{"id":495,"date":"2014-11-04T09:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=495"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:41:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:41:29","slug":"lack-of-class-from-the-att-trade-in-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2014\/11\/04\/lack-of-class-from-the-att-trade-in-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of class from the AT&T Trade-in Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having recently upgraded my wife’s iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6 Plus on AT&T, we were able to take advantage of the AT&T Trade-in Program<\/a>. Normally, we go through trade-in services like Gazelle<\/em> or sell through eBay<\/em>, but in this case the trade-in value was higher than Gazelle<\/em>‘s and (presumably) less hassle than eBay<\/em>. In any case, after waiting for several weeks for the trade-in to process – AT&T stated the reason was an excess volume of trade-ins – we finally received our card.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it’s not like a credit or debit card, but is considered a type of promotional card that’s only good at an AT&T store, either physical or online. Nevertheless, it still needed to be activated to work via one of two options: online or phone call. For whatever reason, I chose phone call, and, to my surprise, as soon as the call connected I was greeted with a “you just won a $100 Wal-Mart<\/em> gift card!” (I’m roughly paraphrasing this and other events).<\/p>\n

OK, that’s odd, I thought, but I proceeded to be connected to an operator. This woman – who was almost certainly based outside of the US (not normally an issue, but the call quality was low and her accent a bit thick) – proceeded to go into her pitch about the Wal-Mart<\/em> gift card. She wanted my address and to connect me with her “supervisor” who would take a small fee of $4.95 (if I recall correctly) to mail me the card. I asked if this is going to sign me up for a subscription\u00a0service of some type. She more or less talked around\/tried to avoid that idea\/impression, but clearly that’s what it was.<\/p>\n

In any case, not wanting to participate in nonsense and simply wanting to proceed to actually doing the thing I specifically called for – activate my promotional card – I told her that I’m not interested and would just like to activate my card. From there, I proceeded to get the “hard sell” with the rep wanting to know why I wasn’t interested in the program and her wanting to connect me to her supervisor to get the gift card. I again restated that I’m not interested and just wanted to activate the card. Silence. Click. She hung up on me.<\/p>\n

Long story short, I went online (which I should have done in the first place) and activated the card. No hard sell, no nothing, just doing expressly what I wanted to get done in the first place. After that I called AT&T directly to find out if I could use the card to pay my bill. The answer was “yes,” but I had to do it online. Fair enough. I did it and it worked, but boy was I not happy about the process leading up to that simple resolution. In the future, because of this, I’ll absolutely be going to the Gazelle<\/em> or eBay<\/em> route (in fact I did the former for my own phone<\/a> recently).<\/p>\n

Why a company the size of AT&T has to deal with the type of promotion card company that they’re presently dealing with is beyond me. Are the few extra dollars in presumed commission worth harassing your customers? As you can tell from this post, it almost certainly isn’t.<\/p>\n

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