. I am really upset over this deal. The amount is very small, and hardly worth a tantrum, but this is strictly a principle issue with me. I paid their amount, but I am far from done complaint about this. People have to stand up for something or we stand for nothing. And I am tired of being taken advantage of regardless of the dollar amount.
December 22, 2006
Late fees and overcharging!
Has anybody checked to see how much money Verizon makes on late fees. They have charged me so many late fees because of a bogus and humongous bill they sent to me that I disputed. While disputing, they continued to charge me a late fee based on the $1128 phone bill. I had an international calling plan called North America's choice. They charged me roaming for the first week in Mexico and then wouldn't reverse it until we threatened them. I had requested paper bills again and again detailing my calls and they never came. Only bills stating how much I owed. I still haven't received anything. They are horrible. Everyone told me to avoid Verizon because of their billing scams, but I just had to learn the hard way. Stay away from Verizon. I have filed a complaint with the FCC to have them investigated for fraud. If Quest can rob the people and UPS can too, why not Verizon. Is it impossible for them to ever hire corrupt people?
October 27, 2006
700P rebate form entirely truthful
Don’t lose the box when you buy a Treo 700 P phone from Verizon Wireless. If you are trying to get your rebate on the 700P Treo phone, you will need the UPC code, which according to Verizon, is only available through the Manufacturer, and according to Palm is not something that they keep records of. ?!? Despite this, if you enter a phony number in the Verizon Rebate Center’s web page, it will state that the number is not valid. How could they know unless they had a record of the number at Verizon?

Somebody’s not being entirely truthful at Verizon. Oh, and the Rebate Center Phone number on their web site leads to a voice mail that only hangs up on you.

Mark
October 12, 2006
Extremely unhappy with the service
I have a complaint about verizon cell phone service. I am extremely unhappy with the service and because I am past the 15 day trial period they will not let me cancel without paying almost 400.00 in early cancellation fees. They are the reason that I am past my 15 day trial. I opened an account for Myself and told the salesperson that the reason I was trying the service was because my daughter had recently left to go to college in NYC and I would be travelling to upstate NY to visit relatives and my current service which was t-mobile did not work in that part of upstate NY. I told her if the phone worked there I was going to upgrade to a family plan and asked her if there were any additional activation fees associated with that and she said no. The phone worked in upstate NY and I just figured if it worked in upstate NY it would work in Providence RI. I came back to Rhode Island and upgraded to a family plan and was told that I had to pay an additional fee for activation 25.00. I have been extremely mislead about the charges continuously but even though I have been out of work for a year and finances are important to me, it is more important that I have a phone service where I can reach my daughter at any time and she can reach me. When I got home to Rhode Island the phone didn't work here so I went back to the store and told them I wanted to cancel and they said they had already sent a phone to my daughter and assured me that there was great service in Rhode Island it must be the phone. They were very overbearing and talked me into trying another phone and more time passed by. I tried the other phone and it worked a little bit better but still got a lot of dropped calls and have very little to no service in home which is extremely important to me because I need to be able to reach my daughter and she needs to be able to reach me at all times and i cannot afford to pay such an expensive cell phone service and also pay for home long distance. My daughter had received a phone in ny and tried to activate it but they said she had to do it in rhode island so more time passed. In the meantime because of all this trouble I was paying for two phone services. Which was a considerable amount of money. My daughter came to Rhode Island to set up her phone and it didn't work at all so we went back to the store. I have spent many days and many hours at the store and I have spent many days and many hours talking to customer service most of whom end up disconnecting me and then never calling me back. this has been the worst service and the worst customer service I have ever experienced and I have had cell phones for five years. My daughter had to leave for NY with her new phone and didn't really get to use it much here. She tried a few calls but had very little service in and around my home and some dropped calls while travelling around Providence and Attleboro. She reluctantly left with the phone because we needed a form of communication. I wanted to cancel my service for the third time but I was told that it was too late because of all the trouble my time had passed by while we were waiting for phones to be switched and phones to be delivered and then having to travel from state to state to get them activated and tons of other problems. I had several anxiety attacks thoughout this situation and I just wanted to get rid of this horrific service and be done with it so I could get phones back that work so I can reach my daughter when I need to and she can reach me. I called a few days ago to have my t-mobile number imported because i was told it wouldnt be any problem and they would do it right away. It never happened. I was stuck with verizon at this point so I thought it made sense. I tried calling for three days and the person that promised she would take care of it never got back to me. I spoke to another agent who disconnected me after about an hour and then called back again and got t-mobile on the line(they were very helpful) and the contacted verizon for me. The verizon agent said she set everything up and talked me through some voice system and said I was al set. I couldn't reach my daughter all day and realized my phone wasn't ringing. I called back and found out they had switched the wrong phones and neither of us had any service and we were trying to contact each other all day which caused me another anxiety attack. I had to call back when I found this out and they took another several hours to switch stuff back and said eveything was okay but it wasn't . I still couldn't reach my daughter and I was going into panic attack mode. I found out that her phone was not working and I had to call back again and found out that she needed to update her phone and then it worked but since then I have called her several times and I could only barely talk to her once because I only have one bar, and most of the time none in or around my house and since I dont have a job right now I spend a lot of time in my house. I was told verizon doesn't care if I don't have service in my house because they dont' gurarantee service in dwellings. well I have to have service in my house and I have always had service in my house with my other carrier. I have never had a problem with them in 5 years. Starting with verizon is the worst decison I have ever made but I have been lied to and bullied several times and if it wasn't for that I would have cancelled the service long before now I would be all set. I have called the customer service lines many times. I told my story to a rep yesterday for about an hour and she said she was looking over my files and then lo and behold we got disconnected, I was very panicky at this point and had to call back again and was told I could not get back to that person. I had to start all over again. I thought for sure I was going to end up in the hospital with a full blown panic attack and I told the representative this and she didn't respond. she just made me tell the whole story again and said there was nothing she could do and that I was stuck with this service or had to pay two 197.00 early termination fees because I have two lines.

Unfortunately I cannot afford this or I would definately do it because my health and being able to reach my daugher are worth it. I am thinking of looking into a lawyer but I dont have the money so I don't know if that is feasible unless I can find other people who feel the same way. I told the representative that I will tell everyone that I meet how horrible verizon is and they will lose a lot of customers and she didn't care. She would rather hold one extremely distraught customer hostage and lose tons of new customers for some ridiculous reason. I asked to speak to someone higher up than her and she said that was not possible and she just left it at that so I did not get anywhere. I don't know what I am going to do but I have to find a way to get a phone service where I can speak to my daughter at any time and speak to her from my home and verizon does not offer that or care to. I am going to contact the better business bureau and the attorney general and talk to everyone that I meet everywhere and tell them my story and make sure they do not consider signing a contract with the devil (verizon) I have tried not to call them names or get angry but it is impossible at this point because of all the lies and the uncaring attitudes and the hangups and mainly because they do not care at all that they are causing me pain and anxiety and not providing me the service that I am paying so much money for. If you have any suggestions to help me I would greatly appreciate it. My name is Penny. My email is [email protected]. Please help me!!!!!!!
October 9, 2006
Verizon Wireless cheats thier consumers by disabling features provided by the phone's manufacterer
Verizon Wireless cheats thier consumers by disabling features provided by the phone's manufacterer so they can collect more profit by forcing them to subscribe to their V Cast. I basically choose a phone for the bluetooth Object Exchange so I can exchange files from another phone or PC but that is disabled by Verizon. Other companies like Cingular, T Mobile have the same model without having any features like this disabled. They spoke to me like I don't know anything. I repeatedly demanded them to re-enable the feature as I know for sure it can be re-enabled; but everytime, a lie comes out of them saying thier V Cast is a better alternative. Cheating off the consumer does not attract a good reputation for a company, but Trustworthy surely does attract a good reputation.

Thanks ComplaintsBoard.com for giving me the opportunity to speak.
September 29, 2006
Talking to Verizon falls upon deaf ears
Who can I complain to. I have been a customer of Verizon for 3years now. When I first moved to the Southern California area I had AT&T but left them in disgust because it seemed everytime I turned a corner I would have dropped calls. Upon leaving AT&T, I was lured in by Verizons pitch on dropped calls and great service. I joined their nationwide plan which gave me 800 minutes. Well every month I was over my aloted minutes. I always call and argue that it is impossible. They recomended I upgrade my plan. I decided to get 3 more phones for family and move to the Family Share Plan with double my minutes for what I was told would be $120 a month with insurance for each phone. I have not seen a bill for under $200, with this last month close to $400. The other 3 phones are rarely used with all the kids blockages for downloads. The Verizon rep told me all the charges were to my line, when I told them that was impossible since I am not using the phone anymore than I did before. All he said was he had the paperwork to prove it.So basically he told me that I jumped from what they claim was an average of 820 mins to 1900 mins of usage. I dont understand how no matter what plan and how many minutes I have, I always seem to go over on minutes although my usage remains the same. I was also told that when I traveled to Temple City, CA I was charged roaming. Temple City is one block from my city, needless to say he did not have a reply to that response. To me it seems they have some kind of scam going on that is hard to pin point and needless to say they have all the answers for.

In short, and I am sorry for the lengthy letter I think I needed to vent, I was wondering who I can complain to since talking to Verizon falls upon deaf ears.

Thank You,
Victor

(626)716-0sss

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