501, Report:
#190490
Posted Date:
May 08 2006
Verizon ripoff, frauds, Elgin Illinois
They have the audacity to put down that I have a past due account with them. Not only have I NEVER had an account, they REFUSED to send me a copy of a SIGNED contract. (This is aparantly for cellular service?) I have a TracFone, and I have only ever had prepaids. The one I had be...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
502, Report:
#188720
Posted Date:
Apr 26 2006
Masterbell Poor Customer Service False Advertising Deceptive Business Practices ripoff Internet *EDitor's Suggestions on how to get your money back into your bank account!
masterbell.com AKA Phone Minutes Online
http://www.masterbell.com
This place charged my credit card and claimed to require verification to complete the order, they never attempted to contact me and when I tried to call them they will keep you on hold for 20+ minutes, making you ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
503, Report:
#186254
Posted Date:
Apr 12 2006
Tracfone Wireless ripoff remaining minutes Miami Florida
Just before the Christmas holidays of 05, I purchased a Tracfone to keep in touch with family members. When the time came to buy more minutes, I purchased a 300 minute card and that made a total of 394 minutes remaining. Now my phone is disabled and they will not reactivate it or re...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
504, Report:
#185904
Posted Date:
Apr 10 2006
Tracfone ripoff liars misleading deceptive Tampa Florida
I purchased a cell phone for my daughter to have for security. Tracfone issued me a phone number that no one can call locally. It's a long distance phone number.
This has caused a major problem, since I've spent hours trying to resolve this issue, only to end up talking to peop...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
505, Report:
#176880
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2006
TRACFONE TRAC-FONE RESOLUTION CENTER WORTHLESS WASTE OF TIME, BETTER OFF TALKING TO THE IDIOT'S IN THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPT. MIAMI Florida
bought tracfone and forty minutes time on 12-08-05. this phone was defective, and so was the next one they sent. they have since sent six yes six more, all wrong model's i have only been able to make two call's. the phone i purchased from k-mart was a 1221, the next six they sent me...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
506, Report:
#180212
Posted Date:
Mar 09 2006
TracFone Wireless, cannot reactivate new phone Ripoff Miami Florida
On Feb. 14 I bought a replacement phone to reactivate and since that time I have spent over 3 weeks and countless hours on the phone with 13 tech reps, 2 supervisors, and 1 person from the complaint dept. I have been assigned 7 different case numbers(they assign case numbers when th...
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Categories: Telephone Companies
507, Report:
#179734
Posted Date:
Mar 07 2006
TRACFONE ripoff EDGEMOOR South Carolina
Tracfone had a promotional deal where you can buy a 250 min. card and get a Reconditioned Motorola V-170 tracfone for Free.
I ordered it on Feb.-20th-2006 and also had PAID for overnight shipping, I waited for 3 days and called them and they had cancelled the order. So I ordered ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
508, Report:
#117881
Posted Date:
Feb 19 2006
Tracfone Wireless ripoff Miami Florida
What a joke for a company. It would be nice if:
1. You could actually understand the customer service reps - none speak the English language clearly enough.
2. They actually do something - my phone has been down for 5 days and still no information.
3. They actually checked the...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
509, Report:
#170564
Posted Date:
Feb 01 2006
Tracfone Wireless Poor customer service, poor system service RIPOFF Miami Florida
Ordered directly and received from Tracfone in late October (1) Motorola V60i tracfone. Contacted, via their 800 number, Tracfone customer service to set up my phone. When attempting talk with Tracfone customer service, the phone reception was real poor and the representative could ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
510, Report:
#173446
Posted Date:
Jan 27 2006
Tracfone Wireless Phone sent back to warehouse August 2005 still waiting for new phone Miami Florida
I moved to a new state in August 2005. I was told that my old cell phone was not compatible with the new calling area and that I should send in the old phone. I was to receive the new phone on 5-10 days.
Well, it is January 2006 and I still don't have a phone. I have called Tr...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
511, Report:
#171526
Posted Date:
Jan 13 2006
Tracfone ripoff worst customer service, or lack thereof MIAMI Florida
I have been trying to get a defective phone replaced since August 2005. Supposedly they were overnighting it to me and five weeks later, I got it. It turns out that phone was defective and when I activated it, I couldn't keep my phone number. When I ordered a new model, I finally ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
512, Report:
#168973
Posted Date:
Jan 04 2006
Tracfone. ripoff, Refer a friend and You'll both probably get screwed. Miami Florida
Yup.
My friend tried tracfone website links, refer a friend, multiple times. Each time the website accepted the referal(you'll get email shortly). Note: I plugged in the info myself, just to make sure, except... El ZIPPO referal emails from Tracfone.
Song and dance story fr...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
513, Report:
#1028941
Posted Date:
Dec 22 2005
TRACFONE RIPOFF HAS HAD MY DEFECTIVE PHONE FOR 2 MONTHS,I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT BACK WITHIN 15 BUSINESS DAYS,YEAH RIGHT MIAMI Florida
Tracfone sucks...my phone worked for about 10 days.
Problem #1-Phone stopped ringing.
Problem #2-Couldn't set up or recieve voice mail.
Problem #3-I could send and be charged for text messages, yet the text messages I've sent were never recieved by the people I sent them t...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
514, Report:
#168575
Posted Date:
Dec 22 2005
TRACFONE GIANT RIF-OFF Miami Florida
I will edit and update this asap...
I am very sick and this company's crap didn't help...
For the 2nd time thier airtime due date came up wrong when buying and activating a new card...The first was done vie thier phone and the one last night was done online.
The first time,...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
515, Report:
#168502
Posted Date:
Dec 19 2005
Tracfone doesn't do what they say they will do, ripoff Internet
I purchased a tracfone in August, 2005. I used it for one week and the phone quit working . Because I didn't have all the packaging I had to leave it to tracfone to replace the phone. I call them at least once a week and more often if I can. They will tell me it will be delivere...
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Categories: Telephones
516, Report:
#159148
Posted Date:
Dec 14 2005
Tracfone RIPOFF They programed the wrong phone number into the cell phone and then insisted that no one has the correct number programed into the my telephone number on the cell phone. Miami Florida
I contacted Trafone to find out if I could transfer my current Tracfone number to a new Trafone. I was told that the new phone I wanted to buy could take my current phone number. I was told to call Tracfone customer service as soon as I got the new phone.
I ordered the new phon...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
517, Report:
#166214
Posted Date:
Nov 29 2005
Tracfone HUGE ripoff Miami Florida
We have bought 5 tracfones over the years with no problems. So, when the boys asked for cell phones for their birthday we bought tracfone. We chose to buy 2 refurbished phones that were adverised on the website. The first was fine the other wouldn't work. ( We were also given the WR...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
518, Report:
#165722
Posted Date:
Nov 24 2005
Tracfone Wireless ripoff Miami Florida
I purchased 2 reconditioned phones for my wife and I to use for emergencies. One phone works great, the other phone does not work at all. I went back and forth with customer service for 2 weeks with different customer service reps trying to reprogram my phone. Finally they said t...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
519, Report:
#164846
Posted Date:
Nov 16 2005
Trac Phone - Tracfone ripoff, this phone sucks! Miami Florida
this company should change its name to crap-phone. they make you program your phone and still does not work.
all they say is sorry & sorry it took 4 days to fix the phone.
their service sucks big-time. they also did a debit on my account for the amount of 129.00 3 times. all I...
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Categories: Telephones
520, Report:
#157983
Posted Date:
Sep 22 2005
TracFone Wireless ripoff promised SIM card over a month ago, have gotten every excuse in the book but still no SIM card Florida
Like to know where my SIM card is for my Motorola roller V170, have been given every excuse in the world, wrong address, hurricane, you name it. Also have a difficult time communicating with the people in India that TracFone has hired.
I have had a very difficult time getting ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
521, Report:
#156454
Posted Date:
Sep 09 2005
Tracfone ripoff of 150 mins. Miami Florida
on Dec 24, 2004 I purchased one year service for my tracfone which also included 300 mins. of airtime for $99. When I went to add on the new mins. it only came up to 150, not 300. I made several attempts to enter the code I was given by tracfone, but the phone kept saying it was n...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
522, Report:
#155375
Posted Date:
Aug 29 2005
Tracfone A big scam and ripoff! Miami Florida
I ordered a Tracfone online. Buy 40 minutes get a reconditioned phone free. Thought it was a good deal considering I can't get a traditional cellphone without a huge deposit. Received the phone in a timely manner, however, the battery wouldn't charge. So I called them and they s...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
523, Report:
#154464
Posted Date:
Aug 22 2005
Tracfone Prepaid Wireless ripoff Miami Florida
I purchased a Tracfone and it is always on roaming in my town or no sevice and when someone tries to call you it goes in voicemail so you never get to talk to a caller. The Compamy will not try to fix it- you send it back and after weeks you get a recondition phone that doesn't work...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
524, Report:
#153323
Posted Date:
Aug 11 2005
Tracfone ripoff, give nothing but run around, hard to understand on phone, pass buck. Miami Florida
Orderd two phones only got one. One was shipped to CO. and I called 15 times over a month and a 1/2 period trying to get it straightened out. Only one fellow traced the order through to find out about the shipping mess up but I couldn't get back in touch with him. Got run around th...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
525, Report:
#150284
Posted Date:
Aug 09 2005
TracFone Minutes disappeared from my phone Ripoff Miami Florida
I have had my TracFone since January 2005. My purpose in having a cell phone is merely for emergencies and necessary calls. Certainly not for just chatting. My phone may not even be used for 2 weeks at a time.
My original number of minutes started out at 750 minutes.
Low and beh...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies