Many years ago I had home & contents insurance with Legal and General.
Now, home insurance is itself a con, but it has done me big favours in the past.

However, after a couple of incidences of trying to claim things from L&G only to find they weren't covered, I'd added additional bits to my policy, so everything was covered - mobile, bike, guitars, the lot, all for about £8 a month too if I remember.

One day I was at my bank for one of those stupid "account review" things (which I also don't bother with any more - like I've got nothing better to do than sit in the bank and be sold to), and they asked me if I'd considered swapping my home insurance, as they could save me up to 74p a month, or something. I told them that I'd spent a while making sure my policy covered everything I needed and wasn't interested.

A couple of weeks later my then girlfriend had a similar meeting at the same bank. They said to her "We've spoken to Professor Ken about home insurance, you just need to sign this", which she did, whereupon they cancelled my L&G policy, stopped the Direct Debit, and started the new Lloyds policy. O_o

This in itself pissed me off no end, but a month or so later I dropped my mobile phone. Stripped wooden floors may be cool and look excellent, but when your mobile's bouncing down the stairs doing its best impression of the space shuttle Columbia breaking up on re-entry, they're not great.

So anyway, I phoned Lloyds with my shiny new policy at the ready, only to be told...

..."I'm sorry sir, that's not covered".

So, just to recap: after being categorically told that I wasn't interested, they conned my girlfriend into going ahead anyway, and then gave me an inferior product.

Meh.

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(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 13:39, 4 replies)

Cripes
Those turds!
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 17:57, closed)

Outrageous!
!!!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 15:01, closed)

Now I'm mad
That kind of thing annoys the piss out of me. I hope you didn't just leave it at that - I would have gone fucking mental at them. But actually, on reflection, I've started to realise that this doesn't actually get you anywhere.
(Creamy Discharge Freeze Motherstickers, this is a fuck up, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 2:40, closed)

Mr Deacon on line 1....
You should have used a different phone than the one you just dropped. It obviously distorted your voice, and they probably thought you were a spacker trying it on.

Or something.
(Rsoles, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 19:44, closed)