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TL;DR: Was told how to cancel my policy, followed instructions. Continued to get charged. Contacted them immediately, took months for them to get back to me while still being charged monthly. Was told a completely different story on how to cancel policy from original instructions. Now they can't tell me if I'm getting all of my money back. Disputing charges with my credit card company now.
BestLIFE: If you're reading this, then you need to brush up on your customer service. Here's a video that I watched as a teenager to learn proper customer service, maybe you can learn too: www.giveemthepickle.com
Bonus: My significant other had a policy through them as well. They told him over the phone when he signed up last year that there was no waiting period for needing any extensive work done. Eight months later, he needed a deep cleaning. The dental office even heard BEST Life say that there was no waiting period when they called initially. When it came time to pay the dentist, BEST Life refused, stating that there was a one year waiting period, so we got stuck with a $2,000 deep cleaning bill.
My Story:
Take your business elsewhere, BEST Life has the worst service of any company I've ever come across.
They e-mailed me in December saying that if I did not re-enroll, they would auto-cancel my policy. Great, I wanted to cancel anyway since I didn't need dental insurance this coming year. I did the logical thing, and took no action so that my policy would be auto-canceled.
In mid January, I see that my credit card has been charged for the policy. Weird since I was under the impression that my policy should have been auto-canceled. I went to see if my online account was still active so that I could try and sort it out, but they had deleted my account. Delete my account, but still taking my money? That makes no sense. So I e-mailed customer service since I sleep during normal business hours. I get no response, but I decide to remain patient since they probably get a big backlog this time of year due to policy turnovers.
February 15th rolls around, I was charged again. I once again e-mailed to ask what was going on. Finally, on Monday February 26th, my FIRST e-mail is answered:
'Unfortunately, since you did not notify us to terminate your policy and cancel the recurring payments the policy continued. We do have a 14 day notification requirement. Since your initial date of contact was 01/15/2018 the earliest I can terminate your policy is 01/29/2018.The amount remaining after that date will be refunded to your card. Refunds can take up to two billing cycles.'
Per my understanding in December, they were to auto-cancel, and now I'm being told that I needed to notify them to terminate the policy. I e-mailed them back re-explaining that I was told to not re-enroll for auto-cancellation. They answered again:
'I understand that you want to terminate your policy. If you chose not to renew you must notify us to cancel the recurring payment and to terminate the policy. We have a 14 day notification requirement. Since your initial date of contact was 01/15/2018 the earliest I can terminate your policy is 01/29/2018.'
At this point, I'm obviously being quoted policy as if it were scripture and they are not addressing the fact that I was told in December that if I didn't re-enroll, it would auto-cancel.
I stayed up during my normal sleep hours to call them to try and sort it out. When I tried explaining the situation to the first girl on the phone, she transferred me in the middle of explaining without saying why, just *click* and I was put on hold for over 20 minutes for someone else to deal with.
The second person that I talked to was a little better, but still could not answer my question: 'Why was I told in December that it would auto-cancel if I didn't re-enroll, then BEST Life continue to charge me even though I did what I was instructed to have the policy canceled for me?'
She asked if I still had the e-mail and scoffed with 'Of course...' when I said no. Seriously, why would I still have the e-mail when it was very straightforward that they would terminate my policy automatically for me if I took no action to re-enroll? My questions got shoved under the rug with "The financial department will reimburse you as they see fit, it will take up to two billing cycles.".
I have disputed the charges with my credit card company at this point because BEST Life does not care about doing what is right, only about trying to keep money that they have stolen.
Update: the credit card company talked to BestLIFE and was told that I would not receive a refund at all, per a letter I got in the mail today... which is funny since I got an e-mail from BestLIFE around that same time and was told that I would be refunded for just one month. Are they lying to the credit card company now? read more