Non-responsive, non-caring company with cumbersome customer service and complex systems to navigate. Stay away.
I have companies that I have been doing business with for over 25 years because of their service. ATT will be permanently on my DO NOT CALL LIST.
My issues with ATT include but are not limited to:
1. Loss of phone, voice mail, and text message over several months access while traveling overseas. Could not send out pictures so loss effective use of camera once my storage filled up. Impacts included: failure to receive messages offering me an ongoing work contract; having to change travel plans to address the issues; time lost from vacation, increased costs as a result.
2. Over 30 calls and dozens of hours lost in troubleshooting and trying to navigate across ATT siloed systems.
3. Pushing blame elsewhere-Claiming issues related to local cell coverage when issues were consistent across countries in built up locations-issues proved not to be related to local cell providers.
4. Agents who did not know capabilities of other departments for trouble-shooting or customer service
5. Told multiple times issues were resolved when they were not. ATT closed the cases with the issues still unresolved; including times when they did not tell me the cases were closed.
6. Incorrect diagnosis, and troubleshooting multiple times on multiple issues.
7. Different information from different agents on the same issues.
8. Told -there is no number for that when I knew there was.
9. In trying to resolve customer service issues, I was told on at least 4 occasions that a manager would call me back within 24 hours. No call back.
10. ATT senior management cancelled 2 meetings I had scheduled with them.
11. Failure to respond to multiple written letters requesting help that were sent to multiple locations after having verified the correct address several times with different agents.
12. Failure to document troubleshooting steps, or customer service steps even after my requesting they do so. With the result that I had to reexplain and retrouble-shoot the same steps numerous times.
13. More disconnected calls on transfer than I can recall.
14. Failure to delegate authority to employees to help resolve issues rather than forcing customers to push to escalate and then have to chase down responses.
15. Total loss of service to phone and VM on other occasions when I had interviews.
One of their agents told me that ATT should replace my phone given the issues I have had. Nothing resulted from that. ATT did offer to give me $300 off a new IPhone if I purchased one. Clueless! This is no better than deals they are using to entice new customers and an insult in compensation terms for the time, aggravation and inconvenience. There is no way I would direct another time of business to ATT on any product, business or personal, even if I have to pay more to do business elsewhere.
November 4, 2020
Unprompted review