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Riaan W

1 reviews | Active since Dec 2018

02 Dec 2024, 10:07

Discovery and Vitality's arrogant disregard of their longstanding members

This is actually a review of Discovery as a whole. If you can stay away from them because for their exceptionally high premiums, they change their benefits, without informing you about it. In 2021 my wife had certain dental work done for which they paid, the year there after they suddenly did not pay for exactly the same work that they paid for the previous year and despite our best efforts to get this sorted out via our agent, they still refused to pay resulting in us having to pay almost R60000 to the dentist for which we did not know we should allow in our budget. We cancelled Discovery Medical and moved to Medihelp. We still kept our individual life insurance with Discovery as well as our Vitality Membership. We made use of a deal between Vitality and Planet Fitness as we wanted to make use of a gym over weekends. The Planet Fitness staff, after confronting them for a 400% increase in our fees, which incidentally they took without authorisation, said that Discovery delinked our Vitality account from Planet Fitness, without informing us. This is typical of the Discovery arrogance and disregard of their members.

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Discovery Health
Discovery Health's reply02 Dec 2024, 10:42
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Dear Riaan W

We’ve noted your concerns and we’re investigating the matter. We’ll contact you with feedback as soon as possible. 

Regards 
Discovery Health Servicing Team
Discovery Health
Discovery Health's reply04 Dec 2024, 12:38
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Dear Riaan W

Please check your emails for feedback from us.


Regards 
Discovery Health Servicing Team
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Riaan W's update04 Dec 2024, 17:43
Reviewer Update
Shivon from Discovery contacted me in a letter stating that I did not have Vitality since January 2022. This is untrue since I never cancelled the Vitality, which was linked to my life assurance policy, which included my wife, all the time. My wife's Vitality was linked to her Medical Aid.

We only recently (2023/2024) changed the policy to a smaller policy due to better rates somewhere else and due to spreading of our risk, so we still had the life assurance policy to which the Vitality benefits are linked. Planet Fitness confirmed the benefits as early as four months ago with Discovery via our ID documents (see document from Planet Fitness Attached that reflects the communication with their agent). This was also confirmed by the fact that we paid only the 25% of their standard rate for both my wife and I for 4 months already and by the numerous times we used our Vitality for movies this year.

I therefore demand a refund for the debit orders that Planet Fitness took from our account, which amounts are unauthorized because they did not tell us about your de-linking of our Vitality benefits from our account and unilaterally just processed unapproved debit orders like ******* in the night.

What is utterly pathetic from both Discovery and Planet Fitness is that we have not been informed of any change where Discovery to arrogantly and unauthorized de-linked our Vitality from Planet Fitness and Planet Fitness in an unauthorized way deduct 2 x there standard rates from my account.
Discovery Health
Discovery Health's reply10 Dec 2024, 18:33
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Dear Riaan W

Please check your emails for feedback from us.

Regards 
Discovery Health Servicing Team