I submitted on 3/16, didn't get approval till 4/27. Hounded PL relentlessly and finally gave up on them. Called Verizon on Monday and spoke to a rep & after explaining that it's been 10 weeks since I submitted, she submitted what she called an escalation form for her supervisor and said I'd get a call back in 2-3 days. I hadn't heard anything on Wednesday so I called back in. I got a real jerk on the phone who said the phone wasn't activated on the line I upgraded so I wouldn't get anything. (I used my daughter's line for the upgrade then used it on my line). I got furious and printed out my last year's payment history and device purchase history and went to my local Verizon store.
I spent 2 hours at the store with the manager. She called Samsung, who told her to call PL. PL told her that they couldn't even send watches right now because Samsung's stock was depleted and was having to make extras for our promotion (WTF?). The manager asked for a timeframe and they said they couldn't give one because they had no timeframe from Samsung. She then called Verizon Customer Care and they said they couldn't do anything with my account because the escalation form submitted on Monday was still in a "processing" state and they were unable to view it since it was created by tech support. So I left the store, furious of course.
I called tech support on my way home & got a really nice lady (Patty) and told her the whole story. She went through the T&C and asked about my submissions and I gave her the dates for my submission and approval and asked about what the escalation status was. I was under the impression from the jerk earlier that I was screwed. She said he had no bearing on it, he was just getting me off the phone (great huh!?). She then said "we're going to straighten this out right now. Which watch was it that you were supposed to get? There are 3 of them." I asked what 3 she had and she said the white/silver was unavailable (again, WTF?) but they had the black & the classic. I told her that the promotion was only for the black although I'd be willing to pay the difference for the classic. She said "well, since my supervisor has to approve it anyway, we may as well go for broke!" She put in the SKU for the classic but the system told her it was invalid! She put me on hold for a minute and came back to say that her supervisor had to enter the SKU as she wasn't authorized to do so, but that the supervisor did and gave me an order number!
Sure enough, within minutes the classic showed up under "my orders" and I got a Fedex shipment notification later that night. It's out for delivery today! They basically put in the order, then discounted it.
