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I dropped AARP like a hot potato. All their affiliations were more expensive than if I went it alone including their Medicare Supplemental (30% higher) vision care referral (the same price as full retail) and everything else. They're a waste of time and money, in my opinion, and not worth the time of day.

It is a gift in itself to find a company that really cares about the people it represents. To find help and know that you can trust it, means more than anything! And to not feel financially devastated in the process is a blessing!!!

AARP Rewards Program is a SCAM!
Any attempt to redeem Rewards Points FAILS, with the following cryptic message:

"! Unable to process redemption request"

Been this way over a year, despite amassing over 50,000 (worthless) AARP Rewards Points! Can't getting any help resolving this, including "Chat". Sent many related emails to puported AARP "Consumer Care", i.e. consumercare (at) aarp.org , with all contact details, membership number, and so on. Insert "cricket sounds" here!

What AARP *does* do well: "Auto-Renew Membership", at $20 a year. STAY AWAY!

AARP is promoting a $49/day offer with Budget car rental, which Budget does not honor. Upon calling AARP customer service they claimed they called Budget without successfully getting Budget to honor the promotional price.

The foreign agent was so mean and down right rude to my mother, she got life insurance for herself and her husband that had a stoke and my mom told the agent that she has to speak for him because he doesn't know much about his insurance info just that he got life insurance,the agent was getting rude and saying he's not going to go through this call if he can't talk.to the police holder so we had to feed my mom's husband on what to say and the agent ask my mom for something else and she said hold on let me get it she took 5 seconds the agent assumed that he was going to be waiting a long time and rudely told her that he was going to hang up cause they can on wait for 2 minutes which we understand but the rude way he's saying it pissed us off so he got plenty off bad words back, I feel like Aarp is allowing this kind of behavior! Do better!

AARP Travel - making flight reservations with my AARP Travel Center showed a price that is $1100 MORE than Expedia quote. AARP travel for flights is powered by Expedia. Flight from Florida to Germany same exact Itinerary was $1100 more with AARP Travel Center. This is absurd. I'm not sure what i'm getting at all with AARP membership

AARP is a marketing nonprofit that comes across as a bit of a scam. They recommend United Healthcare as the top plan for seniors, but it has the highest rejection rate in the industry at 32%, compared to the 16% industry average, and offers no discount. I ended up finding my own plan at a lower price with a better approval rate.

Once you join, all they do is bombard you with junk mail to buy insurance from them. Waste of money.

Not trustworthy. AARP engaged in a campaign solicting for The Hartford auto insurance. I received mail offering savings signed by Susan L. Castaneda. This is a scam. The Hartford agent asked: "Did you have an accident regardless of fault in the last 5 years?" I replied yes, but I was exonerated as the defendant accepted 100% fault for the accident. She replied, "Accidents will affect your premium regardless of fault." This reply from Hartford, endorsed by AARP is ILLEGAL and violates insurance laws in my state. Be forewarned. AARP is a scam. They are disregarding state laws, do not engage with them.
My current Full Coverage insurance is $1800 yearly.
Hartford's quote: $4,600 per year. When I tried calling AARP to report they disconnected twice.

This company is USELESS. It is no use to give you discounts for gym membership, and worst they are selling your information to car insurances without your permission.

Why would anyone have anything to do with a company that is ran by people who wishes the United States of America to be destroyed and most of the people dies.
The ignorance of the youth will go blindly into the chambers of death. AND these people will be there to greet them in hell. 🇺🇸

Just read a lot of the reviews, and what a bunch of old farts (like me, in my mid-80s). Some people just like to complain about anything at all. For instance, reference to Hartford doubling the insurance rate -- not true. I've had it for a number of years, and it is just not the case. Also, another claims AARP is a leftist organization. Well, that's too bad he/she feels that way, but that type of comment does not belong here and should be removed. There's lots of good health information -- you can take it or leave it, but it's there. AARP sells a lot of stuff too. Don't want it, don't buy it. Others have quit. Bye.

“Discounts promised, not honored — seniors deserve better.”

“Coupon denied, no help from support, pushed to Hartford instead.”

“Membership benefits misleading — not worth the hassle.”

“AARP partners profit while seniors get shortchanged.”

“Supposed ‘discounts’ ended up costing me more.”

No way to cancel your membership from the app or website….they don’t even have it as one of the questions in the FAQ. You have to get in touch with someone there in order to cancel and then they want to ask you 5 or 10 times why you’re canceling instead of just doing it right away. One of those companies unfortunately.

The only reason to be an AARP member was for cheap Hartford car insurance. They more than double the price after a year. Any travel discounts can be acquired through so many other services like Google flights,your credit card company or trivago. Don't waste your money they lean left in their politics also no Christian or conservative should align themselves with any support.

If you are over 50 DONOT‼️I say Donot trust AARP insurance or‼️get car insurance from AARP, it’s a huge scam, they steal your money‼️getting them for the first time less than a year, they are the worst‼️every rep is unprofessional, they donot know what they doing and I started to think it’s not even an actual insurance! The app is the worst to manage anything! & no one can help on the phone! but give you the run around , absolutely the worst! I regret this POS decision I made to add my car, I’m cancelling them asap.
Go to Geico who I been with for years with my other vehicles.

Not worth it. Lots of wasted USPS mail and emails. Was a member for over 20 years. The AARP Bulletin (comes in the mail every month) was vaguely helpful, once in a while. When originally joined, the AARP claim to save you money actually worked. These days it's worthless. Now putting in the trash more junk mail from AARP.

I called to ask for a physical membership card. I was told by the rep it would be 2-3 week by regular postal mail. I said ok.

Five weeks later still nothing. I call again and the rep tells me they have no record of the request. The rep again tells me it will be a 4 week delay through regular postal mail.

I completed the survey they sent after the and mentioned this issue and selected the option for AARP to contact me. Instead, it redirects me to the chat/phone page on their website. Ok, so i call again.

With the third rep, i explain the two previous discussions. This rep does take the time to explain that i have a Digital Membership and therefore despite the previous rep telling me a physical card would be sent it would be replaced with a email and PDF. So i asked if it was normal for reps to lie to customers. I asked to speak to a supervisor and she said she is one. I thanked her for being helpful on the reason but i told her i wanted follow-up on the practice of lying to customer. I told her my feeling was AARP would ignore the issue and do nothing.

As expected the following day i received an email. It stated we are happy to hear the rep exlplained the membership type. That is it, no mention of the two reps lying to me.

As expected, do not trust them on anything of consequence.

I talked to an expert, obviously he wasn't, all the information he gave last month, this month was wrong, i talked to somebody today and i found out they can do nothing, AARP is the worse

The website is what every elder dreads. Expect to spend an hour trying and failing to find out when your membership expires or requesting that they stop sending wasteful renewal notices. Be prepared - after signing in - to give your information again to a third party if you want to use the useless chat bot. If you are feeling marginalized and frustrated by technology designed to throw sand in your face then this is the place to go. On the plus side, you can call them during business hours rather than wasting your time with the website, and their newsletters and magazines contain a ton of valuable information.