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Get what you pay for...

Overall Rating:
5 out of 5
By: Paula Rasmussen on Sunday, February 22, 2009
From: Bountiful, UT (United States)
Experience: 11 Years
Pros: great price
nice phones
good service
unlimited calling/text
good in store customer service

Cons: need less foreign customer service, there hard to understand.
insurance not so great

Summary: Cricket is great for people on a budget. It is the best unlimited phone service out there, especially compared to some (Boost Mobile). Love there service and willingness to try to solve your problems. Easily contactable and low monthly bills. You don't have to keep track of minutes, and phone service is pretty good almost anywhere. Phones are a little pricey but you get what you pay for, so the phones are very durable. My 15 yr. old has dropped hers a thousand times and even after 2 years it is still ticking. Great service and Great phones, i would deffinately suggest this service to anyone.

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Great Service!! Thankful for Unlimited Calling & Text Messaging

Overall Rating:
4 out of 5
By: W Walker on Saturday, February 21, 2009
From: Salem, OR (United States)
Experience: 2 Years
Pros: Great service ~ Unlimited talk time and text including unlimited long distance for $5/month and Unlimited Wireless modem for $35/month.
GREAT RATES FOR SERVICES!!!!

Cons: Price of cell phones

Summary: I'm really satisfied with Cricket after using other major providers.
Cricket is definitely the best value!!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

How did their customer service rate get even a 2.9??

Overall Rating:
1 out of 5
By: Kathleen Johns on Thursday, February 19, 2009
From: Brighton, TN (United States)
Experience: 3 Months
Pros: Less expensive and you get what you pay for.

Cons: A-Z

Summary: Switched from another carrier for the unlimited text for my daughter's birthday. She's a good girl and deserved it. I, however, did not deserve the general pain I must endure for even a scrap of customer service. Try to get a person on the phone with any number listed. Push buttons or don't push buttons you still end up with a automated maze that ends up with an "Aaaauuuugh" and slamming the phone down. I don't WANT to pay extra to pay in cash, check or credit card. Shouldn't HAVE to PAY EXTRA TO PAY THE BILL!! That's all they are interested in: To pay your bill...to buy a phone...to add a line....to select your plan.... Just don't expect anything else. Their phone will be in the Mississippi River by this afternoon. It is worth the extra every month to get an actual person on the phone with a NATIONWIDE COMPANY. Completely uncalled for, inappropriate, and unprofessional. If I could think of anything worse, I'd put it.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Crap from day one !

Overall Rating:
1.3 out of 5
By: Fred Engel on Thursday, January 15, 2009
From: Milwaukee, WI (United States)
Experience: 1 Days
Pros: none pain in the a** . Customer sevice poor english couldnn't setup online .

Cons: Privously used line needed reset go across town in -10 weather ha ha .

Summary: I should of looked here first . Not taking serive now . Poor english rep, number or line used before need reset . Wrong area code for service area . Told to drive to a cricket store in minus 10 weather now that I read this info I'm done hope they go out of busness fast . total crap I'll stick w/tracfone .

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful

HUGE MISTAKE!

Overall Rating:
1 out of 5
By: Laurie Jackson on Monday, January 12, 2009
From: Dayton, OH (United States)
Experience: 1 Years
Pros: Easy to establish service/purchase phone online

Cons: Everything else.... LOUSY customer service, CONSTANT BILLING ERRORS, dropped calls, limited calling areas...

Summary: Kept Cricket for 1 year despite the fact that I wasted at least 1 hour monthly on phone with customer service. I would get two text bills monthly for varying amounts yet the CSRs who answered my calls could not explain. I'd get texts informming me that my service would be interrupted if I didn't pay my bill yet they'd tell me my account was in good standing when I'd call to follow up. Not only were the CSRs rude, they barely spoke English and you could NEVER get a supervisor. I finally cancelled the service mid-December and went with another carrier.... of course, CRICKET charged my credit card almost $80 on 1/9/09 after my account was closed for nearly a month... oh yeah, and my plan was $35 monthly. Just filed a complaint with BBB in hopes of recovering my cash. They're THIEVES... look elsewhere and save yourself the headaches!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

RUN AWAY!!! DON'T WALK!!!!

Overall Rating:
1 out of 5
By: Paul Milnes on Thursday, January 01, 2009
From: Georgetown, TX (United States)
Experience: 5 Months
Pros: Unlimited calling.

Cons: Everything else.

Summary: I have never had such exasperating, nay, infuriating service (or lack thereof) in my life! I am heading back to Verizon. I don't think that I was ever able to talk to a service person that didn't possess English as a second, or maybe fifth, language. If the communication barriers weren’t bad enough, the fact that they couldn't do anything right or quote anything accurately was mind-numbing. Never before have I wanted to throw my phone out of the window, at least not until I experienced Cricket’s customer service (which, in Cricket’s case, is an oxymoron).

Oh, and then there are the obnoxious text message advertisements sent to you at all hours of the day or night courtesy of those jerks at Cricket. Jesus!!!!! Oh, and if you find yourself traveling anywhere outside of your home area, forget it! Welcome to the dark ages of cellular, folks!

Please, if you value your sanity, run away. Don't walk or amble. Run Away from Cricket!

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Angry customer

Overall Rating:
1 out of 5
By: Nancy Bombich on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
From: Milwaukee, WI (United States)
Experience: 1 Months
Pros: Met one nice customer Rep.

Cons: Everything

Summary: Bought a cricket phone and plan. In the one month I it, I had dropped calls,my voice sounded like I was in a fish bowl, People on the other end heard high pitched screeches, I had constant dropped calls and when people called me, it would not ring but just go to voice mail and that is the only way I knew anyone called.

I went to 3 stores back and forth because the store reps kept sending me in circles. I just wanted a new phone or my money back but all they wanted to do was re-set my phone, which didn't work.
I ended up at the corporate office ( on 27th and National)I spoke to a manager named Matt. He finally fixed my problem in 10 minutes. He then called another store on 13th and Lincoln and talked to a girl named Karen about refunding my money. She said she would. I was happy till I got there.

I spoke to Karen, and she said to me, that a guy named Tom would take care of me. Tom was very rude and snotty and unpleasant from the get go, fighting with me in a loud tone. After 15 minutes of fighting with me, he finally gave me my refund for a charger that I never needed( whole other story)
I was going to pay my bill there but they will never see me or a dime of my money.

NANCY

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

no Twitter or Facebook

Overall Rating:
1 out of 5
By: Cricket User on Sunday, December 28, 2008
From: Las Vegas, NV (United States)
Experience: 5 Weeks
Pros: unlimited text... no social networking, web interface is very very very poor!

Cons: fix the 404 shortcut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Summary: I am telling all my friends that Cricket does not work with social networking shortcuts. The web interface with most common websites is totally unworkable. Buyer beware! Cheap phones and cheap service! You get what you pay for!!!

Where's my rebate?

Overall Rating:
1.3 out of 5
By: Lisa XXXXX on Wednesday, December 17, 2008
From: Portland, OR (United States)
Experience: 5 Months
Pros: Only purchased this plan for the unlimited texting ......

Cons: Don't bother calling customer service, it will take forever and they probably can't help you, finally gave up on keeping the old phone number, they couldn't get it to transfer it over.

Summary: Purchased an overpriced phone in July 08 for my teenage daughter with a promise of an $80 rebate, its now Dec 08 and Cricket needs another 6 wks to send the check. Purchased extended long distance coverage but can't make/receive calls in some urban areas close to home. When shopping for the phone/service, one Cricket retailer lied about the rates available, said the brochure was misprinted and only offered the expensive plans.

Huge Hassle. Great Company!* (If you are used to third world cell service)

Overall Rating:
1 out of 5
By: Nick Littlejohn on Monday, November 24, 2008
From: Portland, OR (USA)
Experience: 60 Days
Pros: Fun if you enjoy hassles and being overcharged at every turn.

Cons: Side effects include anger and dismay at why Cricket is so terrible. Also has poor coverage, dropped calls and can't take phones with you out of your local area.

Censors and doesn't support basic things like being able to text for information, contests, etc.

Also tries to trick customers to pay $200-$380 for phones that would be cheap or free at any other carrier.

Summary: Try Cricket and you'll see how a phone company would work if it was run by angry children. You may start to wonder why you haven't switched to an adult run phone service.

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful