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where else to complain when AT&T has done wrong?

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AT&T screwed things up for me and from multiple sales rep and 1 superviser, so far nothing has been really rectified. Is there like someone or something else I can contact that could get me things done or some freakin compensation for wasting my time and screwing things up?
 
That's why I always go with small companies, the people I'm with i have no download cap, and if I live in a big area i can get 16mbs down and 7 up! it's only like $40 a month. If you live in a small town it's like $30 and its 4 down and 1 up... Once durring a local tornado the Internet shut down for a day, they gave everyone a free month... If you are in canada I would say go with http://www.distributel.ca/en/index.aspx they are kinda awesome for the price.
 
You need to follow the proper chain and work your way up. Have you recorded the calls/emails and tried escalating it? Ask the supervisor for a support "escalation". There should be an open trouble ticket on their end, and if you keep requesting an escalation they will HAVE to do something. Try checking the consumerist for specific recommendations on how to go up the chain.

Good luck. I will check back to help you!
 
contact or Call up any Consumer Watchdog agencys. They would love to hear from you if youre having problems.

If they take your claim up they will investigate it and find out how many other customers are having trouble with AT&T, are not happy with the service and being stonewalled by them when it comes to trying to get a complaint across.
 
been busy today but will talk to the supervisor tomorrow and get them to escalated it and see what goes from there. they are real jerks :/
 
been busy today but will talk to the supervisor tomorrow and get them to escalated it and see what goes from there. they are real jerks :/

Record the entire conversation.
 
Oh....and its best to read up on your 'consumer rights' stuff incase the supervisor tries to shaft you.

the more you know the worse it is for them, and if they give you any trouble. usually quoting the consumer rights act or threatening to report them to a goverment/consumer watchdog agency will usually see them drop the act and come clean.

this is not always the case however. but it will open up more doors then you care to imagine, at least that is the case in my experience when i needed to deal with really really bad support staff
 
Rofl these douche bags keep getting worst. The supervisor never called me like he promised and made a commitment to.

EDIT: interestingly they claimed they called yet I have not received any calls. I called them and they immediately took me to a supervisor which said she couldn't do much cept $25. Not acceptable to me at all with what I have gone through. So I asked for a callback from the boss of this supervisor. lets see this goes through, or i'd have to make another call to get their lazy useless butt on the line.

The site for consumer rights is a bit confusing to me :(

Also how would i record a phone convo? Dont they record all the phone convos going to customer service also?
 
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I used to work for AT&T.....What happened?
I may be able to help you word your situation better to get the results your looking for...


***Just Saying***
Everything depends on how long you have been a Customer-need at least 6 months
How many adjustments have been made to your account- the fewer the better
Most Important what type of Phone- For Instance AT&T doesn't control Droids or Iphones their respective companies do that.
 
Everything depends on how long you have been a Customer-need at least 6 months
How many adjustments have been made to your account- the fewer the better
Most Important what type of Phone- For Instance AT&T doesn't control Droids or Iphones their respective companies do that.

That's what we refer to as "bush league bullshit". AT&T is infamous for its absolutely horrid customer service and support.

If I were you I would find an alternative to AT&T ASAP. GO with a local company if possible. Don't support these monopolies. They do not care about you as a customer. They treat you as if you are an enemy!


In the hosting industry the customers have a lot more say in what happens. If one of my sales or support engineers treats a customer poorly or F's something up you had better believe I will hear about it within 5 minutes on a public forum like webhostingtalk, and the public will demand that I make the situation right.


It's not as easy to put the fire to AT&T's feet because they are such a gigantic corporation. They will do everything they can do close the doors on you. Every time you open one there's a bigger door with a better lock. It's possible to get to a solution, but it is NOT easy.
 
AT&T's Customer service isn't that bad...

It depends on how you handle the situation.
Every CSR has $250 a day limit to give per customer as they see fit per day~
And Supervisors have $400 anything over has to be submitted to "High Claims" for a decision t
So Rule #1 is
Don't be a Dick and problems up to $250 are likely to go away...
 
AT&T's Customer service isn't that bad...

It depends on how you handle the situation.
Every CSR has $250 a day limit to give per customer as they see fit per day~
And Supervisors have $400 anything over has to be submitted to "High Claims" for a decision t
So Rule #1 is
Don't be a Dick and problems up to $250 are likely to go away...

I couldn't agree more. They've always done well for me concerning my wireless and U-verse. I've never had a bad experience with them.
 
AT&T's Customer service isn't that bad...

It depends on how you handle the situation.
Every CSR has $250 a day limit to give per customer as they see fit per day~
And Supervisors have $400 anything over has to be submitted to "High Claims" for a decision t
So Rule #1 is
Don't be a Dick and problems up to $250 are likely to go away...

Actually it IS that bad. That's total bullsh!t (excuse my language). If you think that is anywhere NEAR just "good" customer service, then you are crazy. That dollar limit is AT&T's way of quantifying what their customers are worth. It's obvious their customers aren't worth shit to them.

Customers shouldn't have to walk on egg shells and go through hoops to get what is right. Not all customers are right, but in this case he is right. It should have been taken care of on the first call.

An example of good customer service:

A few weeks ago we had a customer who is unmanaged (means we don't offer proactive support for his servers, we just monitor them to make sure they're online like everyone else) and one of his servers went down. It was a problem with his own software that caused it. Even though he is an "unmanaged" customer, I went ahead and had our techs get the server back online, had a software dev take a look at his code and fix it for him for free, and I gave him a free month of service for that machine. I ate the cost to make sure that he would be satisfied and not have to worry about the next bill. If we can do that, so can AT&T. I guarantee you that AT&T attempts everything possible to avoid paying out that maximum of $250. Tell me I'm wrong about that.

No where in our terms of service, AUP, or SLA does it state we have to do any of this, but I did it because I understand the frustration he was having. I also understand the fact that his family depends on those servers being online for him to make money to feed them.

(I won't even get into the bandwidth caps. If I buy a line from ANY ISP I should be able to utilize it 100% 24/7.)

Always treat people the way you want to be treated. I'm sorry if I came across as hostile. I just can't stand when companies treat their customers or employees poorly.
 
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Ever thought about starting up your own union? :p

No, but I have thought about starting my own cult before. It just seems like a lot of work, and I'm already really busy...
 
ok so this is the whole story. on october 7th, theres the new iphone 4s. I called in to preorder it because I couldn't change the shipping address (it was stuck to the billing address). So i called in and 1st sales rep says hes got it all covered, does the whole ordering process (takes about 1 hr). Get a confirmation email saying its shipped the the wrong address. So I call in again and 2nd sales rep says she will fix it and all is good. She goes through the whole process (another hour wasted) and cancels the earlier and sends a confirmation email with the wrong address again. So i called in again 3rd time and the sales rep says all is good she will fix it for SURE. goes through the process and at the end, my credit card doesn't go through. Reason was it takes them around 3 days to credit back my money. So I am completely lacking in funds to use for the whole weekend at a college, where closest family I got is 7 hrs away. Couldn't buy anything and couldn't get my pre-order in (longer the wait on the preorder, the longer it takes over the launch date, so basically I get it later than the october 14 release date....). This is absolutely ridiculous that I have to go through all that to get nothing done and even worst spend a weekend starving.

Now thats just half the story. the other half is now this. I had a commitment from 1 supervisor though a sales rep. And it was scheduled specifically for 11 am Pacific time, as I stated to her. Next day the supervisor calls at 9 am which I am busy so could not pick up the call. Can't tell time right? wasted my time cuz now I had to call again and ask for another. So put me on hold and finally got to talk to a supervisor who said he can't do jack and agrees that AT&T screwed me over. Awesome. He says hes gonna make a commitment to call me back on Monday at 9am pacific time and we talked about how to tell time. Monday comes and yet no call throughout the day. SO wasted my time again cuz i had to call in again. This time I got on and they put me immediately through to a supervisor ( a low ranked one i guess) cuz she only offered $25 bucks and that was all she could do apparently. So I said no, not acceptable and she said she'd have her supervisor call me back between today and tomorrow. I shall see how this higher supervisor takes on my case...


oh and I find them rather stupid because I kept emphasizing nice and slow that I couldn't spend any money with my credit card cuz of their screw up and each one eventually says "well your money is still gonna be refunded" >>> no duh its gonna be or there'd be something else going.
 
ok so this is the whole story. on october 7th, theres the new iphone 4s. I called in to preorder it because I couldn't change the shipping address (it was stuck to the billing address). So i called in and 1st sales rep says hes got it all covered, does the whole ordering process (takes about 1 hr). Get a confirmation email saying its shipped the the wrong address. So I call in again and 2nd sales rep says she will fix it and all is good. She goes through the whole process (another hour wasted) and cancels the earlier and sends a confirmation email with the wrong address again. So i called in again 3rd time and the sales rep says all is good she will fix it for SURE. goes through the process and at the end, my credit card doesn't go through. Reason was it takes them around 3 days to credit back my money. So I am completely lacking in funds to use for the whole weekend at a college, where closest family I got is 7 hrs away. Couldn't buy anything and couldn't get my pre-order in (longer the wait on the preorder, the longer it takes over the launch date, so basically I get it later than the october 14 release date....). This is absolutely ridiculous that I have to go through all that to get nothing done and even worst spend a weekend starving.

Now thats just half the story. the other half is now this. I had a commitment from 1 supervisor though a sales rep. And it was scheduled specifically for 11 am Pacific time, as I stated to her. Next day the supervisor calls at 9 am which I am busy so could not pick up the call. Can't tell time right? wasted my time cuz now I had to call again and ask for another. So put me on hold and finally got to talk to a supervisor who said he can't do jack and agrees that AT&T screwed me over. Awesome. He says hes gonna make a commitment to call me back on Monday at 9am pacific time and we talked about how to tell time. Monday comes and yet no call throughout the day. SO wasted my time again cuz i had to call in again. This time I got on and they put me immediately through to a supervisor ( a low ranked one i guess) cuz she only offered $25 bucks and that was all she could do apparently. So I said no, not acceptable and she said she'd have her supervisor call me back between today and tomorrow. I shall see how this higher supervisor takes on my case...


oh and I find them rather stupid because I kept emphasizing nice and slow that I couldn't spend any money with my credit card cuz of their screw up and each one eventually says "well your money is still gonna be refunded" >>> no duh its gonna be or there'd be something else going.

TBH after a major f*ck up like that, I would just stop playing 'nice' with them. take them to a small claims court (Its like criminal court but taking on small claims - e.g. if you want to claim back money from a company) Or even find a lawyer whose willing to take on your case.

Its one thing to be polite and hoping they will treat you the same way so you can clear your problem up, but they are just giving you more agro and dont really seem interested in helping you solve your problem. I would have just totally lost my patience with them and just start taking note of the supervisors names and any sales reps that messed you about, put it all in a report and submit it to your lawyer or the small claims court.

If being nice doesnt seem to do the job then lets see how they like it when you be an asshole.
 
So talked to the manager who was higher up than the supervisers and such. She wasn't really wanting to give in, and started off with a $100 credit to my monthly bill then I talked bout the issue some more and finally ended up getting credit for the whole month's bill of $190. Guess that kinda covers my cost for the iphone 4s
 
well, at least it ended fairly well. now its upto you if you want to go with another network. but get your money refunded first obviously
 
Maybe you should have taken the hint and skipped on the iPhone 4S. :D
 
really want that iphone 4s :/ upgrading from an old iphone 3gs.

update: so after the credit they gave me as compensation, they still have failed to this day to refund me my over $500 for the two screw up orders on their part. So my card is still unable to purchase anything pretty much...now this is just really absurd...
 
really want that iphone 4s :/ upgrading from an old iphone 3gs.

update: so after the credit they gave me as compensation, they still have failed to this day to refund me my over $500 for the two screw up orders on their part. So my card is still unable to purchase anything pretty much...now this is just really absurd...

That part isn't actually AT&T's fault...It's up to your CC company at this point....Ive been there and it usually takes between 7-30 days....
 
Court seems the only way to go man :/
 
call up your bank. and ask them to do a 'chargeback'
 
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