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Verizon Reviews Summary

Verizon has a rating of 1.2 stars from 1,047 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Verizon most frequently mention customer service, new phone and next day. Verizon ranks 143rd among Mobile Carriers sites.

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value
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Missouri
1 review
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I have never dealt with such rude and incompetent people! The store on 291 is horrible! I would not wish this on my worst enemy, if I had enemies!

Date of experience: June 3, 2022
Arizona
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Paying for their mistakes. Like actually
June 2, 2022

Went to do a simple trade in and upgrade, every month they try to charge me $300 for one line. Now I'm paying for their mistakes instead of buying groceries. My original payments are 116$ not 335$… The thing that got me so upset was that Verizon is such a giant company why am I paying for their mistake at minimum wage. Fix your own problem. Stop milking more money out of people who cant afford it.

Date of experience: June 2, 2022
Kansas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SCAM Advertisement
June 2, 2022

I had been having issue with Verizon since I joined 4 months ago, takes 15 mins to load a page, many dropped called and couple days completely no service. I was told 1-2 bar LTE is normal. Today on one of my work site, I can't even get a page to load. I waited more than 15 mins, at the end I was dropped. Spending more than 24 hours on phone with them the last four months plus 4 times at Apple store and 4 times at Verizon Store still can't get anything fix. Verizon tech team and Apple store both ran diagnostic on my phone said I had more than 50% dropped. They both said it's not the phone issue, it's their data issue. More funny they send me a 16" data booster to tell me to carry around on one of my work place. Are you kidding me. That's a luggage, or the size of frying pan. I filed a repot at the BBB and they respond to me because we are in a congested area. They tell me to wait for them to grow. If that's the issue why should I pay premium price to wait for them to grow. Am I support to quit the other job to wait for them to grow? They promise high speed internet but all I got was 1.04 download speed. Sometimes even doesn't load. That's SCAM. When I ask them to release me from the contract. They threaten me with close to $3000 balance on our phones. I traded in 4 iPhone 11, one of it is pro max but they said on the side line when I trade them in they don't value those phone. I'm basically lost all of my phone and stuck with $3000 balance. This is how they keep customer from leaving them scam advertisement.

Date of experience: June 2, 2022
District of Columbia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Cancellation
June 2, 2022

Told them I wanted to cancel the account they said they would take care of it never did and said I owe them money for the time after the account was closed. I told them I would not pay the additional money because I told them to cancel the account they sent it to collections terrible company.

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Crooks!
June 2, 2022

So it comes time to upgrade. I upgrade to the S21 Ultra and IPhone 13 Pro Max( for the wife). I had purchased an Iphone SE for the granddaughter but had approximately $130 left to pay on it. Sales lady tells me she can switch the remaining payments to another line( I have 5) making me able to trade the SE for the Pro Max and get the promotional credit.of $800 towards the Max. Am 6 payments in an still no credit for sending in the SE. So I call CS. They tell me that I cannot get the money off the Pro Max because money was still owed on the SE. What a crock! Then they said they would give me the market value of the SE... a whole $80. I would never have gotten the Pro Max had I not been misled by the sales lady. They tell or promise you one thing and blindside you another way. Oh, 1 last thing... when I asked them to send the SE back, they say that once they receive it, it's theirs! Even if sent back in a trade -in envelope that they send you( as was the case with me!). We mean nothing to them. 15 years down the drain with them.

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE SERVICE
June 1, 2022

I recently transferred my service over and I have so many regrets. First, I purchased a phone from Verizon to be picked up at a store. Instead, it was shipped to an address which was out of date. After calling them repeatedly to either cancel the shipment or change the address they decided to change the address... except they didn't. I had a new phone being shipped to the wrong address after multiple phone calls. Once I was finally able to cancel the shipment, I went in person to purchase the phone. After transferring my line, my phone number is NOT showing up and so I called customer service for help. They kept me on the line for FORTY MINUTES with no competent assistance. After about an hour of waiting for help and receiving unhelpful suggestions, I WAS HUNG UP ON WITH NO RETURN PHONE CALL. THE CUSTOMER SERVICE IS HORRIBLE FOR THE PRICE I PAY.

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The worst service ever... both ( -10)

I when back to T-Mobile Family at Walmart
Best ever 100%
Please Do the right thing

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Tasean Torrence ( Assistant Store Manager), was very professional, knowledgeable & patient. He made the transfer of my new phone painless! I would definitely recommend Tasean to my friends & family :)

Date of experience: May 30, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Their "5g" network is absolute garbage. My phone never has internet service even when it says i have 5g. I absolutely hate this $#*!ing company and would rather let Magic Johson feed me a blood/jizz cocktail than to ever use this company again.

Date of experience: May 30, 2022
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm sorry but Verizon is NOT a good PHONE Service Provider especially BUSINESS ACCOUNT... I'll advise you this would be the Biggest mistake ever. Horrible Customer Service... supervisor tells the customer's anything... my service is stuck and I have a business account this issue is not is VERIZON ISSUE and it haven't been resolved
PLEASE BRING YOUR BUSINESS ELSEWHERE

Date of experience: May 29, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I tried so many times to contact them and they all they give me is the robot reps in chat that doesn't know how to answer to my questions! I am in unlimited data but everytime I go out of the house I do 't have an internet and cannot browse! I tried to contact them several times but they just gave me a robot reps! This is dissapointing to my part and I extremely regret changing to Verizon!

Date of experience: May 28, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worse compony ever
May 28, 2022

They can not fix problem with their system. They lie and just charge you.
I have called several times they didn't fix problem they caused it and just put you on hold never returned call after was disconnected.

Date of experience: May 28, 2022
Kansas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Double billed
May 27, 2022

So I started auto pay, but before autopay would start(according to Verizon) I needed to make an initial payment which I did then exactly one day later the auto pay came out and of course getting a refund isn't as simple as them taking my money

Date of experience: May 27, 2022
Missouri
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Repeatedly over 40 minutes waiting to cancel by phone and CANNOT cancel online where there are 400 pages of info about your acct. But NO CANCEL FUNCTION. Gave up. Did not use. Did not pay. That was 2008. Big business then decided to have insurers add fees based on credit score! My insurance for the quarter went up over 4 times the $53 they wanted for UNCANCELLABLE SERVICE! It's 14 YEARS later and I paid today because it is STILL KILLING my credit score. THEY SHOULD BE SUED FOR THE 2-TIER SERVICE SYSTEM AND ALL THE PEOPLE REVIEWING SHOULD FILE CLASS ACTION SUIT. Good day.

Date of experience: May 26, 2022
New York
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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I've been a loyal customer of Verizon Wireless for at least the last 15 years. My loyalty has now just plunged to 'zero'. Even their customer reps acknowledge that I've been a loyal customer, etc. However, I do not use enough cellular data to justify their increasingly higher billing.

When I went on their website to search for a lower cost plan, I saw a message that said it 'looks like you use a lot of data' and that I need an unlimited plan. I hardly use any data at all. So... Thanks for the gaslighting, Verizon Wireless!

I just wasted 30 minutes in an online chat with a representative who (a) was very slow to respond, (b) tried to upsell me with streaming packages I do not need, and (c) ultimately had nothing useful to tell me. I am stuck in a contract that ends in about a year. I told the representative that, when the contract ends, I will be leaving Verizon and looking for a provider that is more responsive to my needs. I was thanked for "my feedback".

About a year from now, I'll be thanking Verizon Wireless by saying "goodbye".

Date of experience: May 25, 2022
Latvia
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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The worst
May 25, 2022

Undoubtedly the worst customer service experience in my life! It's virtually nonexistent, wasted around 8 hours trying to solve what should have been a simple issue, Now I'm looking for a new service provider. One that has someone answering a phone for support.

Date of experience: May 24, 2022
Alabama
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Verizon is TOO expensive REPRESENTATIVES in store AND online ARE NONCARING NOT TRUSTWORTHY NOT CONCERNED OR EVEN CONSIDERATE of you as a loyal customer ONLY USE VERIZON because ATT is even WORSE for the area i live in

Date of experience: May 21, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Coverage sicks
May 19, 2022

Worst carrier ever! They can suck my hairy beanbag. Everyone should drop this Carrier cricket is even better!

Date of experience: May 19, 2022
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Chat is worthless. 4-5 minutes before they responded to chat! Called to get a new phone - that went well. Tried to call the next day to ask what my discount was on accessories and I had dead air... DEAD AIR... Somebody is training absolutely NOTHING about phone etiquette at Verizon. I finally hung up only to receive a call back from Verizon Support with No One on the other end. They ended the call so now they can show they tried calling me back. I will buy my cell phone cases, chargers and other accessories somewhere else since I cannot even get a simple question answered by calling in.

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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The worst!
May 14, 2022

After having been with Verizon for over 5 years ended the relationship on a very sour note, perhaps the worst ever with any phone company. It all started with bad billing between Verizon Wireless and their Synchrony Verizon Visa service and quickly Melted down into the worst customer service! I just wanted to fix the billing but ended up severing 5 yr relationship with Verizon wireless!

Date of experience: May 13, 2022