101, Report:
#184949
Posted Date:
Dec 16 2006
Tracfone Wireless ripoff You can buy a card but it is worthless Internet
I tried to buy minutes for my Tracfone but soon found out that the card bought at a store is just a donation to the company. There is no way to activate a phone. The on-line system does not work and the phone was just a big waste of time. The number they give did not even connec...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
102, Report:
#223475
Posted Date:
Dec 12 2006
TRACFONE RIPOFF NO REFUND Refusal to refund Miami Florida
1Purchase
On October 15, 2006 I was on the internet when a banner ad from TRACFONE showed up. It indicated a year of service and a free camera phone for $99.99. I clicked the ad and was brought o a TRACFONE order page. It was very full and complex and not at all like the banner ad ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
103, Report:
#223286
Posted Date:
Dec 01 2006
Tracfone Wireless Impossible to purchase new minutes making phone useless ripoff Miami Florida
Tracfone makes it impossible to purchase new minutes. I attempted to purchase minutes online. They told me my credit card was declined. I called my Credit card company and was told this was not true. My account is in good standing and there should not be a problem.
I called ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
104, Report:
#220133
Posted Date:
Nov 11 2006
Tracfone - Net10 BEWARE-DON'T BUY FROM TRACFONE IT'S A SCAM Miami Florida
I too, have been scammed by Tracfone. I purchased their C261 Camera phone promotion back in October for new Motorola phone and the Double Minute Prepaid plan for $129.99. Upon receiving the phone I tried to charge the phone and it gave me an invalid battery error. Now the phone does...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
105, Report:
#218780
Posted Date:
Nov 02 2006
Tracfone Wireless, Horrendous customer service! Once they have your money, they don't care! Ripoff Miami Florida
TracFone Wireless is a pre-paid phone service. If you want any kind of customer service, don't use TracFone. When you call their customer care line it is almost impossible to get through to a real person, and when you do they don't speak English and they don't know how to help you...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
106, Report:
#206728
Posted Date:
Oct 30 2006
Tracfone Wireless Cell Phone fraudulent offer of free minutes for referring a friend Ripoff Miami Florida
Offering via internet website, when activating my phone, was 120 free minutes if I referred a friend who did purchase and activate a new phone.
The offer required that I enter the email address of friend. I entered the email address. They then sent an email of the free minutes of...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
107, Report:
#216531
Posted Date:
Oct 19 2006
TRACFONE WIRELESS ripoff scam illegal procedures Miami Florida Nationwide
Tracfone Wireless is taking an unfair advantage, exploiting people from other countries like belice phillipines colombia argentina guatemala paying 3 dollars per hour to its workers, to do a very hard and second after second stressing job and giving workers 10 minutes brakes every 6...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
108, Report:
#205654
Posted Date:
Aug 11 2006
Tracfone Wireless, Dropped my service although I had paid for AutoPay Ripoff Miami Florida
Last February I responded to a TracFone E-mail describing an offer for a new phone plus air time and service for 6 months.
I had my remaining time from old phone transferred to new phone and AutoPay information updated. About a week later new phone quit. The time was transferre...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
109, Report:
#193946
Posted Date:
May 31 2006
Tracfone - Tracfone Wireless - a royal ripoff and waste of time NO CUSTOMER SERVICE Miami Florida
I bought and activated a Tracfone on May 7, 2006. As of today, May 31, 2006, I have not yet been able to make or receive a single call. As others have stated, I've spent literally HOURS and HOURS on the phone with the Customer CARE (ha-ha) Center. In utter frustration, I finally cal...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
110, 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
111, 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
112, 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
113, 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
114, 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
115, 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
116, 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
117, Report:
#85749
Posted Date:
Aug 09 2005
TracFoneWireless RIPOFF, CHEATED, BS'd Miami Florida
My sister-in law's phone died with minutes still left on it along with aprox. 3-4 months of service time left. She decided to activate her father's identical TracFone cell phone, since he had just passed away and the phone was just going to sit around, and when she called TracFone t...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
118, Report:
#146876
Posted Date:
Jun 21 2005
Tracfone Wireless ripoff, dishonest selling strategies-questionable equipment. called me at work even when told not to, harrassed me with emails even when told not to Miami Florida
In january for my son's 18th birthday purchased, on line, from tracfone.com a reconditioned tracfone. I entered the zip code as instructed to ensure that the phone I recieved was suitable for our coverage area. When the phone arrived and my son tried to program it, and was unsucsess...
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Categories: Telephones
119, Report:
#140010
Posted Date:
Apr 23 2005
TracFone Wireless ripoff TracFone rep. added MY minutes to someones elses phone, their mistake, not mine Miami Florida
While trying to add a 1 year phone card minutes to my TracFpme, I was aked for the serial number. The person I was giving information to said to hang up the phone, take offf the back & look under the battery and call back on a regular phone.
When I called back, I was informe ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
120, Report:
#133519
Posted Date:
Mar 03 2005
TracFone Wireless Ripoff Fraudulently Charged my Credit Card Miami Florida
This past Christmas I purchased two Tracfones for me and my wife. After about a month we realized that we only needed one since we only used them for emergency purposes. So I successfully sold one of our Tracfones on eBay.
A few days after the buyer received the Tracfone, I notic...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
121, Report:
#133276
Posted Date:
Mar 01 2005
Tracfone Wireless Screwed up ripoff Miami Florida
I have had sooooo many problems with Tracfone. I cannot even list them all. If you have problems:
1. File a complaint with the BBB in Florida. This is extremely important.
2. And... Hope you get Monica Godoy - she is the only person in that company with any type of customer...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
122, Report:
#130518
Posted Date:
Feb 08 2005
Tracfone ripoff Miami Florida
Tracfone is a joke. I purchased a Tracfone wireless plan - for my son - it expired - so I reactived the phone. I was given a long distance number NOT IN MY AREA but Tracfone insists that it is and Indianapolis number. IT IS NOT. IT IS NORTH of me. My area code is 317 - they are insi...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
123, Report:
#130480
Posted Date:
Feb 08 2005
TracTracfone Wireless RIPOFF Bad Service, Gave me phone number out of my area code! Miami Florida
What a joke! I have bought the biggest piece of junk there is - a Tracfone. When I called to reactive my service - they gave me a long distance phone number and refused to refund my money. This company is such a piece of crap there is. No customer service to speak of - sorry no ...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
124, Report:
#117674
Posted Date:
Nov 13 2004
Tracfone ripoff - sold me phone with text messaging that won't work, they won't fix Miami Florida
Tracfone sold me a phone over their website that should have text messaging. Repeated calls to get it to work result in requests to test the messaging (at my expense per message, of course). 3 months now and counting.
I have another working tracfone as well. That one sends text (...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
125, Report:
#105582
Posted Date:
Aug 26 2004
Tracfone Wireless ripoff order phone online with guarantee money back, doesn't work in our area, won't take phone back. Internet
Ordered phone on line with 100 min card. Paid $29.99 plus shipping and tax. Card inside said within 30 days of purchase guarantee money back if not satisfied.
After 5 phone call and 10 email to them the phone still is either roaming or no service at all so I called this number th...
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Categories: Cellular Phone Companies