726, Report:
#65213
Posted Date:
Aug 05 2003
VERIZON WIRELESS RUINED MY CREDIT Philadelphia NATIONWIDE
I got my credit report the other day and discovered a delinquent account with Verizon Wireless had ruined my credit score. The interesting thing is, I've never even had an account with Verizon Wireless. The account in question was actually in my father's name. He had closed it two y...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
727, Report:
#65028
Posted Date:
Aug 02 2003
Cingular Wireless ripoff mistreated and ripped off outlandish late fees political corruption Irvine California
I opened a cellular phone account with Cingular Wireless. I paid 29.99 plus tax for monthly service. When i recieved my bill it was up to $166 dollars, when I was expecting something around what I was paying for my plan. They charged me free night and weekend minutes as minutes that...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
728, Report:
#64816
Posted Date:
Jul 28 2003
Elephant Wireless ripoff phones don't work and they promise to send a different phone They hold off sending it until you are over the 15 day return period abused & mistreated Edison New Jersey
I received a call from Elephant Wireless saying they are the sales agent for Cingular Wireless. They made me an offer to renew my Cingular contract and upgrade to GSM service. I agreed and when I got the GSM phone and found it didn't work, I called Elephant within the 15 day return ...
Entity
Categories: Telephone Companies
729, Report:
#64000
Posted Date:
Jul 18 2003
Cingular Wireless the deceptive ripoff business that doesnt give a dam company Atlanta Georgia
I electronically sent the wrong amount to Cingular Wireless by several hundred dollars. I recently got a new cellular phone, so I called Cingular to cancel my account on June 16th and spoke with Nole Jordan. He told me that they would send me the balance on my account within 3-7 b...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
730, Report:
#63842
Posted Date:
Jul 16 2003
Cingular Wireless ripoff. harasses consumers, practices fraudalent billing, and does not honor their own agreements. Atlanta Georgia
Upon searching for a career position in Washington, DC and realizing my need to travel, and have a nonroaming phone plan, I requested Cingular to up-grade my wireless plan at the local Cingular Wireless store. However, the next month's bill reflected no up-grade and exuberant charge...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
731, Report:
#30074
Posted Date:
Jul 16 2003
Cingular Wireless ripoff customer service fraud lies deceit deceptive company Laredo Texas
Cingular Wireless is a horrible, horrible company. I can not get many of my calls. Sometimes they go through, sometimes they don't.
When I call customer service they try to call me. I go through about 4 layers of support until one of them tries calling me, gets lucky and goes ...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
732, Report:
#1033625
Posted Date:
Jun 20 2003
CINGULAR WIRELESS GETTING SCREWED BY CINGULAR a little advice, do not pay your bill online. LAFAYETTE Louisiana
Well this story all started about a month ago. I got online to pay my bill, which was $139.78. Two times I tried to do the transaction and the screen told me the transaction had failed, to try again or call customer service. Because of the fact you have to wait on the phone for a...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
733, Report:
#59924
Posted Date:
Jun 07 2003
Cingular Wireless bate and switch ripoff for messaging victimized many consumers They're ripping off millions of dollars a year from all of us Western Region nation wide
This is the deal. Cingular Wireless states in the contract that messaging is included in the package price. And it does not spell out a conditional charge as in call forwarding. If you use this feature you pay extra. Or with roaming you know it spells out you pay extra.
But with ...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
734, Report:
#59449
Posted Date:
Jun 03 2003
Cingular Wireless ripoff with phantom minutes money grobers Los Angeles California
my bills over the past two years have had to be re avaluated do to over charges. if i changed my plan thay would double charge me. Then on my last bill i changed my plan but thay charged me $200 for the plan but gave me the minutes of a $100 plan (thats 1650 missing minutes)
wh...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
735, Report:
#57376
Posted Date:
May 18 2003
Cingular Wireless Roll Over Minute Scam ripoff business from hell Long Beach California
My Cingular statement stated I had over 4000 roll over minutes to use. Apparently, this was an error and they removed my minutes without telling me! Now I owe $600 for this month and I am over my minutes for next month.
How can they decieve me by telling me one thing and doing ...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
736, Report:
#54361
Posted Date:
Apr 25 2003
Cingular Wireless When did it turn out the customer was always WRONG? Tulsa Oklahoma
The following is a letter I sent to Cingular Wireless sometime ago. I never received any response to this or any of my other complaints throughout my one year contract time with them. I'm with Verizon now and MUCH happier. I'll never go back... here's hoping you never fall for their...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
737, Report:
#53076
Posted Date:
Apr 16 2003
Cingular Wireless aggressive and vigorous use of debate tactics to undermine my concerns and make it difficult for me to continue the conversation. consumer fraud ripoff Atlanta Georgia
April 7, 2003
Stephen M. Carter, CEO
Cingular Wireless
Glenridge Highlands Two
5565 Glenridge Connector, Ste 1401
Atlanta, GA 30342
Dear Mr. Carter:
I am writing this letter to document the unsatisfactory customer service that I have received from Cingular Wireless. ...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
738, Report:
#32689
Posted Date:
Mar 30 2003
CINGULAR WIRELESS ripoff BALTIMORE Maryland
Like many before me, I feel Cingular has sold me a bag of goods with its contract for a cell phone for my daughter.
The plan that I purchased back in April, 2002, was for $29.99 per month (with a lot of extra charges, comes to roughly $38 per month without overages), giving me 2...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
739, Report:
#43557
Posted Date:
Feb 24 2003
Cingular Wireless Communication Highway Robbery!!! Billed me for over 400 minutes that I had available to use for the month in which I made the calls! Dallas Texas
Cingular Wireless billed me for over 400 minutes of time they say bounced off another company's tower the previous billing period!!!
Cingular said those calls used an AT&T tower, for example. I asked why this just started to happen? I believe AT&T had towers long before Cingul...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
740, Report:
#44274
Posted Date:
Feb 05 2003
Cingular Wireless rip-off dishonest fraudulent billing Dallas Texas
I am disputing this bill with Cingular Wireless for the following reasons:
It was never explained to my husband or to me that we could cancel this contract by paying a fee. My husband took out the account in February 2002. We were billed for two lines instead of one line per cu...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
741, Report:
#42738
Posted Date:
Jan 25 2003
Cingular Wireless Rip-off Required to pay for service they were unable to provide Fort Myers Florida
When the area code where I live changed, I was told by a Cingular Rep. that my cell phone had to be reprogrammed. After she walked me through it; I spent the next two months talking to cingular technical reps and service managers and practically everyone in the company and they had...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
742, Report:
#41564
Posted Date:
Jan 15 2003
cingular wireless ripoff victimized many consumers FOLEY Nationwide
a few years ago cingular bought out bellsouth in alabama.
they failed to tell consumers that when this was done we would need to go under their new contracts,which are alot different.
I am a working mom,very busy as a lot of us are and are slaves to the bi...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
743, Report:
#40196
Posted Date:
Jan 07 2003
Cingular ripoff roaming poor Customer Service changing their story, rude consumer fraud ripoff Lubbock Texas *UPDATE ..view maps
From the map on Cinuglar's Site
For those of us old enough to remember the movie, Love Story (early '70s), the theme song, sung by Jack Jones starts off, Where do I begin, to tell the story...
That's my sentiment about Cingular wireless. Do
I begin with how a Customer Ser...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
744, Report:
#39363
Posted Date:
Dec 28 2002
southwestern bell telephone cingular wireless lied no cell sent as promissed swb.com nationwide OKLAHOMA
on 12/16/02 i dropped my the works from swb and ordered a wireles phone w/promise of delivery in 2-4 day w/ $14.99 freight charges
after 48 calls to swb and cingular wireless as of 12/28/02 still no wireless phone
swb blames cingular/cingular blames swb/still no phone or track...
Entity
Categories: Telephone Companies
745, Report:
#38299
Posted Date:
Dec 15 2002
Cingular Wireless ripoff consumer rip-off fraud liars Los Angelse California
Cingular Wireless has overcharged, double-billed, and deceived me from day one. I opened an account in November 2001, and have regretted it ever since.
My plan includes two phones with unlimited mobile-to-mobile, and 400 anytime minutes for 57.98 per month. My most troublesome is...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
746, Report:
#37327
Posted Date:
Dec 06 2002
Cingular Wireless fradulent billing threatening Atlanta Georgia
Six months ago, my husband and I added an additional wireless phone to the two existing phones we already had on our cellular account with Cingular. We had signed up to receive Group Mobile-to-Mobile, in which we could call any cell phone on our plan and it was free.
Every mon...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
747, Report:
#36031
Posted Date:
Nov 22 2002
Cingular Wireless Rip-off Deceptive business practice they Withhold contract terms Overcharge Cherry Hill New Jersey
I have the same problem as others on this page. I, too, have been charged for making calls within my calling area. No notice was given to suggest that I was at any time roaming. In fact, a Cingular rep said a customer would have to call them each time they wanted to place a call ...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
748, Report:
#35732
Posted Date:
Nov 20 2002
Elephant Wireless of Maryland ripoff Fraud in the name of Cingular Wireless Edison New Jersey
They used the name of Cingular Wireless to get my attention and to say that I should trust that company, since I had been a customer for sometime. They said my cell phone needed to be upgraded. I was selected to receive this upgrade for $25.00 plus shipping.
Upon receiving th...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
749, Report:
#34629
Posted Date:
Nov 09 2002
cingular Wireless ripoff horrible job cheated employees and screwed the customers even more springfield Illinois
I work for Cingular wireless and i understand all the ripoff reports.. i believe everyone. sounds like the company i work for. i don't want to really work for this company but... ya know how it goes... anyways it's way to long to write what excatly they do to there employees.. but...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
750, Report:
#34559
Posted Date:
Nov 08 2002
Cingular Wireless ripoff Dishonest incompetent swindlers Rantoul Illinois
I purchased a Cingular Wireless monthly plan that required a $250 security deposit (since I didn't have a credit report to base my worthiness on). Two days later I decided to switch to the Pre-Paid service as to not be locked into the contract. When I went back to switch over, they ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies