No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

If I got farm insurance for free off FBD I still wouldn’t sign back to them. After 25+ years of the farm with them and not a single claim for anything in that timeframe I left them 4 years ago. I got their quote as usual but said I’d try a few other places. Got quotes for the exact same policy from another company for 33% less. Rang FBD and 5% was the very most they could knock off and that was it. So I left it a few days, rang again and was told the same thing. So I said that was fine, if that’s all they could do then fair enough and I politely told her as much as I didn’t like doing it I would be ending my policy with them and moving as the price difference was too much.

I got a phone call from the manager that evening offering me a 25% reduction on their quote if I stayed with them. I told her if they had to offer me that in the first place I would have stayed with them but because they were so adamant that 5% was the very best they could do over a few phone calls in the space of a week that I’d have had a lot more respect for her and the company if she hadn’t rang me at all offering 25% as now I know they’d been robbing me for years. I also told her if they offered it to me for free now, on a point of principle, I’d never go back to them as I’d have no respect for them whatsoever now after that stunt.

I was 40 years + with FBD and they still treated me like sh1t.

Area manager rang me and was glad to get off the phone by the time I was finished with her.

Long time bugbear of mine is the shafting of loyal customers while offering cheap deals to new customers

Looking at quotes for daughter who passed her test the other day. In her own name on her own car. 5 weeks waiting time in louth for an appointment to get the licence. She's going to meath in 2 weeks to get it.

The owner of our local shop told me he had to fill the diesel tanks on Monday at 2.01 to him, he has it in the board for 2.09, says there’s nothing in it for him at that. I’m not sure how big his tanks are

She'll dock somewhere round the island yet that Russian bag manure.

I got 70 euros back as she's a full licence holder now....

It makes no sense... I know they were stung by chancers buying cheap cars, taking insurance out on monthly payments, organising a crash and making a claim.. But surely this is isolated enough behavior.. It makes buying a cheap car pointless

Decent prices in these times

Anyone else find themselves googling what the four horsemen of the apocalypse are?

To save ye the trouble. They are : Sword, Famine, Wild Beasts and Plague.

There's someone going sticking up Jesus saves posters on telegraph poles in the county. Bible stuff must be getting to my brain.

Just waiting for the wild beasts from Carlow to finish us all off.

Indeed - at the same time we have a very different attitude to trading with equally unpleasant regimes in the likes of Saudi and China

I’d have to agree on the Putrid point. It looks very immature.

@[Deleted User], from reading your posts you seem to have a very in depth knowledge of all that’s happening and you’ve some very detailed posts on here since the war started, but it’s hard to know what way to take them when you see “Putrid” in a lot of them.

All that is going on in the world and lads take offence with calling a murdering dictator a name other than his proper name. 🤔