When correspondence attacks (customer experience)
Thank you for contacting T-Mobile. My name is Rod and it is my pleasure to help you today.I realize that you are probably very busy and underpaid, so if you would like to cut to the meat of this message, just skip to where it says ===> HELLO <=== (but I think it could be very valuable for your customer service procedures if you were to forward this entire message to a manager)I see you are requesting information on a T-mobile to go account. I also see you had an issue with verifying your account which in the past has been clearly verified and I apologize for that. However what is not entirely clear is the exact issue we are dealing with in terms of T-mobile to go. I want you to be aware if you decide to change your account to T-mobile to go, it carries a $200 cancellation fee with it.
If you have any further questions regarding this issue or other T-Mobile services and features, please respond to this email referencing case # and we will be pleased to assist you further. You may also call our Customer Care line at 1-800-937-8997 or 611 then SEND from your handset and a representative will be happy to help you with any questions or concerns.
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to assist you. We appreciate your business and value you as a loyal T-Mobile customer.
I didn't have any problems with verifying my account. Let me re-explain the whole thing so that the next CSR who handles this doesn't have to go back through the whole conversation:
Yes, I was interested in converting to T-Mobile To Go when my contract was up (because the number of minutes I use in any given month makes T-Mobile To Go much more economical for me), but I didn't know if it was possible to convert a post-paid account to pre-paid as the T-Mobile.com FAQ only mentioned going the other way. Janet R (rep 1165807) said it was possible and mentioned the cancellation fee.
Then, knowing that it was possible to convert an account, I wanted to know if the included T-Zones service had full access or if it was limited to the carrier page. Jerry B (rep 72-60410) said that To Go's T-Zones was limited to the carrier page, but mentioned Take Control, which I hadn't heard of before, and asked for more information about why I was thinking of changing to To Go. Looking into it on the T-Mobile website I found information on some of the plans and they seem to be the best fit for my usage patterns, but I couldn't find any information on actually getting a Take Control account so I replied to Jerry's email about the reason I was asking about switching.
To that I got the completely useless response from Deborah J (#7217774) asking me for more information without specifying what she needed more information about, so I politely replied asking for someone to just review the entire trail of correspondence so I wouldn't have to go through a long-winded recap of the conversation like what I am doing right now in response to Rod R. (rep #7212519) who seems to have continued to miss what the entire thread was about. I don't know which rep is going to service this email, but I do hope that I haven't bored you out of your mind with the entire story of how I came to ask this question:
===> HELLO <===
Are T-Mobile Take Control accounts available in my area (Seattle, WA), and do they have the unlimited T-Zones service (the same as what's on my current plan) available as an option?
Thank you.
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Oh well. The Take Control plan is definitely the best deal of all of the rate plans ($30/month for 300 minutes and then 10 cents for each additional minute), but it's not available here, so, oh well.
That's an unusual assortment of service areas.
I wonder if they plan to expand that at all.
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