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Verizon Wireless Employee Discounts Complaints - Employee discount problem

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Verizon Wireless Employee Discounts

Posted: 2006-11-01 by JD Alexander [send email]
Employee discount problem
Complaint Rating:  25 % with 4 votes
My wife is eligible for an employee discount from Verizon. She tried to go to the Verizon Store. She was told to call a number, then request a fax form, then fax the form back to verizon.

Do you have any idea how annoying this procedure is? What if you don't have a fax machine at home? Is Verizon suggesting some one set up this big project on the job? The job they want to keep? You should not be faxing or recieving personal things at work. Buying a fax for home use is out of the question.

I've been trying to get a reply from Verizon since 9/06.
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615 days ago by Nayl [send email]
There are two different ways you can sign up for vzw employee discounts. You can use your work email addy which wo0uld take 10 days to apply the discount... and you can use the fax back number. The fax back does take at least a month to be applied but at least they'll retroactively apply the discount from the date your paper work is received. Why don't people understand there are processes and things cannot be expedited just to fit your needs. VZW is a huge company and deals with tons of people on a daily basis who want the same exact service. If your too silly to adhere to these procedures than choose another company for wireless service. Most don't have employee discounts.
457 days ago by Robert Goulette [send email]
I am a retired employee of VeriZon with 32 years service ,and no one ever told me of an employees discount on Verizon wireless. What's that all about?
104 days ago by Michael Pickering [send email]
There is now a new system available in all corporate owned retail stores which allows a person to come into the store with proof of employment (pay stub, business card, health care card, photo badge, etc.) and the rep at the store will be able to attach the discount directly to your account, with manager aproval, instantly. Almost every major company, and many many other companies as well, are eligable for this discount and Verizon is trying to make it as easy as possible for a person to add his or her discount as possible. Verizon understands that if you have a discount on your service, you're less likely to leave them. It is in Verizon's best interest to keep their customers happy so as to dominate the competitors.
64 days ago by Ian Brady [send email]
I'm pretty sure Verizon doesn't give a rat's ass about their customers because I just tried getting my company discount through them and they didn't do anything about it. I did it online with my company e-mail address and the e-mail they sent me back leads to no where so I called C.S. She told me to go to the store and if that didn't work, fax them my whole identity. NOT HAPPENING. That takes WAYYYY too much time and I have a life that doesn't revolve around trying to get 20% out of Verizon. If I get an employee discount, when I call, it should be applied to my account right away with no problems. I agree with the complaint, you're NOT supposed to be faxing anything personal from work...hellooo...not trying to get fired here...I'm switching to AT&T. I put my e-mail address in their employee discount page, got their e-mail with a special link just for me, clicked it, and my discount was applied to my account IMMEDIATELY. THAT'S IT! SO EASY! Thank you AT&T. And Verizon needs to add their message confirmation check mark back. Bad move.
61 days ago by Steve [send email]
Verizon sent me the "Congratulations" email with a link to continue to the registration website. The link they sent is an invalid URL. I've been on the phone for 3 hours, getting shipped from one person to another, with none of them having a clue what this program even is. They keep telling me to create an account using my ohone number, but can't comprehend that I won't have a phone until I get to the discount page.
53 days ago by Gavin Mclean [send email]
Yeah Verizon has had a full on shocker with me too. Bought a Verizon phone in December, then found out about the discount and went to the verizon store January and in full uniform with my badge on. They asked if I had a payslip and I said no but the badge should be fine and asked to photocopy it. Anyway it is now October and after talking to them on the phone and said that they were unable to give it because I did not supply any evidence??? The guy at the counter in January said that was sufficient and on the website it says that a badge alone is sufficient evidence. Rather than immediately give me a months credit keeping within the limits of great customer service, like previous phone companies have, they told me to try to reapply for their stuff up???? NOT HAPPY VERIZON
30 days ago by J. Johnson [send email]
There are several ways to obtain a Verizon Wireless discount. You can apply online using a work domain email address at www.verizonwireless.com/discount. You can apply at a store in person. You can fax your mobile number and proof of employment to 800-711-7788. Only the account holder (the person whose social security number was used to establish the account) is eligible. The price plan monthly access fee must be $34.99 or higher, and cannot be a promotional plan such as the Unlimited plans or the Broadband Access plan. The most common reasons for the fax discount enrollment taking longer than normal are:
1. Invalid proof of employment. VZW takes employee photo ID badges, recent (within last 60 days) pay stubs, business cards, health insurance cards, DD-214 (for military veterans, who get a 15% discount). You can black out your salary and social security number for privacy, but they do require your first and last name, employer's name and the date (date for pay stubs only)
2. The account being in someone else's name. Ex. If you opened the account, but you submit your wife's paystub, it won't work. You can choose, however to put the account in your wife's name by calling Customer Service at 800-922-0204 to have the appropriate forms sent to you.
3. The name doesn't match. Ex. Your account is in your middle name, but your paystub is in your first name. Or you opened the account before you got married so it's in your maiden name, but work has your married name. Either way, just call Customer Service to change your account name.
4. The enrollment form and the proof of employment were faxed in separate transmissions. VZW doesn't use a physical fax machine, but rather fax server software. All transmissions come through as email attachments. They can't search unopened faxes, so if you fax, say, your paystub, but don't put your mobile number on it, then close the transmission and then fax your enrollment form in another transmission, you wind up with one email containing a paystub for an unknown mobile number and another containing an enrollment form with no proof of employment.

I hope this information helps.
3 days ago by Lynn [send email]
Some Verizon Store and customer service people are quite mean spirited, which makes things more difficult than what Verizon policy says on the paper. I got grossly mistreated in their store by a couple of guys plus perhaps the evening hours manager joining the 'game'. Then I kept getting different misinformation and wrong requirements including employee discount. One of the issues I had was missing discount for the biling period following the partial/initial month (which was given a discount). One Rep told me, "In order to CONTINUE to get your discount, you've got to provide proof of employment". Upon hearing that the store checked and even scanned my employee ID into their computer, she said her computer system showed that information was not complete and I must redo the verification. But then she said I MUST submit my latest pay stub, and only such a pay stub will satisfy the conditions for a discount, not anything else. Does this rule apply to EVERYONE? She said yes! This is not true. Other customers in similar situations didn't have to do that. There are various options including employeeID/badge, or pay stub, or health insurance card, etc.

When I called again, the same or a different Rep said I already called about the issue before. She was not willing to back down until I repeatedly asked her to just tell me what OPTIONS are as proof, so it turned out pay stub is not the only option. She then said Verizon didn't have any info on my employment. After a few rounds of tugging and checking in the system, she swithed to a new excuse that it would take at least 2 months to appear on my bills and it won't be retroactive. And she couldn't explain why the discount applied to the first/partial billing period but not the subsequent period. I signed up with Verizon at a Verizon store with the offer/understanding that this discount would come with the deal from the start. I didn't want to accept her excuse. More back and forth arguments. In the end, she said, "I will give you a credit for this period". I didn't have the time and energy to get her clarify if the next period will get the discount since she said it would take 2 months to get discount. I am still in the 30 day grace period. Good luck with that "second" month discount after the grace period!

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