I made a huge mistake signing up with At&t. I am going to buy out and go to Verizon as soon as I can. At&t Does not truly care about their customers, not even their long time customers. Because if they did, they would follow through on their promises and when they make a mistake, they would correct it. The break down of their bills and charges NEVER make sense. What you're being charged is never what is promised and never what they say it is when they "break it down" for you in the store.
I went into At&t back in AUGUST of 2020 to start my service back up. I was returning to them after being away for about a year (my sister was with T-Mobile and I wanted to show my loyalty to her).
When I signed back up, a teacher appreciation discount and an auto pay discount were applied. I was told that it would kick in after like the 2nd or 3rd bill cycle. So around October or November?? Well what do you know, it was never applied as promised after the supposed start up period or whatever you want to call it. By like January/February, I was still having issues with my bill being correct. Like a $35-$40 discrepancy/difference every month. That is the difference between like a $50 bill and an $80-$90 bill. So I eventually went in! Because no one was fixing the issue and it wasn't reflected. At this point in time, I wasn't about to pay a bill that was INCORRECT. Why would I pay a bill that I am being overcharged on??? So they then shut off my service !!! After I had just spoken to them!! I needed time to go in after work!! So then a $35 restoral fee and and $7 late fee were charged on top of an ATT ERROR. That was like 3-4 months that I was being over charged!! They never gave me the credits!! What is the motivation for a customer to pay their bill when they are owed between $90-$120!! OUTRAGEOUS!! I went into an At&t store for the second time, except this time I wasn't happy. I was super understanding at first and then when they kept giving me the run around, I was furious! To make it worse, I showed up to the At&t store, and because I didn't sign up at this "specific location", they acted like they could give two shits about my situation. They wouldn't help me and told me to "go to the store where I signed up." So at this point, now I'm wasting my gas!! And not to mention, I wanted to buy a new phone from them and had to wait a while until they fixed my bill and could earn my trust again.
As a result, my bill was messed up for months. Then they finally got it right. NOW THAT CREDIT WAS NOT A COURTESY! It was an error that they created that they needed to fix. They supposedly fixed the error! Well they didn't, there was still some fee left on there somewhere from the original incident.
I was trying to figure it out because every time I got my bill, my bill was not the correct amount. So as you can imagine, of course I'm upset because we got off on the wrong start! Fast forward, there was fraud on my bank account back in February when my At&t bill was due. And my At&t bill dispute was still not settled. Due to the fraud on my bank account (chase), they closed my debit card. Well my debit card is linked to my At&t auto pay. So because my bill went unpaid due to the fraud, guess what happened ??? At&t shut my phone off!!! ONE day prior to being shut off, I had spoken to the customer service representative about why my bill had gone unpaid and he said the fees would be reversed and that I had a couple days to pay my bill to avoid service interruption. Well he lied !! The service interruption took place the very next day. So even though I communicated that I was waiting for my new debit card, they still shut it off!!
So then, what happened next ? A $35 fee for restoral was added!!!! And I was forced to pay a $180 bill to turn it back on, all while not having my debit card. They pretended that they cared but they didn't give a crap. These are unprecedented times with covid and all. At&t should care more about their customers than this!! Sometimes fraud can happen and they need to be more understanding!! ESPECIALLY when they tell you that they do understand and will remove/credit the fee!!
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