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kane_magus ([personal profile] kane_magus) wrote2011-11-14 12:10 pm

This new MyEdAccount.com crap.

On October 11, 2011, I mailed out an envelope to the Federal Direct Loans people, containing all of the forms necessary to make a change to the repayment plan on my consolidation loan. As of today, November 14, 2011, I have not yet received any sort of response to this at all.

On October 31, 2011, I sent them an email via their new website to which they have switched. As of today, November 14, 2011, I have not yet received any sort of response to this at all.

On November 9, 2011, I sent them another email, following up on the previous one, a response to which I never received, which was a follow up to the snail mail I had sent them, a response to which I never received. As of today, November 14, 2011, I have not yet received any sort of response to this at all.

Well, today, I finally decided to stop screwing around with email and just call them on the telephone directly. I called them. All I got was a recorded message saying, essentially, "Because we're still in the process of switching over to the new website, we're getting a lot of calls. As such, we're not going to actually take your call now but just play this lame recorded message. You should totally go try out our spiffy new website that hardly works at all."

So now, today, in light of the above, I have sent them a third email, which was essentially a slightly less angry sounding version of the above LJ post. At this point, I honestly don't expect to receive any sort of response to this one at all, either.

What a serious load of enraging crap.

[identity profile] kane-magus.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, I'm not sure if it's the case that they're so swamped with emails that they're just not able to answer them, or if it's the case that the email system on the new site simply doesn't work at all. I mean, I am getting the auto-response emails, but those seem to be coming from the old site still, same as before the switchover. The only difference is that the auto-messages acknowledges that they are "experiencing greater than normal volumes" and that they "apologize for any inconvenience" or whatever. Either way, the result is the same on my end: I'm not getting through to anybody. It was one of the things I had intended to ask them about when I tried to call them yesterday, but since I wasn't able to get a call through either... who knows?
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[identity profile] sailorzeo.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm...solution*! Skip a payment, and they'll call YOU twelve times a day!



*not a real solution