Home  ›  Carriers  ›

Cricket

Info & Phones News Forum  

all discussions

Crickets customer relations

blinsky6

Oct 2, 2007, 11:57 AM
Sept 7th I went on-line to order a phone and plan. I entered my credit card info and clicked purchase and a page came up that said could not process. I thought I had entered my cc info wrong. re entered and could not process came up again. I paged back and this time it kicked my 3 digits off the back of my card out. re entered that and received the could not process error again. I tried 3 times and decided to call the sales phone line. I ordered the phone and plan over the phone and it was $59.99 instead of the on-line price of $49.99. No big deal. I then went into my email account and found 4 messages thanking me for the phone order. I went into my bank account and found that they had debt-ed my account for the 3 phones that said could not process for 49.99 and the phone that was ordered over the phone for 59.99. I called back the sales rep and he said that I would need to call 858-882-9999 on Monday and they would get this straightened out. I called Monday and was on hold for 3 1/2 hours...not toll free. Tuesday I was on hold for 2 1/2 hours, Wednesday 3 hours and on Thursday I was able to stay on hold for 4 hours and finally spoke to someone. She had me fax her all the bills that I had received in the mail. In the mean time I received all 4 phones and did not open them. I was instructed by the Portland corp office to bring the phones down to them and they would get this straightened out for me. That was sept 13. I now have no phones...spent a total of 17 documented hours on hold and am out $209.96. The Portland Corp office is telling me that I need to just talk to the corp office and that is why I have been on hold for over 17 hours. I have no clue what the heck I am suppose to do. I have also re-faxed the info to the corp office 3 times requesting for them to PLEASE call me regarding this. I understand that there are glitches in systems and mistakes happen but for them not to even respond to me seems really bad for a relatively new company to be treating people in this manner.
...
wiseguy

Oct 4, 2007, 11:38 AM
it is good that you understand that mistakes happen, because you are going to see plenty of them with cricket...and the excuse that they are a new company is wrong because while they are new to portland they have been in business for over 7 years...that said you are getting about the standard response to issues, slow with a major lack of communication mixed in...my best recommendation is to go to a corp store and tell them you want to speak with the COM for the area...while the COM does not have the power to solve this problem directly they usually have enough pull to get the ball rolling at a more acceptable speed...also, while you are at the corp store make a friend with a rep you like because you are going to be in the store a lot with ph...
(continues)
...
freedom4u

Oct 4, 2007, 2:11 PM
my advise to you stranger, BBB document, document, and document! i cant stand to hear that this is going on -- in other markets and i thought san antonio was the worse! good luck in your sitaution! and sorry to hear about the headache!
...

all discussions

Subscribe to Phone Scoop News with RSS Follow @phonescoop on BlueSky Follow @phonescoop on Mastodon Follow @phonescoop on Threads Phone Scoop on Facebook

 

Playwire

All content Copyright 2001-2025 Phone Factor, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Content on this site may not be copied or republished without formal permission.