“Worst insurance company ever please AVOID.
They are total scammers trying to make me pay an extra £282 on a policy cancelled 2 years ago!
All cancellation fees were paid on the same day I rang in to cancel the policy but they now saying I've not paid it so I sent them my bank statement to prove I have and they have not responded and still sending me emails to chase a non existing debt!
Totally ridiculous stupid company!!”
“Disgusting service. If I could do a minus star I'd do plenty.
Takes hours to get through and they have just deducted £70 from my account for no reason. Do not use this company. They are totally rubbish.”
“If i could give minus stars it still would be too much!!!!
Worst company to deal with. Customer service representative was ok but got a bit “cocky” towards the end of the call as he and the company are a joke. Their costs and charges as astronomical, so if you are planning on selling your car through your 12 month period be warned you will more than likely be charged more than what it still outstanding. £60 fee here, £20 fee there, the list goes on. There is no sense or desire to treat customers fairly. I will never use this company again and i will share my story with all friends and family. Be warned!”
“I was disgusted they wanted to charge me £35 administration fee to change my email address when it requires absolutely no effort on their part. I will look for another insurer on renewal.”
“Disgusting service. Just tried to swap my insurance over from my old company which insured my van to Brightside which is insuring my New vehicle. (Car). I had a 9 year no claims on my last policy: Although CVD is a sister company of Brightside and they are under the same umbrella so to speak, Brightside said I would have to send them the no claims document myself as they said they did not have access to CVD computer system. They are in the Same building and not one member of staff could go across to CVD to ask for them to send the no claims by email. It was all put on the customer. After chasing CVD to send the no claims to me I eventually sent it to Brightside and asked for this to be sent to me by post. To date I have received nothing. CVD said they had sent the no claims by post twice and that both times the letters had been sent back with return to sender no longer at this address. Yet when we checked they had exactly the right address, so how was this possible to happen twice. Once maybe but twice!! Brightside then said that everything had been received and all was ok and I was definitely insured. Only to be told in an email the following day that Brightside had cancelled my insurance!!!! WTF. Then another email stated to ignore previous email and that I was insured after all. I had been emailing a named customer service person to say the PDF document he sent could not be opened. It was resent but when I tried to check something with them again, all I got was an out of office reply. Nothing but stress and messing me about. I am with this company for 1 year unfortunately. But will definitely be changing when my insurance is due again.”
“I don't know where they got 6 star rating? One would be to much! They quoted me for a 2012 Ford Focus 1 liter engine..nearly £300 more than I pay for a top of the range 6cylinder Mercedes! Perhaps someone can explain that?”
“The bad company which you can find
Their occupation is just to ripped off everyone and they use to charge too much even and if you want to cancel the insurance they don't care of customers they kind of rude!”
“The bad company than ever i just try to cancel my insurance and the charges me £483.00 for cancellation the reason because I cancel it was because I don’t have money to pay my insurance and they this company use to ripped off everyone I suggest people to don’t use this company!”
“Money grabbing thefs. Wanted to cancel my policy today and apparently I have to pay 700£ first
. What the hell.. I offered my kidney because I cannot afford to give up this much money. Do you think they care? Of course not, they cancelled on me! Fine brightside, we all know this is how you play, if we don't obbey you just cancel our policy's so that other insurance will cost as more but if we want to stay you charge us at least 100£! You are legal fraud, scam company!”
“What a company not all highway robbers wear masks, 6 months to go on my policy that I paid in full, so about £100 not used and they still charge me £24 to cancel, and no refund of policy, this is a joke if I had not done the right thing and said nothing it would have just expired and cost nothing. Refuse to pay and they cancel anyway and put a black mark on insurance data base that you have had insurance canceled, Brightside and Churchill I will never be using your company again”
“After I cancelled my car policy and paid my cancellation fees. They chased me with many emails asking me for outstanding of £15 and when I called them I have been told ‘this is a mistake and sorry we will resolve the issue’ that happened for 2 months. And at the end they transfered my name to the collection money :-(”
“Shocking service. Was told my car policy would automatically renew. Then get a text today saying they omitted to renew due to oversight with system. Asked me to call them to sort it out. So turns out I have been insured for a week , wouldn't have been covered had I been in accident and had the audacity to tell me they would offer a new policy but as the old one had lapsed - due to their fault remember - the new policy would increase by 25% . No apology and no offer for a reduction so went elsewhere”
“Horrible customer service! Actually the worst I have ever received! Avoid at any cost. I have been with them for 2 years and my insurance was due to renew, they've sent me a reminder 45min before expiry!! And then 45min later another email saying that it expired. I called them and a VERY bored advisor said that can't see where my problem is because they DID send me an email
45min before expiry so.. Then said that they can't insure me anymore (doesn't know why they can't) but their friend insurance company can do the cheapest one for £3000!! And I usually pay around £600. Disgusting. Shame on you people!”
“Lying fraud insurance company. Please don't get the lie insurance company. Their team member will lie to you when you buy their insurance and then will claim money from you. I have to pay money 200 pounds for 4 days insurance (cancellation fee plus black box fee even though i never had a black box in my car.”
“I tried on line to change my insurance from old van to new van it would allow me I rang Brightside eventually got a human sorted my problem then I was told to pay £116.00 to cancel my old policy? Then take out a new more expensive-new policy? When I shopped around I am able to save a lot of money and add a new van in the future with no fuss with trade direct insurance give em a try they are not Brightside insurance!”
