That's usually 25% of the year
which, when I've changed policies in the past, I didn't get charged because I was over halfway through the term, or something.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:30, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I fucking always do
perhaps they hate me?

The one that's been doing my head in over the last few years - I've worked my way through a few cars and I always have an overlap - buy the new one before selling the old - and I always used to be able to get insurers to have a couple of weeks of "overlap" where both cars were covered on the same policy, save starting a new one for the transfer. No-one seems prepared to do that now, which of course is stupid for them, because I'll automatically move to a new company every time as there is simply no incentive to stay.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:35, Reply)

Indeed
I love brokers. They bend over backwards to sort these things out for you because they're usually pretty small companies. A leviathan like Direct Line doesn't give a shit as they're well aware that most people will take the line of least resistance and just stay with them.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:37, Reply)

In their defence, when I had a claim with them a few years back they were very good.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:39, Reply)

I used to use brokers
because I was always insuring stuff that was odd (ie classic) or such a stupidly high group that mainstream companies wanted 5 figure premiums. I don't know why I stopped, really.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 11:44, Reply)