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  • Report:  #1492257

Complaint Review: AT&T - Laguna Niguel California

Reported By:
Vectorman - Irvine, ca, United States
Submitted:
Updated:

AT&T
Laguna Niguel, California, United States
Phone:
800-228-2020
Web:
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One of ATT "In home experts", came to my residence to check on the work of a technical workman who corrected my landline problem. Then I asked how much it would be if I brought my 2 cell phones over from Consumer Cellular.

 He then explained his role as a "In-home Expert" with ATT. He said they can give "Deals" to people that are not available in the ATT stores. Further more if I would trade in my, and my wife's iPhone 7…ATT could give me and my wife….a new iPhone 11…and he had 2 in his vehicle.

 He also stated that ATT could also port over my land line phone number onto my cell phone because it happens to be a DUAL SIM phone, therefore I could cancel my land line all together and still receive calls from that old land line number. That sounded good so I took him up on his offer to bring over my, and wife's both cell phone numbers and my old land line phone number to ATT.

 WHAT HE DID NOT TELL ME -Meaning, we were LIED TO!

1.He did not tell me:  That in order to get this trade-in deal I had to add another line to my account. When he learned about my land line phone number he said they could port that number over to the new Iphone 11 and I could answer and make calls to and from that number as well as my old cell phone number. That would solve the problem of adding another line without TELLING ME that was mandatory to get the deal. But, since my wife had no need of another phone number on HER phone, he had to make up this story about needing to use a *bogus number to get back in the system to port her phone over from the pervious provider. He obviously knew if he told us the truth we would have never done the deal. This was an out and out lie to prevent us from knowing the truth, which would cause us to cancel the transaction then and there.

2. He did not tell me:That this plan that I signed up for, had the the Advantage Protection plan attached for both phones, costing a $40 each per mo. was MANDITORY!

3. He did not tell me:That each phone was charged $23.34 PER PHONE (as if we were buying the phones from  AT&T and it was like a monthly payment as if we were purchasing the phones) for the first 30 days or until our old phones get turned in, and even in that capacity, THOSE PHONES had to be EVALUATED as to their WORTH, which would be put against the price of our new iPhone 11's, meaning we would still possibly have to pay more money on a monthly payment to own the phones after 2 years.

  4. He did not tell me:If we wanted to return the phones and cancel before the 14 day "Buyer's remorse" law in California (which he did not mention at all), that there would be a $50 "Restocking fee" PER PHONE!

 5. He did not tell me…That I had to pay the TAX on the two iPhone 11's costing basically $700 each. Which was at least $108.00 Plus other activation charges. He just said that was the down payment to get started, I thought it would go against the monthly usage of the phones.

*In Home Expert installing BOGUS NUMBER on my account

 The (Un named) In Home Expert employee number MS525Q"SAID", he could not make the software function to port over my wife's phone, 310 710 xxxx because he said it "Wouldn't take", and he couldn't get back into the porting software with the same phone number so…he used a bogus number to get back in so he could port her existing number over. That number  was still on my wife's NEW Iphone 11, that we COULD NOT REMOVE,  and that number was still on the phone when we turned it in at the local ATT store in . Later I learned from a friend who had the same exact experience with AT&T…with turning in his old phone for an iPhone 11, that in order to get the trade-in deal you have to ADD ANOTHER LINE to your account on that particular phone! Now that explains why he made up this story about needing to put a bogus number on her NEW phone (which was a dual SIM phone) to satisfy the parameter of having to add another line to our account, without telling us the truth!

WHICH MEANS: I WAS LIED TO!The "In home expert (un-named here) just added that other line to my Wife's new phone INENTIONALLY and made up this story about needing to use a different number to get into the sytem!!! If he told me the truth, I would have NEVER condoned going through with this transaction! And, I just had a conversation with a friend that said the same exact thing happened to him when he traded his old phone in to ATT, that  ATT attached another phone number to his account without telling him directly.

In looking at my bill on line I find that that bogus number which I NEVER gave my permission to add to my account…was listed on my wife's phone as her additional phone number, and would be costing us $45.74 a month if I haden't cancelled both cell phones with ATT on 02/04/2020 and TURNED IN both phones to the ATT store in Mission Viejo Ca. My cell bill with my previous carrier was $43 a mo. for unlimiteded calls and texts, my first bill with ATT was $315.78

When I called his cell phone number the salesman gave me, I left 3 messages on his voice mail, and two texts describing this and other issues. To this date he has NEVER called me back. I also got the cell number of his supervisor, and left texts and VM messages on her phone as well. SHE never has called me back as of 3 weeks later. What a scam they're running here!

OTHER NEGATIVE ISSUES WITH ATT

 EMAIL

When I called tech support I asked "What would my new email be, since I was canceling my Cox. net account.  Tech support told me "Oh that's no problem you can keep your old email addresses. I asked how that could be possible if I didn't HAVE a Cox. net ACCOUNT?! They said, "Don't worry you can do it , we're not sure how it works but you can keep your old email addresses. 

I just got an email from Cox saying because I canceled my account with them, all my email addresses associated with Cox would be deleted in 60 days. This statement that you can keep your existing email address permanently was, and still is an out an out lie, and all of the  ATT tech support people are telling potential customers this same lie.

I have that "@cox.net", email attached to many places, and it's critical to have that in force, therefore I have to cancel the internet portion of ATT and reinstate Cox to prevent a lot of potential problems. Because they lied to me.

When I signed up w/ATT cell service, I had to fill out an exhaustive form, and I checked NO on Paperless Billing, NO on Autopay, and the NO on the Advantage Protection plan. I called tech support, and billing, and they told me that those choices were logged in as recorded as "NO". Then, ATT sent me an email that said thank you for signing up for the Autopay, the paperless statements, and the Advantage Protection Plan.Then I called again and some tech support person said they would remove me from those things. They kept sending me emails saying, "Thanks for signing up for paperless billing etc.

 I called ATT tech support again and they said, "No you DON’T' have paperless billing but ATT just sent you that email because it 's the same one they send every one". REALLY!? They just send out faluse info because they don't want to change it to make it relavant? I wish I'd never heard of ATT Wireless!



1 Updates & Rebuttals

Roger

Laguna Niguel,
California,
United States
ATT STILL billing me for acct closed

#2Author of original report

Wed, March 25, 2020

Well, the saga continues to go on and on and on. After closing out my cellular account and me returning the iPhones ATT gave me with the "Deal" presented by thier "In Home Expert" salesman...they Still continue to bill me each month increasing my bill by $315 a month, it's now up to $957. I have called their billing dept. 3 times (spent at least 45 min. waiting to talk to someone), and each time they acknowledge that the account was closed 2 mo. ago, and that I have returned the phones, and owe NOTHING. BUT...I still continue to get a bill each month for the $957.00.

I have spent no less that 12 hours on the phone to their billing dept to get this fixed, I'm ready to hire a lawyer to bring a punitive damage law suit against them for harassment and time spent on the phone trying to get them to quit sending me this useless bill. Here's a tip, NEVER do biz w/AT&T!

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