'Alliance & Leicester Car Insurance: An irrelevant promotion' blog discussion

Former_MSE_Lawrence

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's 'Alliance & Leicester Car Insurance: Probably the most irrelevant promotion ever seen' blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

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Kevicho

(and my comment btw)

The alliance & leicester give with one hand.

And take away with several.

Stumpy

I've just done my car insurance - the same way as every year. I get a renewal quote, then got onto confused.com, find the cheapest, then get onto quidco and (assuming there are no silly "catches" to the lowest quote) get cashback through them.

So this year I got insurance for about £40 less than my current insurer was quoting, plus another £75 cashback with quidco. Can't be bad :beer:

Heinz

Spot on Martin. I got:

Unfortunately we are unable to offer you a quotation based on the information that we have collected. If you would like to speak to one of our advisors please call us, quoting reference number 12345678, on 0845 603 9763 or click on the ask us to call you link at the top of this page.

Badger_Lady

Yep, same here!

anne78

Hi, I was going to just renew with my existing insurer, but saw this and thought I'd try A&L - it was a bit cheaper, plus I got free breakdown cover which I didn't have before. Would recommend giving it a try, thanks Martin

Nodge_2

I also tried getting a quote by calling number. As an Alliance & Leicestr customer told cud hav car brakdown FREE! quote was £10 cheaper than my Direct line renewal so happy!

Badger_Lady

Oh, you silly people!

1) If you're actually from Alliance and Leicester (assumption made because you haven't posted anything other than this praise), you are simply spamming the forum and are not welcome. You will also notice that we're very savvy moneysavingexperts and are not fooled by such posts.

2) If you're not, apologies, but you still shouldn't just go along with this campaign. Read Martin's tips on "Cheap Car Insurance" - you are almost guaranteed to find cheaper quotes and/or better cover for your money.

If you are genuine people and have taken up the insurance, you are legally entitled to a "cooling off period" during which you can cancel. I would recommend you start searching for a cheaper quote now, and cancel the A&L quickly.

simons_2

I was a More Than car insurance customer - late last year they sent me mail saying they would guarantee to beat my building and contents insurance quote. I took them up on it and their first quote was about £800 combined! My renewal policy from existing provider (which could have been pushed up much higher since I had made two minor claims) was about £350. I said to the agent on the phone, your quote is terrible. She then asked what my renewal quote was and when I told her she said, first, I can lower it to (a figure that was now about £500). I said, well you are still way over, so she then said, "Oh, sorry we cannot beat it". So...er...the guarantee is somewhat less than a guarantee it's just empty, pointless, time-wasting, misleading sales talk that is frankly called for what it is. Lies.

Phil

I thought I'd investigate this so logged onto the A&L website and found car insurance.

I used to use a broker to get my car insurance, which had quoted £355 to renew my insurance.

But I wasn't going to tell A&L that, so I entered £200 as my renewal quote and got back £189.97. I then clicked on the back button and put it down to £100 and it returned a "phone this number screen". Oh well. I think clicked the back button again and entered £190, then £180 and kept going until I entered £105 and it returned £94.96!

I then changed the assumed details to reflect that I would normally keep the car on the street and the amount remained unchanged.

Now, I am actually selling the car but if I was renewing the insurance this would be a great place to start from because I could then go through the other sites with this quote as my bargaining tool!!!

Silver linings and all....

Phil

Phil

Phil wrote: »

I thought I'd investigate this so logged onto the A&L website and found car insurance.

I used to use a broker to get my car insurance, which had quoted £355 to renew my insurance.

But I wasn't going to tell A&L that, so I entered £200 as my renewal quote and got back £189.97. I then clicked on the back button and put it down to £100 and it returned a "phone this number screen". Oh well. I think clicked the back button again and entered £190, then £180 and kept going until I entered £105 and it returned £94.96!

I then changed the assumed details to reflect that I would normally keep the car on the street and the amount remained unchanged.

Now, I am actually selling the car but if I was renewing the insurance this would be a great place to start from because I could then go through the other sites with this quote as my bargaining tool!!!

Silver linings and all....

Phil

I've just gone through the moneysupermarket and confused searches and the best quote I got was £228.02...