Please stop telling customers that upgrade fee can be waived through CARE or I'll send them back to your store.
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JellzSep 22, 2011, 7:07 AM
I say that Care and the stores may be able to waive it, but I try to sell them on the value of upgrading online even if they could get the upgrade fee waived.
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who do you work for..?
If it's sprint..activation fee's aren't waived anymore, they also jumped to $36 for upgrades 😳..past few weeks with Sprint, they just took a nose dive with all the new policy changes 🤣
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JellzSep 22, 2011, 10:51 AM
AT&T has a $36 activation fee, and $18 upgrade fee. They say the upgrade fee is to cover the administrative backcosts associated with upgrading, since they don't charge a specific 'administrative fee' on the monthly bill.
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it actually pays for the brownies......the good brownies 👀
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i understand you have to make a sale but please stop telling them we CAN. im okay with we MAY. 😡
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I've worked in wireless retail for the last 4 years and people still do that. Although all reps don't, I do understand your frustration because it happens way too often.
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But thats how i close half my sales.
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At least you are dealing with customer on phone. Anyways we are trying to close the sale. If they are going to go to another carrier and we got them just by saying "We may be able to waive that upgrade fee". So be it. Don't get upset with us. Just waive the upgrade fee 🙂
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dealing with customer over the phone doesnt make ant difference. Sometimes its even harder. I can't let them see what I can see. 😁
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not allowed to do that. we just send them back to the store.
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Fisrt, That fee is Policy. Second,if the POS says, for the sake of a sale waive the fee THEN YOU DO IT Because we will send them back to the POS!!!!! 😈
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Okay okay. I can see no one will win in this argument. Policy and procedure. Yada yada. Some cc reps can and some reps can't. I know I'm right so we will leave it at that.
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If you're a Sprint store rep, no customer care rep has the power or authority to waive an activation fee. It is a standard valid charge. There is no specific section in CC that can remove it.
My advice to you is to deal with it then and there in the store and either ask your manager or call NSS to see if they can assist you with that? That is if NSS has the ability to?
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just do the same thing every care rep with sprint does just send them back saying that the store didn't note the fee to be waived and that it can only be waived at point of purchase
dude they normally get mad and cool down in about 2-3 mins and then take the anger out of the store since its point of purchase lol
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don't promise something that others will do for you.
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This is why i make damn sure to never call anybody in a call center.
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Helps me not miss my old job.
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I dont get why this happens all the time. For us, the only way we would be able to waive is if we called our rep from that cell company, no one ive ever worked with has told the customer to call care.
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I'm sure quite a few cases are of the customer bs-ing to see if they can get it removed.
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a) constantly
b) people in teh store or care can waive or credit for retention purposes
c) the guy who made the original post failed to realize that indirects don't give two flying ****ing ****s about any of you and will say anything it takes to get their quick commission
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its not my job to credit valid charges just to save your sale. now,if its part of your job dscription then dont get mad if i send them back to POS coz i will.
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keshakho said:
its not my job to credit valid charges just to save your sale. now,if its part of your job dscription then dont get mad if i send them back to POS coz i will.
It is your job to retain customers it's listed as one of the reasons for credit or allotment adjusments in all the companies systems.
I don't give a **** if someone from Indonesia or the Philippines sends someone back to a store. The worst is when I have to talk to you and I hear your kids running around the background and you trying to make sense of English.
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has the ability to click disconnect. Real life is more difficult.
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'customer care' includes the word 'care' its your job to care YOU LITERALLY GET PAYED TO CARE LOOOL
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sorry but saving your asses is not my job..
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but messing up your job through a well-noted IRT is our job as well, especially broken promises from store reps.
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being recorded is a much bigger scare. Sure, a customer could be psycho and try to attack me but the probability is scarce. I've been in wireless for about 3 years and haven't been attacked once (unless you count verbally). I have hung up on customers, called them childish, and had shouting matches. But at the end of the day, when my manager asks me about it, I can choose to say I didn't do it and nobody knows.
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it's good if you're not caught (being irate to the customer.)
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hang up on a customer and start looking for a new job
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please stop telling customers that they can replace their brand new number with their old number and keep the new phone.
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Hey store reps for Sprint,
I'm kind of tired of having customers call in and ask why they have TEP or some other add on service on their bill and no idea how it got there, only to find out some rep in a store was shady and decided to boost their sales by adding it behind the customer's back, when all they did was stop in to pay a bill or ask a question. Adding to it, you try to leave the memo off from the access to hide it. In case you didn't know it, the account logs your ELID when you make the change.
Thanks for leaving the mess for customer care to clean up, and do damage control with an angry customer, demanding credit back and an apology because of your greedy ass!
It's called sales fraud, you useless tool and I'm more than hap...
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So to put it bluntly, STOP DOING IT!!
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