AT&T Trade-In Credit Not Honored After Phone Handoff
A consumer spent multiple hours at an AT&T store completing a trade-in for a promised $1100 credit, but the credit was never applied and the trade-in status remained "cancelled." AT&T has taken possession of the device without delivering the agreed compensation. An individual service dispute rather than a systemic, software-solvable problem.
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