I've been a tmo customer for 5 months now; i see everyone saying they have nothing but praise for t-mo, well my first couple months werent good:
got locked curve from a friend, went to t-mo to get service. Phone was previously with sun com, but sales person said it wouldn't be a problem, insert sim car and the phone DOESN'T need to be unlocked (Big Lie), went back to the store, complained cause I spent money based on her statement, had me call customer service to get it unlocked, then was told I had to be a customer for 3 months. So now I had a curve that didn't work, and a cell plan with no phone to use, so they gave me a loaner, but said I would have 2 weeks to hold the phone. So now I have to keep my account good for 3 months to get curve unlocked and turn the loaner phone back in to them in two weeks, so basically they wanted me to pay $60 for 2 months just to keep my account "in good standing." When I noticed that I nearly lost it, I was about to launch a campaign to have the sales lady fired for misleading me to get her comission. Instead i tried unlocking sites and lost money just to find out that they couldn't unlock my phone. So one day before the loaner phone was to be turned in I decided to explain my whole story to a customer service rep. I used the most profane language I could think of because at that point I was tired of t-mo and hadn't been a customer for more than 2 weeks. I was told to give them my email and they would process the unlocking request, when she said that I really lost and told her to put her supervisor on the phone because I had went throught that email process two times before and got the same message, they wouldn't do it until I have 90 days with the company. As soon as dude got on the phone I told him my story and how the company F'ed me in the A as soon as possible and that I was considering a class action law suit. He put me on hold for like 5 minutes, then came back and asked for my email, I told him I knew that wouldn't work he quickly spoke up and said it would, apparently he had some pull when it comes to the verification of unlocking code requests. So I guess all it took we me being a nasty customer, rather than the nice guy I usually am. I see the lady who sold me the plan all the time in my store, whenever she comes in I give her the worst service possible. Everything is cool with t-mo now, I just hated how they did me from the get go, and then didn't offer anything for the inconvience other than the use of a loaner phone.....ohhh and they also told me I could also always just buy another BB at retail price. I payed 100 for a brand new curve from a friend, y would I spend 400-500 on a new phone because t-mo is stupid at times.