I did not find this company, they found me. They had a representative prowling our neighborhood in Sandy, UT, offering an offer that seemed too good, to be true: free equipment, just pay the monthly charge, & the sales representative assured us that there would be no issues/fees to cancel. As the wife of a firefighter (home alone A LOT), we thought this would be a great addition to our home, to help me feel safe. I asked him to come back when my husband came home later in the evening.
In the mean time, I posted in our community forum asking if anyone had heard of them, & their thoughts... people messaged me warning me to be careful, & that it sounded like a scam.
When the sales agent returned, he seemed nice enough & said a lot of things to calm our worries. Again, he reiterated that we can just end the service if it is not working out. I really believe that he was preying on our fears, because I had mentioned to him that I was alone a lot. He told us he would follow up with an agreement via email that would have the terms that he discussed with us. We trusted the agreement to reflect what we had been told. Our mistake.
Someone would come and install the equipment (the installer was very nice).
In 2019, my husband & I had to make a large change in our lives (due to a large change in a family member's health), & move. We sold our dream condo, my husband left his dream job as a Utah firefighter.. it was a very hard.
That is when the trouble started. Apparently, once you take upon the service of Wise Home, they sell your agreement and info to an account management company called Safe Home Security. You can only cancel if you pay 80% or 90% of your remaining agreement: which for us is $800+. I am not sure which percentage is true, I was given 2 figures.
We didn't know this, so our first attempt at canceling our monthly service (Jan 6), we emailed Wise Home. They ignored the email. My husband followed up by phone & spoke with the call center agent who tried to get him off the phone and told him there was nothing he could do. After persisting, & asking to speak with someone who could help him, he was then connected to the team manager named Rowdy. My husband explained the situation; Rowdy repeatedly apologized but refused to help him. He concluded by saying he would "look into it" and call us back.
Naturally, we did not receive a call back. After a week and a half of waiting, I posted this publicly to our neighborhood forum, to warn everyone else in my neighborhood about the turn that this had taken. This is the only time we received a phone-call. This went on for weeks & weeks. The pattern: they told us they would call, & never did. We called, they said they couldn't help us, but would "work on it," & give us a call. We were told to call the "accounting team." Called 7-10 times, no one ever answered. We left voicemails, no one called us back.
So, my husband (now a firefighter in our new state), cannot reach them during open hours. I resumed the convo on his behalf. Again, the same talking in circles and refusing to help us & take any responsibility for the misinformation Wise Home's sales rep said to "lock" us into an agreement.
I don't remember the breaking point in the conversation with Rowdy, but I was given a phone number to "account owners." It is a company called Safe Home Security & they buy customer accounts/info from Wise Home to manage.
I called them & the agent on the phone is frustrated. He says that he frequently deals with customers of Wise Home calling for help, because they were lied to by the sales agent, and Wise Home does not want to assist them and "lose money." He does not help me, as he says that the sales representatives that do this are the responsibility of Wise Home. He tells me the only way I can get help is to call Wise Home, & he offers to send me a copy of the agreement.
This is the email he sent me: "This email contains your agreement that you signed with Wise Home Security. I was talking to my manager about this situation and since then we did drop them as a dealer. They no longer are dealers for us because the way that they conducted business. Again I am very sorry this happened to you. Thank you, Steven"
AGAIN, I call Wise Home & explain this. They're interested in the email, & ask that I forward it. He says he is going to escalate this to the CEO, as he is upset about the content of the email. He was willing to escalate this to the CEO, but they still refused to help me. Wise Home said that this was unacceptable for their "customer" to receive this email, but then tell me that I have to call this company that their CEO is angry with, & ask them to release the contract.
They are hiding behind the contract that I unwittingly agreed to, & refusing to take responsibility for their rep preying on my fears as a woman who is home-alone frequently. I have been ping-ponged back & forth, & there is 0 accountability being taken, & 0 attempts at treating me like a human. read more