I went to a local verizon store months ago to find out information about phone plans. I was leaning toward pre-paid (which I did decide on and am happy with). I came into the store explicitly for information only. I found that I was not interested in the plans they were talking about. The salesman proceeded to try to convince me that a contract plan was better. He got me to give my address, and ran my credit. He said he was "checking to see if I qualified". I already said I wasn't interested! I left the store before he was done running this check. To my surprise, the next time I looked at my credit report, I saw a hard credit inquiry from Verizon!
I understand it is these people's jobs to sell, but I felt deceived. He did not inform me that he would be running a hard credit check. I plainly expressed my disinterest in making any purchases that day. I feel it was unfair for him to have run this inquiry.
Is there any way I can get this removed?
I tried calling Verizon. I did get in contact with someone, but somehow after I was put on hold, it went back to the main menu.
