After a gross overpayment of my monthly wireless aircard fee, I was put through hell trying to get the money returned. After intitiating action their "Trust Dept" (good name huh?) closed the case (CMA) after requiring more info on the payment but never tried to get in touch with me to request the info. I opened another "CMA" to proceed and got shoddy customer service, one service rep (Kathryn Berman) told me to fax the info for the Trust Dept. to her and she would take care of it. I found after trying to follow up, she did nothing but leave lie on a pile of papers.
After 5 weeks and no money to pay my bills I incurred a few late charges and AT&T never offered interest for the time the held my money.
Five weeks ago I called to terminate the contract and after explaining it all for the umpteenth time the service manager agreed with me and it was canceled. AT&T continued to carry a balance and just turned it over to a collection agency. I called AT&T customer service just now about it and I'm told by the supervisor the only thing she can do is waive the late fee.
At&T and especially the "Trust Dept" does not care about customer relations. This is not the first time in many years I have had bad customer service and/or trouble with this company, I should have learned my lesson. Stick with Verizon

Here is the letter I tried to send to
AT&T@CustomerCare regarding an unreceived Rebate for a SONY ERICSSON Cell phone purchsed October 28, 2008. THis email was returned to me as an undeliverable email address.
Sonya Guidry
1205 Lurian Street New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168
Primary Cell: 386 690 1797
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AT&T WIRELESS REBATE CUSTOMER SERVICE:

On wireless account # 386-690-3401 and #386 690-1797, billed to Sonya Guidry at 1205 Lurian Street, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168, I made an upgraded purchase of a Sony Ericsson phone October 28, 2008, with all the paperwork to assure me that a $50 rebate would be forthcoming.

It has been over three months since I received an AT&T text message that my rebate form had been received, and now two months since I received a text message (Dated 12-13-08) that my rebate had been mailed to me and I should expect it within two weeks...which would have been around 12-27-08.

NO REBATE WAS RECEIVED FOR THE Sony Ericsson PHONE I PURCHASED on 10-28-08. (IMEI: 35623702-030633-6 svn 10). When I called the ATT Customer service # that the ATT sales agent entered into my address book, the gentleman there was unable to help me. When I called the
1-866-852 8617 on the AT&T Wireless Rebate form, they also were unable to help me.

You might be interested to know THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT! See the following:
AT&T Rebate Offer 2007
Posted: 2008-03-11 by Cheryl Pascual [send email]



Rebate not received!

Complaint Rating:
Company information:
AT&T
United States
Phone: 510-593-7853
www.att.com/wirelessrebate

I'm just adding to the list of AT&T rebate complaints that are already online. Again just another case where the rebate never made it to me. I followed up and kept track of my forms and still nothing, no recourse, and nowhere else to go.

Submitted in September. Customer Service recording says it was processed in October and I'll receive it in 3 weeks. Never received. Called in January and wasn't sure if that message meant 3 weeks after it was processed or 3 weeks after my call. Called again in March and got the same message so I assume I was supposed to get it in November. Never received anything and now the website is down.

AT&T has a nice clause in the fine print that tries to release them from any liability it states "AT&T and it's Fullment Company assume no liability for lost, late, damaged, misdirected, or postage-duemail or requests that fail to be properly delivered to the address stated on the order form for any reason..." Is that legal or is that too general?

Sounds sketchy to me. According to that clause they could do any number of fraudulent things to get out of delivering these rebate cards or prevent them from getting used up before the expiration date so they are not liable for the expenses. AT&T could technically not send any of them, or send them to a different address, or an employee could steal a bunch, or they could demagnetize them (so if you were lucky enough to actually get it, it wouldn't work)... who knows. In the end we the consumers get zilch and have no way to fight back.

I wonder how many other people have had issues with these damn rebates. From what I've found online it seems like quite a few people for several AT&T products are complaining and the call centers are giving them the run-around. So many of us would never have purchased or signed up for service if we had known we wouldn't get our rebates. I also wonder how much time wasted we've all spent calling customer service. So if I waste 2 hours of accumulated time trying to follow up on this thing at $50/ hour... they owe me my $50 rebate AND another $100 for my time.
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I worked for Cingular Wireless prior their changeover to AT&T Wireless resolving number portability problems. During the early stages of number portability, our support group was inundated with trouble tickets generated by customers who were very angry to have discovered that their phone number was ported to Cingular without their permission. After some investigation on my part, I discovered that as part of the initial process, the contracting group that wrote the code for this process, had written some code which allowed customer service reps. to take down information from customers who called to inquire about porting thier number to Cingular. The customer service reps., would tell the inquiring customers that they would take their information down and "save" it in case the customer later made the decision to port their number to Cingular. What the reps. probably did not know, was that this information was saved in the form of a file, which was then automatically fed into a "batch" job which ran at night and ported the phone number over to Cingular with the "saved" information without the customers approval.

There were literally thousand of these tickets. I personally worked hundreds of them. On several occasions, I spoke with the team lead in charge of writing the code for the portability process, and she told me on 3 different occasions that she had voiced objections to installing this "informational" code due to legal and integrity reasons, and was told by Cingular upper management that they insisted that this code be installed.

I contacted the PUC in Texas about this illegal process and was told that they would not investigate a comlaint regarding slamming unless it affected me personally on my wireless account. They would investigate 1 complaint, but chose to ignore somebody with valid proof that they were salmming thousands of wireless users. So there you have it, AT&T Wireless willing to defraud thousands of people - DELIBERATELY. If anybody that works for, or supports AT&T Wireless, is angered by this and doubts the accuracy or honesty regarding the above statements, I would be glad to provide the names of the contracting company that wrote the slamming code, the team lead who was instructed to write and install the code, and the people in WLNP suuport group who worked these tickets.

We purchased three cellular phones from AT&T Wireless online shop in December 2007 and subscribed for AT&T wireless plan. We canceled the services within a week after we received the phones due to weak signal and call drops. It has been almost one year since we returned the phones to AT&T processing center. We have not received the refund for the phones as promised in AT&T service cancellation agreement. I made many calls to AT&T customer “CARE” and spent hours in the phone conversation with AT&T customer service representatives. They acknowledge that AT&T has received the phones. But they refused to send me the refund because the phones were given to me free of charge. I have the order confirmation from AT&T which clearly shows the amount of charge for the phones. When I provided the order number to them, they initially claimed that they do not have the authority to view the original order. After I mentioned that someone within AT&T wireless must have the authority to view the order, they claimed that AT&T doesn’t keep record of past transactions. I am shocked to know that AT&T does business in such a way. They asked me to send them a copy of my credit statement. Though this is a ridiculous request since they should be able to find the past transaction record by the order number, I still followed their instruction. This issue has not been resolved yet.

My elderly mother-in-law had an AT&T Cellular phone. She has been ill this year, in and out of the hospital. Her previous live-in friend put the account on automatic direct pay from my mother-in-law's bank account in the spring to insure it was paid while she was in the various hospitals. All went well through the August 2008 payment. When AT&T submitted the e-check for Sept it apparently was returned for insufficient funds but we were never notified until the bill was sent to collections in early Nov. In researching the problem we have documented that the account never went below $8.5K during the period and that AT&T never attempted to access her accounts for payment after August 18th. An AT&T Customer Service Rep also provided the alleged bank account and routing numbers on which the Sept 08 e-check was submitted, and they do not match anything within that Bank's entire system. We have provided all the information and documentation to AT&T in writing on 3 occasions to date, and can not get any response or information from them. They have also refused to provide a copy of the e-check which was reportedly returned. To make matters worse, the outside collection agency has been verbally harrassing her with repeat phone calls, they have contacted the national credit bureau agencies, and she is now unable to write checks to pay for purchases or bills as they are being rejected and returned. And her account is still above $8K. We have now contacted the NH State A.G., Consumer Reports, the Better Business Bureau, our State Senator, and tomorrow a lawyer to pursue the case.