Straight Talk Wireless
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I kept receiving texts last week that my current sims card needed to be upgraded to support LTE. On Wednesday I called Straight Talk and spoke to an agent. He took all my phone information and mailed me a new Sims card. Yesterday I did an online chat to activate my new card. In the process they cancelled my old sims card. I was told I would receive a call in 3 hours to confirm my activation, which never happened. I did another online chat to inform them of this and was told I would get a call within 15 minutes, which never happened. So I did a third online chat to check on the status of my card. At that time I was told by the agent my Sims card was not compatible with my phone, are you kidding me? As we were chatting he was disconnected so I had to do a fourth online chat. I explained the issue to the lady Merriam and she informed me the card I had was indeed compatible with my phone and I just needed to keep rebooting it until I could make a call. I simply called and spoke to an agent who after taking all my information for the sixth time informed me I had the wrong Sims card . The card I was sent from Straight Talk was for Verizon and my phone is ATT. So I placed an order for another Sims card which will arrive here on Wednesday. I am very frustrated over this entire experience not to mention I am without phone service for 5 days. I know all of my interactions should be on record. The only responses I kept getting on line was I am sorry and I understand. I have had Straight Talk service for several years but if this is how you support customer service I am going to rethink my phone carrier.

I was ordering a SIM Card today after 3 very unhelpful conversations with several representatives. #1 I could not understand them half of the time. #2 They refused to verify any information that I gave them. How is that fair and just customer service? They refused to read back any address information that I gave them. What if they took down the wrong information? That is not customer service and despicable actions by straight talk. #3 I never received a promised email confirmation of discussion and transaction that took place with straight talk. Sorry to say, after many years of service I am thinking strongly about going elsewhere. This is unacceptable and despicable. I will strongly consider reporting this to better business bureau. #4 I forgot to mention, the representative with straight talk would not even help me with how to file a complaint when I requested. He said just go to the website. Gee, thanks! WHAT A JOKE!

The last few online orders I placed was not received. It never reached my delivery address.

Here are the last few orders I had placed and never received from straight talk. I had called customer service and tried to resolve this multiple times and I keep getting transfers or put on hold and getting cut off. The representatives bare speak English Wich I had a hard time understanding what they say and they could barely understand what I was saying Wich made it very frustrating. I had asked for their boss but I got transferd to another representative and ran into the same issue. My problem never got resolved, questions about my orders never got an explanation as to where they were, why I did not receive them, why it says shipped when I never received them, and what is going to be done to resolve this issues. I have been a straight talk customer for a while.:

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As I checked my account I see that they have been activated and my account was accessed by someone other than me.

After buying service for a two month old phone, the phone stopped working. It could not receive or send calls or texts. It took their technicians over three hours to fix, when all it needed was a factory reset. The technicians were lazy and hung up on me three times before trying the successful reset. This is horrible ineptitude! While you're at it, please give your technicians more English classes. I couldn't understand half of what they said. Your income depends on returning customers. No way am I tolerating this horrid service.

I purchased a straight talk iPhone 12 mini from the Walmart website. The phone did not have a sim card installed. I had already cloned the data (contacts, photos, music, etc) from my old Straight Talk iPhone SE to the new iPhone 12 mini before I began to activate it. I was told by the Walmart sales rep to purchase a sim card package with cards from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. When I followed the instructions on the package and the Straight Talk website the iPhone was not processed and I was instructed to call for service. When I informed the operator that I already had a Straight Talk account and I wanted to transfer my current phone number and activate my new iPhone 12 mini she told me to remove the sim card because it was not needed. She took the IMEI numbers from both the old iPhone and the new iPhone and told me the new phone would transfer the number and activate the new phone. She then asked if I had another phone because we may lose contact during the transfer. I told her no and suggested I wait to activate until I could get another line. Before I could finish she hung up. So I turned off both phones and waited a few minutes. When I turned on the new iPhone 12 mini, I lost service for both iPhones even though my account shows that the new iPhone 12 mini is activated? Now I have no way of communicating with anyone but through my computer now.

Stay away from this "company"! They "accidently" deleted my account and said that they could not find it even though I still had a months service already paid for. They started another account and told me that I will have to pay for another month. I almost gave them my payment info up until they asked me if I wanted to use the debit card on file...what? They said that they couldn't find the original account and now they have it. When I told them to apply the month already paid for they said and I quote, "uh I don't have the tools to access that, just let me charge the card to get your service reinstated". They are refusing to make this right. They have stolen $60.00 from me! Stay away from these corrupt people!

I've been trying to transfer a number I've had for over 20 years and brought to straight talk. I have been on the phone with them every day for hours. I even had my new carrier call them 3 different times all to no avail. I have spent at least 6 hours a day trying to keep my number for the past 2 weeks. I'm hoping today is the day but after 3 hours on the phone again I still didn't get it transferred and they said they would e-mail me the pin I need but I honestly doubt it. They've lied to me several times already. I will never give them a kind word again.

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3/7/22 8:17PM

Horrible company! I've been with them almost 2 years all was good until in February my phone wouldn't charge anymore I was told if recurve a new phone but had to send broken in first. That happened I heard nothing from them over a week I called them and lady from another country said right away I can't help you I have to escalate call She did and the manager got on from the phillipines said that I'm not getting a phone it's it of warranty. I told her that's not what you're rep said. We argued back and forth to no avail. AI ended up calling back spoke to a Ray same country said no you are getting new phone and have me a service number.But he said the phone is out of stock said he'd send me email by the end of week never received it Today called again after being transferred twice and over 2 hour wait I spoke to another lady,explaining what happened again she was vague, couldn't give me any details.I asked her where my original phone went , to a warehouse is all I got..I actually asked her point blank if my phone was being refurbished and resold and she answered yes to that! So that's what happens I'm out my phone and they are fixing my old phone and reselling it! Isn't this criminal? Horrible customer service no one knows nothing, I'm transferred all over the place .. Go to another company..my advise .. I'm ready to report this to BBB. Now I'm worried they got my information off my phone and they're going to sell my information information . What do I do?

On February 17, 2022 i purchased a new iphone via straight talk. It came in on the 25th. I called to activate it and transfer my number, was told it was done and then was hung up on. I gave it a day to see if everything would transfer after a few hours, and it still did not work. After over 24 hours of calling and being on hold and being transferred and hung up, I finally spoke with a person sunday morning (27th) and he told me to go buy a new sim card and someone in higher up tech support would be calling me. I never received a call. So I went out and bought a sim card and yet again i called and waited on hold for almost an hour only for some one to answer and give me no help at all and made me explain my problem for the 600th time. She stated it was bc my zip code was wrong? She changed my phone number and never gave me the new number and then tried to transfer me as well and then hung up. Next day WHILE AT WORK with no working call phone, i used my work phone to call AGAIN, stayed on hold for 30 minutes and finally got someone named daniel. told him my situation AGAIN. He made me run through all the steps AGAN and made me reset my settings and everything for no reason at all. He then tried to transfer me to "higher up tech support" again and i told him hell no. I made him stay on the line till someone answered and the person who answered after 40 MINUTES literally made me do a softwarte update and then told me that the phone must be defective and that it needed to be returned and that there was nothing else that they could do and then she hung up after I told her ten times i was desperate for help. These people that i spoke to, (all 6 of them) were all the most rude and unhelpful people i have ever dealt with in my life. I will be returning this piece of crap and then I will be going to Verizon for me and my WHOLE family. I will never use straight talk again and i won't recommend them to anyone either. I've never in my life dealt with such a hassle for a phone that I PAID for. Not to mention the 5+ years of service i have purchased from them. 0 stars. Worst customer service out there.

I had a Verizon plan, and purchased Straight Talk to switch last Saturday Feb 26. My data did not switch over. I have called at least 20 times to get them to help me make it work. I did what was asked of me over and over. I called multiple times (was "accidentally" disconnected over and over. Including after being transferred multiple times and waiting for manager), tried to use that chat feature (was disconnected after 2 hours waiting for manager), and texted to no avail. Each time I had called or was transferred, I had to wait 40 minutes. Each time I had to try the same steps which didn't work. I have spent over 15 hours attempting to get this resolved, and am no further. I am adding a couple of screen shots from my chat. After this I attempted to call from another number as instructed but was jerked around for another 5 hours with no resolution. I am livid.

On Monday, February 21, 2022, My wife brought a Straighttalk SIM card kit for Wal-Mart in Natchez, MS. She was on the phone with Straighttalk trying to get the cellphone SIM activated for 5 hours. They refused to activate the SIM card and refused to refund her money. She could not take it back to Wal-Mart. Tech Support of Straighttalk kept on hanging up on her several times.

She calls back on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, and had the same outcome as Monday but they did send out a new SIM card.

On Wednesday, February 23, 2022, I chatted with Straighttalk tech support to try to get the SIM and the phone working. Both Techs that I talked to did not know how to do anything. They put me on the line with someone else. I called with at least 3 techs on the phone and none of them knew anything about cellphones or SIM calls. I guess when they couldn't fix my problem they hung up on me twice. They refused to fix my problem and refused to give me a refund. I have attached a copy of the chats.

After numerous problems with Straighttalk, I decided to transfer service to Verizon. But Straighttalk will not release the number. Says it transfer protected but that leads to a message that says my service is inactive an I need to buy a plan to transfer. But my plan is active. In fact, I can still use the phone. This should be investigated as consumer fraud and a class action suit filed against the company.

I ordered this phone as a gift for my mother. After not receiving it or a shipment email after 2 weeks I called and was notified by an agent that it was cancelled. She told me that it would be refunded but I never received that refund. I have been calling them ever since that day.

After being a Straight Talk customer for the last 15 years they required me to buy a new phone. But that is not the issue. When I logged into my account and ordered a phone it did not say what carrier the phone was good for. So I assumed it was unlocked. I even ordered a new sim card for AT&T. They also gave me a $150 discount. When I got the phone I realized that it was a Verizon only phone. I don't have Verizon service in my area. So I called Customer (serve less) service. After being on the phone for over three hours they told me to send the phone back for a refund (at my expense). They told me that I should have ordered new phone from one of their sales representative rather than picking one off of their web page. I asked if they were going to honor their $150 discount if I ordered another phone. They told me NO. "That is a one time upgrade offer". I told them that they sold me the wrong phone and that it wasn't my fault.

I have had Straight Talk for 10 years , I have had minor issues and annoyances over the years with their uneducated employees but this is the final one. In December I started to get text and emails saying my phone was going to stop working due to a network change , so I called and checked in to it and asked if I needed a new sim or something because my phone was 4g LTE and the straight talk rep said no I needed a new phone that was VOLTE compatible. I did some shopping around and some research and found a phone I liked with 5g and 4g VOLTE. so I buy it and put the sim from my other phone in it. I keep getting messages so I call and after 3 reps one finally says I need a new sim because the network sees my old phone IMEI , took three because no one understood and kept saying I didn't have the phone I said and wanted to send me some junk or sale me one. So I buy a new sim call straight talk , the lady was nice and transferred my phone number to the new sim after giving her my new phone IMEI and sim number , old sim gets disconnected and new one starts working. So all seemed fine , well no I get on my account to buy a plan and I see New sim not active and my old phone with my number and the same message and not able to buy a plan , so I call they tell me that I am not on the new sim and I am like yes I am talking to you on it , then they change and say the phone I have is not the IMEI on the sim , I tell them that that's not my mistake I gave the same number from the phone. I just gave them to the lady who changed it all so fix it or send me a new sim, Then they change to well your phone won't work with VoLte and I say I see the VoLte icon in the top right corner so I know it's working. They say no it's not , because with the IMEI number they see it can't , I say well if you see that know why not before and what kind of phone an I using if you see all it's spec's they say we can't see that just that it's no capable. So I am leaving and going to pure talk same price and hopefully more truthful service reps. Once again I am 100 percent sure this phone is VoLte and that straight reps are [censored]ic liars

Ordered a phone a month ago. No phone, can't get any help from Straight talk. I am being told, that they have my order, then I am transferred to another person, to go over the same info., told they have my order, then i am transferred to another for the same thing still no phone. I am being texted by straight talk that i have till 2/22/2022 to get a new phone

Tuesday, Feb. 8, we received our "free phone" from straight talk. There is a red card that comes in the box with the IMEI and sim card numbers. We followed the directions to connect our phone. All seemed fine until we realized that my husband couldn't receive calls, only make them. I tried calling him from my phone and a woman answered. She was having the same problem and was on her way to Walmart to get hers fixed. She had my husbands number. I checked his phone for the IMEI number and sim and it was not the same number on the red card from the box. We immediately began trying to straighten this out but nothing worked and now I have spent 4 days talking to ST workers that I couldn't hear and barely understand. I followed the same directions over and over to finally be cut off when they put me on hold for a person with higher tech skills. On day 2 the phone stopped completely and would no longer call anyone. When I began trying to fix this new problem I went through the same old thing except now when I tried to just cancel the phone service to start all over, I wasn't able to answer any of the security questions, pin number, mother's maiden name, email address. I told them those had to correct but somehow I now became a "security threat" and was refused help. I went through this same routine over a dozen times in the next 2 days. Now, today is Saturday, this all started on Tuesday, I still have only one working phone, and I have been talked to like a criminal several times. Oh and get this. I will be charged for my non existence in a few days for my missing phone service. Apparently the only piece of info left on my account is my credit card information.

I have been trying to have my cell phone number on my Straight Talk phone transferred to my new phone/new carrier since Jan 21, 2022 (three weeks!) Communicating with Straight Talk has done nothing to help. I have been put on hold for long periods of time, cut off more times than I can count at this point, yelled at by a Straight Talk rep, when being transferred to "supervisors' I am cut off (4 times just yesterday), etc... Not only have you not transffered our phone number, we've had for 20+ years, you keep shutting off my Straight Talk cell phone service every other day even though the service is paid for in advance. This is my husbands business number! due to my husbands medical issues this phone is also his lifeline in case of an emergency!

Purchased an iPhone 11 on 2/3/22 and paid for next day shipping.

Received order confirmation on 2/3/22

Received email that my order has shipped on 2/5/22 with tracking number

Tracking number says it is not valid through UPS.

Contacted straight talk customer service on 2/5/22 and was told I would have my order by 2/7/22.

Did not receive order on 2/7/22 and tracking number is still not working.

Contacted UPS again and they state this is an issue with Straight Talk.

Spent over 2 hours on the phone and live chat with Straight Talk just to get told that they are unsure what is going on and they can’t refund my money until the phone is received.

I have no way of tracking this order and the tracking number provided was invalid and fraudulent.

I hv been w straighttalk for several years now but recently I was refilling my phone online & was asked if I wanted autorefill to wich I answered No! But they added it anyway 😡 I called & again asked to be taken off of it. I was told they had. They HAD NOT‼️ I was out of the country for work Oct/ Nov 21 & did NOT USE THE PHONE SERVICE as it is not usable out of the country. So I was lied to & stolen from yet after speaking to 3 ppl at straighttalk including 2 managers‼️‼️‼️ no refund‼️

I'm NOT asking for a YEAR of refund but 2 specific mos...& 'you' straighttalk said you had taken ne off of AR...