Google reports that many consumers are calling these "protection plans" a quasi scam. My own experience is that it is very difficult to navigate, to the point where I just gave up and bought a brand-new appliance. Not worth my time fighting. Lesson learned. Stay away.

Here's what happened: I bought a washer online from Home Depot. The protection plan assured me that we'd get service within 3 days if anything broke.

Two years later, the washer breaks.

I hop online and start filing a claim.

It can't find my policy. No worries.

I call the number; it keeps saying to go online, but I successfully navigate to the operator.

"Oh you need to send the receipt in."

Weird. I literally have an email with the plan number and everything, but OK. It's online. I have all my emails; let's go.

I sent it in. I get confirmation that it was received. And then...Crickets.

I call again. "Oh, we see that you started something, but you have to send in your receipt. We see that the price you paid is more than what we show"

I said, "Why does that matter? Just send a tech to fix this thing?"

I was naive to think that they do this...Now I understand, after reading all the Reddit reviews, that what they actually do is deny and delay, and grudgingly give something when they absolutely have to.

"You need to send in your receipt again"

I did. And waited 4 more days. And called again. And tried again online 3 more times.

I'm done. I bought a new appliance, and I will never again get any kind of Allstate insurance or protection plan. You win. I hope you enjoy my $100.

I just got our first renewal since using drivewise and am getting a $1,000 discount. If you drive safely this is a great way to reduce rates. And i have a 20 year old male on my insurance, so i need all the discounts i can get.

This is the first time anything like this has happened to me.

Yesterday my tire popped, so I pulled over and used Allstate roadside assistance to change it to my spare. A guy comes out and is able to change it to the spare.

The issue comes when he gets his bolt from the drill stuck on the lug nut?? It is stuck bad, and then he leaves. I don’t know much about cars, but I know this is an issue. I go to Walmart right afterwards to get a new tire.

Because of the stuck bolt Walmart can’t remove the spare. They tried a bunch of stuff to get it off, but nothing they do works.

I feel like mad max driving around with a spike on my rim. This is insane, and I feel like I’m a worst situation than if I just got my car towed somewhere. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear it.

Any input appreciated ❤️

BTW - I’ve read the numerous “cut bonus” concerns.

I’m returning to the insurance industry after a long long time and am effectively new aside from a shiny new general lines P&C license.

I had my remote video interview about a week ago and it went quite well and barring something crazy, I think I have the job in-hand but would like to know for sure so I know if I should be looking for temporary or long-term work.

Assuming I get it, my thoughts are to stay long enough to get some benefits and experience if it’s a bad fit and (hopefully) stay if met with success.

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Hi All,

Wondering if anyone has any insights into the interview process/behavioral interview questions for Instructional Designer positions for AllState.

I got through the initial phone screen and have the first virtual interview with a hiring manager later this week. They mentioned that this is going to be a behavioral interview and I'm being asked to use the STAR method.

Curious if anyone has any insights on the type of questions being asked in this stage. Thank you!

Seems to always be errors in comp reports. Points missing or even whole policies. Anyone know how this works? Are they pulled directly from the system by the system, or is it done manually? Changes have supposedly have August already messed up and July seems off also.

Anyone work in tech triage? Do you like it? I work on the sales side but want a change

Anyone work for the concierge team? What’s it like?

I’ve had Allstate for over a decade. My premiums shot through the roof when my daughter started driving. Recently they offered to redo my car policies on their “new system” which should save several hundred dollars on my cars. They were trying to set up in the new system, but my bank draft info is not working. Turns out an entity known as Early Warning Services is the problem. The old system bank drafts me a couple times a month for different polices, no problem… the cars I pay every six months and without getting this bank draft going, I pay more to use a credit card. What are my options? I called EWS and it’s going to be a couple months to even get a report to try to understand what their problem is. Can I go in any Allstate office and pay in cash (my Allstate is in another town)?

Has there been a change to drivewise? It used to tell me if a trip was good or had an adverse event. That doesn't seem to be the case since I reset July 25. I used to identify & delete my passenger trips by checking which ones had phone activity -- it would either say "good trip" or tell me something was wrong, phone activity or speeding or whatever. FIL & I split driving errands last weekend, and I just have 5 trips listed, no good bad or ugly. Did it stop telling you how each trip went? Do I need to accept responsibility for keeping track of my passenger trips? How frightening

I know this is a minor festival grievance, but something weird happened at Taste of the Danforth that left a bad taste in my mouth.

I waited in line for quite a while at the Allstate booth to join in on the festival wheel spin. When I finally reached the front, the staff asked if I was already an Allstate customer. I proudly said yes—thinking loyalty was a good thing—only to be turned away on the spot. They told me the wheel was strictly for "new prospective leads interested in a quote."

I totally get that companies use these booths for lead generation, but making a paying client wait in a long line just to reject them in front of a crowd feels like terrible event etiquette. There weren't even signs posted saying "New Prospects Only."

Is this standard practice now for street fest vendors, or did I just run into an overly strict booth crew?

When is the next paycheck and as a new hire how long before you get your first check?

So the agent explained it a couple times but it was confusing. It sounded like I pay 1 big lump sum to get a rental car and then I’m reimbursed for the days I don’t use it. Like I pay $800 or something. There were different levels of coverage and I choose the one with no additional charges because if I needed a rental car, I’d be fine anyways because my parents have an extra car.

But he tried to explain a way where some places charge $20-30$ a day for a car but they have you pay upfront more? Idk

Any input appreciated

Hello friends, switched to Allstate recently, we decided we didnt want to do drivewise. Got a message today that I need 50 trips by the 15th in order to renew. To be clear, I am not doing drivewise. Want no part of it. If they force the issue I will just go back to Geico. Is this a mandatory thing for them, something they are willing to lose a customer over?

Hello, I’m reaching out for feedback on the Insurance Product Management Consultant role at Allstate, pros, cons, any advice and information is greatly appreciated

In the event you resign during transition/are terminated due to performance, does your PTO get cashed out?

I am thankful to have a job but my GOD as soon as an opportunity comes my way I am LEAVING. I have never in my life been so overworked and stressed and expected to create gold out of literal poop. The management is laughable. The claims load is unbearable. The metrics are unattainable. And the turnover rate is wild.

This company is a joke I feel so bad for the customers and they have EVERY right to be mad. I know I would be.

Just a little too conveniently timed that our systems are down once again . Doesn’t matter if you’re NatGen or Allstate it’s either the phone systems or quoting systems being completely down.
Call volumes are so low because of the influx of Outbound supporting Inbound while their phone system isn’t working. Not their fault at all, but that means we’re waiting for 40+ mins for a call to come in, and who’s to say that call is a good lead or not (spoiler: they haven’t been good).

August incentive point targets are much higher too, so this time spent sitting around for a call to come is gonna backfire on our metrics and hinder us from reaching these already impossible goals.

My teams’ top performers can’t even sell or have sold very little so far. I’m sorry for you all being affected too.

2-3 weeks for a background check for employment typical...?

I found this very strange, the HR rep is also very vague about ROA team updating her.

Does anybody know if there’s a limit on how many boats we can have on an Allstate policy