Complaints

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• Initial Complaint

  Date:01/10/2023

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  I signed a 60 month contract with Amp Smart after escaping a traumatic domestic abuse situation and wanting extra security in my home. The salesman told me that after the 60 months I would pay month to month and wouldnt pay any fees if I wished to cancel. Fast forward to January of 2023, which puts me 7 months past my 60 month contract, when I try to cancel my service Im told that the contract auto-renewed for another 60 months and I would need to pay a $1850 cancellation fee. I stated I was not told that by the salesman when I signed the first initial contract, nor did I receive any kind of notice of the contract renewal. The salesman lied to me and did not break the contract down to me when asking for initials on the tablet he was using to sign me up for service. Apparently, AMP Smart auto renews with no notice given to the consumer and finds this practice okay. Many states have passed laws against Autorenewals without notice given to the customer, and Im hoping my state follows suit quickly. Do not sign a contract with this business. This is no way to treat a customer and they use fraudulent business practices. Side note: their equipment is subpar at best and maybe works half of the time. Its not worth shelling out $6k in monthly payments and being deceived into a 10 year contract.

  Business Response

  Date: 01/19/2023

  AMP reached out to the customer today but there was no answer. We will try again tomorrow. 

• Initial Complaint

  Date:11/15/2022

  Type:Order Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  Technician stop at my house to change out a panel, on my security system. He told me to sign paper for the new panel and I did. What he didn't tell us, was it was for a 5 year contract. I wish to cancel and they say I have to pay a cancelation fee.

  Business Response

  Date: 11/25/2022

  Customer's initial contract had already renewed on 7/16/2020. The customer did not send in a notice of cancellation prior to the renewal date. 

• Initial Complaint

  Date:11/12/2022

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  ResolvedMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  On November 7th, my husband phoned AMP Security in an attempt to cancel our program. He was told that there would be an $1800 charge to cancel since we had signed and renewed a contract 42 months earlier. The company emailed him a copy of the contract which does state that provision. However, when he signed the contract we were not told that this was a renewed contract with a termination fee. We had MP Security for 5 years prior to the date of the new contract. On April 28, 2020, ************** (spelling) came to our home to inform us that our security panel was outdated and needed to be replaced. The contract states no charge for a new panel and also two medical pendants. We were not told that signing the contract also renewed the contract for 5 more years. The panel was replaced; however, we never received the pendants. In my opinion, this is a breach of contract. When we spoke to the agent, she said she couldn't speak to that issue. During the same conversation, I asked to be redirected to tech support since we had messages on the panel that our wi-fi was not connected. When I spoke to tech support, he did check and told me that it was connected. I inquired further about the smoke alert. The technician told me that it was not functioning and I should remove the battery, leave it out for 10 seconds, and then replace it. I did this. I asked the technician to verify that the smoke alert was now functioning. He refused to do that. Again, I feel that he should have checked the system.In summary I would like to cancel my contract with this company without a monetary penalty since they have not kept their terms of the contract for service or equipment. Their business practices are at the least deceptive.

  Business Response

  Date: 11/14/2022

  AMP reached out to the customer today and offered to send a technician to the home to review/repair the system. This was agreed to by the customer. 

  Customer Answer

  Date: 11/15/2022

   
  Complaint: 18395785
  
  I am rejecting this response because: I will not know if these issues are resolved until the technician comes which won't happen until December 14th.
  
  ************************************************

  Business Response

  Date: 11/21/2022

    

  Business Response

  Date: 11/28/2022

  AMP's technician will be going out to the home on Dec 14th. 

  Customer Answer

  Date: 11/28/2022

   
  Better Business Bureau:
  
  I will not know if the issue is resolved until after the technician comes on December 14th.
  *************************

• Initial Complaint

  Date:10/28/2022

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  My wife and I sold our house in **********, ** in May 2021. When the buyers purchased the house they stated they wanted to keep the alarm system and take over the existing contract at that time. When the purchase was closed the new owner took over the property, they decided to not to go with the alarm company, AmpSmart. We contacted AmpSmart and they reached out to the new owner to encouraged them to take over the contract. The new owner decided to go with a different alamr company. We had to move to an apartment until we could find another home to purchase. We contacted AmpSmart and they told us we had to take off all of the equipment and try to put it on the aparment where we lived. We told them that we could not. We argue back and forth with that of the situation. Their conclusion was that we had to honor our contract whether we had the equipment or not. Fast forward, we purchased a new home with no equipment and we continued to pay the monthly fee, hoping that it would go down to a reasonable amount where we could get rid of the contract. As of todate, 10/28/2022, after paying the monthly fee, not having the equipment, we were told that we have to pay the $1850.00 fee to cancel the contract. They told us we had to pay the $1850.00 fee back in 2021, now after having paid all of this monthly fee coming out of our account, we still have to pay the $1850.00 fee. This is ridiculous. They are scam artist preying on customers.

  Business Response

  Date: 11/03/2022

  The customer signed an addendum on 12/10/2020 to extend the contract for 36 months. This extension went into effect on 10/30/2022. In exchange, AMP provided a new lamp module and outdoor camera. 

• Initial Complaint

  Date:10/24/2022

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  Deceptive auto renewal/cancelation practices. Initially signed up for a 36 month term. April 2019, door to door solicitor. Haven't liked the equipment at all, some has been useless the entire period, even after "tech upgrades" so I was definitely not going to keep using their products and services any further. Called the month of end of term, April 2022, to cancel. At the time I was assured it was done and given a cancellation number and told loyalty department would reach out, assuming to try and convince me to stay. Come to find out that was just a "ticket number" for cancellation. I find this out by my fire alarm randomly going off 2 days ago (Oct 2022) and the monitoring center called me. I asked to be transferred to CS to find out why I'm still being charged. They couldn't help, put me on hold to transfer me. 16 minute call, no help. No loyalty **** around on weekends, I understand. CS rep says she sees my call back in April to cancel, doesn't know why it wasn't. She advises notes say they called me once, left no VM. No more attempts to contact me via phone or email. That seems unsatisfactory on the consumer end, but perfectly acceptable to a business with predatory auto renewal tactics. I get a call this Monday morning from AMP, thinking loyalty department, but no, tech support. Transfers me to general CS. They can't help, finally transferred to loyalty. This agent tells me she sees my call in April to cancel, states they actually tried to call me twice (inconsistent), but also no voice mail or email. Tells me about said auto renewal practice and that even if they spoke to me in April, we'd be in the same situation. Tells me what I can pay to get out of contract ($400 something) and I state not happening. This company rep that sold it advised could cancel anytime. You can't tell b/c you're signing on a tablet. None of the reps advised this written thing during a call. After reviewing the 28 pages of complaints over mostly this same thing, stay away.

  Business Response

  Date: 11/02/2022

  AMP has been in contact with the customer today. 

• Initial Complaint

  Date:10/17/2022

  Type:Order Issues
  Status:

  ResolvedMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  On Jan. 8, 2021, I unfortunately was tricked into Docu-signing, on the sales person's computer pad, a 60 month contract for a monthly fee of $63.99, which is on auto pay. We were not given time to review the document. We attempted to cancel this contract but because it was outside of the 3 day Right of Recission, we are screwed. I have attached copies of what I have of the Contract. The circled items are things that I noted after the facts. In Feb. 2022, "without any notification", they increased the monthly fee to $65.99. I called and was able to get it back to the original amount of $63.99 for the remaining months, as they did not provide a notification. There was no refund for overcharge. Now, again, on Oct. 16, 2022, they increased the monthly fee to $66.99, "without any notification"! The attached Invoice, with the new amount, is dated for the same day the amount was charged to my credit card 10/16/2022 showing "no advance notification". They should have to give a notification, in advance, of the changes to the monthly fee. I was a compliance officer and they should have to provide some type of an Advance Notice of Change, especially when they are taking money from people's accounts. This is one shoddy business.

  Business Response

  Date: 10/19/2022

  AMP
  provided all signed DocuSign contracts to the customer’s email, ******************.
  This email was given by the customer during the sale process and confirmed
  during a recorded quality assurance survey. In that survey, AMP informed
  the customer that her documents would be sent to this email and that she would
  need to check her inbox and junk folders. She fully understood that the
  contracts were electronic and she stated “okay” when asked if she understood
  the process. Furthermore, AMP asked the customer if she understood that the
  term length would be for 60 months. She responded with “Yep”.
  

  AMP
  provided a 3 day right of rescission, which gave the customer the ability to
  cancel with no penalty during that timeframe. It also offered ample opportunity
  for the customer to review her contracts and contact AMP with any questions or
  concerns that she may have had. She did not utilize this opportunity.
  

  Regarding the raise in rates, due to
  inflation and the economy changes in our country, AMP is experiencing rate
  increases from our vendors and partners. Monitoring, equipment, insurance,
  credit card processing, all operations, etc have raised their rates. On the
  Monitoring Agreement in section C, it states that we can legally raise the
  rates due to taxes and fees.  The
  customer agreed to this clause.

  Business Response

  Date: 10/25/2022

  AMP disagrees with the allegations that were stated in this complaint but our loyalty department will be in contact with the customer to discuss the frustrations that the customer has and attempt to resolve the matter to the satisfaction of both parties. We ask that the customer answer when our representative calls. 

  Customer Answer

  Date: 10/27/2022

  
  
  Better Business Bureau:
  
  
  
  I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID ********. I remain somewhat skeptical that the resolution will be as they stated as I have to wait an additional month to see if they have corrected the pricing issue. In addition, I also have the remaining months of the contract to monitor any future unnotified increases. At this time, I find that this resolution is satisfactory to me. 

  
  Sincerely,
  
  
  
  ******** *******

• Initial Complaint

  Date:10/14/2022

  Type:Billing Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  On July 28, 2022 I contacted AMP Smart again via phone and email after speaking with them numerous times via phone to have the account canceled. I have the contract and it was executed and signed by my ex-husband- NOT me. He is deceased. In the email I attached my ex-husband *************************** death certificate. I again explained that he moved from the residence (**** **************; ************************) back in mid 2020 and we divorced in November 2020. I moved out in June 2021 but continued to pay for non-functional monitoring services until I sold/closed on the property on March 9, 2022. I told AMP Smart verbally and via email that I needed all charges refunded for March, April, May, June, and July 2022 or I would most assuredly seek legal action and contact the BBB, as despite my NUMEROUS documented calls to AMP Smart to close my account and cease withdrawals, the charges continued to be made.October 2, 2022- I called and spoke to an AMP Smart representative AGAIN and sent this email.... "as my account has still not been cancelled and I continue to be charged ILLEGALLY! An internal case was apparently created in July to remedy this situation and nothing has changed! I have not lived at ************************************************************* since prior to March 2022! I have also previously sent documentation of my deceased husbands death (***********************)- another reason the account should be closed!!! This is totally unacceptable. Someone needs to call me with a remedy by Monday 10/3/22 or I am pursuing legal action. Remedy is nothing less than (1) I am refunded fully for March, April, May, June, July, August, and September 2022 and (2) the account is closed and my bank is no longer debited!!!!"October 6th- I called AMP Smart again and they told me they would only refund me for August and September. I did not accept this. I need to be refunded FULLY for March, April, May, June, July, August, and September 2022= about $440.00. They also need to close the account and delete my debit

  Business Response

  Date: 10/21/2022

  AMP received notice of the account ******'s death on 7/29/2022. AMP will be refunding back payment for August and September. AMP will not be refunding any other payments.