Horrible, impersonal service
by emily on Sep 26, 2019
1 out of 5 stars
I have been with Meloche Monnex for over 20 years. My premium recently went up 20%. I had no claims, no tickets, perfect record. I tried calling the helpline for clarification. It took over 2 hours to finally get through and then was put on hold. Who has time for this? I am switching. Go to find an insurance broker. At least you can reach a real-life knowledgeable professional in good time.
TD insurance repeatedly informs clients that all calls are being recorded for quality reassurance. However, when an issue arises where an employee promises a false claim to a customer. TD insurance states that listening to the audio recording is a waste of time because what the employee said, which was the seller for me getting insurance with them in the first place, was not possible for them. Whatever happened to honouring what an employee states? And to have the audacity to say that they will do a review of the audio and get back to you. But, when they do get back to you, days later I should add. It's to let you know that they didn't even listen to the audio recording because what that employee promised is not doable for them. Whatever, ok. Dealt with that. Now, I call to pay for my next year of insurance, only to find out that my account had been cancelled two days earlier due to an accounting error. Well, that's new. I've been driving for two days, oblivious to the fact that I am driving uninsured. Imagine getting pulled over and learning you don't have valid insurance. Or worse, getting into an accident. It's now Monday afternoon, I call because I haven't been notified that my insurance has been reinstated. I have had no vehicle all weekend, even though I have a perfectly good 2018 Rav 4, full of gas, sitting outside, ready to go. They apologize and say that they appreciate that I had places to go and couldn't use my vehicle - and will be sending out a couple of $25 gift certificates to make up for the inconvenience of not having the insurance I pay for, for almost a week and, consequently, the inability to drive my vehicle. I nearly choked. That has to be the biggest joke I've ever heard. "We're sorry that we made you unknowingly break the law by driving without valid insurance. We're also sorry that you couldn't use your perfectly running vehicle starting Friday when you first found out that we'd made an accounting error and cancelled your vehicle insurance all the way to now, Monday afternoon. But, we are so happy to tell you that you would have been covered should anything had happened during this time. And most importantly, we will be mailing you, valued customer, a couple of $25 gift certificates to make up for this complete inconvenience towards you!" Sound like something you want to go through? Sign up today! (Don't do it!)
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A TD insured driver ran over my 8 year old on his school crosswalk on Feb 23, 2016 and has not provided daily provision and only a small amount of medial provision for his care. We're a TD mortgage holder and we deal with absolute poverty as TD insurance does not provide daily care for "caretakers" of impact victims under 18 when their drivers run over kids on crosswalks. We are forced to take welfare to survive. TD mortgage has reduced me from General Manager status to "homemaker" on their records, due to caring for my son, and denied me a second mortgage to stop foreclosure on our as TD insurance refuses to proceed with settlement offers 3.5 years. I had to sign with a private lender as we wait for theTD Auto insurance settlement. Seems a little odd that TD Auto insurance hired a lawyer who stated it was "her job" in the hallway to make sure my son does not receive "a cent", A TD mortgage holder is denied financial provision by TD auto insurance of guilty driver and was denied a 2nd mortgage to continuously care for TD auto insurance impact victim. Google does not provide negative stars to click on.
I'm not sure what is happening but in the last few months every time I've called I've been on hold min 1 hour and longer if I'm switched to another Department. Majority of time when I am transferred, I am on hold first and when I finally get through, they hang up. I was on hold 4 hours being bounced back and forth. They say it takes 5 mins to sign up online and it's impossible. They couldn't even put me through to the right helpdesk until 3 hours into the phone call, then it hung up. May need to switch companies, especially now, that my insurance went up due to moving provinces. Why not hire more employees? The ones you have are friendly and helpful but that's not enough.
Could not get through to speak to someone no matter what I decided to cancel the policy, but that also meant a 2-hour wait on the phone. I was stubborn and held on until I got through!! I was charged a penalty for cancelling after the policy renewed. The fact is, I just could not get through to cancel it! Oh, and the kicker was when I got through to someone and explained that I wanted to cancel. She asked me irrelevant questions and then put me on hold to check something. After another 20 minutes, turns out she put me through to their loyalty department. She proceeded to waste yet more time asking the same irrelevant questions and took another 10 minutes to finally cancel the policy. I have never ever experienced such a wait on the phone with any company. Stay away!
I don't understand how their only means of changing/adding a vehicle is by phone. Especially when the wait times are over 3 hours. I literally went on my one-hour lunch break and came back with the same stupid music playing in the background. Like 99% of insurance companies allow the dealership to fax them confirmations, only TD doesn't...
Anyone reading this review, stay away from TD Insurance. Even if you are seeing this as the cheapest insurance for your case. It has been 3 days that I want to do a policy change. Wait time have been 48 Mins, 1 Hr 37 Mins and today 53 Mins and counting. I am not sure how they are still in business with this kind of customer service.
I've been a client of TD Insurance and their predecessors (Monnex/Meloche Monnex) for over 30 years. But will soon be leaving, because they don't have the staff to answer the phone. I tried to add a new car online, and the VIN 'isn't recognized' despite every VIN search website showing me that it's correct. And the online wait is currently at least an hour because that's how long I've been waiting. I was supposed to pick up my new car tonight, but it seems like that won't happen unless I change insurance companies. Past claim experience (8 years ago) was fine!
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Their online calculator wouldn't give me a quote and said to print and fill it in by hand and mail it in (....seriously) or call in. I've been in the phone queue for 2 hours 42 minutes on writing this. Not sure they realize this is 2019? Mail something or wait almost 3 hours not to speak with anyone is unacceptable. I was stubborn to hand on after an hour, 2 was getting silly and now it's just absurd at going on 3 hours. Hanging up.
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After an accident, TD insurance was an absolute nightmare. My vehicle sat in the body shop parking lot for nearly two weeks before the body shop itself tracked me down to ask why my car was abandoned in their parking lot, and if I wanted to proceed with a quote for repairs. I had been told by my TD appraiser that it would be fixable, and completed within 9 days, only to get this call informing me there has been no action for more than 10 days from when I spoke to a TD rep. Another 8 days go by, and they inform me they are unable to fix the car. I had to cancel a road trip, and multiple business opportunities because of the rental they authorized me, despite driving a seven-seat vehicle. They told me that this was unfortunate but irrelevant. Their gross negligence cost me thousands of dollars in revenue and time. When I finally did receive an offer for my car, it was approximately half of what I expected. The report they gave me was for cars with similar year and mileage, but clearly, they took the average of the five cheapest, and likely poorly upkept vehicles as their reference. My car was in pristine condition, and I am unable to buy anything even remotely comparable.