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TSrenee78
post May 14 2016, 12:01 PM, updated 10y ago

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I had send an email explaining 3 weeks ago about a mistake in my annual statement, but no reply so far.
I had sent another email about 1.5 week ago, to resend the email. Both times I got the auto-reply:
"(This is an auto reply to inform you that we have received your email successfully)

Dear Valued Policyholder,

Thank you for contacting Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad.

We would like to inform you that we are experiencing an unusually high volume of emails and it will take us longer than usual to respond to you. Please allow us 4 working days to get back to you.

Alternatively, please contact our Customer Service Careline at 1300-1300 88 from Mondays to Fridays 8.30 am to 5.15 pm (except Public Holidays). For customers residing outside Malaysia, we can be reached at +603 4259 8888. Our Customer Service Officer would be glad to assist you.
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Both times they did not contact me in the 4 days. mad.gif

Has anybody ever received a reply from Great Eastern?
TSrenee78
post May 14 2016, 01:09 PM

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QUOTE(Hun Eung @ May 14 2016, 12:09 PM)
A call to your servicing agent or direct line, perhaps? You should know that Malaysian corporate culture is 'No call, No urgent to respond'
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Already tried servicing agent, he asked me to contact customer care.

TSrenee78
post May 16 2016, 11:52 AM

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QUOTE(lifebalance @ May 14 2016, 08:16 PM)
Walk up to their office
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That would be my last resort.
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post May 16 2016, 11:52 AM

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QUOTE(T231H @ May 14 2016, 08:40 PM)
Hv u tried what the agent suggested? Perhaps u can get faster response by doing that.
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Yes, they have an email address from which they can be contacted.
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post May 16 2016, 11:54 AM

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QUOTE(ChloeKhar @ May 14 2016, 10:36 PM)
you may call customer care directly while waiting for the email reply.
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Some things are easier to explain through email with attachments that can be seen than through talking to somebody.
Anyway, calling is my next option.

Their facebook team asked me to try emailing again.
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post May 28 2016, 05:44 PM

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Great eastern sent an email after more than a month. Reason was that they have a big surge of emails. puke.gif

Agent doesn't seem to be very active anymore.
TSrenee78
post Jun 1 2016, 09:27 AM

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QUOTE(jacob888 @ May 31 2016, 05:06 PM)
here's their replied
Dear Mr Tan,

We apologise for the delay in our reply as we are currently experiencing sudden surge in the volume of emails. Some of our policyholders may encountered longer waiting time for their emails to be answered.
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Exactly, and they say that while their initial auto reply email already says:
"We would like to inform you that we are experiencing an unusually high volume of emails and it will take us longer than usual to respond to you. Please allow us 4 working days to get back to you."

This really seems like some old school company.
They should know not to put an email address if they can't reply within a reasonable amount of time.
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post Jun 1 2016, 09:30 AM

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QUOTE(GeFinancialPlan @ May 30 2016, 09:02 PM)
If you are the policy owner please try call +60 3 4259 8888 and the officer online will help you right away.
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So why do they put an email address on their site?

I already send them all the documents as proof. Once I call them and explain I will need to email everything again.
At that point I will have wasted even more time and money to get their mistake corrected.
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post Jun 1 2016, 09:32 AM

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I also asked their people at facebook already if they may have another email address I can send my enquiry to.
They simply say no.

Great eastern isn't using any emails for communication? rclxms.gif
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post Jun 1 2016, 06:24 PM

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QUOTE(GeFinancialPlan @ Jun 1 2016, 03:08 PM)
Sometimes I do notice the email takes a while for them to reply also. But call is definitely works much faster. If there is any change required, a hard copy with your signatures is a must. If your original servicing agent is no longer available and you're too far from walk in yourself to GE at Jalan Ampang, I believe Ge agency office is almost everywhere. Feel free to walk in and agents there must be happy to service you.
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Somebody from great eastern called today. They have different payment information in their system compared to my bank statement.

I can foresee this will take a lot of time to fix. Will just cancel the policy and let my money talk instead. It's just a super low yield life insurance policy anyway.
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post Jun 1 2016, 07:15 PM

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QUOTE(lifebalance @ Jun 1 2016, 06:54 PM)
sad.gif sorry to see that you had a bad experience, hopefully it did not affect your faith on insurance. smile.gif
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I'll keep medical insurance since it is a necessity.

I just remembered they have an e-connect system where you can supposedly see a lot of information inside.
Account is inactive so have to get a new pin.
I remember I tried this twice before but I never received a pin.

Message on the screen just now:
Forgot Password

You have successfully request for a new password. New password will be mailed to your address within 7 working days.

Let's see if this system now works.
TSrenee78
post Jun 3 2016, 11:54 AM

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QUOTE(GeFinancialPlan @ Jun 1 2016, 10:16 PM)
If you have paid for a long time please do not simply cancel it.  Wasted all what you have invested.  To get medical and life insurance at elder age would be much more expensive.
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The returns for the life insurance policy after more than 10 years are less than 1%.
I'll keep my medical insurance.
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post Jun 3 2016, 11:55 AM

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QUOTE(GeFinancialPlan @ Jun 1 2016, 10:17 PM)
One gentle reminder.  Please call the center to check and confirm your address.  If your policy address stated the old address where you no longer stay there, the PIN would not reach you.  If you have more than 1 policy that registered with different address, please check which policy number you used to register e-connect.  That PIN would be sent to the address you registered with that policy no.
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Previously I had changed the address for all my policies and I have received letters on my new address from GE.
Also, my current address was used as verification during the phone call.
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post Jun 6 2016, 09:39 AM

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QUOTE(GeFinancialPlan @ Jun 3 2016, 12:10 PM)
Sorry to hear that.  So far my clients and I have no such issue.  Wish you get your PIN soon then you should be able to view all your policies from e-connect.
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I don't have much hope seeing how they handle all their internet related communication.
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post Jun 6 2016, 09:40 AM

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QUOTE(GeFinancialPlan @ Jun 3 2016, 12:15 PM)
Life insurance provides a lump sum cash to your family after your death. This amount (known as the death benefit) replaces your income and can help your family meet many important financial needs like funeral costs, immediate income replacement to support daily living expenses for your family. There will be some returns or savings but would not be much.

If you are looking for higher rebates I suggest you look into the savings (more guaranteed returns) plans or investment link products.
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Yeah, I know what it's for, but not much use anymore at the moment.

What is the actual (not projected) return from those products?
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post Jun 9 2016, 11:41 AM

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QUOTE(GeFinancialPlan @ Jun 6 2016, 10:10 AM)
Flip to the last part of your policy.  The projected returns should be stated in the quotation attached to the original policy you have.  In fact at any point of time if you wish to withdraw money you can do that, just contact GE and fill forms.  The money will be credited to your bank.  In order to keep the policy inforce, do not withdraw alll but leave at least RM1,000 in the account to keep it going.
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You mentioned "If you are looking for higher rebates I suggest you look into the savings (more guaranteed returns) plans or investment link products."

So I asked what are the actual returns for these products.

To be more clear: What are the actual returns from savings plans and investment link products from your experience?
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post Jun 10 2016, 09:14 AM

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QUOTE(lifebalance @ Jun 9 2016, 05:05 PM)
I think there is a misrepresentation here.

Investment does offer certain cash value but that cash value is used to hedge against the future cost of insurance so any early cash out will cause your insurance policy to lapse earlier than projected.

And again I have to say saving plan is for saving. Don't expect some kind of high return.

Let me copy paste what I posted in another thread

Think of the endowment or "saving plan" as an alternative towards
1. Tax rebate
2. You can nominate a person to inherit whereas FD can't
3. You're putting aside that money for retirement age / Children education
4. You've a chunk of money that you don't plan to utilize and would like to put it at a slightly above FD rate return and somewhere with not so high risk kind of investment.
5. You don't contribute to EPF and would like to put in some kind of "savings" as a form of retirement fund.

All the above is NOT APPLICABLE" if you:
1. Don't give a damn, figure too small
2. Don't give a damn
3. Think you have better investment out there and you know how to save
4. You don't give a damn about saving altogether
5. You don't give a damn about retirement altogether

If you have trouble understanding between definition of "Saving" and "Investment"
1. Saving is income not spent, or deferred consumption. Methods of saving include putting money aside in, for example, a deposit account, a pension account, an investment fund, or as cash.[1] Saving also involves reducing expenditures, such as recurring costs. In terms of personal finance, saving generally specifies low-risk preservation of money, as in a deposit account, versus investment, wherein risk is higher; in economics more broadly, it refers to any income not used for immediate consumption. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving

2. To invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future.

In finance, the expected future benefit from investment is a return. The return may consist of capital gain and/or investment income, including dividends, interest, rental income etc.

Investment generally results in acquiring an asset, also called an investment. If the asset is available at a price worth investing, it is normally expected either to generate income, or to appreciate in value, so that it can be sold at a higher price (or both).

Investors generally expect higher returns from riskier investments. Financial assets range from low-risk, low-return investments, such as high-grade government bonds, to those with higher risk and higher expected commensurate reward, such as emerging markets stock investments. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment
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Understood on the above. Do you happen to know any actual returns for AIA plans?

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post Jun 10 2016, 10:01 AM

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QUOTE(lifebalance @ Jun 10 2016, 09:20 AM)
Hi

You may refer to our fund performance inside this link

https://www.aia.com.my/en/our-products/inve...nked-funds.html
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Thanks, it is good to see some insurers put the data online.
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post Jun 29 2016, 11:05 AM

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I had received a pin, but it ran into some problems. I told them about the problems so they sent another pin. Now I can finally enter the system. And here ends the good news.

The bad news is that they won't change the payment date in their system even though I already sent them the proof that the payment was made earlier than the date in their system.

They asked me to send in a letter to their office requesting to change the date in their system. At this point I'm too tired already to do this.

If I hadn't noticed the wrong amount in the statement I also would not have known that the payment was entered wrongly in their system.

The consequence of the payment date entered wrongly was that the auto loan kicked in.

I have no clue what the consequence of this auto loan kicking in is, but it can't be good I suppose.

 

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