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New York
26 reviews
98 helpful votes
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This company appears to be a scam! In 2017 I bought THREE one year plans which would keep me covered until 2020. This end date of 2020 was ALWAYS on my account. There was no problem--until I recently switched to a new Tracfone! Suddenly a NEW end date appeared on my account as 2019. These " customer service reps " INSISTED that the date of 2020 was NEVER on my account. I am now in the process of filing a Better Business Bureau claim against them. Watch out when doing business with these common thieves!

Date of experience: September 17, 2019
Ohio
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Poor service
March 2, 2024

Tracfone used to be simple but acourse we live in a world where complicated is smart. Smart is simplifying. Making things more difficult then have to be is just plain DUMB

Date of experience: March 2, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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These idiots are nothing but garbage. They are like trash that have been stomped on trillions of times over and over again. Read the other reviews... That should tell you something. Stay away from these liers, thieves, corrupted scamers who have been dropped on their heads a billion times too many. Take your money and especially your time else where. These thieves are a huge waste of time. I guarantee you that they will lie to you and keep lying to you. They treat you like a dispensary. As soon as you pay them, all your service may work, if you're lucky. Otherwise, waste more of your time waiting for over 4 hours to get a hold of a mule only to feed you more BS lies.

Do Not Waste Your Time and Especially your Money.

Date of experience: March 7, 2022
Kansas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Lousy support
June 17, 2022

Perchased new tracfone with 1.5 g 1500 min 1500 text. Tried to switch old number to new phone. They messed up activaded new phone with new number. When a tried to get old number switched to new phone they said since new phone was activaded I would loose my 1.5 gig 1500 min 1500 text and one year service. Can't live with that If I am loosing all that I am sending phone back and going to another service. Hope your experience is better than mine.

Date of experience: June 17, 2022
Rhode Island
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Tracfone outsources their call centers to foreign countries where you can barely understand the agents speaking to you. One day Tracfone randomly discontinued the phone I bought from them, and they said I can no longer use it with their service. They offered to send me a new phone, but the process of them "verifying" my account was so shoddy and inefficient that they couldn't successfully send a simple text to me to verify it, and they have no alternative way to verify it, so I never got the new phone. Do yourself a favor and go to U.S. Mobile instead. You will have a functional, headache-free experience..

Date of experience: July 15, 2022
Oklahoma
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Intermittent system performance, customer service is world's worst. Website is completel worthless, voice support is some 4th world country staffed by ignoramuses who know less about their own system than my dog does. A HORRIBLE excuse for a phone (sic) system

Date of experience: May 26, 2022
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I've been having a problem with my phone it keeps freezing and it drops calls and I can't use apps due to it constantly freezing up on me, I tried calling customer service but they couldn't resolve my problem and barely spoke English

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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When you are told you are eligible for a refund they transfer you to a 'refund department.' The refund assistant then pretends to 'get further information' keeping you on hold for 25 min. While evidently their 1990s era computer picks out your information. At around 25-35 min. They then disconnect you.

Date of experience: January 5, 2022
Tennessee
27 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Been with tracfone off and on for over 10 years, the service is ok, had worse, their phones on other hand, don't buy the ZTE phone, the only good thing with this phone is it makes a good dust collector, the phone calls people at will, it erased all my numbers, and pictures, the greatest satisfaction is when i get another phone, i will take a hammer to it, the only other thing is i don't text, so i have over 4,000 text i can use and usually no minutes, and when this happens the phone goes crazy

Date of experience: June 15, 2015
Rhode Island
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible
September 5, 2022

I had my first TracFone in 2001. My data never worked out of my home.
I just discountinued my service
To unlock my phone they wanted me to pay a fee of $150.00. What a rip off! My wife switched to another carrier a year ago and is very happy with her service now.
I wouldn't recommend TracFone to anyone...

Date of experience: September 5, 2022
Maine
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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DO NOT BUY
February 26, 2022

Tracfone is the worst. They would not transfer my plan to a new phone. First it was activated by straight talk, who owns tracfone. After they realized I was a tracfone customer, they said they would transfer my phone back to tracfone, but then claimed I did not have the correct answers to the security questions. If this was true, how did I activate the phone? They had no answers for me. I filed a complaint with the attorney generals office in Florida. I will also file with small claims if tracfone gives no resolution to the problem. I am now twelve phone calls in to Tracfone! DO NOT BUY THERE SERVICE or PHONES, look for other alternatives!

Date of experience: February 26, 2022
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Clueless
October 25, 2021

I recently went on tracfone.com to find a phone i could use for payments. Needing the NFC feature I could not tell from the information which phones supported it, so I hit the chat. I explained to the service rep what I needed, a phone with NFC capabilities, and he asked what it was used for, so I explained it. After waiting for several minutes he gave me info on a refurbished phone for $59, an A10e that was supposed ot have NFC. He assured me it had NFC, but to purchase i also had to buy a plan, so the cost was now over $80. When the phone arrived I found it did not support the NFC i needed. I contacted support through the chat again to return the phone and was told pretty much I could use the phone anyway without that feature. When I insisted I didn't need a phone whiteout NFC he asked if I would like a call back to return it. I arranged a call back to return it for 8:15 that night. No call ever came. I am out $80 and still can't use the pay feature I was looking for.

Date of experience: October 25, 2021
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have used tracfoen for over 20 years, recently they have changed their customer service to poor. In the past you could speak to someone quickly and get your issue solved in one call. Recently I purchased a new iPhone from tracfone with a promotion of 6 months free service ($25 dollar plan unlimited talk/text 2 gb data) I spend countless hours before I got my unlimited talk and text. And then still more hours before I got 9 gb of the 12 gb that I was to get. I have given up on trying to get the 3gb. Seriously believe they know most people will give up. I love the no contract and the price, I buy the year plan so that I dont have to think about it for the year. Works great everywheres I go across the USA (uses Verizon lines) cost me about $200 per year. As long as you dont have to deal with their terrible customer Service your fine.

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Missouri
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Never Agin
December 20, 2023

Your TCL phone is a piece of sh%$. Especially your camera. Obviously nothing but spy useage. But it doesn't even do that very well. This is I realize a older model phone. However there is nothing smart about this phone. Can't wait to toss it in the bottom of river

Date of experience: December 20, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Bad customer service
December 10, 2020

I purchased a tracfone on tracphone website. When my order arrived I was very pleased and anticipated enjoying this phone in the future... when making calls the phonecall cut off With a NO SIGNAL signal alert just after a few min. In the call... I've spent 7 to 8 hour being transferred from one repetitive to another to have a replacement phone sent to me, no one wanted to help me, crazy people to deal with, this is my first time writing a review & of course the first time a bad review I will take down this review once I will receive a new phone, after talking with tracfone for more then 7 hour & they relized that they are simple wrong they just knock down the phone on me what a shame, no words to explain what bad customer service this is,
Hopefully tracfone will understand that they need to work on customer service to make a customer happy

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Crap service
August 6, 2022

I have had three phones with Tracfone for five plus years, overall the service sucks on all ends, my mother had a serious emergency and needed her phone the tracfone somehow has a bunch of sudden restrictions and would not let her make or receive calls or text, I know all the info on the phone is current because I pay the bill. I'm going to T Mobile that was the last draw I will always talk down on tracfone from here on out because of what there error did to my mother. My name is David Banfy call anytime of you want the full story *******398, I'm switching to T Mobile but will be keeping my number. I stand by my statement Tracfone has lost my business for good and is the worst service out there, thank you for letting my family and I down at a time when I need the service the most

Date of experience: August 6, 2022
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Bought a sim card fromTarget store. Jumps through hoops to get the pone activated. Can call and receive but no internet. The card say 4gig of data paid 25 dollars but no way to access. Called tracfone customer service. Off shore tech support can barely understand what they say. After an hour of frustrating with them but still no dice. Worthless scam. Filipine call center speaks very poor english.

Date of experience: April 10, 2021
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have not been able to send or receive calls since 11/25/23. With first call I was told I needed new SIM card which was sent and rec'd 11/30/23. Inserted card and called support numerous times. Each time I had to give phone #, IMEI # and Sim card #. My call was dropped when problem wasn't resolved. Last call gave my landline and asked to be called back if call got dropped. Call dropped and no call back. My service is good till Aug 2024, but looks like plan was changed from unlimited call & text and my remaining data was dropped. Would give negative if possible.

Date of experience: November 30, 2023
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They would not let me cancel my auto-refill plan. I was charged twice for the plan I had tried to cancel (the message kept saying that they were updating my phone and as such wouldn't let me make any changes to my account)l. I wasn't even able to update my payment information so that the charges wouldn't come out of my account. I tried to contact customer service many times but was unable to talk to a human. When I finally got through to customer service (this is after days of trying different avenues), I was told that they wouldn't refund the money that had come out of my account. I spoke with the manager and she said it was company policy not to refund the money. Very disappointed with the lack of available customer service and lack of integrity.

Date of experience: April 9, 2018
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I had lost my phone and called to cancel and Tracphone said they could not cancel without the phone number of phone and couldn't even look me up with my credit card and name info. They told me the only way they would cancel was if my bank called them and told them to stop charging me as a customer because he doesn't have phone or use your service. Do not use your bank card for this company only a prepaid credit card since it is next to impossible for them to look you up without your phone or sim number. They dont even have the ability to look you up with you credit card # or your name.

Date of experience: July 31, 2022

Overview

TracFone has a rating of 1.1 stars from 362 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with TracFone most frequently mention customer service, new phone and sim card. TracFone ranks 143rd among Mobile Carriers sites.

service
217
value
195
shipping
120
returns
116
quality
173