T-Mobile cancelled order for no reason (and took away my old Samsung phone)

I’m now firmly in the camp of not turning in a trade in until everything goes ok, I don’t know what you have to use now, iPad or laptop but what’s done is done and you haven’t got the phone you were promised by T-Mobile.

My word of caution comes in the hope that it helps someone else who is in the hell I just exited.

I was on the friends & family with a friend.  With AT&T.  I wanted to keep my number.

T-mobile can't port my number without permission and a transfer code from the account holder.  My friend.  My wonderful, busy friend.  Only she could dial the magical secret code to get the 6 digit transfer pin.  I'm retired AT&T so I'm fine with jumping the hoops, it's not t-Mobile's fault, they do this to all Clec's (competitive local carriers)

They gave me a temporary number and they could call me but nobody else had their number and it’s supposed to be temporary.

So, if someone called my number my old phone rang.  People could text me but not call.  Different platform and cross compatible I think.

It took 48 hours for my number to get ported.  I'm not even going to erase my phone for another week.