Experiences changing insurance companies?

nads

Hi,

My insurance is up next month and after doing some mock quotes and some ringing around i can finally move from Quinn to another company which is the same price but offer more frills and i thought were/are better to deal with.

I hear that all i've to do to switch over is to obtain the certificate of no claims from Quinn which is on the back of an auto-renewal quote sheet that Quinn send out. - Is this true

Or

Do i have to hassle Quinn to get them to send out this cert. And why would they do this promptly - i could imagine this would be a nightmare, getting this cert off them.

Then i'd send this in by post/fax and to say, FBD, and signup with them

Is it that easy - what's other peoples experiences swapping insurance companies?

Cheers

N

Guy:Incognito

nads wrote: »

Hi,

My insurance is up next month and after doing some mock quotes and some ringing around i can finally move from Quinn to another company which is the same price but offer more frills and i thought were/are better to deal with.

I hear that all i've to do to switch over is to obtain the certificate of no claims from Quinn which is on the back of an auto-renewal quote sheet that Quinn send out. - Is this true

Or

Do i have to hassle Quinn to get them to send out this cert. And why would they do this promptly - i could imagine this would be a nightmare, getting this cert off them.

Then i'd send this in by post/fax and to say, FBD, and signup with them

Is it that easy - what's other peoples experiences swapping insurance companies?

Cheers

N

The NCB cert comes automatically with the renewal quote.You dotn have to ask them for anythign.

Dont let that get in the way of a bit of Quinn bashing though.:)

MollyZ

I recently switched from Quinn to another company and all I had to do was to send the NCB cert that Quinn sent out with the renewal form to the new company. And then call Quinn to tell them not to renew my policy with them. It was very easy, no hassles at all from anyone

nads

haha thanks man.

Actually i've had good enough experiences with Quinn bar renewals. Their auto generated renewals would be twice the price as a quote online, so i'd renew online right as i don't particularly like being put on hold on the phone etc etc
But after a mix up it turns out there was 4 Nads on their system with the same birthdates etc i.e. it was Me, their system wasn't intelligent enough to link my account or flag this duplication and the girl on the phone when i had to ring and straighen it out chewed me out saying to always ring in and never do anything on line. i told her that i don't know the inner workings of your databases and online system, i told her that i like dealing online and not on the phone for obvisious reasons! what a b*tch!
only now have they go a proper login system on their site, the old one was very shoddy and limited in what you could do, and even up to my last quote or peiod with them, my online account showed a different QEI/GMP/... blah blah number than the physical insurance disk in my car! just awful for that kind of thing

Gregor Samsa

MollyZ wrote: »

I recently switched from Quinn to another company and all I had to do was to send the NCB cert that Quinn sent out with the renewal form to the new company. And then call Quinn to tell them not to renew my policy with them. It was very easy, no hassles at all from anyone

I did exactly that last week, and like you say, no hassle at all.

When I phoned Quinn to tell them I wouldn't be renewing, they wanted to know how much my other quote was, but I didn't bother telling them - the other insurance company are better to deal with, and give me a better level of cover, so even if Quinn had matched the price (or beaten it - but there was no way that was going to be significant), I wouldn't have stayed.

But OP, it could be a chance to reduce your quote a bit more if that's what you want.

pablosd

quoteline.ie are sound for quotes, + i love the girls on the fone they are sound a u can have a bit of a chat, A+ for customer service :pac:

ToxicPaddy

Have changed insurance companies a few times in the past.. its all very straight forward these days.. And will be even more so now that companies will be fighting even more for business in the current climate..

Dont be afraid to shop around, always deals out there and always money to be saved without sacrificing the service you get

Tox