USAA Kicks Ass
My dad retired from the Army a few years ago and kept his insurance with USAA, so my insurance is also USAA. I can see why he stuck with them for so long.
Each time I called the other person was courteous, helpful, and knowledgeable. I screwed up the first time I called and only made a claim on the window/car door damage. I was going to claim my stereo against my renter's insurance, but found out it wasn't covered. So I called USAA back, got a different lady, and sorted the situation out. Ms. Held was even cooler than the first lady I spoke with.
They sent a window repair service out to where I was working and that repair was done in less than 30 minutes when they said it may take 90. I didn't have to repeat any of my account information (something that annoys the piss outta me when on phone-based customer service). Ms. Held and I toured USAA's available inventory of stereos and picked one that is in nearly every aspect the same as the one I had before.
She set me up with a collision company that is hardly a two minute drive from my apartment for an appointment the next day and they found some additional dents near the point of entry which I had not seen. We've got a date set for next Monday for the repairs and they'll give me a rental for that period. I walked in at 5:15pm and they closed at 5:30pm, so they stayed open a little longer to accomodate me.
I was just impressed with the quality, speed, and usefulness of the service from all the parties involved. Especially when I was told over the phone when with USAA: "Don't worry about not knowing what to do. It's our job to see that you have to call here as infrequently as possible."
If I had opposible thumbs on my feet, I'd give them four thumbs up.
Comments
shit, that reminds me that I should be using my dad's free family health benefits before he retires in January.
Also, can you please delete any of my previous comments? I just realised that I been using my website email address and any troll bot that goes over this page is gonna get it for the damned spam. Sorry about that. (on my website I use javascript rot13 encoding to hide addresses)
Posted by: Ken | December 6, 2002 07:40 AM
oh, it would seem that the address doesnt show up in your page anyways. n/m. the only email address visible is 'drizz@drizzten.com'
Posted by: Ken | December 6, 2002 07:42 AM
Strange! I was instructed to fax a copy of certain information regarding a traffic accident before 5 P.M. by the claims adjustor. I tried and tried again. Either the fax line was busy or their fax machine did not respond. Phone calls to the adjustor, personally, made from 4:20 P.M. onward were not successful.
Maybe they are wonderful except for Friday afternoons after 4 P.M.
Posted by: Ron | January 13, 2006 03:47 PM
Readers attention is drawn to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:USAA
[edited to fix broken formatting]
Posted by: usaa critic | February 19, 2006 01:11 PM