Phone wait times and overall service
by Sadie McCutchan on Nov 26, 2021
1 out of 5 stars
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I have been a PC Mastercard holder for 20+years. Recently my family needed to travel overseas as a parent was sick & later died. This was unexpected & we used a Mastercard to cover the costs (NOT PC). Now PC have lowered our limit without any notification. This is disgraceful to do such a thing to a loyal customer who has never been over the limit, who has always paid off the balance & never had any charges. I call to ask why & they say: because our credit score is lower (remember we did not use PC to cover our travel). The card we did use has offered a credit increase!!! This is how PC treats loyal customers, We will NEVER be using PC Mastercard again, our balance (which was small) is paid off well before due date AGAIN but the credit card will be a dust collector from this day forward. I have read many complaints about PC, so it just shows what they think of us all. Oh, and the card we did use for our travel will be clear this month, so PC, good on you. We have better cards anyway & optimum points can be collected without you. You were only any good for no-frills & Loblaws anyway!!!
I'm writing this review because there are almost only bad reviews with these cards, and I have a completely different experience. I have this card because no big bank (TD or RBC) wanted to give me, a newcomer without a credit history, the credit card. I'm with this card for about 2 years. Once I lost the credit card, probably at the gas station, and realized 1 day after. There were already some transactions on my card I didn't recognize. Presidents Choice had no problem to cancel all these transactions. Second positive experience I had just now. We bought flight tickets with Primera Airlines, which went bankrupt. All we had to do was filling in a claim form and send a copy of tickets purchase via email. 4 weeks later I got the full chargeback. I was never waiting on the line more than maybe 3 minutes. Everyone was always professional and knowledgeable. To be honest with you, I didn't expect that free card can have such a good customer service. I like earning points for my groceries, I like that they are always improving their online customer panel. My friends recommended this card to me and they also have only the positive experience.
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The phone wait times are insane and often result in a transferring of departments, and additional wait times. Sometimes receiving a notice that it's not even available.
When speaking with customer service the quality and knowledge is low, most likely what leads to a transfer.
Zero justification for their actions.
Example: notified them I would be travelling, my card was deactivated while travelling, unable to reach support to resolve the issue. Was told the issue was resolved, continued to be unable to use it.
Took about 4 days to get through to someone who could actually look into the card.
"Risk department" then proceeded to spend 30 mins going over my most recent transactions... none of which I could actually confirm due to not having access to my online account to view these transactions that took place in another country.
Complete waste of time and the service provider was completely incapable of understanding the level of frustration or to explain why the card was deactivated or apologizing for the inconvenience this caused.