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Cricket Complaint - Horrible Service & Rude Staff - Cricket Wireless Phone
Cricket Wireless Phone - Complaint
I've been a Cricket customer for about two years. When my phone went out I needed a replacement, and the Cricket staff could not preform a simple duty. I called their 800 number and kept getting other 800 numbers to call to. The phone staff was not helpful and was more interested in trying to sell me add ons for my plan. I was told that I needed to purchase the phone through the internet, which I had already tried to do. The internet system would not let me do so, and would tell me to call another set of 800 numbers. After the fifth or so call I decided to go to the store where I encountered rude workers.
The store had about 7 workers and yet for only 4 people waiting, I had to wait about 1 hour. When I explained my issue to the Cricket representative he was uninterested, and tried to sell me the same phone that I wanted from the internet at triple the price, plus an activation fee. I asked him why the big gap in prices, and he mentioned that the ''internet'' prices were for new customers. This was a lie since I had already been told by four phone reps that I could buy a phone at the internet price. The stores seem to be dealer operated, and they are only interested in selling you more phones or services.
To make this short, the Cricket customer service, if you would call it that, is not integrated so you have to call many different people and departments for what should be a simple thing. Their actual stores are less helpful in the sense that they do not want to bother with existing customers.
The store had about 7 workers and yet for only 4 people waiting, I had to wait about 1 hour. When I explained my issue to the Cricket representative he was uninterested, and tried to sell me the same phone that I wanted from the internet at triple the price, plus an activation fee. I asked him why the big gap in prices, and he mentioned that the ''internet'' prices were for new customers. This was a lie since I had already been told by four phone reps that I could buy a phone at the internet price. The stores seem to be dealer operated, and they are only interested in selling you more phones or services.
To make this short, the Cricket customer service, if you would call it that, is not integrated so you have to call many different people and departments for what should be a simple thing. Their actual stores are less helpful in the sense that they do not want to bother with existing customers.
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Posted by Alain on 2011-03-08:
Cricket looks like a company that depends on new sales to replace lost and dissatisfied customers.
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