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Security Deposit Question and Story
I had a guy come in yesterday to migrate from Cell One and add a line. I migrated his line, but the new line came up with a $500 deposit. I thought for sure he'd tell me to forget it, but he just turned to his dad and offered to go half and half. The guy paid the $500 deposit AND $200 for phones. If you have bad credit, how can you afford a $500 deposit? Shouldn't you be paying off your debts?
Does AT&T have stricter credit check and deposit policies than other carriers?
I used to be a Cell One agent and we hardly ever had a credit check come back with a deposit higher that $125. Since the migration to AT&T, I have had over a dozen potential new customers come back with $750 deposits. Many of them have told me that Verizon was only ask...
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Does AT&T have stricter credit check and deposit policies than other carriers?
I used to be a Cell One agent and we hardly ever had a credit check come back with a deposit higher that $125. Since the migration to AT&T, I have had over a dozen potential new customers come back with $750 deposits. Many of them have told me that Verizon was only ask...
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Different carriers look at different things between the 3 credit bureaus. In my experience, at&t is one of the stricter ones but for good reason. Most people have deposits because they don't pay their bills.
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ATT and verizon can afford to have higher deposits because of their customer base.
Sprint and Smellular One are/were in a little different situation fighting to increase their customer base.
Sprint and Smellular One are/were in a little different situation fighting to increase their customer base.
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Wow that's crazy. I know that verizon's deposits can be wicked high if you had either bad credit or no credit. I've seen Verizon want $1000 before. 😲 Sprint's deposits aren't too bad since the highest that I've ever seen for Sprint is $500 and that was extremely rare. So that's craziness and yea if you need a deposit like that you should definitely pay your bills!!!!
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right now sdprints highest is 250 & that's if you had a writeoff with sprint or nextel
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alltel i think is one of the highest .. on a daily base i have cust. come in and have 1000 deposit ... like 2 or 3 aday / then they flip out on us like it our faught they dont pay thier bills
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