DEAD - Hot Sprint Cellphone plan - Employee Friends and Family deal (SERO)

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Entropism

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By the way, a large portion of people were havign a lot of problems with customer service, though i think i had it worse than a LOT of them:

60 hours over 3 months with customer service, promises from CSRs blatantly broken, etc etc. I returned a defective Q for another within the 30 days and got charged $30 in upgrade fees and S&H...

Yesterday I mentioned cancelling for an iPhone and they gave me the new Mogul for free. We'll see how it goes... (and I've been a sprint customer for YEARS now)
 

Dulanic

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I signed up for 3 plans and one has shipped. It was a mogul and the online checkout states $307 total after tax. Today my CC shows $419.99 so I called them and they saw in their system the charge was $307. The rep asked me for my CC # and saw the $420 and so she asks me "So you got charged $307 and $420?" and I tell her no, only $420. So she goes and tells me "I have refunded you the $420, so now you should only see the $307 within 3 days."....... ok np sounds good! Well see LOL would be nice.
 

KarmaPolice

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Is this all true. 30 bucks seems a bit too good to be true...Looking at the service map sprint doesn't seem to bad in my area...are they over stating their network on their webpage?
 

KarmaPolice

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Would it be possible to use this deal AND get my discount from the company I work? I think I get like 15% off and some deals on phones. If I combined the two I think I would get like a free smartphone and a crazy low bill lol. This is almost like stealing.
 

foolish501

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Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
Would it be possible to use this deal AND get my discount from the company I work? I think I get like 15% off and some deals on phones. If I combined the two I think I would get like a free smartphone and a crazy low bill lol. This is almost like stealing.

if you sign up for sero they will say you cannotuse the corporate discount, but i emailed customer service after i ordered my phones, and asked about it, they asked for my manager's name and number, and then applied a 26% discount onto my account for all the lines i got
 

kohlersc

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I am definitely interested. If an employee would be so kind as to pm me their email address I would appreciate it. Thank you.
 

KarmaPolice

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Same here. I would rather do it on the phone and while the generic email works online I don't think it would fly with them if I call in with that. Pew Pew me an email and I'll be forever grateful.
 

Meritt

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Yeah, any employee address will work just fine. Employees do *not* receive anything for SERO referrals nor does it even tie back to the referring employee. It's only to get past the sprint.com/sero login and that is it. It's not a "Do you really know this person?" -- It doesn't matter at all.

We were given business cards with sprint.com/sero and our email address and encouraged to hand them out to whomever. Trust me, there is no validation that you do/dont know the "referring" employee.
 

KarmaPolice

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Originally posted by: Meritt
Yeah, any employee address will work just fine. Employees do *not* receive anything for SERO referrals nor does it even tie back to the referring employee. It's only to get past the sprint.com/sero login and that is it. It's not a "Do you really know this person?" -- It doesn't matter at all.

We were given business cards with sprint.com/sero and our email address and encouraged to hand them out to whomever. Trust me, there is no validation that you do/dont know the "referring" employee.

Why do they do that? I mean at 30 bucks for minutes and FREE data they have to be losing money on the deal. Adding to it that you can get the mogul for like 239 bucks I don't see how they can making out on this.
 

AMD K9

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Got my bill today and the bastiges didn't give me the 10% discount they promised!!! They also charged me a tier rate for going 1 minute over 500 minutes... a $5.00 fee!!! And I was told each minute over the plan was .40 / min NOT a flat $5.00!!! If this can't get any worse they inform me my plan's night and weekend minutes start at 9pm and when I signed up I was told it was 7pm-7am. WTF???? I call CS and they assure me they never offered 7pm for the sero plan that I have and I told them it was on the website when I signed up as well as what the saleswoman at the employee referral # when I placed my order for my phone/sero plan. Can it get any worse than this bait and switch?
 

AMD K9

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Just a quick question, does everyone with the Sero plan have it show up on their statement as Fair and Flexible Plan? I am wondering if that is where the confusion occurs and customer service thinks it is a plain jane fair & flexible and NOT Sero? Could explain why the moron was insisting they never offered 7pm nights& weekends for my plan as they are still treating my plan as the previous fair and flexible plan I had which did have 9pm n&w mins. Idiots!!!
 

AMD K9

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And to add to the drama, the next customer service agent I spoke to via the 1 866 250 2221 # did finally straighten out the 9pm nights and weekend minutes to 7pm minutes (still couldn't tell me why they switched it) but opened up a whole other can of worms.

I explained I never received the 10% discount on my June bill (but I did see it on my July bill, so I wanted to make sure they would make the adjustment this time (I called on July 6th and they assured me they made the adjustment and it would show up on my July bill from the previous month), he said since I already got such a great deal with the Sero plan I am not eligible for further discounts so he was REMOVING the 10% discount from my plan!!! I was livid, demanded to speak to his supervisor and he placed me on hold for 15 minutes. He comes back and says HE spoke to the supervisor and he was able to give me back my 10% discount ( the 10% discount was never an issue, it was the previous month I DIDNT receive it) and I said I wanted to speak to the supervisor still and he said hold on it may take a few minutes, and I said I thought I was waiting 15 minutes already to speak to the supervisor. I then asked how long is it going to be before I can speak to him, and he said hold on I will ask him, and promptly hung up on me!

I called back and this time I got a nice woman that dealt with the clustermuch of my bill and she didn;t know why they made changes either and the first customer service woman basically downgraded my 10% discount to a 5% discount (and she should have never touched that discount, she was supposed to credit my account $10 for overages that were due to the 9pm night and weekend minutes that they screwed up on.

I am convinced it is better to leave well enough alone with Sprint customer service. If you don't have a problem with your account, they will see to it, that they will screw it up somehow. Hopefully everything is now taken care of. We will see.
 

chaonatic

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Well, I signed up for this on Saturday, July 21st, and it's now Tuesday the 24th and my online account still hasn't been setup. Ever since Sunday the order status has been: "The order has been shipped and it is awaiting activation." but there still isn't any tracking number to go along with it. So I call their support number at 1-800-639-6114 and, after waiting on hold for over a half an hour, I finally get to talk to a CSR, only to be hung up on as soon as I relayed my order information. Now I'm trying the number Jeepfreak referred to in his post, 1-866-250-2221, and so far it's been an hour and the rep actually got an InPhonic rep to 3-way conference with us because neither can seem to locate my account information... This isn't looking good at all, the phone's been in authorization on my CC since Saturday and it's saying that it's been shipped, but I evidently don't have an account.

I'm not gonna lie, definitely starting to sweat now.
 

Dynamyck

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Request for referrals by link or via PM are not allowed. Read the rules.

esquared
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ShOcKwAvE827

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You're not allowed to post that, it'll probably get deleted.

Deleted nested quote.

esquared
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dreamer3kx

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Just ordered the plan online and totally forgot to input the promo code so I called up one of the employee numbers provided in this thread,gave her the promo codes but she told me that none of the codes were going through.Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks ahead of time. Also, is the rebate good for the Moto Q? Thats the phone that I ordered and its currently priced at $100 online.
 

KarmaPolice

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So i tried to order this today. I am a college student and will be moving again in the near future but not home. Since I move a lot I keep my billing address at my parents house as it will always stay constant and I pay my bills online anyway. Well apparently where I live SERO is available, but where my parents live it is not. Is there anyway around this or do I have to change my billing address for a week and then change it back?
 

RideFree

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Folks,
Just a clue from what I've learned over the last year and ½ that I've had the SERO plan in action...

Do not use verbal anything to impliment, change or verify anything.

Log onto your Sprint.com account and use their Java E-mail program to ask any question(HOWEVER SIMPLE), make any changes ? i.e.add or delete any thing to your existing acount.

Yes, it takes a day extra to do it that way but you have a trace and do not rely on the notes taken by people who do not/or are not capable of communicating in English.

Trust me, you'll be glad you did this some day, hopefully later than sooner. This is the second time I have posted this and everybody needs to be mindfull of it.

It is the only way I could establish control over my account(s).
 

GtPrOjEcTX

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Word of warning for people signing up on the net, look at your bill online before you start using your phone to see what plan you are on. I signed up my wife, my sister-in-law, and both of her parents and they were all on a "Seasonal Plan" at $5.95 charge, $0.75 a minute plan.
 

AnandTech Moderator

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This thread has become a quagmire of people requesting referrals, begging for referrals, threadcrapping and bragging about the deal they got when Sprint messed up. That is not what this thread is about. It exists to help each other find the best deal and how to avoid problems when dealing with Sprint's customer servce. If this kind of posting continues, I will lock this thread.

esquared
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Dulanic

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OK I will put info outside the above mentioned....

#1 When you call to activate your phone have them verify the plan.
#2 Don't deal with websales dept, they suck in general and will not correctly fix your issues.
#3 You can usually get corporate discounts on this plan, do not just flat out ask for it. When I called I simply said "I just signed up with sprint and I was told at work we have a corporate discount available".....worked for me.
#4 They typically can not look up new accounts on their old systems and tend to transfer you around, this can be good as the people with access to the new systems tend to know more.
#5 They also tend to need your account # so keep it ready as they usually can't seem to find it by a phone # (atleast a ported one).
 

bwillis

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Originally posted by: AnandTech Moderator
This thread has become a quagmire of people requesting referrals, begging for referrals, threadcrapping and bragging about the deal they got when Sprint messed up. That is not what this thread is about. It exists to help each other find the best deal and how to avoid problems when dealing with Sprint's customer servce. If this kind of posting continues, I will lock this thread.

esquared
Anandtech Senior Moderator

I agree - why not set up a separate thread just for SERO referrals?

It would be useful for those people signing up to have somewhere to go to get a referral number - those people interested in offering their number as a referral number could post their willingness to do this, and the new subscriber could pick a number to use.

There would need to be some way to mix it up so that the person at the top of the list doesn't get all the referrals

Anyone else have an opinion on this?
 
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