Greedy U Switch!! Very expensive house insurance

rodhall

My buildings and contents house insurance via U switch was £359, with 150K buildings cover. I asked this to be increased to cover a barn conversion giving 210K buildings insurance at an additional charge of £52 ,so total £411 per year.

I contacted the Post Office, they quoted £184 for buildings and contents with 400K buildings cover. So I get double the cover at half the cost. I thought U Switch were a trustworthy company but now they are clearly after the cash !!

I then had no option than to cancel my 2 month old House Insurance policy with U Switch and got slapped with a further charge of £53 for the privilege.

U Switch are now way down in my estimation and the ironic thing is that my old and new underwriters are the same insurance company !! So U Switch making big £££ commission. Beware !!

dacouch

Prediction...In twelve months time the Post Office won't be popular

rodhall

Well a year and £200 saving is all I want for the time being !

somethingcorporate

Lots of the comparison sites are far less objective than they would like us to believe.

Our car insurance is with churchills and no-one has been able to touch their quote via the the comparison site in years.

nomoneytoday

Maybe the underwriter likes house policies, but isn't in the market for barn conversions.

AFAIK if you put a new barn quote into the screenscraper it would usually be a different price to a mid-season amendment