Re: HELP! The dealer ripped me off on my insurance claim!

["Zach Vrooman" <zach@discover-net.net>]

Also, you should NEVER use GEICO insurance. I read in some magazine a while
back, I believe it was Car & Driver, that they donate money for police
departments to get stuff like photo radar, and radar guns. GEICO keeps
sending me crap, I file it under 'G' immediately. State Farm gave me a HELL
of a deal 10 years ago, and I've been there ever since. I pay $45 a month to
insure two vehicles, and renter's insurance too. State Farm is the ONLY way
to go.  At least up here, if the company has a lower amount of claims than
they were expecting, you get a dividend. My last one was 30 some-odd
dollars. That's almost an entire payment!! Plus, their service is topnotch.
My entire family goes through State Farm, and NONE of us see any reason to
change that.

Zach


----- Original Message -----
From: Emm Dee Emm Eh <scirocco86@home.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; <scirocco_gtx@Yahoo.com>; <mgyip@Yahoo.com>;
<sjmill@erols.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: HELP! The dealer ripped me off on my insurance claim!


> MOTHERFUCKERS!
> *NEVER* I REPEAT *NEVER* go to "Martens" VW in DC. They are fucking
> sneaky bastards. I brought my car in for a tweaked rear axle to be
> replaced on an insurance claim. The fucking asshole crooked Service
> Manager (Frank White) was acting cool, and had noticed my bent rim from
> a pothole incident in the backroads of montgomery county md. He said
> "Is that from the rear?" I said
> "No, I bent it on the front when there was a piece of road missing that
> I couldn't avoid." "Well, I'll see if we can get the insurance company
> to take care of that" (something along those lines, this was a while
> ago, as the claim took 3 months because of Geico's inept retarded people
> and Marten's crooked service manager.) I turn my car in finally to get
> thre rear axle taken care of this monday, after driving a brand new 1.8T
> golf with fucked up alignment for *MONTHS* because of these people. What
> was said to take 2 days, really took until this afternoon (friday). Ok,
> no big deal im patient.... I get there, and I'm told I have to drive
> over to Geico to pickup the check for my claim. *grumble* (I'm taking
> time out of work here!) So I go there, and pickup a check for 707$. Ok
> wow, they must have faxed my claims adjuster the bill, it wasn't as bad
> as I thought it would be! Wrong... I get there, and read the 2nd page of
> the bill.... 1450$. I have a 500$ deductible (Yeah, fuck me there goes
> $500 there..) and a check for $707.19.... Something isn't right
> here...... I look at the bill, $238 for a new steel wheel, and tire
> w/mounting balancing.( I didn't ask for this... Reread what asshole
> Frank White said) I call my insurance company and argue with them for
> hours. I go to get some lunch while waiting for them to call back. I
> eat, walk back to the dealer and hear that the service rep from Geico
> called back, and told me to go back to pickup another check for the
> tire. I go back and talk to my claims adjuster who inspected the car.
> (Read *NOT* inspected, she looked at it and didn't even look in the
> trunk to see the spare tire, but later insisted she did so Geico
> wouldn't have to pay for it...... fuckers. I have *3* cars insured
> through them.) She tells me to go fuck myself nicely, and to talk to the
> dealer like I expected, I just wanted to play fair at first and try. I
> get back, and call Geico again like WTF, and the service rep tells me to
> go fuck myself nicely, and geico wont cover it. (I had told my claims
> adjuster earlier because good ole frank tried to be the pimp and said
> "there's a damaged rim in the back of his car, I don't know if it's from
> this or what...." Never had he said "Will you cover this?" (My claims
> adjuster told me this, and she really has not too much of a reason to
> lie, and (later)when I asked Frank about mentioning that to her he
> changed the subject again and started stalling/talking shit.) Now I head
> over to Mr Frank White, the asshole that started this mess by taking it
> upon himself to fuck my insurance company on something that wasn't
> related to this accident (I think my claims adjuster knew this, and
> thought I was part of it with him!) without telling me, or ever letting
> me know. I go talk to him and tell him that I can't afford to pay for
> the rim, and that I really didn't ask for it. He changes the subject and
> asks if I have a credit card out of nowhere when I tell him that I
> didn't even really ask for that to be done to begin with. I say yes,
> curious as to why he asked, and he says "come with me." He gets up and
> starts bullshitting me as he walks me down to the cashier, on the way
> down he asks for my rental car key, saying "We can get this back to
> enterprise nice and calm/smoothly like he's being nice." Next he leads
> me to the cashier and puts the bill down. Dude starts talking, and won't
> shut up. I bring up that I don't want to pay for this tire as I didn't
> authorize it, and also was never made aware it was getting replaced
> (neither was my insurance company!). He just walks away. I'm fucked,
> there goes my rental key and what not, and im late as hell back to work.
> I regret this but I had to plunk down the charge card and pay, or walk
> back to baltimore. WTF is there something I can do about this bullshit?
> He wouldn't take it off the bill and just ignored me. Am I really just
> freaking over nothing? I don't like the fact that 200$ of *MY* money was
> spent on something that was never originally supposed to be replaced,
> and Frank White wouldn't acknowledge the fact that I didn't ask for that
> fucking rim. This guy is the *SERVICE MANAGER* I.E., highest service guy
> in that building. What do you people think? Peace,
> -Gary "I hate slimey dealers" Huff
>
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