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Scammers

by Angry customer on Feb 7, 2020
1 out of 5 stars

I called these guys and cancelled my home contents insurance and they didn't cancel it. Apparently typed into the computer that the call was for a quote on how much it would cost if I cancelled it which is false. Then they tried to say they cancelled it due to non-payment. (when they directly withdraw the money from my account monthly) and sent some 98.74 to collections without so much as a phone call. I called them to find out wtf is going on the rep was extremely disrespectful. So I asked for a supervisor to which he denied me a supervisor. Kept repeating that my home contents insurance was cancelled due to non-payment. My rates got jacked up. I'm changing insurance companies and I suggest no one trusts these scam artists.

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Scammers. Not deserve a star!

by Jpriel on Jul 9, 2019
1 out of 5 stars

I cancelled my auto and home insurance policy last month since I found a better price from another company. The home insurance was ridiculously high, over $3,000 a year; they said that was their best-combined offer, we had to use them because we were using their auto insurance and we were too busy moving, after we settled down, we looked around for different quotes and decided to cancel, they charged us about $350.00 each cancellation, which is more than $700.00, we never had to pay cancellation fee with previous companies. They warned us they will put to a collection agency if we don’t pay for it. We end up no choice to pay them the painful price. Lesson learned and I will never recommend this company to anyone.

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Ice storm

by Ice storm 2018 on Sep 20, 2018
5 out of 5 stars

While our house was timely and perfectly restored by the insurance company after a devastating ice storm, we were confounded by the fact that the necessary complete replacement of the roof was not covered under the householders policy by the insurance company - a totally unexpected expense of $ 22,000 which we, as seniors with limited resources, suddenly had to bear...

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bad and expensive policy

by wolf2049 on Dec 6, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

my insurance expired and when i tried to renew after 1 week the price increase was $300. customer service is slow and inexperienced. ive been a customer for 6 years and this is how i get treated. guys on the phone seem like they dont want our business lol.

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Disaster of a company

by TW on Oct 25, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

Just got my home insurance renewal...for no reason a 100% INCREASE monthly. That's right. My home insurance premiums are DOUBLING. Despite the lowest crime rate of any neighbourhood in the city, my premium has gone up. Best part? They refuse to talk to me about it.

Now lets move on to my auto insurance. NEVER had an at fault accident, one that ended up being 50/50 for some reason, despite the fact I was stopped and stationary while someone ran smack into my car...those rates increased 50$ per month!!!!!!

Government needs to begin regulating this garbage. Insurance companies are NOTHING but legal rackets.

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Bad customer service

by Mitul on Aug 22, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

I was able to connect with Belairdirect easily.

But when I asked them to cancel my home insurance, they renewed it and charged $17 after that to cancel the policy.

Very bad service and they are saying they don't find any notes that I requested to cancel my home insurance.

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Predatory Business

by Raewyn Kalibre on Feb 3, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

I recently received an e-mail indicating that they expected over $100 in ADDITIONAL fees on my $27 bill because my credit card number changed and they were still billing the old one. I'm going to go out on a limb and cast my doubts that it costs you 100 bucks to send me an email and ask me to update my credit card info. Any respectable business would simply ask you to update your credit card info and be done with it. Absolutely disgusting.

Their customer service tried to tell me that the card was NSF. That's rich. You know, these days with the internet and all it's pretty easy to pull up a couple months of account statements. It only takes a second to see it was never within 10 trips to Vegas of its limit (any fewer than that and I get uneasy.)

So then they demand that *I* prove to *THEM* that the problem was with the card number rather than my balance. Now this would be simple enough if I could just send them a copy of my account statement. Obviously by now we know that "simple" is not the goal (the goal is to steal a bunch of your money.) No, apparently the only way to prove I have always had money (?) is for me to call my credit card company and ask them to send a letter to Belair Direct stating that my old credit card number was shut down. What a crock of bull. (funny story, when I called my credit card company to explain they were like "oh, let me guess, Belair Direct?")

Imagine you are at the grocery store to buy a bag of apples (the cost of which is slightly more than what I pay for insurance monthly.) You go to pay and accidentally tap an old card you forgot to take out of your wallet. What would you expect to happen? Would you expect two bruisers in suits to come out and drag you to a dirty back room and take a pair of knuckledusters to your jaw? If you do, Belair Direct is the insurance company for you! If you don't expect minor and completely harmless mixups to turn into the Gimp scene from Pulp Fiction, I would strongly advise you consider other options.

This whole run around aside, what's truly egregious and revolting is that this fee exists specifically to target and exploit people going through hard times, also known as "the exact people their business exists to protect." Being told "Oh I'm sorry. We didn't mean to charge YOU, mister person who has money and can afford it! THOSE fees are meant to prey upon the weak and helpless" doesn't exactly make me feel good about doing business with them; especially when said business consists of 99.99% giving them money for nothing and 0.01% me depending on them when something goes catastrophically wrong.

I, and literally every person I can convince for the rest of my life, will be cancelling our accounts (a feat I hear they also make nigh-impossible.) I hope the big bonus they get from all the outrageous cancellation fees is worth it.

The customer service reps were decent at least. If the business itself wasn't shadier than a discount candy salesman working out of an unmarked van I'd almost give it 2 stars.

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everyone on holidays

by Trixie on Dec 13, 2016
1 out of 5 stars

This is still going on in the 4th week with NOTHING. The first adjuster they assigned to my claim was on training the entire first week. I got the run around with several other adjusters just trying to kill time. Then the woman from Paul D. came and after looking at my broken apartment said, "all I see is a pile of broken things". but at this time, I don't think I can offer you anything". I said that they have to take responsibility for my contents. Then the adjuster came back from the training and spoke to me once and thereafter never returned any phone calls or emails. Suddenly, another adjuster sent me an email stating he was my adjuster and would like to view my property like the next day, because he was going on HOLIDAYS. He said he didn't really want the claim and that he had enough of his own claims, he didn't need mine added to it. He then came and it was impossible to see the damage properly as things were in pieces and needed someone to try to put my bed together to see if it was possible or not. It was in several pieces and piled. My couch had something rattling inside and when I unzipped the under part there was a piece of the frame dislodged and floating around and he said - "What's that?" Where did that come from, I don't know what that is". Like I went outside and got a brick and put it in the zipped underside of my couch. What a horror of a human being he was. And then he wanted to give me $200. for my TV which costs $800, and… well just etc. etc. etc. and then he was on holidays. And now that's where I am now and no one will call me back at all. I was given the adjuster’s bosses name and he is not in the office. They didn't dare tell me he is on holiday's but that he is out of the office. Then they gave me 3 other names at different times saying they would call me and no one did... DO NOT EVER USE THIS INSURANCE COMPANY!! IT IS A COMPLETE HORROR STORY. STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM. I wanted to give no stars, as that is what it deserves.

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Stay away from BellAir Direct!

by Ruben on Jul 28, 2016
1 out of 5 stars

There are monkeys running this circus- we had the house insured with them and were not deducting our payment- not until we decided to cancelled they noticed on top of their bad services they also charge and astronomical cancelation fee- we spoke with them short time ago and didn't mentioned anything about the house payment until today- I am retired and they didnt want to arrange for a few payments, they want all at once- we have reached the company a few times and they never mentioned any payment issues neither did I notice beofre as everything has been arranged as prepayment. Had car insurance issues with them and is all the same, the customer is always wrong and they take accountability for nothing- sometimes you get what you pay for- I am happy I walked to an insurance company and spoke with a person that insured me and is there any time I have a question- For Bellair is easy to mistreat you as customer because they don't have to face you- it all happens behind a phone - Glad I am not their customers - Stay away from Bell Air!

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Premium hikes /no explanation

by didi on Apr 13, 2016
2 out of 5 stars

I have been with Belair for some 20 years and have always trusted them to be fair and reasonably prices, however, the last 4 yeas or so, I have been battling cancer and have not paid attention to my policies until this week when I took out my Belair envelope to check the Home insurance policy in order to claim on my income tax returns for 2015. Shocked I notices my premium had gone up some $500 for no reason, no claims ever or anything that could explain this hike. I looked further and noticed that a $250 hike was applied last year and so on. What to do, I called and tried to get some reasoning behind this unacceptable hike of close to $800 in 2 years with no claims and the agent had no explanation other than , well we must have had claims that justify the races, I threatened to cancell my policy and all he could do was quote me the penalty for cancelling 4 months in advance. I lost it and insisted on speaking with a manager as I felt I had been ripped of for the last 3 years. I got quotes from Wawanesa for the identical coverage and better for cars and home as policy with Belair for some $1300 cheaper I want to sue them actually for the overpayment of premiums for the past 3-4 years. Don't fall for their 2 years plans because any little change and you think you are paying less because your monthly payment has gone down but that is only because they recalculate your monthly payments on the balance remaining at the time of the changes . We have been bamboozelled by this 2 year policy for many years, but no more!!! Get out shop around there are many other reputable companies with much better rates out there. I am gone and glad to be saving big bucks!!!!

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