Belair Wolf in Sheeps clothing
by TH on Oct 4, 2018
1 out of 5 stars
I am in British Columbia. Been driving for 35 years and have made no claims with Belairdirect. Had two vehicles insured: 2017 Ford Escape and 2016 Ford F150. For both last year $1200. This renewal is $1600. I made two rock chip claims and am being told that these rock chip claims are the reason for the increase. The rock chip filling is like $40 each. Which have now cost me $400! This is insane!
First, they wanted to update our claims history (there were none) and our points (again none), then because we had a windshield claim, they downgraded our glass coverage. We had ONE glass claim and they downgraded our coverage because "there have been a lot of claims in your postal code". What tripe. Bye bye Belair, I hope you go broke!
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Absolute scam of a company. Despite an absolutely clean record, by moving away to school, not driving to work anymore, and cutting my car usage by over half, my insurance jumped over 100$. Then, because of this outrageous fee, I jumped to Desjardins, which was 80$ a month cheaper, even though it was the exact same insurance bundle. They then charged a 256$ cancellation fee, even though I did not agree to renew after 12 months. To top it all off, the company then took out 200$ more from my account without any authorization to do so. On top of stealing from my account, I was told: “That’s just how we do things across the board.” Stay away from this company
Terrible service. Was a client for 2 years. Trouble started when left Ontario for BC. Didn't get my last Pinkslip for proof of insurance requested it 4 times. Requested experience letter and proof of no claim 4 times, received it and it was wrong, had to ask again, 6th time correct. Then after cancelling still had to pay the next months premium and wait a month for it to be refunded. Worst service from an insurance company ever.
I called to have an evaluation of insurance for my new car on September 10th. First of all, they asked me to pay 550$ on Septembre 13th. It was my error to say yes to the new insurance policy. The next day I called Industrielle Alliance to change because I couldn’t pay the 550 in 3 days. I had the best service from them. I called Belair Direct to cancel my policy, you wanna know something? They charged me 457$ to cancel my freaking insurance with them. I was so angry. For 24h they ask me 457$. Anyways. I had the worst service.
I recently got into a little accident in a parking lot. My car has now been in the shop for 10 days without any work being done - just sitting there. This is because Belairdirect hasn’t been able to approve the quote from the body shop. Unfortunately, I have been left without a car and have no choice but to take a cab to work. I have called on numerous occasions and still haven’t gotten any response or call back from these guys. My family and I are struggling to get around. I would not recommend Belair.
After having their insurance for 6 months, they called and began harassing us for drivers records. We tried to explain that they already had them but they kept harassing us on the phone. We sent new copies to them yet the harassment continued for a month! Seemed like no one knew what the other was doing. Of course, we couldn't cancel without a huge penalty. I am so glad I didn't have to file a claim with them!! Thank goodness my policy expires next month I just hope they don't try and take a payment from our credit card!
I was literally only calling for a quote, to confirm the online one I had previously done. I voiced that to the agent at the very beginning of my phone call. The agent took 30 minutes to tell me a number, after asking a million and one questions and glorifying all of the perks they offer. When he finally told me the number, he continued to brag about the premium and said I will never find that anywhere and then he became very condescending when I said I had been offered something better elsewhere. He also started getting pushy for me to tell him my banking information and by this time, I had told him 3 times I’m simply shopping around and not finalizing anything. I had to hang up the phone because he would not stop. After that experience, I will never go with Belair.
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Do not use these people. I missed one payment because a bill that was not supposed to come out did at the same time. I ended up paying it right away. Well, turns out they cancelled my policy without TELLING ME!!!! I logged into the client centre and saw no active policy exists. THANK YOU!!! Karma will come and these idiots will go out of business. Looking into changing to TD or Sonnet.
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Your friend at first, then watch them JACK THE PRICES UP. I have this year an 8% increase to my home insurance. LAST YEAR, they just... changed my policy because THEY wanted to... lower my flood coverage because they thought my coverage of 10K was too high, so lowered it to 3K ALL WITHOUT MY CONSENT, and didn't give a discount for that. Also just now they wrote me a letter saying THEY think my car deductible should be $1000, not $500. "The winter tire discount has been removed from the above-listed vehicle as it no longer qualifies" ... what? I just spent $1900 on tires and wheels why doesn't it qualify? AND you raised my insurance. P.S.: NO CLAIMS for the home or auto, not 1 in 17 years, and perfect driving record, not even a speeding ticket. Again, they'll be all cozy the first round then annually ding these things to their advantage.