My XXXX loan was sold without my consent to American Education Services. After paying the loan off in full the following month, AES proceeded to withdraw from my account. When emailing about this they assured me I 'd receive a refund by XXXX XXXX. When I did n't receive the funds I emailed again. After XXXX emails, I called and was told it refund was probably issued on the XX/XX/XXXX and it should be in my account any day now. I 've called a number of times now. On XXXX XXXX I had called once again ( a month after I was told my refund would be in my account ) and after 45 minutes of going transfers and no answers, they told me the refund was paid and that I needed to send them all of my bank statements to prove I did n't get that. I proceeded to ask for some sort of confirmation of that and they said they did n't do that. I was not willing to send my private financial information to a 3rd party who had been so difficult to deal with up until this point and asked to speak with a manager. The manager came on the line and within 5 minutes she was able to see that nothing was refunded and told me I should have my refund in 3-5 days. I had to call again yesterday as I still have not received my refund. They told me by Friday this time. Friday will be XXXX XXXX, I did my part and paid off my loans in XX/XX/XXXX. This " company '' seems like a giant scam and I do n't understand how its legal for them to keep my money but they charge me interest every second my loan was still active. Another side note about this company is that they wo n't give you the full name of who you are speaking to, only a first name and an employee ID number and when I referenced the manager 's ID number no one knew who I was talking about.