I've just haggled my AA membership down from the £236.37 down to £180.
Well done @Hostafan1 I did the same with one of my insurances. Too many people think they can't haggle, but if you can justify your reasons, then there's no harm trying. If you don't ask, you definitely won't get. Try, and see what can be achieved. 👍👍
It never hurts to try and haggle but some insurers aren't interested. We had house insurance via our bank for years. On renewal the premium increased by over 50%, but there hadn't been any claims. I did a comparison and most others were around the price we'd paid the previous year. I phoned the insurer and spoke to a very nice lady. She came back a couple of minutes later and said her manager had agreed to reduce it by 10%, and she assumed I would be going elsewhere. She was correct.
Also yesterday I had a hissy fit at my home insurance quotation and got it knocked down by quite a bit. Still waaay too high for my liking. I told the nice young man to look up the law of diminishing returns when we had finished my business. 🤨
Also yesterday I had a hissy fit at my home insurance quotation and got it knocked down by quite a bit. Still waaay too high for my liking. I told the nice young man to look up the law of diminishing returns when we had finished my business. 🤨
The people we speak to on the phone have little or no control over the situation. Even their managers will have very limited ability to make changes. The world is run by bean counters who care about nothing other than short term returns.
As a broker he has to go with what the companies quote. Unfortunately when he told me the quote I was so shocked that I may have squeaked loudly in his ear. It was almost double last year's amount! Outrageous!
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I did the same with one of my insurances. Too many people think they can't haggle, but if you can justify your reasons, then there's no harm trying.
If you don't ask, you definitely won't get. Try, and see what can be achieved.
👍👍
The people we speak to on the phone have little or no control over the situation. Even their managers will have very limited ability to make changes. The world is run by bean counters who care about nothing other than short term returns.
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