Anyone else experienced a PAID line being added to their account without your authorization, and then had issues with T-Mobile when trying to remove the added line and get a refund?
Upgraded and bought a new iPhone in a T-Mobile store on 04/22/2022 - I am unfortanely just now noticing after reviewing my yearly reports for tax season approaching, that there was a data line added to my services/bill on the same day, for an apple watch?! The charge was insignificant in cost enough for me to never notice too much of a difference, and the sales representative in the store explained to me the new bill amount and an increase being due to the monthly amount I would be charged for the iPhone payment plan option to pay month for a phone instead of paying in full. I am now trying to have the line removed but the customer service dept. has only tried to tell me I am wrong and that I activated this on my own MONTHS prior to 4/22/22, which is so far from true. I have only ever used my apple watch on wifi/connected to my phone via bluetooth. After reviewing my usuage overview for 2022, each month shows the additional line and every month has 0.00GB of data used. I found this information through my t-mobile account but yet the customer service reps I’ve spoken to (which has been several now) all seem incompentent and unable to find similar information to show that this change was unauthorized. In addition, the representatives only focus seems to be on conversion or a new sale, rather than doing actual customer service. What happens to customer service??? Anyone had similar experiences? What did you have to do to get T-Mobile to cooperate and help? Do I need to file claim with the Better Business Bureau you think? Anyone filed with the BBB before, and if so, did you have any good results from it? I just want a line removed and something credited to my account for the near year I have paid for a service I never signed up for or authorized, and it seems impossible.
Billing issue after porting
Hi folks, I ported my two phone lines out of T-Mobile around April 23 (This was due to one of them having a busted Caller ID where everyone I call, including family, would see the number as having a blocked Caller ID, this was never fixed after repeated calls and attempts over months) After porting, I received what I assumed was a final bill of negative $91.18 around May 11 (T-Mobile says they don’t pro-rate cancellations, but for some reason they did here) because of course T-Mobile bills for the following month, so I already paid for service ahead of time between April 12 and May 11 Then I get a direct debit attempt on my bank account for $178.19, for what, I don’t know, because I just got a bill for negative $91.18, meaning T-Mobile would owe me a check; seems like a mistake to me, so I reject the debit attempt, presumably this was for the billing cycle beginning May 12, and I didn’t have any active service I should be paying for Today, June 21, I get a collections notice and a bill in the mail for $119.01, which is $178.19, minus $91.18, plus a $25 returned payment fee, and a $7 late fee I call T-Mobile to explain all this, I’m told that the $178.19 was because I didn’t cancel my watch lines (!!) I explained that watch lines do not work without a parent phone line, and my watches lost their data plans on April 23 when I ported my numbers out I asked the customer support agent if she saw any usage on the watches at all, she said there was none, not even one kilobyte of data, no calls, nothing I asked what the watch lines cost, I was told they were $10 a month So, I asked how exactly I was being charged $178.19 from May 12 forward when I didn’t have any voice lines, and no usage or functionality on watch lines, and the only answer I received was that I failed to cancel the watch lines when I ported out my voice lines, despite the fact that they appeared as canceled on my watches On my current bill my plans show up as $0, equipment $0, services $0, but that the price of my connected devices increased by $2 a month So, why is T-Mobile insisting that I owe them $119.01? The customer service agent asked me, “what are you willing to pay?” And I said zero because I haven’t yet heard of anything that makes sense from her, and I didn’t use any service with T-Mobile after April 23. Even if they wanted to charge me for two watches, that’s somewhere between $10 and $25 per line, so, $20 to $50? They refused to wipe out the bill, but “cancelled” my service finally so I wouldn’t be billed more.
T-Mobile Hotspot Usage Bug with Tidal Streaming
I have been having issues with Tidal streaming on my Samsung S24 since February ‘24. I have determined that the data that Tidal is using to stream music is being recognized as "hotspot data" by T-Mobile. Each carrier billing cycle the T-Mobile system sends me a message stating I have hit my hotspot data cap. At that time Tidal becomes extremely slow and encounters buffering issues. All of my other applications work perfectly fine, I have unlimited data with my T-Mobile plan (Magenta Max55+), but for some reason, Tidal is using hotspot data or its data usage is being miscategorized as hotspot data. On my phone hotspot data usage reported is 0GB month over month. I never use my hotspot. Something weird is going on here, I am not sure if it is on the Tidal side in how it requests data or on the T-Mobile. I need help in having this issue investigated and escalated to the appropriate parties (Either at Tidal, T-Mobile, or maybe even Samsung). I have attempted to inform T-Mobile but they their phone support seems ill-equipped to handle uncommon technical problems. I am not sure if this will ever be resolved. I suppose in T-mobiles eyes this would be like a “P4” priority. Unless there is some security risk involved I doubt they will care. Here are links showing other customers have experienced similar problems: https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/t-mobile-shows-hotspot-data-usage-when-it-is-disabled-in-my-phone-settings-47603https://community.t-mobile.com/plans-features-and-billing-46/why-is-tidal-data-being-recognize-as-hotspot-data-50869?postid=223600#post223600Dropping a BYOD tablet
I am a fairly new T-Mobile customer, and I let my BYOD iPad take a dip in the tub. 😑 It was 100% paid in full before becoming a customer. Can I just cancel the line, or would I be penalized? I don’t really need to have a tablet line anymore, so it would save me a few extra bucks on my bill. I do plan on keeping all of my phone lines active. I just wanna ditch the water logged iPad without customer service trying to sell me a new one. 🤔 I will call customer service eventually, just wanted some intel from the general public. Thanks 😊cancellation, now debt collection
If there is anyone that actually cares about doing their job on this forum I need some assistance. I canceled my policy months ago. When I canceled, I paid off my last billed and all devices. When I went into the store to cancel, the guy assisting me didn't cancel my digits line as requested. I haven't used the line or the device attached to that line in over a year. I was told by the representative on the phone they would get the bill erased since I had the lines canceled and hadn't used the devices even before I canceled the lines. Now they wanna send the bill to collections.
why am I paying for this
I recently “upgraded” from my OnePlus (veteran) plan to the Go5GPlus plan and my service is still terrible. I additionally lost previous capabilities I had with my original plan. Not only has my bill gone up but service has not improved. How to I revert my plan back? The 5G network is no faster than the throttled 4G I had previously. While on the phone with customer service to upgrade my plan I also wanted to upgrade my phone. The phone was processed 12 July 2023. I have not received the phone or any delivery updates. It was not made clear the amount the phone bill would increase or the capabilities that would be lost (e.i. $4.99 FAMILY Netflix). Lastly, I am being prompted to return my trade-in. I have not received the phone, yet the 30 day timer is counting down. I am disappointed and would like to be contacted immediately on options for terminating the plan or remediating the situation.Not able to cancel t-mobile home internet nor turn in router anywhere.
I just got a ride to local t-mobile store to turn in my t-mobile home internet gateway and cancel my account. they refused to take the gateway and said they do not do this kind of thing. only what they sell in the store. told me to call 611 and have them send me a ups label to send it back to them. So i called 611 they can not cancel my account nor send me a ups label to send my gateway back. But i have to take it to the local retail store to cancel my account and turn it in. what kind of circular logic is this? both are refusing to cancel my service and take the gateway. now i’m stuck with a gateway and no way to terminate my account which i’m sure they’ll keep billing till end of eternity. And my account for home internet, sounds like from the many csr’s i’ve talked to is horribly messed up. no changes can be made to it either by me or them. And the home internet is a separate account from my t-mobile phone account which is making this much worse and confusing to the csr’s. I’ve tried to be very patient with the csr’s and retail store, but enough is enough. someone needs to step up and fix this. i’ve tried several csr’s they sound confused on what to do. no email or chat really hurts. someone needs to figure something out. hate to have to put a block payment to t-mobile on my bank account due to unending billing.