Date: 19-05-24  Time: 12:20 pm

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Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« on: 19 July 2014, 12:29:51 pm »
Ho hum, here we go again with Bike Insurers (Bennetts) extracting the urine: Last year's premium £86.28 - this year's renewal premium £166.76!!!

Phone them up, "Oh yes, I'm sure we can do something about that..." Lo and behold, suddenly this year's premium drops to £64!

How many suckers let their renewal go through on the nod? Kerching!  :rolleyes

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #1 on: 19 July 2014, 01:31:28 pm »
Also check they haven't snook in an increase in excess!!

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #2 on: 19 July 2014, 01:37:03 pm »
I had exactly the same scenario .

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #3 on: 20 July 2014, 04:26:18 pm »
Ho hum, here we go again with Bike Insurers (Bennetts) extracting the urine: Last year's premium £86.28 - this year's renewal premium £166.76!!!

Phone them up, "Oh yes, I'm sure we can do something about that..." Lo and behold, suddenly this year's premium drops to £64!

How many suckers let their renewal go through on the nod? Kerching!  :rolleyes


To be honest I've never really had an issue with insurers doing this - it's pretty much common knowledge now that it's best to shop around every year!

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #4 on: 20 July 2014, 07:24:04 pm »
Also check they haven't snook in an increase in excess!!

Oh yeah, I found I had "volunteered" for a £50 excess. No I bloody didn't, so take the damn thing off again!

(A year or two ago they tried to change my RAC cover from UK only to Europewide!)

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #5 on: 20 July 2014, 09:35:58 pm »
Exactly what they did to me Graham....before I cancelled with them following dirty tricks last year.

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #6 on: 24 July 2014, 07:56:16 am »
My renewal (I'm with Carole Nash as I need Europe-wide breakdown cover) was only about £15 more, but the excess had doubled to £800!! It's hardly comprehensive cover at all when the excess is so high. I compared the meerkat to get some numbers then phoned them. I said that I was most worried about the excess, but a few quid off would be nice too. They dropped the price by £16, which is over 10% and a whole pound less than last year, but they also dropped the excess to £350. This was done by switching insurer. I'm now happy with what I've got. I do get fed up, like everybody else, of having to make the inevitable phone call every year though.

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #7 on: 24 July 2014, 08:20:16 am »
I await my renewal notice with interest!
It is a crazy situation where they can hike up excesses & premiums regardless of driving history but I have come to accept that, like banks, theyre not in business for my benefit.
They rely on us being too busy/lazy to explore other options(inertia) & I wonder how much of my premium  goes to pay for the damage caused by uninsured/reckless  drivers & the other insurance scammers?

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Re: Insurers taking the piss (again!)
« Reply #8 on: 25 July 2014, 10:59:00 am »
Home contents ins. due so I "Meerkated" some quotes.


Swindletons comes on the phone and says can we renew your premium which was £31 last year at £ 140 this year.


NO, FOC off says I


Ah well we can reduce that to £50 then.


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