Complaint Review: MCI WorldCom Wireless - Garden City New York

I once was disgusted, pissed, and genuinely upset. I also thought that I was the only one, but as I have seen here and numerous other websites...that is absolutely not the case. At first I felt that I had nowhere to turn, I was isolated and that no one would believe me or care about my far fetched story about a company as discraceful as MCI WorldCon ...I mean WorldCoM wireless. But....now I understand completely as others will too. Are we all just making this stuff up? Do we all have nothing better to do in our busy lives but to sit here and dream up ways to add stress and anxiety into our lives? Trust me, I am not that good of a writer, and I do not have that kind of time. The answer to both questions is obviously NO. The other answer however makes perfect sense now to me. There is no need to fly off the handle once you realize what is going on. This my friends is a giant web of disception, lies, cheating, scams, run-arounds, incompitence, fraud, tire out the customer, tire out the customer, tire out the customer, until they break down and pay for service that they never recieved to protect their credit rating... and we all got caught in it. Sound Familiar. Look at it this way, if they only get half of us to pay, I'm quite sure that is in the millions of dollars. There is an upside to this for us however, you cannot posssibly sustain long term growth by ripping people off constantly. That will eventually run it's course and they will go out of business.

MCI WorldCoN was worth over $100 billion in 1998 and are now currently worth around $8 billion at the time of this letter. These jackasses have managed to lose over $92 billion dollars in 4 years. We are no secret as to why that is. If you do not buy this, continue to check your local paper. Every week or so they are one of the top losers for the week with there stock. I have done my homework on these bastards and I feel confident that these zeros have a shelf life that is about to expire shortly.

Oh yeah...my story....I decided like an a*s to accept a telephone solicitation from them (because I had them as my long distance carrier and thought that they were reputable) for a simple plan of $19.99 a month and 40 free minutes a month for strictly an emergency plan for the car. Let me make a long story short...(if that is possible)

1. They sent me a defective phone.

2. They sent it to me with a long distance area code so as I

turned the phone on, I was receiving long distance and

roaming charges.

3. I never activated the account because of that reason.

(I was told and it stated in my contract which I still

have a copy of that to activate the contract I was to make

my first phone call which "shows aceptance of the

contract)

4. I tried to have the number changed to a local # which

they said would take effect. It never did. I tried 4

times with customer service on hold 30 min. each time.

I was told to wait 48-72hrs each time and the phone would

work. It didn't...ever.

5. I said to them after the 4th and final time that I wanted

to return the phone and that I had enough. They first

told me that I would have to pay a $200.00 deactivation

fee for getting out of a contract on a phone that I had

30 days to look over with "No Obligation", was sent to

me with the wrong long distance area code, and was never

activated. I asked why I would have to pay a deactivation

fee on a phone that was NEVER activated? It was their

incompitence that this piece of junk was never activated and

they wanted to charge me. Finally after arguing with a

supervisor and dealing with at least 10 people, they agreed

to send me the shipping labels that I was to have within

7 days. I got them in 21 days after calling them 2 more

times.

6. I sent the phone back the next day to avoid any delay.

7. I was sent notices saying that I was to receive a total

of three bills but to only pay the last which was the

grand total. Were they kidding? I ordered the phone in

July and this was now December. I had never even had a

phone that worked for one call.

8. I called again and was put on hold again and was told by

the 15th half-witted customer service moron (after holding

for 30 minutes of course) that he was going to zero out

my account balance and the reason it had not gone through

was because I never received a cancel confirmation #.

He gave me the number. Like an a*s, I thought this was

over.

9. Three weeks later I received the first 2 of three bills.

I was not to pay them though because the third bill was on

it's way. I was outraged and called again.

10. I spoke to another of their superior staff and she said

that they had never received the phone. I said what???

I had just spoken to a customer service person 3 weeks prior

and was told my account was zero'd out and given a cancel

confirmation #. She didn't accept that. She said that I

needed to give her the tracking # from the shipped package.

Keep in mind I sent it back in the summer (August) and this

was December 21st. I was ready to black out at this point.

My blood pressure was nearing the blowout point. I asked her

why she didn't have that info since they sent me the

shipping labels with the bar codes on them for tracking

packages and everything. I mean they are a billion dollar

outfit. I mean I am supposed to do their jobs for them?

Didn't they have a shipping department? She said that all

they did was send out labels, they didn't know anything else.

That's funny, I guess they just grow on trees they have out

back and when they ripen, they get their goons to go pick

them off and send them out. Silly me.

11. Time to play games. I figured, hey, everytime I call I get

a different answer anyway so why not call back. So I did.

I did not mention anything about the tracking # this time

to my new "sharp" customer service rep. So...I told her

the whole story all over again for about the 16th time now.

She put me on hold for 5 minutes (I'm sure she had to

finish eating her doughnut) and came back and said...You are

right sir I do see the cancel confirmation # but it was never

put in the system. NO....Your Kidding me??? I really find

that hard to believe with the superior service that I have

received so far up to this point! So she said that she was

giving me another cancel confirmation #. Gee...wasn't I

lucky!

12. I currently have a bill that states that I am now under 2

different plans, (one for $19.99 a month for the original

long distance area code they sent, and the other for $39.99

a month for the local # they tried unsuccessfully to switch

my phone to), for 2 different states, with 2 different area

codes, for 2 different phones. How's that for integrity.

Here is the moral of the story and this is their deal. Tire out the customer and extort their money. Simple as that. THEY WILL NOT LET YOU CANCEL. They know most people will not want to ruin their good credit, so they will eventually pay. DO NOT DO IT. You can contact any one of the credit agencies and put a fraud alert on your credit rating to show any potential creditors that this is being investigated. (The only deal with this is that you have to wait for them to attach something to your credit first). I personally have tape recorded conversations, customer service rep names and ext. #'s (although I here they all use fake names), and dates and times of when I talked to these frauds. This adds a history to your problem and shows some integrity on your part. The real question that I have is how in the hell, with all of us going through this over and over again, are these people legally allowed to stay in business. They are blatent con-artists! Don't get frustrated. Contact your local Attorney General, and please contact the FCC to file a complaint. They have tirty days to respond. The FCC will give them about 4-6 weeks because of mailing delays to contact you back. I am currently waiting to hear from them. I sent them an 8-page letter explaining my story in detail. If they do not contact me back, the FCC will take the next step on my behalf with my claim #. Contact the FCC and get a claim # for yourself so you have a record of trying to straighten out your mess with these bastards and the FCC has record after record of complaints. Keep the Faith...All of you, and Don't give up!

Jeff

Newark, Delaware

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