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#1 Robodene

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Posted 30 April 2018 - 04:03 pm

As the case may be, but "as I am over 65" (well over, actually) they can no longer insure me, they tell me. This is a 'brokerage' [owned by Saga!] which appears to be the agent of only one insurance company. I got all sorts of blather when I suggested they look at other companies. Anyway, the AA came up with £141...and then £115. All calm again. Until the next time.
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Posted 30 April 2018 - 04:50 pm

Well done on getting a sensible quote from the AA... Summat I have never managed.
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Posted 30 April 2018 - 05:29 pm

Hypocrites eh.  Thought Saga were all for the over 50's.

 

Ya might get cheapo breakdown cover now you're insured with the AA. :)


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Posted 30 April 2018 - 09:00 pm

Hypocrites eh.  Thought Saga were all for the over 50's.
 
Ya might get cheapo breakdown cover now you're insured with the AA. :)


I am already covered for breakdown with the AA separately. So, I suppose that price might seem reasonable because there's no breakdown in it. Anyway, I am happy. Next battle will be in July for a reduction in the AA breakdown cost - likely to be about £60 more than joining the RAC. I don't mind switching that either.
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Posted 30 April 2018 - 10:26 pm

Use Tesco Clubcard points - makes RAC cheap as chips.


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Posted 01 May 2018 - 07:35 am



As the case may be, but "as I am over 65" (well over, actually) they can no longer insure me, they tell me. This is a 'brokerage' [owned by Saga!] which appears to be the agent of only one insurance company. I got all sorts of blather when I suggested they look at other companies. Anyway, the AA came up with £141...and then £115. All calm again. Until the next time.


......(if you could be bothered) you could see my (very) previous post.......
which mirrors Robodenes almost exactly

......Bennett’s......PAH !.......
claim to scour the market to find us the best quote.....when clearly they only deal with on or two insurers
and, come renewal time, spring massive premium hikes, which they hardly even bother to justify.....

I guess their business model tells them that the suckers who accept the increase more than compensate
for the customers who walk away

Still unprincipled........Rubbish

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Posted 01 May 2018 - 09:19 am

I know these so-called brokers are normally agents of the insurance companies which has always been dodgy for consumers. But Bennetts seem to have taken things to a new low. (I read your post originally, jiff, but it had faded in the mind, as is increasingly so... or I would have revived it). Still, we move on, do we not.
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Posted 02 May 2018 - 10:17 am

Today, an email arrives from Bennetts offering me renewal at the same cost as last year and £30 less than the AA.......they will be hearing from me.

PS. Premiums seem to be stabilising and I have renewed my other bike with no cost increase.
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Posted 02 May 2018 - 03:31 pm

Got Carole's renewal quote today and it's 8 quid cheaper than last year :good:


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Posted 02 May 2018 - 04:01 pm

Cant remember who Im with this year, but I always use the comparison sites now. I never, ever auto renew!

I try them all (data saved from the previous year, so its not that time consuming) and then log off for a few days. Usually theyll start emailing offers/fighting between themselves to get my business!

Edited by Jim, 02 May 2018 - 04:01 pm.

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Posted 02 May 2018 - 09:35 pm

I phoned Bennets 5 weeks before the renewal date and told them I was shopping around. They offered  £22 less for renewing again with them. So I did.

 

I'll shop around next time, I usually do, but thought the fact that it went down was a step in the right direction


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Posted 02 October 2018 - 02:42 pm

It's the most beautiful time of the year again.

 

Got a hefty loyalty hike from Hastings, so wouldn't renew on principle. Bennetts came in cheapest on the Meerkat search, so i gave them a call. The bloke in the morning was fine, but when I called back in the afternoon I got through to some devious bitch who had the gall to try to bump the price up because I added a top box. She said it was because it would take the value over £400, but I'd already told her the value was less than that. So she then tried to make a case for the price hike being due to it being under £400. She'd obviously just decided that she'd seize on any changes and bump up the quote, which had already been fixed with her colleague that morning. She just fell short in the logic department or hoped I would and get brow beaten into acceptance. I told her it was the quoted price or I'm off.

 

Well she went off, as they do, to smoke a fag or something, don't buy that pretence of talking with a supervisor. Left me hanging for 7 minutes, so I hung up. If I'd have stayed on the line she'd have likely said she could only scrub a couple of quid off. But I got the call back saying the quoted price was acceptable and I went ahead grudgingly. If it wasn't for the fact that the next nearest quote was £30 more, I'd have walked. Utter (mostly in my experience) devious sharks. 

 

£69.48 btw. 

 

On edit:  I actually listened back to the recording of the conversation I made and it was even more baffling. Such obvious, mishearing and lying. Gaslighting I think they call it. 


Edited by muddy, 02 October 2018 - 04:36 pm.

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Posted 02 October 2018 - 03:16 pm

I think they are getting worse (AA). I changed a bike and they wanted to charge me more than the annual premium to do so. I pay just over £100pa. A fee of £175 was asked. I told her that was outragous 'I hate dealing with insurance companies they're so disfunctional' They then offered to chop their admin fee - so a fee of £153. Eventually I noticed they actually charged £135. I cannot easily move because of a foreign-residing second rider (my son) which they do not like. Me not happy, like Muddy.
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Posted 02 October 2018 - 04:13 pm

for breakdown try autoaid it covers both yourself and spouse for any vehicle(car or bike )they are travelling in  £48 plus some deals come round now and again



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Posted 03 October 2018 - 07:26 am

Something else I omitted to mention, they farm out your details to third party companies out of the goodness of their heart,unless you tell them not to do so. And even then you can't trust them.i say this because I'd already advised the first chap I spoke with to opt me out,but when I spoke with the woman, I was still opted in. Now the first bloke either ignored my request or the woman opted me back in because as she sped through the spiel, I had to stop her to once again say I don't want my phone number and details sold for marketing purposes. Another thing I found out was that you have to tell them not to hold your bank details for automatic renewal, which I did.

Do we actually have any regulator with teeth to stop these sharp practices?

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