2 hours phone waiting
by Jass singh on Apr 24, 2024
2 out of 5 stars
TD has atrocious customer service. They misquoted me and did not add a driver on our policy for Home and Auto.
The difference was over $300. They indicated that we had only given them one driver. That is impossible, especially after I spent over an hour each time with 2 reps, the first one quoted and the 2nd person finalized it, each time they were the same quote.
I find it extraordinarily hard to believe that we would not mention a second driver on one of our vehicles.
I spoke to multiple managers and since December have been chasing them.
They even stooped as low as saying that they called us back and indicated to us that they mentioned we never added the additional driver.
Absolute Lies! They never called us. I will continue to go after this as we will not be lied and manipulated because your reps on the phone are all young and have no experience by the looks of things. English was not their first language, so for TD to not give us the benefit of the doubt and continually lie, this is will going to a lawyer and will continue informing the public of TD's lack of service, unprofessionalism, corruption, and fraud.
Everyone should know the level of disservice they provide.
I have been insuring with Allstate for about 65 years. During that time, I have had complaints, but nothing serious. However, over the past three weeks, I have had situations that have caused me to think seriously about looking for another carrier.
I have been dealing with the Allstate offices and their customer service has, all but disappeared.
Within the last month, my auto insurance came due and I like to pay my bills directly with their office. However, when I went there. There was no one there to take my payment. I purposely went there a good deal after lunch so as not to interfere with anyone’s lunch time, but was told by the manager that there was no one available as the person responsible was having her lunch. This is the first time that the branches manager has refused to help me and told me to come back at another time.
When I returned the next day, it took them about five minutes to find some one who could help me.
In previous years, the receptionist, was always there and took care of me within a couple of minutes.
A week after the above incident, my wife misplaced her pink insurance slip so I went to the Allstate office at about 3:20 p.m. to get a replacement. When I explained what I needed, I was told to have a seat and she would look after me in about five minutes. There were already two other people seated there, so I accepted the situation.
During the time I was waiting, another couple approached the receptionist. I have no idea what their needs were, but they were told to have a seat. Since the was only one seat left, they chose to stand and wait.
The couple stood and waited for about six minutes before I could hear them mumble that the wait was ridiculous so they left.
I was told to wait about five minutes, but when I had been sitting for more than ten minutes, I got up to leave. As I was heading out, I commented that I believed that I had been waiting long enough. I received no reply from the receptionist so I left.
I am now looking to change carriers.
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The best part of dealing with Allstate was talking to Yosra, she was professional, patient, helpful, polite and super nice.
Until I talked to her I was going to change insurance companies, my experience with the adjuster was not good.
Thank you Yosra for being there for me.
I have never experienced such terrible customer service before until now I still can’t believe it. I had my daughter on my policy as a second driver until she decided to get her own car, we called Allstate a whole week before she was due to pick up her car, and they told her someone will call her, two days passed before she got a call, and even then again, she was told someone else from another department will have to call her back. Come the day to pick up her car, no one called her, so she called, and after being on hold for over 30m, she was told they’ll get an agent to call her back. She ended up calling another insurance who dealt with the coverage right away, so she could go pick up her new car. I still can’t understand why there were so many loops to jump through. Anyway, it was their loss.
I have been trying for 2 days to reach Allstate. I have tried online enquiry, through my log-in account and by phone. Very frustrating
I wrote this review while on hold waiting for a customer representative to pick up my call - I'm at 1 hour 40 minutes wait time now trying to add a new car to my insurance policy the message is "we are experiencing longer wait times than usual"...
Learn from my mistake - AVOID Allstate! In September 2019, I decided to research for an auto insurance provider offering a better rate. After speaking with 6 different providers, I settled with Allstate. However, DO NOT be fooled by their marketing. I got hit by a Dodge Caravan, on June 12th, 2020 after performing a left turn. The driver was driving way past a 30km limit, in a construction zone. Had he respected his speed limit, AND kept his right lane, this accident could have been avoided (I am convinced he passed a red light). My rear driver door was completely smashed in, but all he got was minor bumper damage on his right side. Yet, Allstate, declared me 100% responsible. In my 20+ years of driving, with only no-fault accidents, and having worked as a driving instructor, I am appalled. The driver who hit me was not only responsible but he was rude and he omitted important information on the Joint Accident Report. It's ridiculous that an insurance company won't consider the action of this reckless driver, especially considering a lack of character by not fully completing a document. To make matters worse, my long-term garage was not part of their Authorized Dealers. I found this extremely odd as every other insurance company ALWAYS referred me to them. Due to this, I received a cheque in the mail (minus my deductible) prior to even getting my car back!!! Who mails out a cheque when the work has not been completed? A savings of $5/mth has resulted in unnecessary stress and time working on contesting an accident that was clearly not my fault. Now I am out-of-pocket of a $500 deductible and a premium increase. All the while, Mr. White Dodge, continues to drive recklessly since he omitted his insurance company name and driver's licence on the report. Note to self: if your instinct tells you something is wrong, call the cops! FYI: I will be contesting this Allstate decision.
I have zero tickets, no accident in the last 10 years. Nothing has changed since last year, yet my premium went up by $9 despite the additional discount from driving. They gave me a poor explanation. I haven’t seen such an increase in 7 years which makes me wonder if I am paying $100 more in 2020 for the $30 one-time COVID-19 payment I received. Maybe they took the extra $60 to cover up payment for others with much higher premiums since the 25% of a month’s premium was decided by the ministry. COVID-19 money was taken from us, Allstate never takes a loss.
I have a very unpleasant experience with Allstate & their claims service. There was an incident with my car and another in a private lot back in 2017. The damages were minimal so we didn't file a claim and paid for the damages ourselves but we did file collision report. 2 years later, we came to renew our insurance for 2020 and then that's when we came to know that was a claim that was closed from this incident and it was deemed I was at-fault when that wasn't the case. When I called them, they said they sent 2 letters and they called but we didn't receive anything. They wouldn't open the case either since the dispute period of 1 year has ended. This was very frustrating as we would have disputed it if we knew of such a claim. Fortunately, I had first-time at-fault forgiveness which protected our premiums from this claim however, I didn't need to use it if we had disputed it. Allstate's actions from this incident were completely unacceptable and they should have made more of an effort to contact us when this claim was made.
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Very Bad customer service. Call on hold for two hours
I'm stuck in order to save few bucks.