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073brown
Enthusiast - Level 2

Two years ago my wife and I left Verizon to go to AT&T because we wanted IPhones and at the time Verizon did not offer them.  The cellular reception with AT&T was awful but we had to wait out our two year contract to come back to Verizon.  Our two year contract was up at the end of October and on October 30th we were at a local Verizon store to reestablish our relationship with Verizon Wireless.  The sales rep ran our application and was unable to process it because of a fraud hold.  First of all, both my wife and I have over 700 credit scores and and we were able to provide any information to verify who we were at the time, so I was extremely shocked that words like "fraud" were even mentioned to us while trying to reestablish out account.  But after spending over 2 hours in the store with two restless babies, we were told that they would have to give us our trade in phones back but that they would call the fraud department the next day.  Both my wife and I were very concerned because we knew that we weren't committing any fraud and if someone had attempted to commit fraud using our information, we wanted to know about it ASAP.  The following day the sales rep was working on this issue the first thing that morning so we were certain that she was trying to help us get the matter resolved.  After speaking with her she stated that someone from the fraud department would be calling my wife to verify some information, which they did and my wife provided all of the requested information to prove who she was.  We were told that there was a mandatory fraud hold on our application with no reason provided; but the fraud department informed us that we would have to call back at 6:00 the next day which would have been November 1st.  To make a long story short, we ended up going to another Verizon store to complete the application and were met with the same unexplained roadblock.  We spent 2 1/2 hours at this store trying to get this issue resolved and once again left the store without new phones because of a hold placed on the account by the fraud department and were once again not given an explanation.  We were assured by the store manager that they would work on getting the matter resolved the very next day.  Since we had already paid for all of the accessories and even ported all of our contacts and emails to the new phones, we were certain that we would be able to get our new phones the next day.  This morning I called the store manager and he told me that he was on hold with the fraud department and had been on hold for over an hour and that they could still not release the phones.  I asked for the number so that we could also call to find out what was going on.  We called the fraud department and were on hold for over an hour.  Finally, a young lady came on the line and assured us that she would release the application and that it would take 2 minutes to an hour but she could not give us any information at all about why were were experiencing this issue.  At this point I am beyond upset because we have NEVER ran into any problems establishing a business relationship and if we had been I'm sure that we would be given a reason why. I would like to know who we can contact to file a formal complaint for possible discrimination and poor service.  I am going to be reaching out to others to see if they've had similar experiences with Verizon because I am certain that there is something going on that needs to be investigated.

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