I will agree with the overwhelming majority of these reviews! If they had a negative star review system I'd use it. The absolutely worst customer service I have every experienced. The short summary is that they were rude, abrasive, incompetent, and unprofessional. I was assigned this provider through USAA and have filed a report with USAA. I advise anyone who got assigned through USAA to do the same so that they will stop using this horrible company. For more details read below
My car died in a residential area with a gate code so I called in to provide the gate code for their convenience. When the phone picked up there was silence on the other end for about 6-7 seconds to the point I thought the call had dropped and then someone said "Hello?" In an aggressive and short tempered way. I then said my name and started saying why I was calling when I was cut off by the operator saying "one second" in the same short gruff manner. So I waited for about 3 minutes with just static and then decided to call back since it had been longer than a brief hold should be and I had not been given any information on why I was holding. When I called back the second time it rang three times and then was hung up on. The third time I called the same provider answered and said "look, I told you to hold because we are dealing with a call from law enforcement enforcement and we need to get the information from them so we can clean up the Highway but you've called back 5 times now" (again, this was only the third time I'd called) "and and we can't hear them with you constantly beeping in, I told you all of that and you keep calling, hold and we'll call you back soon" I said I'd be happy to hold and that was no problem (which if I'd been told any of that the first time instead of just "one second" I wouldn't have called back in the first place). A few minutes later he finally picked up the phone and said "ok, what do you want" and I told him that I was calling in to provide them a gate code but that they had never told me to hold so that's why I'd called back. He then said "you called us 5 times and I told you to hold and you refused to and we record all of our calls and I can look back and it shows that I told you to hold and you kept calling back." At which point I said I would like to receive a copy of that recording since if things kept continuing in this manner after I was done with them I would be calling USAA to discuss the costumer service I had received. He then said "If that's the case then I can just leave you on the side of the road all day if you are going to threaten us with a bad review." I told him every review on Yelp was a 1 star review and this was a pattern of unprofessionalism that he needed to address. He then went on a rant saying that all the bad reviews were because people didn't understand the wait time (not true, they all reference the same rude and abrupt mannerisms displayed by this operator) , and that there were tons of people who loved their service and I better get used to it because they were the main towing company that USAA uses in the area and then went on to insult my manhood (), say a few other insulting things and then threaten me again with canceling the request if I was going to complain about their service. I hung up, and USAA called me because he had marked my vehicle as unfindable and they wanted to make sure I still needed assistance. I told them the whole story and they quickly assigned me a new provider Splash towing which as I am writing this review has already called me to make sure I am ok and to give me an accurate time estimate for their pick up of my vehicle.
I don't usually leave such long reviews and I definitely don't usually try to be a negative or entitled person but when a service is as bad as what I just dealt with I feel it is my duty to try and keep others from experiencing the same thing I did.
Huge props to USAA and Splash towing for their care, professionalism and service which has made the day better despite dealing with a company as bad as Seaside Towing. read more