Essential to ring up when policies increase

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Rose65

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Do you always call up when any policy is automatically increased?
I always do and invariably get a good result.
Today a letter showed my car breakdown policy was being doubled, despite the fact I have not even called them out in the past year. So a five minute polite phone call, emphasising that I am a pensioner finding it hard to make ends meet and all was sorted, the price stays the same. I've saved £75.00. That's a lot of money to us, getting on for a week's groceries.
 

Rose65 said:
Do you always call up when any policy is automatically increased?
I always do and invariably get a good result.
Today a letter showed my car breakdown policy was being doubled, despite the fact I have not even called them out in the past year. So a five minute polite phone call, emphasising that I am a pensioner finding it hard to make ends meet and all was sorted, the price stays the same. I've saved £75.00. That's a lot of money to us, getting on for a week's groceries.
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What is a "break down policy " ?? Explain for those of us who don't speak Brit ?? What does it cover ? JimB.
 

I always call to try to get it reduced and say I will switch to another provider. It used to work well but not anymore. Geigo raised my car insurance 20/month twice in the past year but I can’t find it cheaper anywhere else.

It’s a 16 year old car that only gets driven 2700 miles per year with no accidents, etc. I did read online that Amica is cheaper so it’s on my to do list.
 
Yes, I make that phone call. If the customer service rep is stubborn, I ask them to remove a few parts of the policy that "I'll probably never use" or "don't really need."

That always ends in me getting the original premium on the original coverage.
 
Murrmurr said:
Yes, I make that phone call. If the customer service rep is stubborn, I ask them to remove a few parts of the policy that "I'll probably never use" or "don't really need."

That always ends in me getting the original premium on the original coverage.
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That didn’t work the last time I tried that with Geigo.
 

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