SafeLink Wireless
reviews and complaints

What an idiot? Prefers to pay $50 a month rather than get a service that is free.

Do you work for Boost? Don't make 2 second calls.

so u are complaying for some free phone that u got for free!? come on! ure just paying for the min! deam this is holarious! i recomend u to purchase an straighttalk phone its $45 text messages, talk, web and picture messages!

You shut my ph. off dont no why i have done nothing wrong i bought a $5.00 air time wont exsept it My name is Gene Doughty 5821 river grove dr micco fl 32976 last 4 ssi 0754 if you dont want to give me air time fine Gene

My family had to walk away from Safelink wireless. First, they never did send my son his phone and had him stuck in only approved status, not enrolled. We finally called them and they told him that he had to wait for another 30 days so they could correct their computer system. Then, my daughter tried to redeem her free minutes. She never got them. All they gave her were her text messages. She called and talked to them with my help--their excuse was that she had already used up her minutes for the month. Excuse us? How could she use her minutes up when she never got them? My husband tried to redeem his minutes. He started out with his 500 minutes. Made two phone calls totaling one minute each. Next morning he woke up to zero minutes left. He chatted with Safelink. Their excuse? The same as what they told our daughter. Mind you, my husband is not a huge talker. 250 minutes is all he needs for a month. 500 is double what he needs. To say that he went through 500 minutes in less than 24 hours is so absurd it is ridiculous! My son finally cancelled his service with Safelinik because they were taking too long to send him his phone. My daughter ended her service with them to go to a prepaid service that she pays for out of her own pocket because of her disability and the long fight she was having with them. Now my husband is the next one to go. He doesn't have the patience to fight with them. Way to go with keeping your customers, Safelink. And way to go helping people who are low income get and keep phone service. What a joke. We are still going to have to pay $30 a month out of our own pocket to have reliable service because none of the lifeline companies out there are worth anything. I have checked the alternatives to Safelink and they either don't offer enough of what we need or they operate off Sprint and we don't have good Sprint coverage in our area. Safelink was the best for cell service, but when they steal your minutes or they don't send you your phone, then you still have no service and you are forced to pay for service. There is one cell phone company out there that is not associated with Lifeline but has extremely affordable rates and we are going to that company. At least we will be treated with respect!

I truly believe safelink is a front for identity theft. I had to file a complaint with the Massachusetts Atorney General along with my local AGA office.
I have sent my proper documentation several times thru both email and fax. Every time getting an email confirmation that items were recieved. No one has ever seen my documents their, ever? I ask to speak to someone with answers and get refused time and time again. I
All I get is theirs a "guy" in the "back office" who receives all documents. Neve a name, employee title or phone. Shady people, very shady people. These people on the phone do not care about customer service at all. After over a total of 4..35 hours and counting on the phone since 5-26-15, now it is 6-7-15 and I still have nothing. The only thing these people are good at is apologizing an saying sorry! If I never heard those two words again I would be o.k. with it. After all, it's lies that come from their mouths. Every word is scripted on how to not care about people. I have been hung up on four times, given phone numbers to no where. All lies. Safelink is the absolute most disgusting company I've ever dealt with in my 45 years of live! MOST DISGUSTING EVER.
All of this and no one anywhere is helping? I know I am not the only one going thru or has gone thru this.

Conning you out of what? Giving you a free phone and free minutes? Ungrateful [censor] people.

This Company has a bad reputation, I lost my phone and have applied for a replacement. I was told that I would only get ten (10) minutes of the over 500 minutes transferred to the new phone. After many hours and days on the phone, I was told the policy is a government rule that " if the phone is stolen the minutes are stolen". I plan to pursue this issue further and complain to every agency I can find, these people are rip-off and con artist.

I applied for the free phone in August2009 I waited the phone never arrived I called and got the taped options several times finally I went through all the options and discovered a live person in the option of tech support I gave the confirmation number and was told the phone was on the way this was September2009 In October I called again and was told the same thing I then asked to speak to a supervisor and was told that somebody already had a phone in this apartment this supervisor was quite rude told me to fax him all kinds of proof of residency .I asked for an address and was told that there was no address I did not feel comfortable faxing this person any personal info and also wanted to file a complaint I called back in November this person slipped and gave the name of the person who claimed he lived in my apartment and that he applied for the phone I then began my own investigation and discovered the person actually does not live in the building at all his elderly mother does this person also took packages sent to my son who is mentally impaired By the way he is the one the phone is for and he is the head of the household This apartment is leased to him as of November 2008 this person applied for the phone in January2009 In January2010 I got a letter from Safelink which I assumed was for my son only to discover it was a recertification for this person I then read in the local newspaper for being arrested Now here is the thing I live in Apt6, his mother lives in Apt8, I then approached the realty office and was informed that he should not be living in his mothers apartment because she is the only person who should be living there she is on a subsidy, now Inoticed he is on the mailbox of Apt10 I can not understand how this fraud can steal from a disabled person and how Safelink can tell me I need to do all this extra info and never asked this lowlife to prove his residency, here we go into June2010 and this still is not resolved By the next complaint I make is going to the Massachusetts Attorney General Richard Cushman Lynn MA

Interesting. I was just about to apply but decided to do some research first and found this. I have to admit, i feel uneasy about it. I'll do more research.