January 26, 2015 the Georgia Attorney General's Office entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with Vivint. The state contended about failure to include proper cancellation instructions that included: dates, and move, cancellation and/or renewal policies. June 27, 2017 in North Carolina, Vivint was again reported to BBB for failure to include proper cancellation instructions. These are just a couple, out of many, cancellation complaints to the BBB about Vivint. Just like my husband and I, consumers were told by their representatives that there was a 30 day, NO questions asked, cancellation policy. But, when Vivint was contacted for cancellation by consumers and myself, Vivint stated they have a 3 day cancellation policy, not a 30 day one or that you have to be "approved" for a 30 day trial. This is 100% fraudulent on Vivint's part for hiding this information from it's consumers and my husband and I. https://www.bbb.org/utah/business-reviews/burglar-alarm-systems-dealers-monitoring-and-service/vivint-smart-home-security-in-provo-ut-4002276/alerts-and-actions
My husband and I have been having several issues with our system since we had it installed 2 weeks ago. It has left us feeling unsure of whether or not our home is safe due to many false alarms. The alarm goes off unexpectedly and the door unlocks itself without anyone touching the app/console while we're away. After several instances and research, my husband and I thought it best to have the system removed since we were within our 30 day trial period. Our representative, Brandon, and his supervisor both told us we had a 30 day trial to try the system out and see how we liked it. NO cancellation fees, NO hidden fees, NO questions asked. I even made an effort to ask if there were any hidden rules to the 30 day trial that could lock us in permanently to this contract and was told NO by both Brandon and his supervisor.
It wasn't until I called into Vivint support that I found out there was some sort of secret rule that my husband and I were NOT informed of. Apparently you have to be "approved" for the 30 day trial and we were only "approved" for 3 days!! We were NEVER told about this "approval" trial. We were told, by Brandon, that we had 30 days, not 3, to try the system out or we could cancel NO questions asked. The support representative said he would have to double verify with Brandon and, of course, Brandon said he only approved 3 days which my husband and I know is FALSE! Again, this was NEVER communicated to us in our home and if it had been we would have NEVER signed up for Vivint in the first place. Who in the world can experience a system in 3 days!? We were given false information and signed a contract under false pretences given to us by Brandon and his supervisor.
Now, we can't cancel our membership, even though it's only been 20 days, without paying a HUGE cancellation fee that we should NOT have to pay since we are still within our 30 days. And, of course, the Vivint support rep and Brandon say there's nothing they can do about it. I'm sorry, but I've worked for corporate industries and there is ALWAYS something that can be done. What should be done is Brandon and Vivint should fix this issue. They should admit where they are wrong and allow us to cancel our membership under the 30 day trial with NO questions asked since that's what was communicated to my husband and I during the time of installment. read more