Welcome to Cell Phone Hell brought to you by Liberty
Wireless. They are a Sprint reseller that provided good service until an
“upgrade” that is still incomplete after more than TWO MONTHS. These
“improvements” have knocked out the following features:
- The ability to check usage and manage your account online
- The
ability to check usage free calling a special number on your cell or a
toll-free number on a landline - The
ability to pay the monthly fee automatically or online (which means only
one method remains: call them and pay with a credit card. Sometimes it’s
impossible to get through: you’re placed on hold and the call is
terminated “for fraud control purposes” when the wait time exceeds ONE
HOUR. Then you have to call again! This is the ONLY way to pay your bill!) - The
ability to receive a text message and email when you get low on minutes - The
ability to buy more minutes at an agreed-to rate (you have to buy more
minutes the higher rate of your monthly block) - The
peace of mind of knowing that if your phone works, you still have minutes.
No longer: their system has lost the ability to put your account into
“suspend mode” if you use up your minutes. Since you can’t track your
usage anymore, you better get a stopwatch!
So call every month, get put on hold, get knocked off a few
times “for fraud control purposes,” call again, and trust them to tell you how
many minutes you used. If you don’t like it, get a stopwatch and time your
calls. But even then, they say only they know how many minutes you’ve used. And
they expect you to pay for the extra minutes at rates only they determine.
Oh – I forgot the best part: they suspended my service three
times in the last month EVEN THOUGH MY ACCOUNT WAS IN GOOD STANDING. All the
operators I’ve spoken to – Chris, Raymond, Tina and Dawn – have been “sorry for
the inconvenience.”
Their customer service online is no better. When you email,
you get an automated response promising a detailed reply in 24-48 hours. Then
nothing.
I have never, EVER received worse service from a provider in
my life!
Does anyone know if Liberty Wireless is going out of
business? It would be just my luck – I used to have a TSR Wireless pager and
SunRocket VoIP phone service. Both companies went out of business.
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Oh Yes - Liberty wireless sucks
If you purchase the 85 minutes per month, which would work great for me, you really only get 80 minutes before they stop your service. But the real kicker is the one minute per day they take off, which comes to 31 minutes per month. So, in reality you only get 49 minutes of talk time with an 85 minute package.
The phone number on their website is not available, it took awhile to find a working number. The first operator I talk too was a real B*itch, and even hung up on me. The second operator I talked too would not give me a supervisor. She flat out refused! She explained to me they have new owners and are going thru troubled times. I could hear LOTS of operators in the background trying to cover up the mess with other unhappy people. It seems to me they are going under...
I used to have my payments for talk time automatically taken from my bank account. Each time they took a payment was a few days earlier in the month than the last. Which does not sound like a biggy, but when you look at the whole picture, they were getting 13 months of payments from me for one year.
I am really not happy about Any of their service. Any message I would get would take weeks before my phone would show that I have one. My talking range is Very limited with the poor signal strength, even with cell towers nearby. Once you get your new phone, you better hope it holds out over time, because if you ever need a new one, be prepared to pay Full Price. Even if you used their service for 3 years, you will not get a bargain on a new phone.
I hope they go out of business, and it seems they would be very lucky to not have a class action suit brought against them. It seems how they charged me for service is nothing short of criminal!
Liberty Wireless -- Ridiculous
Over the past two years, Liberty Wireless has charged me twice on several occasions, has customer service reps who know nothing about what they are doing, and basically have a system that is impossible to deal with. During there upgrades there have been months when you couldn't contact them -- not to mention the automated system for adding on minutes disconnecting you endlessly.
If you need to reach them -- this is a working number.
888-919-7692
As for me, I'm going for a new Verizon prepaid account today!
DON'T USE LIBERTY WIRELESS - IT'S NOT WORTH THE HASSLE
LIBERTY WIRELESS HAS ABSOLUTELY SUCKED FOR AT LEAST THE PAST 18 MONTHS. DON'T USE THEM!!!! THEY HAVE HAD 2 SYSTEM 'UPGRADES' IN THE PAST 18 MONTHS AND CONTINUE TO RENDER THEIR SUBSCRIBERS HELPLESS. CUSTOMER SERVICE NOW SPEAKS ENGLISH, BUT STILL DISCONNECTS CUSTOMER SERVICE AND REFUSES TO RESOLVE THEIR INTERNAL ISSUES AND INSTED RENDERS THEIR CUSTOMERS WITH USELESS CELL PHONE SERVICE. THEY NO LONGER ALERT A PERSON BEFORE THEY DISCONTINUE SERVICE, WEBSITE DOES NOT WORK TO VERIFY MINUTES, THEY WILL NO LONGER PROVIDE DETAILED USAGE MINUTES (SO THEY BASICALLY TELL YOU THAT THE MINUTES, WHETHER THEY ARE OR NOT, ARE USED AND CUT OFF THE PHONE WITHOUT LETTING THE PERSON KNOW), AUTOMATIC PAYMENTS DON'T WORK - THEY DON'T AUTOMATICALLY KEEP YOUR SERVICE RUNNING AFTER HAVING YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION ON FILE. WHAT A SCAM!!! INFERIOR SERVICE, INFERIOR COMPANY. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE!! DON'T BUY THEIR LAME EXCUSES, THEY AREN'T DOING ANYTHING ABOUT FIXING EVERYTHING THAT IS VERY BROKEN WITH THEIR SERVICE.
Liberty Wireless suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am really disgusted with Liberty wireless....make me sick!!! My husband and me we were on the same plan...paid at the same time ..and should last the same time , unless we used our min.Last Thursday my husband had a open hart surgery and next day when i needed my phone i did not had one....L W disconnect me.My husband phone worked!!! I call them asking why ? they told me that my plan do not exist anymore...they accuse me that i used my minutes ...was not true ...i never use more than 200 min ...my plan have 1000.they did not want to give me their supervisor telephone #, that they are not allowed to give any #.So...bacicaly ...it does not matter what i am going thru....they do not care.Now i am home with my husband...when i am leaving home i am worried ...but i can't call.With them you are on your own.
They suck !!!
They won't answer Questions....it is time to move on !!!!!!! I do not need this stress!!!!!!
Liberty Wireless Offers Terrible Customer Service
I wish I would have found the above website prior to spending my money with Liberty Wireless. Sure, you can conveniently order minutes online. You will never receive them until numerous phone calls, hours on hold, several emails providing proof that you paid and then, even then, you may not have your minutes. I told them to keep the minutes and refund my money. Do I have that money? No. Still waiting and getting ready to call for the 12th time in the last 4 days. What a terrible customer oriented company. If you ask the representative what happened or why it happened, they will not even answer you. They just sit there in silence. Wow! What an experience!!!!
Check out MetroPCS
You should see if MetroPCS is in your area. I have been using MetroPCS without a hitch for about 6 months. I love the service,support and the price. I get Unlimited minutes, Unlimited Internet Access, Unlimited Text Messaging, Unlimited Picture Mail, Unlimited 411 (Yes, Unlimited 411) for a total of $51.13 this includes all taxes. If you are in there coverage area, I would check them out at http://www.metropcs.com
low expectations prove satisfactory
I have had Liberty wireless for about five years now with hardly a problem. I must be the exception here by reading all the complaints, but hey keep in mind this is a service that offers no credit check, no deposits, really no hassles whatsoever to sign up and get service and in this day and age when companies want all your details and private info and what color underwear you are wearing, blah blah, to get a phone it's nice to be able to say I just want simple cell service and leave me alone. Liberty provides that. Don't expect them to have all the bells and whistles that most contractual companies have. That's the comprimise you make for not wanting all the hassles of credit checks and contract, etc. Perhaps it is because I have had very low expectations for my cell service I have been very happy with them. The only things that were important to me was that I wanted to be able to call whenever I want from wherever I want pay for my bill in advanced and be done with it. They have reliably provided that to me the whole time. They have free from anywhere to anywhere calling. I was delighted that I could be anywhere in the country and my terms all still applied and the phone tracks where I am at and has always made the appropriate adjustments as far as timezone and minute calculation automatically. Now maybe my good fortune with this company is because I signed up long ago and am in some locked position that maintains good service, I am not sure.
What is true about the other complaints are yes the only way to pay your bill each month is to call and give them you credit card info each time. The remaining minute calculation isn't to the minute exact, but again it lets me know my general remaining minutes and hey common sense of calculating my time on my calls and being concious of my monthy average keeps me on track. If I under calculate and go over or run out close to the end of my cycle I go each month only a few hours or at worst a few days without service while my minutes change cycles. All my contacts are used to this glitch so it's not a big deal to me. That's why I have a land line.
Also yeah much of their upgrades are not really available. You can change your minute plan no problem, but I have wanted from time to time to get a new phone and they don't really have any availble right now. Kind of a bummer, but I don't mind using an old phone I'm not all about the latest technology right now. But if you do want the mulit-technological options at all times then yeah you'll be disappointed.
Customer service is difficult to communicate to alittle, but again if you keep it simple then it's pretty easy. Pay bill? yeah Pay bill, ok thank you. That's about it.
So I defend Liberty to say that hey they provide what they offer, which is simple reliable phone service, they don't promise a bunch of bells and whistles so don't expect them. Pay your bill each month & you'll have a phone. People are in such high demand for EVERYTHING to be overly abundantly convienent with tons of options and all done for you with absolutely no little glitches here or there and hey life is not always like that so I don't expect any technological service to be either. So again, if you want to be a bit more under the radar and not have to shell out all your info and you family history just to use a cell phone then chill out, relax, go with the flow, don't expect too much from Liberty Wireless and you'll be satisfied with your basic cell phone service for years like I have been.
Liberty Wireless
It is all true. After you jump through enough hoops your telephone service will be adequate. However, Liberty Wireless will not send the rebate for the telephone that you buy. What you pay for it up front is what you will pay. The price of 200 minutes has gone up twice in less than a year, with no notification or explanation. Their service of recharging minutes online does not exist. Their "business office" is actually a call center in India, and is only available during US business hours, making it inconvenient to call to recharge the monthly minutes. The call center personnel are friendly and considerate enough, but are totally uninformed as to of any part of the company other than recharging your cellphone minutes. I recommend highly NOT doing any sort of business with Liberty Wireless.
Liberty Wireless is terrible
Crazy service this one. Got my cell phone stolen and took 2 weeks to get a new one.. Then when I did get it yesterday, the customer service werent able to unlock the phone and explained it can take4 to 5 days to get a new unlock code !)
Definately not worth the hassle as previously explained.
Al
Liberty Wireless is more trouble than it's worth!
Liberty Wireless is a HORRIBLE service! I've lost time, money and family members because of their inability to service their customers over the past 7 months of their (so called) 'system upgrade'. Liberty Wireless filed for Bankruptcy in November 2007.
The phone is used for emergencies only and while caring for 2 dying family members, service was cut off, preventing me from helping people I love who were in need. I have never missed a payment and have been very patient. After 2 years of trying to get the $100 rebate and 7 months of having them suddently stop phone service (paid automatically every month), having credit cards put on hold because the system upgrades made the automatic credit card payment in their database incorrect , I am done trying to reason with them.
Have spent over 400 hours of my time in the past 7 months trying to get service restored after they began their 'system upgrade'. Any company with over 7 months of a 'system upgrade' which results in terrible service should consider finding someone else to handle the upgrade. As of November 7, 2007, they still can't communicate with their customers and are inconviencing customers, costing them far more than time, money and aggravation. They are cutting off service to good paying customers without communicating with them and without reason. You currently can't manage your account online, they send no emails or txt to the phone if there is a problem, and are unreachable when you call to try to resolve the issues with them.
When you call Customer Service, the first message is 'where customer's come first'. The longest you can be on the telephone with them is 1 hour and then you're disconnected to prevent 'fraudulent calls'. They make you call back over and over again - they think you'll give up. They use their customer service team to prevent against customers talking to a supervisor - who won't do anything for you in the end. They will tell you that a supervisor isn't available - that isn't true. Be persistent and you'll eventually reach someone. They spend their time with fake apologies but don't care. They may let you hold for 2-3 minutes to hold for a supervisor (if you're persistent) until the hour is up and you're disconnected. Keep calling back or have mass number of people call at once until you get a supervisor.
Johnathan Ferguson is the supervisor. Mr. Robert Goodman is the Vice President of Customer Service. Check the Better Business Bureau reports for the many complaints already filed. Inphonics was associated with them at one time, and although they share the same space and resources, claim that they are not in association. Call any of these numbers - they'll tell you that they aren't associated - which means they don't care how they are affecting their customers. They are associated and are doing shady business.
(800) 444-9543
(800) 474-9745
(800) 973-0691
(866) 274-8573
(866) 607-9877
(866) 615-0682
(866) 635-7400
(866) 755-4237
(866) 816-5873
(866) 841-9124
(866) 841-9125
(877) 277-9233
(888) 378-6509
(888) 378-6567
(888) 466-5651
(888) 919-7692
(888) 947-3359
(202) 333-0001
(301) 361-1011
(703) 636-4600
Where there is smoke there is
Where there is smoke there is fire so this must be surely the worst service provider existing. I was going to choose them for a cell phone but Thanks for not letting me fall in the trap.
My question is "why set up a product for sale if they don't want to keep a healthy customer base?"
Does Liberty Wireless know that all their reviews are absolutely negative?
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