How to talk to a real person at Rogers Wireless

I am having trouble putting more money into my Rogers cell phone account & today April 25 is the last day!! I do not want to lose my present balance - can someone please contact me. Melanie on the phone seems to be useless

Wow, I did it! Talked to a real person who was quite helpful. The only thing I want to add is that many times “Melanie” (the robot) can’t understand words and you have to punch in numbers which she provides. At the very end of the process of getting to a human, she says “say yes” but doesn’t offer a number. I punched in 1 (one) and it worked.

Thank you!

OMG THank you very much! Melanie is a $&%^$!

I just added 20 dollars to my account 10 minutes ago. I then wanted to see if I could add some money to my text message account. I tried to get hold of a “human” clerk and somehow ended up going back to check my balance. Exactly $10 come off my account in the 10 minutes I tried to figure out how to add money to my texting account. I then used my house phone to call the 1-800 and finally got the machine to redirect me to the offices which are “unfortunately” closed. It is very annoying and frustrating when anyone, let alone myself, has to go through a lengthy procedure in order to talk to someone (besides the machine) especially in my particular circumstance. I am pretty agitated with Rogers. Many of my friends have horror stories in terms of dealing with Rogers’s customer service. Although it is only $10 that is the plight of my unsatisfactory feelings towards Rogers, it was $10 I worked hard to earn and I don’t want to see it go to waste. I am would like to reiterate my disappointment with the Rogers pay as you go service line!

Amazing, thanks so much….trying any other way is just sooo frustrating. This is awesome, thanks again:)

To get a person, dial *611 from your cell. Then dial 4-4-1.
Once the robot goes through her spiel. Choose 4 (General Information) then choose 4 (Contact Rogers). The robot is going to tell you to mail them or go online. Then they’ll go through a bunch of bull. Then it tells you to hang up or press 9 for the Main Menu. It fails to tell you about Top Secret option number 1. If you press 1, you get a real person. The person who helped me was nice and very helpful.

Thanks Lori for the tip. But be prepared to be put on hold before you actually talk to anyone - I gave up after 15 minutes since I&#39m guessing the one person they have taking calls was very busy.

Thank you soooooo much Lori this helped soo much!! FINALLY got through to someone!!

Thank you so much Lori, it worked!

thank you so much. trying to get hold of someone nearly drives you to tears and I googled how to get a live person out of desperation - thanks again!

Thank you!! After looping around hopelessly with “melanie”, I found your info on talking to a real person. I had added $50 to my phone last month. Since I rarely use my phone, only used $2 in calls I was shocked to realize my entire account had been wiped out. Of course Rogers has recently changed the rules on pay as you go. BE FOREWARNED, if you do not put a $100 on your account, they will clear it out at the end of the month. They scooped $48 of my $50 and closed out my account so I couldn’t contact them, email them or add money to my phone.

The REAL person I talked to, thanks to you was very helpful and available in less than a few minutes. She told me by putting on $100 it will last for the whole year. Something we didn’t see in the small print nor were informed about when we had talked to a customer service person when they changed the rules. She also added back the $48 and I put on an additional $100 to keep my calling secure for the next year.

Thanks again

2 comments

- first (related) the secret talk to person option 1 works even if you call the pay as you go self serve toll free number (from Canada) 1-800-575-9090

- second (unrelated, but have to rant) it really sucks that they charge for incoming texts when roaming to the states. “Stephanie” (the human on the phone) was appologetic, but completely unable (unwilling?) to help me on this one. As of July 2012, there is no add on / package / option to either receiving texts for free or disable texts completely to avoid charges. I will be travelling to the US soon for a few days and had switched from MTS to Rogers explicitly to be able to use the phone in the US. I had hoped / assumed I could buy a texting bundle / add on that provided free incoming texts. Oh well. Should have done more research before switching.

Hi
my iphone 4 locked connect to itune i am out of country with out my computer what should i do

holy @#$%…….I cant take this anymore….I have had an account with this company since 1989…
THEY WERE CALLED>>>>> Cantel AT@T then………
25 years…..and the service is @#$%^&* ridiculous…….
I am going to cancel this account and get a different carrier…
shit service………..had enough

this company should make a change in the system.

Below is what I got from Rogers:

you will need to call customer service at 1-800-575-9090 they are open Mon-Fri 8am-12am; Sat 8am-9pm; Sun 10am-8pm eastern standard time and select prompt 4 listen to the entire message then press 4 again listen to the entire message again then press 1 then press 1 again to speak to live agent.

Hope it would help.

The above advice on how to speak to a live Rogers agent is still valid 0 it was confirmed to me a few minutes ago by such an agent: 1800 575 9090, option 4, 4, 1

I did it!! And dealt with a very helpful agent!!
Thanks for the help :)

thank you for posting such vavaluable information this is even not mention on rogers website yes it works

Just phone 188876433771 (rogers1) and continue to hit 0 until it transfers you. 5 or 6 time. It asks you to make another selection like 2 or 3 time then bang.

Does anyone have a MAILING address. I prefer mailing a letter the old fashion way.

Another way is to call the Pay As You Go activation line at 1 888 542-7437. Although it is activation, the agents can take care of billing/payment on the account. I did that 2 times. First the system couldn’t automatically top up for whatever reason. After they restored my balance and did the top up manually, the system charged by credit card $20 EVERY FREAKING DAY for 13 days. I saw those top up messages coming in thinking it is just a system goof, they can’t be charging that every day. They DID.

Lesson learned: Don’t use automatic top up if you don’t have to.

Another Rogers Pay As you Go Activation line number:
1-866-594-9456

I too, having great difficulty trying to locate a “REAL human’s voice” accessible number with Rogers to discuss my pay-as-you-go account.
Frustrating, time-consuming and NOT customer/user friendly the “to contact” info

Thanks Lori re Sept/11,and to Alex Brown Jan/13. followed your advice and today easily got a wonderful,friendly,helpful “Real Person ” at Rogers named Tracy who very quickly and kindly helped me.Tracy very politely informed me that monthly ” top up reminder” will always pop up even if you have auto top up. This is also to remind those people who may have changed their credit card and did not inform Rogers of change for them to do so. Also thanks to Julia,Nov/12 for the office hrs . Really appreciate all of your info ..THANKS!!!! Hope You ALL Have a Happy Thanksgiving !

I switched two phones from a monthly family plan to two Pay-As-You-Go plans with unlimited texting. Rogers set it us as unlimited evening/weekend calling. It wasn’t something the automated system could fix. So a big thanks Alex Jan 13,2013 for the contact info. It took 20 minutes to fix both accounts. Bottom line, this contact method still works.

me too! thanks

just got through to an agent.

I asked the agent where the call centre was located.

She told me in Manilla, Philippines. It’s really pathetic that Rogers sent jobs overseas rather than employ Canadians.

I would gladly pay a little more per month to get Rogers to employee Canadians !

Got through finally, after using 1 800 575 9090
then option 4, 4, 1.
Thanks, too Julia, Alex, and the very respectful agent who helped me with my concern.

Another way to do get through to a pay as you go agent is to call the main customer service number and then just ask the person to transfer your call to prepaid services. I agree, though, that switching to pay as you go has been a nightmare because it's so hard to get hold of an agent and so many things go wrong.

1-866-594-9456

Use that number. Try pressing 0 once the automated person starts talking or press 2 in the first menu

my SMS has been used up can someone email me with what Im to do, I just put $100.00 om acct.

Thank you so much for the tip of 4, 4, 1!!! I spoke to someone as soon as the call was transferred.. and I pressed 1 right away and didn't listen to any of the spiel :)

I need help with my Crave!!

My rogers phone is not working