“You can never get to talk to anyone at direct line, I would not use this company to insure anything.
Once they have your money that all they are interested in.
Try AA or Admiral.”
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Direct Line
14-18 Cadogan St, Glasgow G2 6QN
Insurance agency
Big Al
45 points
4 minutes ago
My car was scratched when I was having a meal. I asked "DIRECT LINE" for advice and they said I would be cheaper repairing it myself. I just renewed my insurance and my price has increased by £220 as "DIRECT LINE" said I made a claim! No I didn't I repaired it myself out my own bank. "BOYCOTT DIRECT LINE" I am going to continually post this on all review sites I can find. "DIRECT LINE" crooks don't go near: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value My car was scratched when I was having a meal. I asked "DIRECT LINE" for advice and they said I would be cheaper repairing it myself. I just renewed my insurance and my price has increased by £220 as "DIRECT LINE" said I made a claim! No I didn't I repaired it myself out my own bank. "BOYCOTT DIRECT LINE" I am going to continually post this on all review sites I can find. "DIRECT LINE" crooks don't go near 1 : Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value My car was scratched when I was having a meal. I asked "DIRECT LINE" for advice and they said I would be cheaper repairing it myself. I just renewed my insurance and my price has increased by £220 as "DIRECT LINE" said I made a claim! No I didn't I repaired it myself out my own bank. "BOYCOTT DIRECT LINE" I am going to continually post this on all review sites I can find. "DIRECT LINE" crooks don't go near 1”
“Direct Line insured my builder who negligently destroyed my house. DL refused to speak to us for 6 months while they tried to find a way not to pay this large claim. They sent us an email telling us not to make fraudulent claims. Then after 6 months they sent us another email saying they had cancelled the builder’s insurance, which he had being paying for, and refused to tell us why. Apparently he had a couple of ccjs for parking tickets which he did not know about. I am now £250,000 out of pocket! Absolute heartless crooks in my view. Would never go near them again!!!!”
“Avoid at all costs. Dishonest and unreliable. I have now been stuck in a loop for 3 months trying to claim for valid medical expenses whilst abroad. They never call back, even when promised.
I spent £800+ on insurance with them, hoping for a provider that I could trust. This is NOT the case.
They will look for ANY reason to turn it down, even if their staff admit it's unfair.
DO NOT BUY. Go elsewhere - you'll only know when you try and claim how dishonest Direct Line are.”
“I called to cancel renewal, this was obviously not acted on. I then received letters telling me that I owed money. I then went on site to talk to “virtual “ agent who is clearly programmed. It just advised I call CS which 🤔 I had done!! Hopeless”
“One of direct line tricks Cell you policy And then send you letter one week later saying sorry we count cover this that and 1 or 2 other things .onec you paid for your policy they got your money I would never trust them again”
“If you want life insuance with this compnay make sure you dont have a disability. I tried to get £100000 cover to ensure that my baby daughter's future was secure if god forbid I was to die before she was 18 and becasue I have epilepsy they refused to give me cover. So much for equal oppertunities and non discriminate.”
“Moved to Direct Line from a previous provider of some 15 years, as looked like a good deal -UNTIL called upon to step up!
I suffered a boiler breakdown 2 days ago, just as temperatures began to dip into -0c overnight again. Read my home insurance policy to confirm that I was covered for: -
• any controls forming part of the boiler
• the programmer, central heating pump, hot
water cylinder, room thermostat and radiators.
Great I thought, so I called the claim line - to be advised that Direct Line only provide cover for certain boiler types, ie, Gas Boilers - and that cover does not extend to Oil Fired Boilers - OK (found this in the cover booklet). BUT, what has really annoyed me is that the part that failed on my Oil Fired Boiler (the Programmer), is exactly the same part that is fitted to the Gas version of this model of boiler!!
Absolutely no room for discussion - just a straightforward, sorry, but tough!
Up for renewal next month, and will certainly not be hanging around!”
“would not bother with this company ,told them of ridge tiles and slates broken and missing ,after a storm last year was told its ,wear and tear ,the usual excuses , not one bit interested ,seems your covered for virtual very little , before i explained what had happened he said sorry not covered , you've been warned”
“Where do I start! Stay clear.
After 18 years of no claims or accidents, I thought paying extra for a what I thought was reputable insurer would see me well covered in emergency. I have been mislead the whole way.
1. I paid for hire cover plus to make sure that we had equivalent vehicle to carry on working as business cover. Notified them must have towbar for enterprise to say they don't offer that and direct line would have to put a note on account for them to out source it so had to put up with a van instead of a pickup.
2. Constant trouble trying to get through to the engineer valuating it to which end finally found out he put through the valuation without our consent so have had no say in it. The money was put into our account therefore resulting in enterprise removing the hire car service.
3. I wanted to use the replacement vehicle service they advertised which was one of the reasons I went with them to find out that they just pass your details to a sales company but the vehicle must be under 7 years old and 70,000 miles so had no chance of using this service as replacement. Of course its all hidden in the small print.
3. Was told the valuation dispute would be looked at by an indepent association and would receive a call at beginning of last week to get a call today from again a direct line inspector after chasing again over 1 week late. They have valuated the market value at rock bottom. Due to what they class as extensive damage at rear, we are talking about a few debts mainly on tailgate so most would be resolved by a new tailgate which wouldn't take of thousands.
I am being told that will now have to take to financial ombudsman. We have seen the looking glass valuation at around £5,500 so to knock of £2000 for a few small dents is rediculous and know have to waste loads more of my time.
Older module with higher mileage are going for £5000 in this area. We have seen no evidence for the valuation and had no say at all.
I have 9 years no claims paid over £700 for insurance and £500 excess to get £3000 ontop of having to put extra money into buying a new vehicle. No consideration taken either that we are in a lock down and you are not allowed private car sales at the moment or to travel distance so forced to used a sales company instantly putting the price up.
What is the point of paying over £200 extra for the top brand insurer if they have say so to pay out what they want. Will just be going with cheaper company from now on and Direct line you will be loosing 4 of our policies with you permently. Disgraceful service.
I noticed that a lot of the higher reviews havnt had to actually use the service so I'm sure there review would change if they did claim. They say you know what a company is like when you have issues. Well I know that Direct Line are unbelievable. Fuming is an understatement. Be warned.”
“Absolute nightmare dealing with a very simple travel cancellation claim. For a flight cancelled due to Covid in May 2020 we have finally received a settlement from Direct line in January 2021 of about half of our claimed amount. The original bookings were made long before Covod had even been heard of.
Policy excesses aside, they have given no explanation of how they reached they amount of their 'full and final' settlement. Just a cheque in the mail. I've had to make dozens of phone calls and sent even more messages with Direct line trying to wriggle out of the claim at any and every opportunity. Fortunately I keep very good records but I imagine most people would just give up.
They asked for copies of email correspondence with the owners of the holiday apartment we had booked, copies of bank statements, copies credit card statements, copies of paypal statements, declarations form the airline (you try getting an airline to declare anything!!) , declarations from the apartment owners. They questioned exchange rates between Euro and GBP payments. They even wanted to see my marriage certificate!
This has been the single most frustrating insurance company I have ever had the misfortune to have had to deal with. If I added up all the hours I have wasted dealing with Direct line trying to get them to even deal with our claim, it has actually cost me a lot of money. Even at basic minimum wage rates it wasn't worth submitting our £800 claim for the aggravation Direct line cause.
We will certainly not been renewing our building, contents or travel insurance with Direct Line and the quote we have recent requested for insurance on a second property we are buying is going straight into the bin.
This company appears to have a clear strategy to delay and frustrate any claim. Our claim was really quite simple so heaven help anyone who had a complicated large value claim. They couldn't have made the claims process more drawn out and frustrating if they had tried. My recommendation is avoid this company and spend your money wisely; elsewhere.”
“Just a note to say a thank you for my daughters repair at your approved repair centre in Wigan, superb job, no hassle and you supplied her with a loan car for the entire period
Many thanks to the claims team who were great to deal with regards Barry Mcilveen FIMI”
“I am writing this review, because I want people to know that Direct Line policy states that excess is for every little item. That means if you have an excess of 500 pounds means if you put claim for roof leak, roof is one claim leak is another claim per wall. If you are landlord every item is a claim like one furniture, one wall one carpet.”
“I'm a pensioner and direct line wanted a massive £377 to insure my 3 bed house for 12 months. No flooding or subsidence. Been with them several years and never claimed. Have now cancelled.”
“Had an accident Sep 4th, they booked a pick up for the car on the 23rd of September, 3weeks later, while the sensors were all failing and I didn’t feel safe to drive my son in that car. The day of scheduled pick up the garage they selected to fix our car calls to inform us they can’t pickup the car because they don’t have the parts. Waisted my day on that day. I wanted to take my car to the car manufacturer dealership but they said if you do so, you have do the estimate yourself and we will only give you the car rental for one week only. Basically making it difficult to convince me to send the car to their chosen garage. Car was finally picked up on Sep 30th. 2 weeks later, the car is not ready and garage keeps telling us it’s being washed for few days. Finally the garage admits that they can’t reset the sensors software and it has to go to the manufacturer dealership. Their first availability was Nov 11. So my car which is an electric car was sitting in theist garage for weeks while I had to pay congestion charges to go to central London or take a cab to avoid the charge. Because they don’t give you an electric rental. I was told they give us £10 for everyday that it takes to fix my car more than the one week promised time. So 2.5 months later my car will be delivered tomorrow but received £70 compensation for all these days that I didn’t have my car, paid petrol that I didn’t need to, congestion charges that I didn’t need to pay with my electric car and cab costs that I didn’t need to pay. All this time they failed to mention there is a maximum of £70 to be paid to the client for compensation. Miserable service. Wouldn’t recommend them, they didn’t check to see if their chosen garage can fix my car or not. They just wanted to save money”
“Misinformation resulting in me having to shell out £600 on a survey report that DL should have arranged from the outset but did not. In fact the 'claim' was not even assigned until I chased up over a week later despite their policy stating it will be assessed and we would receive a call within 48 hours. Messed around and passed to many different teams and still no resolution. Raised a complaint and despite calls being recorded and the lack of procedure, I was not reimbursed for the independent survey, was offered £150 for wasting my time, doesn't even cover half the cost of the report. Oh and the cause of the crack in the house is not something they cover as it was not a result of a storm!”
“WOW SO MY REVIEW HAS BEEN REPORTED on trustpilot BY DIRECT LINE BECAUSE I AM TELLING THE TRUTH AND THEY CAN NOT ACCEPT, WELL I HAVE ALL THE CALL RECORDED AS WELL SO #Direct Line do not worry i can prove what i wrote,
Had accident and it was my fault, no 3rd party involved, i was asked to give statement and evidence which i did, i request my car should be repaired on my own choice of garage but they refusing to send instruction to my garage and offer me to take my car on my own expensive and ask the garage to give estimate, even DL know that they have to instruct the garage first but refusing it. now they refusing to give me hire car and refusing to instruct my garage and the case handler(Jennie) told that if i called or complaint that should be directed to her, she said that i am not allowed to speak to anyone apart from her even she lied and gave me wrong information, now she is bulling me saying that under which law it says that no one can go though my belonging without my consent.
I made complaint and that complaint went to her to investigate and she will not stop bullying me until the claim is settle but at later DL might compensate me.
She knows what she is doing is wrong but she can not say it and she has been pushed by someone in DL to do that such as, not give me hire car, not send instruction to the garage to repair the car, give me wrong information, let the garage to go through my belonging, delay the claim, refused to speak to someone els, etc.
Even if i call to ask for DL t&c my call will be transfer to her and then her words are their t&c. Basically she has to tell me who i can speak to and who i can not, she has to decide what i can have and what i can not. For now i can not speak or complaint to anyone and i can not have anything.
I have comprehensive insurance with DL from 5 years, paid guarantee hire plus,
Under their t&c says if i choice to repair my car with my own choice of garage i will have hire car for 21 days, she refused to send the instruction to my garage until now and she saying that i had my car for 21 days because i chose to use my own garage so now still she will not send instruction to the garage and she will not give me hire car.
Better stay away from this company and it will be my last year with them even i paid yearly”
“Disgusting insurance company have been with them for 28 years only made one small claim before. Had persistent rain fall for days had my boiler pour with water ceiling and electrics also damaged. Was told by arrogant adviser that we were not covered because they classed it as not a storm.Also have no hot water or heating for over two weeks. Direct line told us we have to pay for all works ourselves saying we were wrongly covered whilst happily taking our money each month .We are definitely moving companies also we would never recommend this company to anyone. So upset and struggling these things always seem to happen at already difficult times.”
“i would put zero star if there was an option to do so. just spoke to the person dealing with my claim Elizabeth Scherer utterly rude and awful customer service. my claim havent been sorted out and theres no clear evidence that a key was used to steal my car from the cctv footage i’ve seen. they will not help but say theres nothing more they can do. i leave my car in a car garage for some repairs and it gets stolen and now nothing is being done about it. she said the car was not hacked into. without any evidence. nowadays cars can easily be hacked into and stolen. now its been over 3 months and am still left without my car. what was the purpose of buying comprehensive cover? PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS USELESS INSURANCE COMPANY.”
