Insewerance Renewal ...

[sunny-dave]

Even by the somewhat relaxed 'standards' of their industry, my bike insurers have gone off the deep end this year ...

Year 1 (no NCB) was £186
Year 2 (1yr NCB) was £148
Year 3 renewal quote (2yr NCB) is ..............£271

So a quick blast of moneysupermarket got a rather more competitive (!) quote for identical cover (but actually with half the excess) of .........£112

So I accepted the quote & paid the broker - and it then turned out that the actual policy is with the same underwriter who had quoted the £271 for renewal ...

<mad as a box of frogs having a mad day> :+()

[jno]

usual thing is to get a better quote then ring the original people up and invite them to improve it.

Wouldn't have been any help in this case, obviously. But in the past few years I have got used to ringing up insurers, AA etc, saying "Give me a better quote or I shoot the puppy".

[AB Editor]

Insurance companies have a lot of puppy blood on their hands.

[boxtops]

doesn't surprise me at all, these days it pays to shop around. We rarely stay with the same insurers for anything, two years running.

[sunny-dave]

They seem to be getting more cunning - it now seems to be a regular ploy for 'year 2' to be competitive and the real bite to come in 'year3' when they hope you've relaxed your guard.

[jno]

boxy's currently holding out for a better quote from Gravatar, I see

[EDDIE51]

The rule is NEVER accept a renewal quote , you will always do better by shopping around.

[Ankou]

boxtops avatar is a bit like the governments rather embarassing ogc logo.

http://i.telegraph.co...-logo-192_666388f.jpg

[whiskeryron]

Great Scot Ankou that's a good 'un.

W Ron.

[Nibble]

Boxy, as high priestess to Ab Editor, are you taking over the world of gravatar - with avatars as point of contact?