We just want your money!!

Had a life insurance and paid for nearly the full length of many years, had closed my bank account and had to set up new debit with new bank so phoned in my payment early but they still took it as did not have the sense to inform the accounts department it had been paid and instantly refund it. Denied any need to refund my overdraft fees when they still took it from the account being closed. Then refused to refund fees and also did not even refund the payment until a massive arguement on the phone. On their site they state" if a mistake by MY BANK or themselves they would immediately refund!!! How can they refuse to sort it out. Absolutely no empathy just interested in the money. They were the most expensive insurance I have had and after man thousands of pounds from me in payments could not even refund a few pounds of fees!! Have cancelled and will make sure all my family who are in very high positions in industry having contact with many users who require insurances will ensure they do not sign up with Aviva, also my son in Uni who is active on student union and a member of a political party so plenty of contact with a huge amount of people. plenty of other cheaper companies with better customer service. A personal advisor who nearly lost me a lot of money referred me to them so no doubt she got a good fee and not interested also in my best interest. Will never ever use them again and can see why they are going down the pan. So many lovely companies around who genuinely want to help and have good customer service. Now received 2 letters ensuring they try to make sure they are not accountable but how can they argue with the fact on their paperwork they say they will refund money immediately!!! Search around that is what I suggest.

Robbery

Do not use this company my 75 year old mother is trying to pay them back early and she can not unless she pays them a £11000.00 interest plus a £ 200.00 charge so do not use them for anything they have already made £ 1000s in interest from her
I used them for car insurance and they can't be bothered to return your call so no matter wot they offer don't use them

double whammy

I took out car insurance with aviva only to have it doubled when they dis-allowed my NCD..I made various enquiries including having a broker 'phone them who received a quote hundreds of pounds less.As the representative who took my cancellation stated my case had not been handled well.Adding insult to injury Aviva sent me a demand for 63 pence which i had paid on cancellation.Aviva is not a company I will ever deal with again.

Fast processing, easy communication, not stressful!

My car was stolen from a public car park (7 weeks after purchasing the car!!) and Aviva were fast and efficient with dealing with my claim. As it was the first time I have ever had to claim anything, I was stressed about the whole situation and had sleepless nights. One particular lady at Aviva, Ms Daly, was VERY helpful and put my mind at ease almost instantly. She didnt go on to speak in high technical terms (which I would very unlikely not understand), she made it easy for me to understand what was happening and what the process is. I couldn't appreicate her help enough. I am to give them a call when I get a new car and they will simply change my car details over. I am so thankful to Ms Daly and Aviva for all their help with my claim. I couldtn possibly fault them!!

They don't even reply to complaints or issue policy value certs.

I've had a pension policy on which my bank account is debited on a monthly basis.This has been going since the 1980's,and was originally under the name of Norwich Union.
Since August I have been trying to get details of what the policy is worth,but have had no reply.Nothing! Yet it is quite a substantial amount of money I now have invested in this policy.
Their incompetence makes me worried if they have been investing my monthly debits in my policy at all.Back in 2010 they wrote to me saying the policy would have to be made paid-up as I had not been making my monthly debits.I was able to prove they were wrong by showing them my bank statements showing the standing order in place since 1988.
They are incompetent and I think dishonourable that they do not even reply to customers from whom they have been taking substantial sums of money for 25 years.I would advise anyone and everyone not to trust them with a penny of their money.

'SHAFTED BY AVIVA INSURANCE!' youtu.be/KWn8G9L21z8

youtu.be/KWn8G9L21z8 'SHAFTED BY AVIVA INSURANCE!'
An Englishman fights to protect his family and his home against AVIVA INSURANCE!

AVIVA

Appear very competitive, with the 15 weeks free insurance - the premiums about half of what I was paying for the same level
of cover.

Not claimed yet (hopefully, won't have to) - so can't comment
on that side of things.

Have not even had a product with them, but still caused me trouble.

For a start, they are expensive, and don't put themselves on the comparison websites. However, a bigger problem for me was that through one of the companies under their insurance umbrella, they carry out credit checks when you ask for a quote through GoCompare.

This is just for a quote.

Against the credit record with Call Credit (Noddle), I had numerous entries from them, all labelled as 'Credit' checks.

There's a failure of both them and Call Credit to recognise that this is a problem. Another company looking at the record will see these entries and will think credit has been applied for, when it never has.

Noddle have even had to specifically name Aviva in their description of the complaint category that fits this, saying that because people have ticked the box allowing credit checks then they are allowed to do them in this case. I made the argument against, and eventually (although not admitting fault) they have said they will get them removed.

Good

Good insurance and investment deals. This company offers guarantees which will protect a defined level of your original investment on its fifth anniversary.

Ian L. found this review useful

Double your premium without telling you

Was quoted £840 for 2 car policy, mine was £650 of this with 1 years NCD. Aviva wouldn't accept proof of this as was with Admiral on joint policy. This increased premium to £1694 total. They took £854 from our account without a letter or phone call or email. When I phoned to query and asked what % 1 years NCD was the customer service person didn't know then came back with 50%. Surely this would just double the premium on my car but was told new premium was correct. Will be going elsewhere for both cars and did a new online quote with Aviva(bearing in mind we were new customers in November) to check which was £825 with no NCD for me. Makes no sense at all.

Expect the worst!

Expect being quoted higher than other insurers, expect extremely poor customer service and promises from an overseas call centre when things go wrong, expect to be billed incorrectly without a valid explanation, expect to receive no response when you complain, expect to be referred to a debt collection agency should you even require clarification of your bill, expect a face-less and human-less organisation to railroad you into paying something you don't actually owe... they want your money and that's all!

Expensive Quotes

quote offered was rather expensive compared to other quotes!

Offers discount, and chrgers less without discount code!

I recently got 2 quotes from aviva for my car insurence, the first was without a discount code an the quote was £678, the second offered a, %20 discount and £30 cashback if you went through the company (www.berewardedmore.com) if you work for verious companys ie first choice travel, the second quote was for £686, the difference being £8 more with the so called %20 discount... totally inaccurate and misleading information! An I just wanted to warn others to what I had found by trying to get cheaper car insurence, witch is what we all want !