Annual Insurance Ballache

[Villers]

Typical year again trying to find cover at a decent price. I tried all the usual suspects such as 'gocompare' 'compare the market' 'bennets' 'Mce' 'Swinton' 'Tesco' etc etc and all were pretty ridiculous, all giving me different quotes from the same people. All the quotes were up on when I tried last week, despite some sites only asking for accidents within 3 years instead of 5.

In the end up I went against my better judgement and just rang up one of the good quotes and done a bit of haggling/begging.

The result being I went from my original renewal of £546 with 'Performance Direct' (even though I got a far better quote off them when I tried online, bastards) to £380 with 'Bikesure'.

MCE by the way are a bunch of vampyrific buggers even for the expected level of insurers. Not only have they sent a bunch of begging emails but they've phoned me at least 7 times at work today despite me phoning them back twice and asking them politely to do one. I was half expecting to get home and find one of them on my doorstep!

Bloody insurance
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RS125 > CBR6 > SV650S > ZX636R > GSX1300RZ Hayabusa > 06 RSVR Mille > SV1000S > Street Triple 765 RS

[Bofh5]

yeah that reaaly p1sses me off when you go online do a quote then start getting phone calls asking if you want insurance !
If i want it i'll call you now s0d off !!!
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(L)users...Disk space is to good for them.

Bikes: Honda 50 / CB125-TDC / 93 CBR600 F2 (Stolen & Trashed) / 2001 SP-1 (Sold) / 95 CBR600 F3

[ms51ves3]

I know how you feel, I just got a call from Darren on behalf of The Bike Insurer

I did just get an online quote of £227 though to take out a new policy on my TZR

[Villers]

Thing is though, my mrs works in a call centre and Im finding it increasingly difficult to give them both barrels via one of BT's finest lines - especially if its a bird on the other end

Probably what makes it so grinding is that you bend over backwards trying to conform to their little lists and then give them a huge wad of cash, and most of it likely goes to a department that gets paid a mint to avoid paying you out if you ever need it
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RS125 > CBR6 > SV650S > ZX636R > GSX1300RZ Hayabusa > 06 RSVR Mille > SV1000S > Street Triple 765 RS

[chrisjacks]

just say you were getting quotes for the bike and you dont own it yet, theyll hang up in a flash.

[iooi]

[Villers]

And shouting 'wheres my f@cking card you bitch' at the top of your voice, maybe even a few screamed threats of violence!
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RS125 > CBR6 > SV650S > ZX636R > GSX1300RZ Hayabusa > 06 RSVR Mille > SV1000S > Street Triple 765 RS

[ajb]

I had MCE phone me up whilst I was in tescos the morning I was going to look at a bike, I turned it to my advantage and got a number to call back when I had the bike and got my cert emailed through to the dealers so I could insure it then and there to drive away. Worked out ok for me.
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CBR125R '05 > CB500 '00 > CBR600F '99

[Villers]

I think the worst part of them was that they were nearly 140 notes short of my cheapest quote, well over five hundred quid!
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RS125 > CBR6 > SV650S > ZX636R > GSX1300RZ Hayabusa > 06 RSVR Mille > SV1000S > Street Triple 765 RS

[Stelmer]

[Louise]

[theopj]

I always put 01234 567890.... seems to work most of the time as it appears valid. If you go ahead with them just change it with them later.
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Suzuki Bandit SA 1250 & Honda CB750F2T

[M1ke]

If you give your real phone number out on those compare sites you are mad! 80+ insurance companies get your home phone number with a click of the button!

I don't even give my real house number out, some poor sod up the street probably gets all my spam mail.

[JP7]

If you do a quote with The Bike Insurer, you'll get a call within a few minutes of submitting the quote. The best was 2 minutes! Whoever it is says they're calling on behalf of The Bike Insurer, then proceeds to give me a quote several hundred pounds above the best quote from the website!

The only way to avoid the calls is to give a fake number. I tried ignoring the call, so they rang twice a day for two weeks until I gave up and answered. Now I give them an old number that's been disconnected.

[Hutchysrs50]

iv had my insurance for just over 11 month, just enterd my "renewal" month now, iv changed my bike to a 125cc

if i ring up and change my insurance over now, will i not have a years NCB??
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Gilera SC 125 - Current

[ms51ves3]

[Hutchysrs50]

[NSR Mick]

Enter the phone number 07920 222505. It's an old company mobile of mine that was cut off.
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If you dont like the way that I ride.......Stop trying to keep up!!!

[ms51ves3]