Excessive insurance premium

agrinnall · 13 January 2018 at 4:00PM

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Yawn; you evidently have not been in this position with an older relative. They get stuck in their ways and don't want 'help'!

No, I am in exactly that position, but I didn't go on a forum to moan and whinge about the nasty insurance companies like some, I accept that my ageing relative has the ability to make their own decisions.

EdGasketTheSecond · 13 January 2018 at 9:36PM

What was particularly cynical of Aviva was that they told my sister she was getting a discount due to her previous profession while actually they were charging three times the going market rate. My sister of course believed this in good faith and thought she'd be losing out by going elsewhere and not getting the 'discount'. Sure savvy people will laugh but that's how 'nasty insurance companies' treat their older, loyal customers.

tempus_fugit · 14 January 2018 at 2:22PM

Beats me as to why any intelligent person remains loyal to companies that quite clearly either don't want your custom any more or at best don't see that loyalty as in any way valuable to them. And it's not taking advantage of older people, you're either willing to make the small effort of shopping around for things or not. Expecting companies to be just reward people for being loyal, however, is just pie in the sky. Reward them for their disdain by moving elsewhere. If they don't then that's entirely up to them.