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AT&T My email content being withheld from me, because i'm no longer a at&t account holder.

My email was shut down and locked out. I've had this email address for

about 25 years and have my medical records, legal documents, and all my contacts that i can't get because i don't have an AT&T account anymore.

I desperately need this information. I've tried to resolve this issue by calling

and spending hours on the phone, and receiving no help.

Desired outcome: I want access to retrieve my own information. I'm 74 years old and have enoughtrouble with technology without AT&T making things even worse.

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5:36 am EDT

AT&T Wireless

In the summer I signed up for a free trial of DIRECTV Stream. When I went to cancel it after a few days an ATT employee cancelled my wireless phone account instead. It took me multiple days, multiple stores and many people for many hours to get it restored. Subsequently, I have been now billed $30 more each month for my wireless service. I was told this would reverse back to my original plan and it has not after four months now.

I am very angry that a mistake made by an employee at ATT not only caused me to have to put in hours of my own time to get fixed, but also that the company has now taken advantage of the situation to force me to pay over $30 more on a monthly basis because I have a “new plan”. I was also lied to by whoever told me in ATT chat that these charges would reverse.

Desired outcome: Contact ATT and get someone to not only refund me the over charge I have been paying but also apologize for the massive inconvenience this has caused me.

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9:49 am EDT
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AT&T TV streaming receiver device

We requested TV Streaming services for our new apartment in August. After a few weeks, we never received the device. We called AT&T, they told us that they would send another device. We called again. They said that because our apartment was newly built, the address was recognized in their system, and they could not send us any device with FedEx or UPS. At that time, we were getting all kind of mail and shipments through FedEx, UPS or Amazon.

Anyway, they told us the only way to get a refund was by getting it directly from an AT&T store. We went to one on 09/05 and we paid $130.20 for a device and the monthly fee of $89.9. We could never use the device. We called for technical help several time for the next 2 weeks. We followed instructions, but it never worked. They told us that it was defective, and we should exchange it in a store. We took it to 2 stores. They said they could not exchange it. They told us to ship it back. We shipped it back through UPS on 09/21.

Account number: [protected]

Return reference number: A6515P20220921165834

Device 1 Serial Number and Model: X71VE1MT002124 Osprey

We never got the refund. I called customer service and I talked to Nathysa on 10/24/2022. She said that she could not find my payment with my credit card on 09/05 and that the device that we shipped back was not received and she could not issue me a device because she cannot see the payment on 09/05 or the returned device. She told me to get a refund through my bank.

Is there any way to get my refund for a device that we could never use? We tried for over a month. First, we did not receive it due to a new address in the USPS that was not registered in your system. Second, you could not try to ship it and we went to a store to get it. The only device that we got, did not work after several attempts with the help of your technical support team. We wanted to exchange it, but two of your stores could not offer that service to us and told us to ship it back. We shipped it back. I offered to send a copy of my credit card payment and my return receipt, but she did not want them.

This feels like very poor customer service.

Looking forward for a refund.

Best regards,

Alicia

Desired outcome: I want the refund of $130.20 for a defective equipment that we could never use, and we returned. We would have love to have it, but it never worked after many different attempts that took a lot of our time and produce frustration.

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9:41 am EDT
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AT&T Fiber internet

AT&T Fiber. The Internet went down on 2/16/22. The technician came on out Tues 2/18/22. We were down until Monday morning 2/24/22. Internet worked until 11PM 2/24/22 and we are down again.

You have to start all over again with each call to customer support just to get a status update. Enter the account name, enter PIN, they run an automated test. Then you get to speak to a human. Can I get the account number and PIN again? Run same test again.

As I sit I have no internet. It's been 9 days. Avoid AT&T. I'm am making it a mission so share this experience with everyone I know and on every social media channel I can.

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7:03 pm EDT
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AT&T Business Voice Mail and customer service

My voice mail on my business account has not been working for months.  I have spent countless hours trying to reach someone to fix it without any luck.  When I finally reach someone they never have any history of any prior conversations.  They then tell me there is a problem and will call me back.  Well no one ever calls back.  I will be switching all my services to someone else.

*&%$ you AT&T

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3:07 pm EDT

AT&T mobility serivce

After spending over 2 months on calls lasting over 4 hours each time and being hung up on or transferred to the wrong departments having to start all over again... my issue remains unresolved... I have pinned down the issue and have spoken to their Senior Technical Support staff ...everyone apologizes everyone promises to help resolve the issue, their resolution was to upsell me a new phone.

My local health insurance company when they call the call goes straight to vm, that vm is not on my phone nor on my call log... I have worked with my health insurance company to pin point the exact problem BUT! every techie wants to go back to the trouble shooting tools ... 15 times.

I am beyond working or talking to anyone from AT&T as I feel and so does apple that once I switch carriers my problem will be resolved. Apple supported this told me it is not a device issue as the logged into my device...it is an AT&T problem but they are unable to help.

I can not go through this one more time sorry... you have lost a 20 year customer

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10:45 am EDT
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AT&T Wireless and Direct TV

It took me over 8 hours in 3 days to get new service with 2 lines and 2 new phones properly set up. Your overseas customer service agents are horrible. The first day was spent placing my new service order. It was placed but completely wrong. No phones were ordered. I verified with the lady three times the information and she repeated it back to me. All we received were the sims cards, not phones. The second day, a different lady, tried to help correct it but was confused. that was a waste of 3 hours. Finally, the third day, Rockel, an American, was able to help me. She had to delete everything that was done previously and complete an all new order correctly. She was a great help. My first complaint is that I spent 6 hours for nothing, away from my job, which should have been an easy task. Then I inquired about bundling my current Direct TV account with the new account and getting a discount on Direct TV part of the bill. I have gotten the run around on this as well. Wireless tells me Direct TV needs to handle that and Direct TV people teel me Wireless needs to take care of that. This experience is totally unacceptable. This is already soured me to AT&T and I just started the service. I feel I should be compensated in some way to make up for the extra time and work I had to put into getting this straightened out. Also, who do I speek to about my Direct TV/Wireless bundling? Thank you. I am not at all happy!

Desired outcome: First your foreign people handling customer service need much more training. Second , I believe I should get some discounts on both Wireless and Direct TV accounts for the trouble I have been causedd.

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4:13 pm EDT

AT&T Quit sending me bills with late notices for accounts that are not mine.

It has been only a couple months and I am back to receiving two different bills from ATT.com. I was told that everything was figured out and the bills stopped briefly. Again, I am getting bills will late notices from an account that are not my account, as well as online bills that are actually my account. I am fed up with ATT.com trying to get none owed funds from me. This will be the last time and my next move will be to cancel my service with att.com completely.

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1:43 pm EDT

AT&T To receive the $200 gift card I was promised for signing up for UVerse internet

I called AT&T on May 20 2022. I talked to Arielle Rouge. I was offered a $200 visa gift card if I signed up for AT&T U-Verse internet. I did sign up and AT&T internet was installed on May 25 2022.

I have never received the $200 visa gift card that was offered to me. I have tried contacting AT&T and have not received any results. I never was contacted in any way on how to receive the gift card.

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5:56 pm EDT

AT&T Updates on phones

Att seems to provide updates on phones and when this happens the phones stop working as they should or as they used to, certain features stop working I now have 2 phones this has happend to and when ive tried to contact them it seems impossible to get any where. every thing was working fine untill10/14 2022 the most recent up date occured.the last time this happend 9/13/2022 i purchased a new one here we go again thank you

Desired outcome: fix the updates to correct the problems

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9:57 am EDT

AT&T AT&T Internet Email

AT&T internet Email locked me out of my emails- not for anything I did wrong but due to a new security system they are putting in. They said I am not able to set up a new email password unless they snail mail me a code. I told them to text it to me and they said it would take 30 days for them to text me a code. (you read that right 30 days and snail mail this is incredible). Why would I need a new password you ask? Because my old good password has been locked due to their new security system. When cyber criminals can make the customers suffer because the security is too rigid to let the customer into their own account (which I pay for), it is time to find a company who knows how to handle security.

This new security system is automatically locking people out of accounts just for signing in a few times in a row.

Bad business AT&T - take my money and lock me out of my business emails I pay for a business account I can't access

Desired outcome: AT&T find a better way to manage security than locking the customer out

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1:38 pm EDT
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AT&T I feel we are entitle to the $300 gift card.

2 months ago we switched our cable and changed our plan for mobile service. We were told we would get a $300 gift card for enrolling in their program. I had AT&T for my mobile already, but we switched my husband so he was under his own plan so he would qualify for a military discount. We spent at least an hour on the phone making the changes. we spoke with at least 2 representatives during this process. They gave me a phone number to check on the gift card and said it would take 4-6 weeks to get it. after waiting at least 6 weeks I called the reward center, after talking with 2 representatives they informed me that we didn't qualify for the gift card because I was not put on my husbands account as an authorized user. They said there was nothing they could do. I feel they mislead us to get us to be a customer. No one ever told us anything about being an authorize user. I hope you can help us. I am going to change my service with them because I feel they can not be trusted to manage our accounts, and if we have a problem down the line, they are not trustworthy. Thank you for your help. Kathleen Kuczera. This is my phone number if you have any further questions.[protected].

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2:08 pm EDT
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AT&T Upgraded Cellphone

End of July 2022, I upgraded by iphone to the 13 mini based on the fact it was an even exchange. IF there was a promotional stipulation (which I was told after the fact) it was in very small print and not very intuitive to the average customer (I tried to upgrade another phone to see how it looked).

The first week of September 2022 I received a text message from AT&T telling me to upgrade my wireless plan to unlimited data. I called to inquire about this and was told by the agent this was just informational alerting me that I COULD upgrade my plan and that it would NOT affect my even exchange of the upgraded phone.

9/30/22 I received a text message that a one time credit was being placed on my account for trading in my device as I did not meet eligibility for the trade in promotion. I called and spoke to Aldrin, who explained to me that the previous agent gave me wrong information and that I needed to upgrade my plan to unlimited data to receive the promotion of an even exchange. Because I am on a family plan I asked if I could discuss this with the others on the plan. He did not give me a deadline on when I needed to call back. He assured me that he was making notes on my account so then when either myself or my father called back everything he discussed with me would be documented for the next agent. Aldrin told me that upon upgrading the plan to unlimited data the case would be escalated to get the one time credit removed as well as the monthly fee I was being charged for the phone of $19/month for 36 months removed.

10/2/22 my father called to upgrade the plan to unlimited data and was told that it was too late

10/5/22 I called to explain that 3 different agents told us 3 different stories, and something should be done about the customer service. While I understand I may have been misinformed about the promotion, when I called to inquire, I was validated in my understanding. I spoke with Makay who told me that this was reviewed by a supervisor on 10/2/22 and nothing more can be done. I am completely appalled by the customer service of such a large company and that there is no recourse to giving out false information to customers.

Desired outcome: I would like the $19/month charge for 36 months removed as well as the months I have paid refunded

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9:33 pm EDT

AT&T Your Commercial

Please replace Lebron James as your “spokesperson.” Last I know he was publicizing the address of a Columbus, Ohio police officer who had saved the life of a Black girl. Then he publicly whined that he didn’t “feel safe” in his thirty million dollar mansion because of white people. Surely you can do better than Queen Janes as spokesperson. No wonder your stock is headed to zero employing people such as the Queen. Good luck to you, you need it. Tom Orem

Desired outcome: Get rid of the Queen.

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2:13 pm EDT
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AT&T Wireless service

On October 9th we began opening new wireless service with [protected]@T in Dixon Missouri, by using their website. Once we finished with our order, we received a request to upload the driver's license of the person opening the order to which we did. When we set the new service up, we elected to receive new phone numbers since we have just relocated from an 816-area code to a 573-area code. Almost 24 hours after uploading the ID we had still received no communication from [protected]@T. We decided to call their customer service line in order to follow up and see if we had done everything correctly. When we spoke to the agent, he told us that we had to start the order all over. When he said this we told him no, we want to just go to the local store and do it there and told him to just cancel what we had done. After this, he tried to argue, and we insisted he cancel the order.

Almost immediately after this phone call, we began getting emails from [protected]@T and the order we had requested be cancelled, when we were informed it needed to be redone, was miraculously processed and shipped overnight to us. To make this even more confusing and frustrating when the order was shipped the company had set up the new phone numbers with an out of State 618 area code. Deciding to go ahead and keep the phones they had shipped but unwilling to accept the erroneous area code that is 100% the mistake of [protected]@T we called requesting to change this to the correct area code. We were informed that we would be charged a 36-dollar fee per line (of which we have 3 lines) in order for them to make the needed change. They told us it was our fault, which makes no sense, considering they had previous told us the order we tried to get was not done correctly and we needed to start over.

Considering they told us the order we placed originally was not valid and we needed to restart it, and then when we told them to cancel the order to which they shoved the phones with the wrong area code down our throats anyway, I can only come to the conclusion that the customer service rep who took our original call was being dishonest and it did seem as if he was trying to upsell us.

Desired outcome: At this point we want nothing to do with such a dishonest and predatory company and they need to refund our money cancel the contract and take the phones back and I will not settle for anything less

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10:03 pm EDT
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AT&T Charges on bill

It started in May when I got a text from AT&T stated I could get a “free”phone and all I had to do was to pay postage. In July my bill was $800 so I called AT&T and was unable to resolve it so I did file a complaint with AT&T in July/August.AT&T office of president said to return watch and charges would come off. I did this but charges continue to accrual.

Desired outcome: Get charges off my bill for once and all and reimburse me for any charges that has accrual.

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AT&T Internet service

I started getting emailed notices stating I was using too much data and I would be charged $10 for every 50 GB over my limit. This continued sporadically for several months until I called, numerous times, to get the high data usage issue revolved to no avail. During this time, I paid a number of overcharges.

It was clear as I monitored usage on Smart Manager, each of us were showing different usages. As an example, on Oct 7th, my Smart Manager showed 25 GB of usage, and that same day I received an email that I had used 660 GB of data.

I tried one final time on Oct 7th to resolve the issue and was on the phone for an hour, repeatedly put on hold and finally was told the issue, "had been fixed" and both sides were now showing the same usage.

I called again on Oct 10th to have my current bill adjusted as the high usage was no fault of mine. This attempt failed as I was told the bill was high due to my over-usage of data.

Desired outcome: Please adjust my current bill of $143 to the correct $63

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7:03 pm EDT
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AT&T Removal of magically appearing “past due bill” that I do not owe, intense improvement of customer service, and compensation for my time invested.

I opened an account with att approximately 5 years ago, and have traded in phones on 3 lines several times. It is att policy that there can be no open or unpaid bills prior to starting new services or trading devices. On September 30th, my son attempted to transfer his phone to his own account and was told there was a past due amount on and old account of mine. I called att 611 to inquire. I was on the phone for 5 hours and transferred 9 times. I have stated numerous times that I I never received a bill from them and the account was closed 14 years ago. I have requested an itemized bill with dates and description of charges, and a written explanation of why these alleged charges did not show up 5 years ago when I started services, as they are both in my name. I was placed on a permanent hold for over an hour and have not received an email or letter. Today, I went to the att store and was instructed to call collections which I did in the store. Again, I was unable to obtain an itemized bill or description of charges and was told to pay that amount. I requested to speak to the manager. I was placed on hold for over an hour. while on hold, I messaged the media manager and explained everything several times also requesting an itemized bill, date of services, and an explanation of why it has taken 14 years to “bill” me for these unknown services. To date I have received nothing. I do not feel that is fair billing practices and I refuse to pay for a random bill that they claim I owe them after 14 years. 1) if there was a past due bill I would not have been able to start services or trade my phones in over the last 5 years. 2) I have over 9 hours on the phone with att and they have attempted to beat me into submission by multiple transfers, hours on the phone, exceedingly long hold times that would have continued if I had not hung up. Thank you

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Oct 10, 2022 2:02 pm EDT

“Magically appearing past due balance “

Just talked to Jasmine, manager at AT&T who again, cannot give me detailed information, just that it is some fee that occurred after canceling service over a decade ago, but their computer system doesn’t allow her to look back that far. Still to date, no paper bill sent, no detailed description of charges, if I had a past due account, I would not have been able to open new account. This is Fraudulent. Another 25 minutes of my day waisted.

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3:16 am EDT
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AT&T Hi

I want to AT&T store and I open a new account what they saying you have 14 days of trial if you didn’t like it, your money guarantee back even in the website they mentioned that after the nine days I wasn’t like that service because it’s really bad Sheraton equipment and they charge me 350 and I charmed the agreement and they didn’t accept it and then send it to the collection so now I have to be the collection and they credit my main account better quick so I don’t recommend anybody to open an account with the AT&T because it’s really bad

Desired outcome: I don’t recommend anybody with a bad company any customer service to speak with him they told you we gonna result this, but they never resolve it

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AT&T Service was cancelled but still charging me for phones that were free with trade ins.

I would like to file s formal complaint against ATT Mobility. I used AT&T for two years, they had a promotional upgrade that included free phones with trade ins of your old phones. I used their chat service to purchase the new phones. As soon as I received the three new phones, I mailed in our old phones to ATT. For month ATT had my old phones but missed placed them which caused my reimbursement to kick in months after my upgrade. Few months into using the new phones my services started to get poorer and I called numerous times and was put on hold numerous times and was told a ticket was submit and my service issue would be resolved. After weeks dealing with bad cell service, a customer service rep finally told me that because of the area I lived in my service would always be bad. ATT couldn't give me the service I needed so I cancelled my service. ATT then sent me a bill for over $2000.00 and I called to get an explanation and was told even though I purchased free phones I still had to commit to a two year service and if I cancelled I would be responsible to pay the phones in full. They said it was in the service agreement I signed. Tole them I did it all over chat and there was no agreement I signed and asked them to send me a copy but never did. Told them if I would mail the phones back but they would need to give me my old ones I traded in and was told they couldn't. Months later they have put me into collections with two different collection agencies who I have not received a call or letter from and both agencies are reporting it to the credit bureau so it is on there twice.

Desired outcome: I want this my account with ATT to be marked are paid in full, removed from collections and removed off my credit report.

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