O the stories I could tell . . . about a year and a half ago we had torrential rains and I had recently dug up my front yard area inadvertently funneling water toward the house. So, our basement took on some water. Naturally, I moved to file a claim with my insurance company . . . . and, naturally, it wasn't covered. That would've been fine I understand that, but it took the insurance adjuster nearly three days to come out and survey the damage just to tell me, and meanwhile I have standing water in the corner of my basement. Not only that, but in the course of me asking the adjuster to come out sooner (as in ASAP) he lied to me.
At the beginning of the convo he tells me that the people ahead of me had their appointments in the books for several weeks. When I scoffed and asked him if they could not then wait a few more days he changed his story. He said these were homes that flooded in that same heavy rain and they just filed ahead of me . . . riiiight. When I asked him just how it was that they knew their homes were going to flood that they could make an appointment w/ him several days in advance . . . he stuttered, backtracked, stuttered some more and then started in on what I like to call "The Insurance Two-Step" (not invented by, but most certainly perfected by Nationwide) when I hung up on him.
At this point I don't care who pays for it, I just want my basement back. And I have to say that having insurance with a nationally known and recognized insurance carrier I pay top dollar premiums for top dollar service i.e. in the event of a freak heavy rain, having an adjuster come out QUICKLY, and which last time I checked did not include lying. Grrr.
To top it all off I filed a complaint with Nationwide about the lying adjuster and the delay. The phone operator took my complaint, asking me a couple of questions and said, "Thank you for your imput. We will look into this matter, and be back in touch with you in two business days." I kid you not they called me back a month and a half later. The guy gave me alllllll kinds of excuses, apologized profusely, but in actuality did nothing about the lying little weasel.
The gentleman made the comment that he had listened to the recording of my complaint, and was citing a couple of random things I said. For instance, he decided to dilligently defend the fact that the adjuster's voicemail greeting was annoying, seriously? Finally, after losing several minutes of my life to this looooong phone conversation that was in the fast lane to no where I cut him off saying:
"Wait, wait . . . didn't you just say you listened to the recording?"
"Well, uh, yes ma'am. I did -"
"Could you tell me, then, what the operator told me at the end of the phone call?"
"Well, I, uh, believe you were talking about .-"
"No, the very end, please."
"Uh . . . he said someone would contact you in two business days . . . "
"Really? You're kidding! Hah! I, for the life of me, thought he said two weeks! And yet here it is six weeks later - that's gotta be some kinda record in horrible service. I mean you're calling me back weeks late about a complaint I made for 'inattentive' service. Bahaha! You know I didn't think it was possible, but Nationwide, you continue to underwhelm me. I believe this conversation is over - good day." Click.
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