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rockhillmanor
Explorer II
May 03, 2013

Kudos to ATT gophone Customer Service

I have a go phone as a second emergency phone just for the RV.

I put $25.00 into every 3 months and I have the insurance of a second phone for an emergency on the road. It never has more than the minimum $ amount in it. You have to pay for texts with this phone.

At midnight last night the phone starts beeping I look and 5 texts came in from a number I don't know. I click on one and it starts downloading!! They were gigantic pictures. I hit stop. I text back to the number to STOP sending texts and when I click send 7 MORE texts come in and a minute later 5 more!!

This went on and on as I watched my minutes be deducted. I texted back and said some pretty intense words including the word police. That caught their attention and they finally stopped. Then all night long as the texts coming in got back to ATT I kept getting notified of what each one cost and was deducted from my balance.:(

I called ATT expecting really nothing to happen because it is a pay as you go phone. WELL....ATT looked into it saw the number of them all at once and that the number did not match any of the numbers I have ever called and DEDUCTED them and mine back and gave me a full credit. :C

YEA. Sometimes things do go right and a company stands up to the plate and listens to a customer problem and fixes it.

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  • Water-Bug wrote:
    Did the service rep speak clear English. I've found that American service reps are usually reasonable. When companies subcontract foriegn service reps, the reps work from a written script and have very little leighway in their response or actions. At&t's unions have been bargaining to have the service rep positions returned to the US, but it's taken years for existing contracts with foriegn companies to expire.


    :B
    When I hear the first word out of their mouth and it is not American I ask for an English speaking rep. because I can not understand them.
    They talk and you say 'sorry I don't understand you', and keep repeating it.

    They give you a few written comments from their Q cards why they can't transfer you, but if you keep repeating that you can not understand them.....they will transfer you back to the states. So far it has worked every time for me.

    Kinda like reverse of when a spanish speaking customer nowadays HAS to be provided with a spanish speaking customer service rep. My aclu needs are an English speaking rep! :C
  • Did the service rep speak clear English. I've found that American service reps are usually reasonable. When companies subcontract foriegn service reps, the reps work from a written script and have very little leighway in their response or actions. At&t's unions have been bargaining to have the service rep positions returned to the US, but it's taken years for existing contracts with foriegn companies to expire.

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