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

MarkyMarkD

What's hard to understand about

A copy of your renewal invitation or notice from your previous insurer will be required.

Lying about your renewal premium to get an apparently bargain premium simply isn't going to work.

And there's no reason that any other insurer is going to care about you having a spuriously low quote from A&L and consequently give you a bargain price on their own part.

Goggsy_2

I just did the Quote but i did not put in my renewal of £212 & the Alliance quote came back at £253 , I'll phone them tommorrow and ask for my years free insurance .It should be an interesting phone call .

nilashah

Hi

I have to say that this marketing scheme for car insurance by Alliance & Leicester does seem to be a bit of a scam.

I got a higher quote with A&L and you know what, they got away with it. They called me this week, however, they said oh cos you've already renewed your policy 5 days ago, our underwriters say that you are not eligible for this offer.

What an excuse hey cos they damn well could not beat my renewal price. If anyone sees this offer from Alliance and Leicester, i would say, really don't bother with it. it's a gimmick. Also, read all the small print, cos they also make things up as they go along. You have to make sure they're offering you the same excess, and the quote mustn't include legal cover or no claims protection cover or any other extras.

Regards

Geen_2

Do not touch A&L (Equity Direct Broking)- Mick Larkin is the same person who is responsible of the complaints dept and contact centre. If you write or call o complain, best be assurred your complaint will not be in your favor

eslick

so nothing new there then, but why waste your time with this when play.com have created lots of issues for mse'ers

Geen_2

Took out a policy over the internet and with days i received a letter requesting for my NCB. I sent it via recorded post but again within days i received another letter saying the reg number was not mentioned on the paperwork i sent. This went on for a month and Equity decided to cancel my policy and retaining £127.00 for a months cover.That did not added up since i had paid £331.24 for the year. I immidiately called the Equity office and requested to speak to a Manager. This young rude lady advised me no Manager were avaliable. I then requested the for the name of the head of Complaints and Contact Centre Manager'sname. You guess it. I was advised it was other than Mick Larkin. How in hell can anyone get any kind of justice with the same person who runs the business be in charge of the complaints department.