lousy customer service
Went to add an additional option onto phone plan which cost $5 a month and the monthly price jumped up $10 a month. When I went to call the company, their automated system would not patch me through to a live person. I hit "0" 4 or 5 times and the recording kept saying that it could help me faster. In addition, their website kept crashing even though I was referred there.
The phone service for this company is adequate but the customer service completely sucks. Their support is awful. I found that it is impossible to communicate with anyone from this company. They do not even provide an email address on their website. They take the money and that is it.
And I thought AT&T was bad.
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monthly subscription payment
I have been trying since Dec 18th to contact someone regarding my payment recent subscription plan change. There is absolutely no website other than the one to pay your bill.
The only way to contact them is if you drive to a service center.
That is what I did on the 18th attempting to make instant payment before my phone was disconnected.
I was told the store only took cash for payment.
While there, I asked them to change my plan(wanted to decrease amount and was told that would be taken care of.
I went home and online and proceeded to make a payment. I assumed it was still the amount I was paying and paid for that amount. $15.00 less than I had been paying.
Shortly after 'that I was notified that I had made a recent change in my subscription and I was to submit that new amount or my phone would be shut off.
I texted the company stating that I had already paid my bill and that payment was made (assumed that I would just have +balance for next months bill. I stated that they better not discontinue service until paid or I was quitting company.
three days later and my phone service is still not on.
I work midnights and am unable to go to service centers constantly.
I am done with this company!
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terrible customer service
I am a student and i thought this would be the best phone company to join since a they say- no contract and i would be here for just one year...I have had problems with this service since i bought this phone in December. I called and called their customer service and no one was able to assist me. I even went to their went customer service shop three times where they did not do anything about it. i kept on calling and they would tell me maybe its the other network, but the funny thing is i have a friend with the same kind of phone, who had the same kind of service and we come from the same place, and she didnt have any problem whatsoever. Finally i went back to the place where i bought the phone, the dealer called the company using their dealer line, and CAN YOU BELIEVE THE PROBLEM WAS SORTED! But sadly one month later i realised it was not working again, so i started calling their customer service line, basically i am back to square one.I feel like no one is willing to assist me, i even told them to take away the service, and no one even bothered to ask me why.
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Had to pay twice to get my phone on
Ipaid my bill at 1100pm lastnight ssn46s conferm number its been paid a second timeconferm numberssnn52 my phone is stil not on metro custmer to long to have this happen to me.[protected]
did not honor their contract
I purchased a phone from them on dec 01, 2009. On dec 10, 2009 I thought I had lost my phone so, being a mother of 3 small children I have to have a phone in case of emergenciies, I went back and purchased another phone. When I returned home my phone was found. Then when I got home to my surprise my phone I purchased on dec 01 was found. So I read the...
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i got my cell from metro pcs 10-30-2009 . i am complaining about the store on hillside ave a block away from francis lewis
the phones are over priced and they dont stock the cheeper phones
i got the motorola v440 and paid 179 for it when its online and in other stores for 129. .. when asked for the rebate forms as well that was advertised online they told me i was too late and could not get them they also insisted on being paid by cash
i dont think people should go to this store
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your phones are garbage they do not hold up we have 4 phones with your service and have replaced each phone at least 5 times during the duration of 3 1/2 years of being with your company not to mention the numerous chargers that I have replaced shame on you the first chance a better deal comes my way I will be going with that company
false advertising
I though it would be a good Idea to go the family plan 4 phones for $100,
add says "Including Calling Features"
after my wife had washed my phone with her pants, I figured WTH. go with 4 lines, buy 2 more to go with my brothers and another phone that needed to be "re-activated", but the guy told me it would be cheaper to buy another phone rather than re-activate it (well close to it like 15 bucks more for the new cheapo)so 3 phones now (at $288 for the 3 totle)and then the one guy (yes another came into the deal) had told us that the service would be the same for the phone he had, when the second guy came in he told us different that we would not have picture messaging, pissed a little we agreed to pay the extra fee to get that feature. being kind of in a hurry as I was going to leave on a trip we didn't ask anymore questions about the service as we figured the rest was the same. well I had to recheck what the add said after I just got back from trip to see if I read it right...,
right there in the add !
Unlimited Text AND Picture Messaging (WTF)
and how come now I'm being asked to "sign up for"...
Unlimited WEB ACCESS
I can google something but it ask me to "sign up" for the feature
Unlimited Local Calling - OK
Unlimited Long Distance Calling - OK
MetroPCS Unlimited Nationwide Service - (I dont know anybody in China !)
plus they'd probably want another fee !
Voice Mail - OK
Caller ID - OK
Call Waiting - OK
Three Way Calling - Can't seem to get that to work either
Unlimited ChatLINK - (not attempting this phony feature)
Where is the Metro PCS email complaint center, I got this site when I googled it.
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Metro PCS is advertising on tv the family plan of 4 for $100.00 bucks a month. But when you call them they to try to ge tthe deal they tell you that plan was over in DEC. 2008. i went out and purchase 2 used phones to add on my line over the weekend and on monday when I tried to get it I got the bad news. Maybe if they didnt advertised it i wouldnt have spunt my money cause right now i am unemployee and need to save as much as I can im very pissed right now with the Merto PCS i want to cancell my other 2 lines i have with them.
fony buy one phone get one free i bought a phone online then got the add for free phone and nobody will honor now rip off artist all the way rich
if avaiable in your area try cricket
Got the runaround replacing a defective phone
I don't know how this company has stayed in business so long! Their phone service sucks but there customer service is even worse! I got my daughter a metro pcs phone for christmas last year and got her the "everything service" first of all they never told me they charge you to pay your bill! Three dollars a month just to pay your bill! On top of that she is only able to text about 50% of the time and can hardly ever get on the web. Her phone burned out last week... It actually started smoking while she was charging it so I took it back to the store who tried to sell me another one. Something told me not to do it and when I got home and looked at the contract it said the phone is under contract for 1 year so I went back to the store who informed me I had to take it to the corp office. When I got to the corp office in panorama city there were 11 employees there but only 2 counters open! The other 9 were just sitting around talking on their cell phones, one girl was writing a letter and 2 other girls were looking at each others pictures. I waitedfor 45 minutes until my number came up when I asked the guy why only 2 people were working he rolled his eyes and said its typical here. He gave me no problem about exchanging the phone and gave me the number to the office to call and check if the new phone was delivered yet (Takes 3 days). On the 3 rd day I tried all day to get through to that number but I kept getting their office in panama! In the caribbean! After a couple of hours I finally got someone who told me when the office is busy and no one can answer the phones the lines roll over to them. I asked them if they have a website I can e mail and they said no however when I was there I saw a computer at every station. I asked for another phone number they said they don't have one. When I asked them what if another store needs to talk to them they are a corp office they said the other stores dont have the numbers. I got so much run around that I went up there and guess what the same thing as before! Everybody playing on computers, talking on the phone etc and this time only one person working! I asked for the manager and she turned out to be the letter writing girl! The phone had not gotten there and she said well we can do an in store exchange with one of the phones here for $30 we have some in the back. When I protested and said it has been 5 days you said it would be here in 3 or 4 at the latest you need to do an in store exchange for free. After raising my voice about everyone sitting around doing nothing and all the calls going to panama because they are to lazy to answer them she said well ok let me go look in the back. She comes back and said oh I thought we had some but we don't. I asked for the number to the main office and she said the same thing as panama. Oh we don't have the number i'm not even sure where the main office is. I said what if you have a problem and need to talk to them and she said oh it won't happen but I dont even think they have a phone there! A phone company without a phone in there main office!?
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i have two of these phones i have been a metro customer for 4 years theses phones have not worked correctly since i purchased them i have been threw the ringer to try and get results now it has been 34 days who is going to fix this problem with these phones metro blamed samsung and samsung blamed metro ok im over it who replaces these phones or exchanges them
not getting the help i need about my defective phone, warranty issues
Model No. PANORAMA/32PE100, Code or JOb No. P32PE10000089, purchased Panorama TV from M/s NEOSA Electronics PVT. Ltd., Siliguri, West Bengal, India, Particulars of Defect - PANEL BROKEN, outlet are not interested to change the product, purchased from M/s. N. Ranga Rao & Sons Pvt. Ltd., Holding No. : 02/830, Eastern By pass Road, North Ektiarsal, beside kuty mill, Siliguri - 734001, Monbile No. [protected],
i'm sure u have received multitudes of complaints against MetroPCS, esp, in the area of customer service. it sucks! for one, u can't understand the service reps due to heavy accents. two, they have no interpersonal phone skills. and now, i find that i need a Metro PCS (credit) card to make international phone calls. what sucks is, i've been makin these calls all day and now i find this information. it would have really been nice to know this in advance. as it stands, a very important business call cannot be made because i do not have this card presently. had i known in advance, i could have purchased one and avoided yet another dealing with inept, incompetent customer service agents. their apologies are not satisfying my situation at this present time. if it were not for dealing with contracts and expensive services, i would have left this sorry ### company a long time ago. this is America and Metro PCS needs to WAKE UP! and why am i always told of my phone bill before i can get ANY one on the phone. i'm not calling to find what my bill is, i'm calling to solve a problem!
No improvements! I did not check the reviews before buying up their service and I regret that. The agents know nothing, their supervisors cannot compensate a penny, and to get a live person on the line you need a lot of patience. Basically this service is more trouble than its worth:(
when I first purchased my phone the store charged me twice on my debit card. I had to go through my bank to get my money back as the store would not reimburse me they stated that they were not over according to their books... nevermind that I brought in all the bank statements and records to prove they charged me twice. they tried to say maybe I purchased two phones! Today is the 2nd time I my service was disconnected because of non payment. I pay the same every month online and the payment was cashed and in time before it was due on the 25th of the month. I just do not have the energy to go through all the craziness to prove my payment was sent this month. I am just cancelling and going to another more reliable provider. Trying to get throuh to talk to someone is a joke, they do not answer the phone. You have to talk to the computer and all that does it get you no where real fast. This company is the absolute worse service I have ever had! I would NEVER recommend anyone using this cell phone service it is run by a bunch of monkeys for sure!
I purchased a metro cellular phone on 10/01/09, i also purchasd the blue tooth value pack after opening it i realized that the value pack was not compatable with the cell phone, i have spent several days on the telephone with the customer service [protected] telephone number that the employess # 1 saying in there scripted is that "i am sorry" nothing gets taken care of other then them using the hold button to convience you to hang up or like tonight i got transfered to the spanish line when i asked to speak to a supervisor. i just want to know what the process is when returning an item that was purchased online. the customer service employees refered me to the www.metropcs.com web site that referred all questions to the 888#. How is that going to help?
i was able to get the so called corporate address: metro pcs inc
po box 601119 dallas tx 75226 upset isa
Metro PCS, service is horrible. When I am in my apartment, calls either drop or phone breaks up. Today I received four phone calls not once did my phone ring and all four calls went to voice mail. But my main complaint is the customer service. I called customer service good luck trying to get a customer service representative on the line. Better yet, when you are on hold the automated system is in spanish! I speak Spanish, but not everyone else does! it should be in english. and the customer service reps sound like robot, every five seconds they say "Sorry for the inconvenience" Instead of just putting you through to a customer service rep the automated system just keep saying "I understand you want an agent, I can probably help you faster" its so frustrating. When I finally got through they were not able to help me with my problem. I have to go to the corporate store to help me. If you are considering them, please choose another carrier. its not worth the hassle.
I have been with metro pcs for two years and this is the frist time I have had to call customer service. I bought a new phone less than a month ago and have been unable to send text messages. After spending an hour on the phone and going to a local store my problem is still not fixed! Now I'm being told I have to go to a corprate headquater and see if they can fix it! Did I mention that I have insurance and the phone is less than a month old! Two weeks and still nothing! Metro PCS SUCKS!
What a business model "or How not to run a company!
No direct phone number to local store - forced to submit to "Voice Mail Jail" for 1:40sec to get to the local store!
No corporate E-mail to complain to...just "snail" mail!
No Customer Service Reps @ Corporate...just more "Voice Mail Jail!"
Noticed the last post from 2007 said pretty much the same thing, I guess nothing is going to change until Chpt 11 filing, until then I'll wait to the last minute to pay my bill!
can't get a paper bill or internet & my text msgs come back to back
OK, so I got a METRO PCS phone in June. I got the $50 plan which includes unlimited calls, text and internet.
The sad part about this is that I can't get internet and if someone texts me, I continue to get "that" particular message every 3 mins (not exaggerating) until someone else texts me.
I've complained so much that they actually gave me to months of free service but have yet to fix the problem. I've called in twice a week, went into the store once a month to get the problem rectified but they can't seem to fix the issue.
Here's why I'm super frustrated: Not only does MPCS have absolutely NO customer service, they don't event notate your account. I've been transferred up to technical support once a month since July and there is no record to support my issue. This is the worst portion of it all. Tonight 10/7/09, I called to speak with someone regarding these same issues and he said, "If you're having so many problems, why don't you just buy a new phone?" My reply, "It is supposed to be your job to be empathetic and genuinely fix the problem or replace my phone." He then said, "You can wait a lifetime on that one ma'am. Is there anything else I can do to assist you?"
I thought calls were monitored? If that's the case and managers are listening, then you can only imagine what they'll say next.
Just glad that I got Google Voice. So long Metro Piss-poor Customer Service.
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purchased a blackberry
I purchased a Blackberry Curve 8330 from a local Metro PCS store in Miami, Florida, less than 1 month ago. During my time of purchase I told the sales associate to add insurance to the phone, just in case since the phone did cost me over $300.00! About a week and a half later, I was on a family vacation in which my niece got hold of the phone and it ended...
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My bill is normally due on the 20th of every month. For my August bill, I wasn't able to pay my bill until September 5th, which means my phone was disconnected from August 20th until September 5th. My phone was reconnected on the 5th of September. When I paid my bill, I asked the employee that I paid with if my bills would be due on the 5th now instead of the 20th of every month & he said yes. So the 20th of September rolls around & I get a text message saying that my bill is due soon. I disregarded it, thinking it was a mistake. So then on the 21st, my phone gets disconnected. I call 1-888-8METRO8 from my house & ask then what's going on. The man then told me that I should have been informed that there would be a $5 charge to reset my billing cycle (which I was never informed of) & since I didn't pay that $5, I would have to pay my bill plus the $5 to reset my billing cycle in order to restore the service to my phone. The employee kept telling me that there was nothing that he could do. So I asked to speak to his supervisor, who I did speak to. By this time I was livid that I had payed almost $60 for 15 days of service, so I handed my mother the phone. She spoke to the (supposed) vice president of the company (I doubt it) & he said that there was nothing that he could do for me until I paid my bill. So my Mom took his name & we're calling the Better Business Bureau. I doubt we'll get anywhere..but MetroPCS shouldn't be in business.
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They told me that the phone has to be turned off for 7 days then they would reset the billing cycle WITH the 5 dollar charge. You would think they would at least prorate it. or something. But i guess you get what you pay for.
scammed
I was scammed at this corporate store (Missorri Ave). My new cell phone $180.00 wasn't working to my satisfaction. The rep. showed me another phone and I said this one is better. (Even thou their reconditoned) The rep. said, I 'm going in the back to put your information in the new phone. (I found very strange) Why would he take the time with a room full of customers. Heres a good laugh, right when you think you heard it all. All my phone # were in the new phone and my voice mail with my voice. They must be magicans. I called [protected] to complain about this wonderful experience which he took my information and said you'll get a text 3 to 6 days. Another scam in good old USA.
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What are you saying? did the rep exchange the phone? how is it a scam?
un ethical business
I had bought a phone and a plan at this store about 3 years ago. I wanted to update my phone so I purchased a new BlackBerry for almost $400. Well the device never worked properly and I was promised a replacement a week later. Then 2 weeks then 3 weeks and finally on the 4th I demanded a refund. That was a joke, according to the sales Rep I could have...
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I'm still flared up hours after cancelling my services with this company - they make you pay full cost for a phone, but in the long run it pays for itself is the claim. Unfortunately the product they sell in the form of their phone service isn't anywhere near par with regular larger companies. I bought the phone and used it Atlanta, GA with the hopes of being able to use it while on assignment in Washington DC and now later, here in Pittsburgh PA. The phone though listed as a both cities on the website as an available to their plan didn't work at all in DC, and only was able to use my text and basic phone services in Pittsburgh. Now the operator tells me that would have been additional charges under a 'roaming' fee (something not mentioned when I asked the salespeople initially).
In addition - the insurance I bought monthly for the phone should it be stolen wasn't much of insurance - the phone was stolen at a restaurant and my 'deductible' was an additional 80.00US dollars. After this debacle, and trying to talk with poor English speakers on the phone on a bad connection - it's never again will they have my business. Anyone I know now considering it will get an earful from me as well including my patients. I may even put a small plaque out in the waiting room advising them to think twice before using this poorly put together 'service'
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Metro PCS is one of the worst companies I have ever been to, I thought that Sprint was bad, trust me, nothing comes close to Metro PCS horrible service. I have a feeling that one major thing they do to ignore irrate customers is give you a bad connection when you try to call their customer service, even from a land line. When i call, my calls never go through, and if they do, when the automated service is transferring you or say they will transfer you to the best customer rep, the call gets dropped.. Does that make any sense. I really hope someone sew's them and gets away with. Put them out of business, they only make everyone's life miserable!
If you are considering unlimited calling, go to t-mobile or even boost mobile. Trust me, ive been through many cellular providers, I know whats best. Either go get a contract, cause your gonna pay monthly anyways, or go to boostmobile..
cover are refund
I went to metro pcs dealership to purchase a telephone line and I transfer my service from AT&T to the new company. They promises cover are with a map, but the area that they promises was not cover. But the issues is the costumer have to purchase the telephone, I buy a telephone for the amount of $386, because I need this telephone in order to have internet, text message, email. But because is not cover in my area I lost the money of the telephone they sale to me so I am stuck with a item that no order telephone company use, and also no service so I lose $386. X 2 because I purchase two telephone.
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You have paid and learn a lesson.
Me too.
bill in text
Metro pcs sends your bill in a text for free, but what they don't tell you is that we may change the amount at any time. I received 4 text from metro pcs stating 2 different amounts and 2 different due dates, so I paid the last amount text to me. So why was my svc turned off for non payment. When I called customer svc I was told I needed to make an additional payment to have my svc restored and that they don't know why I received 2 different bill and due dates, just pay the money and move on. Do these csr's not know about the economy.
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IF YOU PAID YOUR METRO PCS BILL ONLINE RECENTLY - PLEASE CANCEL THAT CARD YOU USED NOW!
MY SON AND I BOTH USED OUR DEBT CARDS TO PAY OUR BILL ONLINE AT METRO PCS AND SOMEONE STOLE OUR DEBT CARD NUMBERS AND CLEANED OUT OUR BANK ACCOUNTS. METRO PCS
IS THE ONLY PLACE WE BOTH USED OUR DEBT CARDS.
rude [protected]@ store location (desoto, tx)
Metro PCS is fast becoming a rude and non caring company that has had me fooled for quite a while. I am a very unsatisfied customer right now. I have called customer service on several occassions about my rude service at their Desoto location (Polk and Pleasant Run). The Pakistani gentleman who owns this company and another in Lancaster that I know of, has no regard for mannerism. It seems the only care is in getting money to support his company; this is a difficult task without proper patriotism, and the customers are the ones who keep the doors open. This store is fairly new, and it won't be here long with customer service like that.
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Metro PCS do not follow FCC laws.
I think they do not have right to practice business in united state.Metro PCS all call center is out of united state. They speak broken English. Metro PCS make lot of money.Do not care about any kind of service.FCC knows all the people complaining?Attention all customer we have to file law suite against them.We not living in third world country.Metro PCS please follow the American laws. Customer Always right. Give them respect. If you do not care . Very soon Metro PCS will be out of business .
not informing customers of the change number policy for refunds?
I decided to change phone companies and wanted to take my existing cell phone number with me. When I called Metro Pcs regarding this situation they (customer service employee) felled to inform me that if I cancelled me service after 2 weeks into my cycle I would not be able to get a refund. So, basically I just gave this company after talking to too many people over the pass couple of weeks almost $45 dollars. That money could have went on my 11 year old daughter's first cellphone this she will use while away from home. Man, this company needs alot of customer service classes. They also refused to give me any of my refund or at least put half of it on my daughter's account. Yes, if you are thinking that she needs to contact the main office? I plan to write to them regarding this problem, because like all other American's I work hard for my money and don't have any to give away when I have 4 kids to feed every day.
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You paid $45 for 4 weeks service. That fact you decided to stop the service after 2 is your problem.
If you read the details on the forms with your phone it clearly says its not refundable. You paid for a month and they delivered, the fact you wanted to change half way through is your loss.
They took your money in good faith, you made the choice to change, YOU made the choice to have 4 kids. And YOU want to give a cell phone to an 11 yr old.
If even her father does not understand how the deal works, what chance does the poor girl have. You have nothing to complain about. You got what you paid for, if you had asked if you could have got a refund they wold have told you no, but YOU never did. Blame only one person; YOU.
As for the other person who can't spell and has to bring race into everything. If the phone you bought on line does not work return it. You should check your bill each time you pay. thats is why you get a copy so you can see if you have or have not got insurance. If you had you would have proof of payment, since you don't we must agree you never paid it and when YOU mistreated your phone you started crying about it.
I have been with MetroPCS for 9 months and could not be happier, the deal is simple $40 for unlimited service with text and web. If you pay on time and you look after your phone you have no problems. They are much better than T-Mobile or Boost.
I agree with ever one one here complaint and I wonder why I'm still with them. I've had my phone for over a year with metro guard (insurance) so when my phine broke and I tried to file a claim to get it fixed they said I didnt have insurance metro said I did and the insurance department said I didnt, and on top off all that I order a new phone off line threw metro and the damn camara doesnt work. Metro is a bunch of bull, customer service reps dont know what they are talking bout I have to call about 50 times just to get somebody to understand me, sorry to say she was of my race and I 'm not a racist, but it was like I was talking in baby talk to those folks. So I can understand all you guys complaint
refuseing honer return policy
want to exchange phone they are refuseing to honer contract i have less than one hour and less than thirty days old dont like phone cant text with it wantbetter one
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bad business practices
Has anyone who has had complaints pertianing to Metro PCS filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau in their respective states? I am about to...
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I just wanted to tell everyone how infuriated I am with MetroPCS Customer Service. I have been having issues with my phone regarding text messaging since January. I am constantly on the phone with them since January (and have about nine pages of names/badge numbers/times I spoke with them) and since my my phone will randomly stop sending text messages at various frequencies (either once a day or every couple of weeks, if I am lucky) The only way this problem will be fixed is I have to call tech support, have them reset something on my account and then I can power cycle my phone (Note: Simply power cycling my phone on my own does not work, they have to do something on the account)
Finally, three days ago they offered to open a ticket. Then yesterday my phone started having issues making phone calls. I had to call from my landline which took 45 min. to get though because of their IVR. It understood everything except my pin number. Because it kept thinking I was saying something completely different it would not let me speak to a customer service rep.. the system explicitly refused to let me get any further until I gave it my pin number which it could not understand! I had to call in as a new customer just to get to speak to someone.. that took 20 min. of the 45!
They [customer service] said that my phone needs to be replaced as it sounds like there is a problem so they transfered me to the dept. that could handle that. The dept they transfered me to was the insurance line for phones damaged, stolen or lost by customers! The phone was never damaged by me, it just has never functioned like it should!
So I called back, spoke to yet another rep. They told me to go to the Winter Park store (about 45 min. away) and have them replace it. So I did. I explained my issue to a nice Metro PCS agent at the store. However, he said I had to pay a $10.00 plus tax processing fee to have the phone replaced! I don't understand why I, as a customer, have to pay a processing fee to have a phone replaced that has been having issues since I got the phone! He said I could speak to a supervisor and I did.
The supervisor was rude and condescending. He acted like I didn't know how to use my phone and that I had too many txt messages and/or emails on my phone. He tried to get technical with me but when he realized I was more technical, he backed off. He said these phones can't handle saving many text messages and said he was going to cancel the phone replacement order!. I showed him how much available memory my phone had and explained to him how much storage space one text message actually took. He kept arguing with me saying that he has the same phone and same problem and what fixes it for him is deleting all his text messages and emails.
I explained to him that this phone is $250.00, it is a business phone and is should not have an issue that it is having because of too many text messages (Besides, I had hardly any on the phone) and for the fact that it works fine after they do something on the account temp. fixes it negates his whole point. I had to urge him to not cancel the order and he even said that he had other customers to help and that he didn't have time to discuss this with me!
I called back into customer service after that and explained everything I have here (and more since I have had many more issues than I have explained here) and told them that all I am requesting is to have the 10.00 processing fee waived since I have been dealing with this issue since January and they should do this as a courtesy; they refused.
I am going to see what this replacement phone does as it is my only option at this time. I know there are some issues with the phone because I had been told over the phone and by the nice man in the Metro PCS Store that it looks like my phone has been having issues receiving updates. I know that they must be having some type of issues with their network as well.
I guess the bottom line is you get what you pay for, either service wise or customer service wise. 1 out of 10 people at MetroPCS are nice while the other 9 are rude and condescending. They do nothing to actually make you happy. They offered me a $3.00 credit (three dollars) for the problems I have been having since January.
I will pay for one more month of service (it is prepaid) and I hope that I do not have these same issues or at the very least that I have them less frequently! It is sad especially since I paid 250.00 on this phone and I do not think I can use it on any other network but I will do more research.
I wanted to share my experience with anyone that wanted to listen in the event they were considering MetroPCS. To be fair, I have not had many issues placing phone calls until today. I do have issues with it taking a while to dial from time to time but that could either be the phone or the area I am in. If you like to text you may have issues (My friend has MetroPCS and he also has issues from time to time texting, just not as much as me)
Hope this information helps others in making a decision about MetroPCS and I am curious to know if anyone else has issues text messaging on the MetroPCS Network.
Thanks,
John
horrible company
Metro PCS is the worst company I have ever dealt with. They rip people off and no one does anything about it. An attorney really needs to file a class action lawsuit against this company. I have had Metro PCS service for over a year now. I switched from Sprint as I was paying around $150 per month for unlimited cell/internet and it was too costly. First, the service through Metro PSC is horrible. My calls are dropped all time when I try to use my phone. There are times when it will go into roaming and it should not be roaming as I am in my coverage area in Florida. When it goes into roaming, I cannot use my phone; eventhough I have paid twice now for "roaming minutes" (which I should not have to use in my coverage area) Even if I wanted to use my "roaming minutes" in my own coverage area, I cannot acces them.
The 1st time I paid for roaming was when I travelled out of my coverage area. I did everything the sales person at the store told me to prepare the phone before i left my coverage area. I was out in the middle of Kansas and my ohone would not woork. I had an emergency situation and needed to use a phone (no pay phones were available anywhere, and I was not able to use it. Customer service was non-existent as one keeps getting the same automated message that goes into a loop. It is nearly impossible to talk to a live person at Metro PCS. Next I went to Nebraska. My roaming minutes wouldn't work there either. I finally got through to their tech support. They farm their tech support out to Panama and I spent 1/2 hour arguming with the tech person that Nebraska was part of the US; as he kept insisting it wasn't and that's why I did nto have coverage. Unbelievable! I have lost money by purchasing "roaming minutes" I could not use, on a cell service that does not work much of the time, and nearly froze to death on a Kansas roadway when I had car troubles and I could not use my cell phone to call for help.
I wonder how much money this company makes by not being accessible by phone to the public; especially when customers try to reach them to disconnect service and they cannot get through to anyone? This company is blantantly ripping off customers. Are there any attorneys out there who are even remotely interested in filing suit against this company that is ripping off so many people?
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I totally agree the on thing different with my complaint is that when I have had four phones in the last 6 months. they break or something happens to the phone that is technical. I thougt maybe I would spend alittle more for the phone and with in two weeks the charger broke. They would not take it bake even know the book says within 30 days, also when I had bought the phone I was promised insurance. The trainie they had working in the Lovejoy store neglected to call it in so they told me even if it was there fought they still could not help me. Told me basically you are out 150 dallors. What do you do with bad business, that is why the economy will never get better with the type of business metro pcs has practiced. thanks Ashley Walker
I had the same experience!