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  • 28-09-2007 6:14pm
    #1
    Captain Slow IRL
    Registered Users Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭


    Got my renewal quote from britton last week - €1100 fully comp; rang around a few companies, but no-one could better it (some wouldn't gimme a quote, because of my occupation)
    They rang me up today to ensure I was staying with them, I told them AXA offered me a quote for 550 - she told me to hang on then said they'd match it, I couldn't believe it!!

    Why couldn't they just gimme this quote in the first place though?!?!:confused:


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    #2
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,861 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Because they're in the business to make money and while you managed to get them to half it (well done incidentially :)), there are many others who will just say "oh ok then.."

    Easy money for them most of the time


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    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    I ended up leaving halfway through a policy back to faithful old Quinn direct. Hibernian doubled my monthly when i switched from an integra to a Tdi A4. I complained, they said tough. I told them I could buy a years insurance for what they were now charging for 3 mths. 'Then go do it' was the reponse...


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    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Mrs. crosstownk experienced the same thing with her latest insurance premium.

    Her: How much?
    AXA: No change, same as last year - €490.
    Her: Is that your best offer?
    AXA: Yes.
    Her: I'll get back to you......

    So off she went and rang around. She eventually got a quote from FBD for €380. And she rang AXA to tell them...........

    Her: I've been quoted €380 from FBD - can you match it?
    AXA: Yes.
    Her: Why didn't you tell me that yesterday when you said that €490 was the best you could do?
    AXA: Er......well......em....We'll match it.

    She was tempeted to tell them to fúck off, but reckoned it was less hassle to stay with the same company. It's a total scam - they wait to see if you're prepared to pay instead of giving the customer genuine value for money:mad: :mad:
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    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    I've been in the same situation where in the space of a phone call to another company my own is able to somehow recalculate and match that quote despite not being able to do this 15mins beforehand, when this happened I changed company it wasn't too much hassle but I felt that I was being made a fool of and would have been ripped off.


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    Captain Slow IRL
    Registered Users Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    I tried that with axa when I first left them but they told me where to go, only did it to britton this time because I thought they might turn their noses up at me when I told them I was a mechanic - axa gave me a quote last week for fully comp @ 1200, I was just gonna take that 'cause britton can take their time responding to me and posting me out stuff (they got my car details wrong last year and was nearly a month after taking the policy out before I had the correct disc on my windscreen)


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