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Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 2:29 AM

AT&T stole my trade!!!

According to AT&T, there was a promotion back in Thanksgiving 2023, to trade your iPhone for a new iPhone 15. I traded four of five phones in my family plan and just recently received a promotional card for $200 as market value for my iPhone, instead of the $800 I was offered.

When I called customer service, they gave two versions. The first, that the phone they received was damaged, however, the description didn’t correspond with what I send. 
Then I asked to talk with a “manager” and, this time the version was changed to the tune that “no ticket was ever issued for a trade on this line”, regardless of having the actual ticket number and the tracking indicating that ir was actually received by AT&T.

Now, the only thing to do is reported it stolen by AT&T.

So far, customer service over the phone has been useless, let’s see what else can I do

ACE - Master

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11K Messages

4 months ago

File a BBB complaint to get it escalated to upper management who will contact you in a couple of days.

ACE - Sage

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118.4K Messages

4 months ago

1.   If you mailed your phone in, AT&T never had it and never saw it. It went to Assurant Mobile.  Since you received $200 it sounds like your phone qualified, But something else did not.

2.  Your trade-in had to be mailed within 30 days of activating your new phone.  After 30 days, you get book value.

3.   You had to be on a qualified unlimited data plan with an advertised price of $75 or more for a single line before discounts (autopay & paperless, multiline, etc). For example the current starter plan qualifies and many older unlimited data plans qualified. If your plan did not qualify for the promotion you would receive book value as a one-time credit.

 

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