Getting expensive ring on home insurance

ohmsoft

lisyloo wrote: »

Hello Debaa,

If you want to add impartial information on this site you will be welcome, but if all you want to do (which seems apparent from your other posts) is to advertise your services, then you won't be welcome.
This site is impartial and you cannot use it for advertising but you are very welcome to post balanced and impartial views.

On the contary - I wish more company reps would monitor sites like this - the poster has declaired an interest and has posted a direct offer to assist the op. How is clarifying the ops understanding of what the AA can offer in anyway impartial.

The only reason I post this is that my initial thought on reading was what a great service and one that I may recomend my company follows.

And no i don't work for the AA or any related company!

dacouch

Thanks for your post Ohmsoft, I think Lisyloo is mainly refering to Debaa's other posts that are a combination of helpful advice but also gently promoting the AA. I don't doubt her motives are to help other MSE members.

As with any thread on MSE most of the answers on the Insurance Forum are posted by people who work in the relevant industry. If we all of our posts gently promoted the companies we have connections with it would affect the advice we give and would also defeat the ethos of MSE which is to be advert free.

There are some posters on MSE notably beccus on the Insurance Forum who have gone down the correct channels and obtained permission from MSE to post offering their help and also obtained permission from the company they work for to post on their behalf.

If Debaa went down this route and refrained from the links to the AA website then I don't think any of the MSE members would have any problem with her posting advice regarding AA related issues or offering her help. After all we all ultimately want to help other MSE members but we need to protect the impartiality of MSE.

tinker1001

dacouch, last year the premium for B&C, inc the ring was I think 157 quid!!! V cheap!!! This year it went up to 195 cos they said they had changed their policies so that 195 was the min? anyway, still a good deal and i didn't have time to shop around (sorry, my pound sign isn't working on my laptop)

dacouch

Thats a very cheap price, the cost of the ring is normally about £65