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Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have been a customer of Verizon for over 20 years. Apparently that means nothing to them. Worst customer service ever and their callback issues and hold times are outrageous. Everyone you talk to tells you something different. Can't say enough bad things about them. I'm leaving them. Don't sign on with Verizon. You will regret it.

Date of experience: February 14, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Be extremely careful when discontinuing the contract. They are charging for the entire month even if the service was disconnected on a second day of the month. No prorated bill option available. Good luck keeping the customers with that approach. Stay away from this swindlers

Date of experience: August 29, 2018
Illinois
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Customer service
December 7, 2019

I signed up to verizon online last night from tmobile. This morning I called customer service with a question. After 30 minutes of waiting I decided I will cancel order. I've been calling half the day already, in 2 cases over 1 hour. I'm still on step one. I've called UPS (They answered right away). I will refuse shipments from Verizon. This experience made my outlook of Verizon horrible. Atleast I learned that Tmobile is world better at customer service

Date of experience: December 7, 2019
Illinois
6 reviews
21 helpful votes
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I was a customer for almost twenty years. They may have good signals, but their Customer Service got very bad. They are rude, long wait times, and all they want you to do is go on line for everything. And their Customer contact is just for their convenience. So they have awful hours. I switched a year ago to another carrier, and the Customer Service is excellent. They treat you with respect. It was truly a nice welcome.

Date of experience: August 21, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Bogo scam
March 27, 2019

Verizon offers buy one get one free deals telling customers it will take up to 3 months to credit payments to the account. They never credit account. When contacting customer service they then claim phone does not qualify for promotion. They flat out lie to customers and steal your money.

Date of experience: March 27, 2019
Delaware
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Verizon has you on hold for 2 hours long or so all the time. This is has been their norm for the last year. You have to spend a whole evening just to handle a phone call with them. They take your money asap but can't speak to you asap.

Date of experience: October 14, 2021
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I left the company (Verizon) years ago due to bad customer service, came back and see that nothing changed. Told by several reps that a charge for an old Iphone 4 was waived ($299) only to have it appear on my bill. Everyone got amnesia when asked about the waiver. When asked for a review of recording for quality control to prove promise of a waiver was made, it couldn't be found. They cut my service off, but agreed to waive the cost of the phone if I renew my contract. How nice of them. I am with a new company and happy.

Date of experience: December 20, 2014
Georgia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I spent a week and a half trying to straighten out my account and am still trying to get issue resolved. I have been a Customer for twenty years and have never had bad cell service but that's where it ends. Can someone explain to me why it's takes "3 or 4 billing cycles to get credits due". They don't seem to have trouble adding billable add ONS to your account. I wonder how they would respond to me taking 3 or 4 billing cycles to pay them? Absolutely the worst organization I have ever dealt with. God know how difficult it will be to discontinue service an go to another carrier. Worst of all they ain't don't appear to care.

Date of experience: March 7, 2022
GB
5 reviews
2 helpful votes
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This is ridiculous with Verizon devices are worthless. I mean is ridiculous, I purchased an iPhone full price and I can't use it with any other carrier. I try to unlock by a third party but it will only work for overseas usage. WOW, never verizon again!

Date of experience: September 3, 2017
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worse customer service
December 18, 2021

I have been a long time Verizon user. I requested for a temp international plan to start in July, and end on Aug 12,2021. I didn't notice until in mid December, 2021 that this service wasn't stopped as it supposed to, and they having been charging me for that service of $100 every month (I use automatic payment through my bank). I called Verizon, was put on hold, and the estimated time was said to be 40 min. Well, I was still on hold after 90 min. The online "chat with us" only gave you the same response and is useless. I scheduled a call back and finally got a live person on the line. Guess what? They transferred me twice, and I was put on hold again endlessly. Never experience anything worse than Verizon.

Date of experience: December 18, 2021
Ohio
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Verizon charged me for service I never ordered then sent me to collections. Before collections they told me multiple times the bill was an error and to disregard. Now this fraudulent account is showing up as a derogatory mark on my credit report and Verizon is refusing to talk to me about it. I am forced to either pay for this service I never authorized or take a hit on my credit. I feel bullied and robbed.

Date of experience: January 19, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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VERIZON IS HORRIBLE!
September 8, 2021

I wish I could click negative. This is the absolute worst service. Their customer service is horrible. Their websites and apps are even worse. No Preferences stay saved. They constantly ask for new passwords, over and over again and when you call them you get put on hold for someone who doesn't even help you.

Date of experience: September 8, 2021
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I think that the people that answer the calls, all they want is to kill time. I called them like 6 times (because they never solved the problem), 3 of which they hung up and other 3 they just put you in hold for like 45 minutes, coming back like every 10 min saying "we're just verifying your account, thanks for your patience" and then apologizing they couldn't verify the account and suggesting to wait 3 days before calling back. Completely useless. After this experience I will NEVER want to have to deal with them. If there was a 0 stars option I'd choose that.

Date of experience: October 4, 2023
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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If you need to talk to a real human at Verizon, get connected to their Sales Dept. This takes one minute, compared to the average 45 minutes of waiting on the phone, waiting for a call-back appointment (yes - they ask you to make an appointment!), or even just waiting to chat. Apparently, they care more about selling their brand than taking care of those who've already bought into their brand. If the sales Dept can't help you they will transfer you to their "Care Team".
I've been with Verizon, literally from the beginning when they took over Airtouch. Their service used to be worth paying extra for but, hey, love doesn't always last forever.
I'm leaving and I'm not waving goodbye.
%*#@!

Date of experience: January 19, 2022
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Verizon
September 13, 2023

When you sign up for Verizon, make sure you ask for the estimate of next bill.
Here are the problems I encountered:
- they do not honor what sale team promises you.
- the agents will say that they will call you back; they never do.
- they will find the most expensive solution to solve your problem.
- Sales team do not disclose everything: always ask for next bill estimate,
- Invest as shareholder, but don't be a customer.
- Ask for bill estimate all the the time, otherwise you will be screwed.

Date of experience: September 13, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
7 helpful votes
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-minus 10. Costumer service is promising solutions, credits etc but can not send confirmation or share any notes in writing because "the system does not allow". Of course the solutions and credits never happen and when asked if they can listen to the recorder calls they claim they are not saved. Four customer service employees did the sam thing. They are trained to to this. It's insane, I hope someone will go after them so they get stopped!

Date of experience: December 3, 2021
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Jimmy F. He was the Verizon installer just wanted to say he is such a nice guy great job cleans up after himself he was very organized with his tools & paper work. Excellent jobThanks again WiFi working great

Date of experience: September 11, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've been waiting 5 months for a promotion to kick in on the new Google Pixel 7 Pro I bought on a trade-in. Called my local store and store rep David went all out to get that promotion executed by Verizon. I have always found Verizon helpful.

Date of experience: September 28, 2023
Texas
18 reviews
23 helpful votes
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Yes, they are higher than the rest, but the customer service is 2nd to none. Phone came by the next day. Packaged very well, and they helped me set it up. Quality phones, just wish the prices were better.

Date of experience: March 9, 2017
Minnesota
8 reviews
52 helpful votes
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They have decent service but their plans are way to overpriced and some of their employees aren't well informed. My dad and I have a plan (unlimited talk and text, limited data) and we were told that it would be about $100 total for a month. Our monthly bill is around $160 to $180. That's way too much for only two people, especially considering that we have limited data and we barely use any of it. We would switch but we live in a rural area so it's basically the only service we can get out here and I guess we'll have to deal with it.

Date of experience: January 28, 2015

Overview

Verizon has a rating of 1.2 stars from 1,042 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 71st among Mobile Carriers sites.

service
500
value
473
shipping
288
returns
294
quality
416
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