fanciful_muse: (idiots)
Mark my words. DO NOT ORDER WIRELESS PRODUCTS FROM AT&T'S WEBSITE.

First of all, you can't put everything in one cart.

I upgraded the existing phone on our wireless account. That had to be one order.
I added a line to our account, with one of their free phone packages. That had to be another order.
I ordered accessories for the second phone. That had to be a third order.

Now is where the trouble starts.

1. The earbuds I ordered with the upgrade phone - an accessory recommended by their website, mind you - do not work. They have the wrong connector.
2. The upgrade phone I ordered never showed up in their order system. I had to reorder it.
3. The earbuds I ordered for the second phone - same brand as for the first, and recommended as an accessory - also do not work. Wrong connector again. Also, this third order did not show up under my account page.

I got the upgrade phone and accessories, plus the second order of accessories (the order that never showed on my webpage). Both were waiting for me at the post office.

I reordered the phone, which was a special "instant messaging package", and I ordered it with messaging as was required. It came the next day - but was missing the bluetooth headset that was supposed to come with it.

I activated the phone, and, because I had other things to do, wasn't able to call AT&T right away about the missing bluetooth or the mismatched earbuds. I called the next day and spent over an hour on the phone across two operators before I finally got some relief.

At first they weren't going to send the bluetooth; they claimed my order history didn't show me ordering messaging. Something got screwed up between my original order for individual messaging, and my conversion to Family Talk / Family Messaging. I had to get very angry with the gentleman on the other end, pointing out that my account DID have messaging ON it so I DID qualify for the bluetooth. He said he was FedExing it. It took the rest of the time to track down the "mysteriously missing" accessory order in order to set up the return of the two sets of earbuds.

In other words, it was a week of headaches that nobody should have to go through. Your best bet is to work on the site with a live person in your ear on the phone at the same time, because whomever codes the site (and the software behind it) did a supremely lousy job.

And I haven't even gotten to get on their case about paying for an Internet speed that I'm not getting. *sigh*
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This is being posted to all my blogs so the word gets out; maybe a little bad publicity will finally get AT&T moving.

Well, gee, it seems we can't email AT&T anymore - their email is full. I'm not surprised. After all, just how many people can you talk to in a foreign country and be shuffled around from person to person before you're finally fed up at repeating yourself and you email?

Here is what I tried to send:

I have done a lot of business with you over the past 5 years, because you're the only Internet provider in my area that I can afford (the only other is a satellite service that is cost prohibitive). Comcast stopped running cable two mobile home parks up the street and Verizon is not here.

Recently I opened a DSL repair ticket because we'd been experiencing bandwidth fluctuations and dropouts, especially during peak hours. Along with that, I looked up the information on my account, and you know what I found?

WE HAVE NOT BEEN GETTING WHAT WE PAID FOR.

We are paying for 6mbps download and 512kbps upload. The BEST I've ever seen in a speed test is 2.8mbps download and 300kbps upload.

And NOW, with the trouble on our line, we can't even get that IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.

Therefore, as paying customer, I want you to do two things:

1. Issue me a credit for not delivering what I've paid for, and
2. FIX IT AND FIX IT NOW.

I not only have DSL with you, I pay for a phone line so we can maintain the ELITE package. I also have our cell phone plan with you and have just added another line.

FOR ALL THE BUSINESS I GIVE YOU, THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS GIVE ME WHAT I PAY FOR.

From what I understand, the "red box" we are connected to is maxed out on connections and your management is REFUSING TO AUTHORIZE MORE BOXES. Well, if you want to keep me and others like me satisfied, I SUGGEST YOU TELL YOUR MANAGEMENT TO FUND MORE BOXES. I don't see this problem rectifying itself until you do.

At one point during the repairs we were able to get 5mbps/512kbps - and considering all the factors (equipment, line interference, router in the home, etc.) that is a pretty good rate. IF I CAN GET IT ONCE, I CAN GET IT ALL THE TIME.

GET MY LINE FIXED, NOW!
fanciful_muse: (Default)
So - not only is AT&T not listening to its customers, it is now censoring what we can post to the support forums.

According to the following article, AT&T will swiftly remove any post that references Stop The Cap! -

AT&T Censors Discussion of Internet Overcharging on its Website

I guess they don't want their restraint of trade exposed for what it is, eh?

Here we go

Mar. 16th, 2011 08:50 am
fanciful_muse: (Default)
I looked and looked and finally found an organization that is fighting these unneeded usage caps:

Stop The Cap!



They have some pretty good data to back up what they're saying.

What really pisses me off about this entire thing is that we have no choice. I checked AT&T's site to see if we can get Uverse or a business account - nope. Neither one is available in my area.

They are essentially penalizing me when I can't even use their stupid TV service.

Thanks - NOT - AT&T!

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