Telecom trade-in credits stop early despite multi-year promise
A customer promised a monthly trade-in credit for three years found the credit stopped after only twelve months, even after a prior BBB complaint about billing had already been marked resolved, indicating no reliable system tracks long-running promotional credit commitments.
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