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North Carolina
3 reviews
15 helpful votes
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Enough Said
March 9, 2018

Cricket after tearing up a phone on my account, then refusing us upgrades we could afford, thanks to their bait and switch scheme. Display phones under $100 then refuse to sell them, "we only sell phones priced $100 and up" several reps told us that. One moron said "pay $100 for a phone and it will last you 100 years" I told him he was an idiot. Let's see hmm $375 plus taxes and fees to stay with Cricket or $90 for service plus taxes and fees plus 3 free $150 phones. Total cost $150. Yes, we switched to Metro PCS and you should too!

Date of experience: March 9, 2018
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My service has been intermittent and losing calls for a week and they have been telling me it would be working by "tomorrow". I even missed a doctor calling me. I called many times and sent email to their "customer success" as they say to go with no response.

I want my iPhone unlocked and they refuse to do so, even though I did get any special deal and was a customer when I bought the phone.
This is beyond bad customer care.

Date of experience: September 24, 2020
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I switched to cricket wireless because they told me it came with a 1 year Sam's club membership and the 60 dollar a month plan for 10 dollars a month through the EBB program. After they said I was approved I walked out of the store satisfied only to receive a 60 dollar bill a month later. When I called they said there was nothing they could do about it and still no sams club. Scam

Date of experience: December 16, 2021
District of Columbia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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The service itself is good, I haven't had a single issue with outages or signal/service. I can't give it 5 stars because of lack of Customer Service. It's way more reliable than Tmobile in my state of MN.

Date of experience: July 11, 2018
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Charged twice and can't get help
August 11, 2023

I have had a lot of good experiences here, but today took the cake. I called in to have a feature added on the day my auto pay went through thinking that I was starting a new month. The guy took my credit card number, told me my balance, and charged me. I was told I was paid up. This morning my service was shut off! I had to pay for the feature again and a $15 reactivation fee! 2 hours on the phone with no avail to get my extra money back! Really frustrated! Haven't used it but I've paid for it 2x.

Date of experience: August 10, 2023
California
0 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Amazing service
June 24, 2022

They have amazing service and finds the ok home just for you if you need help the shaw and marks cricket had you covered

Date of experience: June 22, 2022
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scammers
December 14, 2023

I signed up for the ACP BENEFIT BUT EVERY MONTH I STILL GET A 63$ BILL and end up paying $40 for one phone line no unlimited data. I'd advise everyone to check with boost mobile or metro pcs befor choosing these scammers.

Date of experience: December 14, 2023
Illinois
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Circles, that's what you go through with this company. It's all mediocre until you need to speak to someone. Then call the company cause we don't... Then go to one of their stores, on we don't service Walmart plans circus. I ran out of data a few days early so bought a higher price plan for unlimited data which was slowed down and never brought back up 3 days now still faceless. If you value your money spend it anywhere else with anyone else but cricket I want to smash this piece of crap with a hammer. It's what they deserve for 5 years of being a customer. Mark Rosener

Date of experience: April 18, 2019
Alabama
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Pitiful
June 13, 2020

I've been with them since 2015/16 and they cut my phone off because of 3.00! This is Not the first time they've done stupid $#*!! Customer service sucks! I will be looking for a new phone service in the future! Don't recommend them at All! Dissatisfied customer!

Date of experience: June 13, 2020
Louisiana
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Anybody there?
October 18, 2022

Called so many times to alert customer service of the incredibly horrible reception I've been having w my iPhone. Moving over to TMobile who has a much better network and customer service. Can't get a rep on the phone either. But rest assured they run my cc every month for their pitiful service. Can't and won't do this anymore. They do NOT deserve my business or yours. Just saying. Make the move to another, more reputable carrier. You'll be glad you did and you'll ask yourself why it took you so long to do so. I know I did!

Date of experience: October 18, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Pandemic profiteers!
April 14, 2020

I upgraded my phone and Cricket sent me one that didn't work. As there is no open store during the pandemic, you have to take care of everything over the phone. After wasting a combined 4 hours waiting, and ultimately talking to 6 people, all of whom sent me to dead ends, I realized they were making it impossible to send my phone back. I disputed the charge through my credit card company, and Cricket turned off all four phones on my account, indicating I did not pay my monthly charge, which is automatically taken out every month. They are the worst kind of corporation!

Date of experience: April 14, 2020
Oklahoma
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm so annoyed with the run-around you get with this company, can't even express it enough. I suspended my grandson's phone because he lost it in Wisconsin and we live in Oklahoma. First off, I could never get to a human to talk to about the situation when I called Customer Service to see if we could just activate his back-up phone. Finally, my grandson is now back home and I want to take the suspension off. My daughter goes into the local store here, of course they can't do it and keep telling her it's suspended for non-payment; nope, I have auto-pay. After may daughter explained that for the umpteenth time, he finally gets it but can't do anything about it. I call customer service again to have the suspension removed, called the store to see if they can now activate my grandson's back-up phone and he can't tell me that unless I'm there in person... why do we have a pin number then? So annoyed with all the hassle... never again!

Date of experience: July 31, 2019
Alabama
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Cricket wireless hidden fees
June 24, 2023

Cricket wireless is a sham. Stay away. They will change your bill amount and get mad when you try to itemize the charges over the phone. Customer support is trash and you can't understand a thing they're saying. Stay away from this fraudulent company with weak service that continually drops calls.

Date of experience: June 23, 2023
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Ripped off
January 23, 2024

I have cri ket wireless hot spot I pay 90 dollars a month for 150 gig last month I was stopped at 100 gig when I contacted my local store they stated I need to contact customer support first local store useless after contacting customer support even less help and continued run around NO HELP service rep was clueless barely spoke English very hard to understand. Here are pics of my service I am paying for

Date of experience: January 23, 2024
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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0 stars
January 24, 2023

Cricket customer service is garbage. Even the pathetic managers are uninformed. They are useless and a slave to a computer system no can manage. If their system makes an error you will be responsible for it with no empathy from their rude employees.

Date of experience: January 24, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I've been having so much trouble with this service since I turn unlimited. It seems that I am limited on an unlimited plan. A very big disappointment in a company that's supposed to be decent. If they don't fix this problem I'm switching to another network service

Date of experience: March 2, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Everytime I call the customer service line it's always a long wait sometimes up to a hour the automated system always states they are working on it, that's a lie. Every time I manage to get thru a live agent it is a struggle they barely understand English and there answer for everything is I'm sorry there is nothing I can do it's automatically generated by system" anyhow they do not have any idea what customer service it's overwhelming and I end up arguing with someone who cannot help me either! What a waste on my time ' cricket is the worse when it comes to their customers not to mention privacy that is a while different story and they have no problem giving your information and making changes to account as long as the other person has your name and phone number. Cricket don't deserve a 1 star from me they below that.

Date of experience: August 23, 2023
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Customer service
November 22, 2022

Service is good, support at the store level, should be avoided if possible. Been working on porting my number, they could not do that. Got my phone cut off by consumer cellular they thought the number was ported. That was Friday, went back in to see if they could port my number on Monday. They could not, had to start with a new number, didn't get the free phone for porting. Try calling customer support, about a twenty minute wait, when you get a rep,you can't understand them. Will keep a good eye out on auto pay, company has many problem area's, will probably keep the account anyway, might be worse headache with another company.

Date of experience: November 21, 2022
Oregon
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Cricket costs less but their phone and on line service reeks. After an hour on the phone trying to figure out why they were double billing me and charging me two late fees, I got help at their retail store. Do not get phone service from these people!

Date of experience: July 15, 2023
New York
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Other carriers can provide you with old call logs (under 2 years most carriers have them online), but not Cricket. They require you to have a subpoena, for your own records.

Date of experience: March 11, 2024

Overview

Cricket Wireless has a rating of 1.5 stars from 390 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Cricket Wireless most frequently mention customer service, new phone and sim card. Cricket Wireless ranks 139th among Mobile Carriers sites.

service
163
value
148
shipping
84
returns
92
quality
140
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