I'm one of the frustrated customers who is going through the Trade-in issue by verizon. I'm a new customer to Verizon that switched 2 lines from another carrier in July. It was an order that was placed through their sales team over phone. At the time of signing up for Verizon, I was told I can trade-in my 2 Galaxy S8s and get 2 Galaxy S21s for free for a trade-in value of $800.00 for each of my old phones(They said they would even accept if the screen is cracked) as I'm switching. Verizon had a $800 value promotion at that time for trade-ins and my old devices were in a perfect working condition and no damages. I was told great things about the ways I can save money with this offer and they also helped me understand an estimated monthly bill. It all sounded great until I found that they didn't put in the request for the trade-in kit. I had to follow up to get the trade-in kit shipped to me. They told me to ignore the $ value shown in the trade-in kit confirmation email and the actual trade in will be $800 that was mentioned in the promotion. While I was on the phone still, I told them I got the email but it didn't have any information. They said it was a glitch and asked me to ignore. I received the trade in kit and I sent them the old devices. They were received but flagged incorrectly on their end as Galaxy S8s but from different carriers than the original carrier. After follow up verizon gave me a trade in credit of $23.00 for each device. I followed up with verizon again and it was several calls to their customer service. Every time I spoke to someone, I had to explain the whole thing, they told me it will be escalated and asked me to allow up to 7 business days for a resolution. All the customer support people I spoke to said it was a mistake that they didn't apply the correct trade in value and tried to cool me off every time and said that Verizon would keep the promise. Several hours spent on the call so far and the issue wasn't resolved yet. I'm asked to write to corporate correspondence by a gentleman who I spoke today. This sounds to me like STOP calling us and we can't give your money or devices back.
Verizon can you send my old devices back? They were in good condition and definitely worth more than $23.00. Worth the starter phones for kids!! Looking at the internet, I'm not alone and there are lot of customers affected by this issue. Your systems are broken and once it's past 30 days we are locked for the contract period and you get mint money with your fake promotions. STOP this fake promotion Verizon 😡
PK
