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gonna call those turds tomorrow to make sure the one phone we got from one of their retailers is unlocked. and then bitch (again) about us purposefully paying full retail for it to avoid payments and a contract, and having the agent forge (!) a contract for it anyway after-the-fact (for a dollar) so they could get the commission.
I don't get it. If the contract is only for a dollar, wouldn't the sales person not make any commission? Wouldn't you have a receipt for the full retail purchase? Seems like this wouldn't take anything to get corrected. Even if it couldn't be corrected, anyone internally should be able to look up this $1 Contract order and the full retail order in the account notes. Why wouldn't you go back to the store that did this and address it with them?
And if it's a device payment agreement for $1 split over 2 or 3 years, and you have no one helping you, you could still just pay the dollar and be out of contract immediately. If it's an actual 2 or 3 year contract with an ETF, how'd you even get one of those anymore? Everywhere I shop they only offer full retail or installment plans.
when i worked for an 'authorized agent', our payments from the carrier were based on number of signups or contracts, and not at all on the cost of phones associated with them.