Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Insurance companies are chancers!

Man do I feel great today.

Heres the details:
Im 23, Full licence for 4 years, driving for 6 years
No Claims, no points.

Girlfriend:
20, Provisional licence for <1 year

Car:
1.3 Toyota Corolla, 1995, 4 door, no modifications (apart from furry dice) :P

Last year my policy cost ~ €960 with AXA (first policy in my own name)
Put my girlfriend on as a named driver around Oct/Nov, policy went up to ~ €1200

This year renewal for €1014.55 (AXA):

Rang around for different quotes as follows (all fully comprehensive):

Hibernian: €848
Eagle star: systems were down when I called them.
AA: €654.89
Quinn direct: €734

So I called AXA and mentioned that I had got a better quote from the AA, and just like that, she dropped the price to €660 so I told her the AA was €654 so she said..... fine €650. The deal was done!!!!! The reason I went fully comp was there was only ever about €50 squid in the difference

Saved myself almost €400 snots (tax which is also due end of month!)
Happy days

2 comments:

brianokelly said...

I just got ripped off on my volcano insurance. 400 for the year and not a volcano in sight. They were good about it though, they threw in cloud insurance too.

Unknown said...

Reminds me of when I got my renewal quote from Quinn Direct in February. Fully comp, 2 years no claims, no points or convictions or anything... €1250. I went to their own website and got a quote of €905 fully comp. Muppets!