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  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,785 Forumite
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    edited 28 July at 4:30PM
    I cannot bear looking for home insurance, so I'd probably take the £80 saving as a win, but if it's that much cheaper, it does make you wonder. There are so many variables with home insurance and I always find that as soon as you click through from the comparison site, you find that it doesn't actually cover what's needed and that that'll cost another XX amount, so it's a complete waste of my time. But that's just me!

    If Ed's a naughty boy, I reckon I'm in line for excommunication! 😆
    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,690 Forumite
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    You would actually think that customer loyalty would make life cheaper for a business.  After all you have a customer who you know hasn't tried to rip you off/defraud you, that you know their details are correct etc.  It does seem a little counter productive to spend a lot of money on advertising to give the new customer a large discount & hope an existing one will pay more just to stay.  Maybe the scales are beginning to tip the other way.
  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 6,625 Forumite
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    badmemory said:
    You would actually think that customer loyalty would make life cheaper for a business.  After all you have a customer who you know hasn't tried to rip you off/defraud you, that you know their details are correct etc.  It does seem a little counter productive to spend a lot of money on advertising to give the new customer a large discount & hope an existing one will pay more just to stay.  Maybe the scales are beginning to tip the other way.
    badmemory - they are being totally transparent, but M&$, in telling me that they are stopping house insurance, have identified that our details may (automatically) be passed to the insurer that they have previously been using to insure our house.  They tell you all the checks that will be made etc to provide a quote, but I thought the same  - they've had me as a customer for the past 2 years, insured our house, they actually know all about me already......... 🙄 I wish the scales would tip towards rewarding loyalty and being fair too.

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  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,723 Forumite
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    edited 30 July at 3:05PM
    @badmemory & @Greying_Pilgrim - interesting asides on insurance!  thank-you for popping those here 😀

    I have a laugh for everyone - I just applied for a position at the conglomerate parent company of 'the happiest place on earth' - what a joke after all that effort to find out that the salary is a good chunk less than mine which is in the 50th percentile if the Mercer benchmarks are to be believed! - it was a good exercise though, AI application processes infuriate me so I got through this one in about half the time with help from MrGPT for some of the stupider answers to the stupider questions!

    ETA - the happiest place on earth is about as far from the environment I currently work in as one could get, so it was a hilarious whim when I saw the job poster! - This poster arrived to me shortly after I had another interaction with someone in the office who thinks they have the right to uni-laterally decide upon my accessibility accommodations - I put paid to that with a well-crafted terse written response cc'ing their manager, my manager and the head of HR.  Who knows what the fall-out will be - they have skills at kissing !!!!!!, I do not!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 17,841 Forumite
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    Do you have access to the mercer benchmarks? I don't think we use them - we just pay as little as possible!
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,894 Forumite
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    edited 31 July at 4:22PM
    You are absolutely right about managers - I often complain about mine but they are merely operating as best they can in a system that they don't quite seem to understand! Despite ******* local interpretations of corporate policies, the policies aren't bad ;)  
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,785 Forumite
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    That sounds horrendous RT - I’d say beyond belief, but I’ve heard similar poor treatment on many such occasions from a friend who has a wheelchair. Will you complain or is it not worth the effort?
    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


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