Hartford quote mailing

[coldje]

At least once a week I get a mailing advertising Hartford car insurance affiliated with AARP.  They offer a free Weekend Duffelbag if you get a quote.  I called and spent time answering all the questions and did a quote that was 30% more than my current car insurance.  I was told I would get a separate email offering the duffelbag.  It never happened.  I called again and after being put on hold a long time, I was told I would get the duffelbag in a "few weeks."  I don't trust AARP affiliated insurance products.  I had a similar experience with a life insurance product.  It was way overpriced and not highly rated.

[coldje]

Update:  I did get the "dufflebag."  Hartford's photographers should get a tip.  That bag is a piece of hud and wouldn't hold two cans of soda.  It is not rip-stop material as pictured.  It's super thin.  Not something you would take to the park.  Is there something about being older that paints a target on our back or "stupid" on our foreheads?

[liamoneal]

AARP's Hartford auto insurance partnership is a HUGE SCAM!  I called and they don't insure pickup trucks because of "the distance from the front of the truck to the windshield". I was expecting to get the duffel bag you're talking about but the agent said they wouldn't send it because they couldn't give me a quote. The mailer from AARP says "Just for requesting your quote". I will never use AARP partnered insurance scams.

[AARPConsumerCare]

coldje We're sorry to hear you're having trouble getting your gift from The Hartford. We are here to help. Please visit https://help.aarp.org/s/article/contact-aarp to chat, text, or speak with a representative who can get you in touch with our Member Relations team. - Christy C. 

[ThomasB546129]

I have called Hartford 5 times to tell them to stop mailing me. They referred me to you at AARP and I told you in no uncertain terms not to send me any more mail about the Hartford twice in phone conversations..

This is unwanted and I will not waste time with someone that engages in false advertising. such as telling me that I will save $580 a year over my current coverage and in fact they are $900 more a year than my current coverage.

However, the real point is I do not want any more mail from your affiliations. Period- full stop. This is garbage junk and I resent having to throw away someone else’s garbage, be it in my front yard or mailbox.  You would not like me throwing my garbage in your home yard.

As an attorney, I am going to Federal District Court in North Texas and file a lawsuit against you on 9/05 regarding this unless you can assure me that under no conditions will you send me any more mail. I have already filed a complaint with the FTC.

This is going to stop, either by you having the ethics to stop it or for a Judge to tell you to stop it along with paying me damages.  Make your choice. I know the easiest for all concerned.

[SummerOnTheWay1]

📎@coldje , I am with Allstate in Virginia but was wondering IF maybe you would ONLY get the FREE duffelbag IF you "signed" up with them. I often wonder WHY they feel a need to offer a FREE GIFT for a quote. Allstate didnot. Folks are going to REQUEST QUOTES because they need car - home and so on insurance. Offering FREE STUFF that never arrives is only chasing "potential" signees away. Take care, Nicole!

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@coldje wrote:

At least once a week I get a mailing advertising Hartford car insurance affiliated with AARP.  They offer a free Weekend Duffelbag if you get a quote.  I called and spent time answering all the questions and did a quote that was 30% more than my current car insurance.  I was told I would get a separate email offering the duffelbag.  It never happened.  I called again and after being put on hold a long time, I was told I would get the duffelbag in a "few weeks."  I don't trust AARP affiliated insurance products.  I had a similar experience with a life insurance product.  It was way overpriced and not highly rated.

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[GailL1]

@SummerOnTheWay1 wrote I am with Allstate in Virginia but was wondering IF maybe you would ONLY get the FREE duffelbag IF you "signed" up with them. I often wonder WHY they feel a need to offer a FREE GIFT for a quote. Allstate didnot. Folks are going to REQUEST QUOTES because they need car - home and so on insurance. Offering FREE STUFF that never arrives is only chasing "potential" signees away. Take care, Nicole!

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Like any other loss leader- it brings in potential customers -

A loss leader is a product or service sold at a price below its market cost, or even below its cost of production, to attract customers into a store or website. The goal is to entice customers with a low-priced item, hoping they will purchase other, more profitable, items as well. This strategy is often used to increase overall sales and customer traffic. 

In this case, a FREE [something] just to give you a quote of insurance.  

But if they never ever send the promised product and that is a ploy on their part - that is called a fraud.

Hopefully, somebody just didn’t press the right button to initiate the FREE gift.