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b422063
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PostPosted: 05:13 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Quotezone Insurance Job Titles Reply with quote
Quotezone is used for Topcashback insurance and I'm trying to run a quote. I work for an Ambulance service as a technician. There is nothing close to that in their list. If I put occupation not listed, no one will quote. Is there anything else acceptable? Is Nurse a 'close enough' title, even though I'm not a registered nurse? I can't say I've ever been questioned on my job before by an insurance company before...
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PostPosted: 08:19 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
What "technical" stuff do you do?
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PostPosted: 11:02 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just pick the closest career you can reasonably justify as being related to yours, it's what I do.

My professional title is 'land quality and remediation technician', but it's not on there so I just put my career down as 'geologist'.
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PostPosted: 11:10 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Use this, it'll save you money. Search for things you might do. Even if it's vague, it's fine as long as it somewhat represents what you do.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/car-insurance-job-picker/
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-Matt-
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PostPosted: 13:26 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you select 'other' at the bottom you can search 'ambulance' and get an ambulance crew option Thumbs Up
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Ste
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PostPosted: 15:06 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Getting a quote to get cash back... why does it matter what you tell them your job is? Laughing

Once you've got the £2.10 from quotezone, this is an easier £2.10 cash back to earn. Wink https://www.topcashback.co.uk/nielsen/
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PostPosted: 15:28 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm always worried that "retired" will predictive text as "retard".
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Vracktal
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PostPosted: 17:05 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Is there one of those comparison tools, but for different areas of London?
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PostPosted: 19:40 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Does 'job title' actually affect the way insurers price up a policy or is it just a market research thing?

Wonder who the riskiest professions are?
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Ste
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PostPosted: 19:42 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Every question they ask you affects the quote you get.

They'd ask your skin colour if they were allowed. Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
guile wrote:
Does 'job title' actually affect the way insurers price up a policy or is it just a market research thing?

Wonder who the riskiest professions are?


Celebrities, footballers and anyone that attracts hate - make of that what you will.
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Albigularis
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PostPosted: 19:58 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ste wrote:
Every question they ask you affects the quote you get.

They'd ask your skin colour if they were allowed. Laughing


Many insurers wont insure people of certain professions.

When I worked at esure, we wouldn't insure anyone who would identify as a celebrity, an actor (even amateur), anyone involved in the police force, door security, social services, private hire taxi drivers (even if this wasn't their taxi)... List may have changed now mind you, but they class themselves as a low risk insurer, so they want to avoid people who may attract vandalism etc.
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PostPosted: 20:42 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ste wrote:
They'd ask your skin colour if they were allowed. Laughing

Good job they can't infer ethnicity from your name, eh? Whistle
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PostPosted: 23:56 - 19 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
guile wrote:
Does 'job title' actually affect the way insurers price up a policy or is it just a market research thing?

Wonder who the riskiest professions are?


Course it does.

I did a quote on a bike (R3 for what it's worth - it wasn't even going be insured for commuting, much less business obviously) and the difference between my actual job, which is a driver for Domino's and a tweak of the truth, which was I stated I worked in store, was £1500.

It jumped from £500-and-something to about £2050. Just because it deemed me a higher risk, but the bike was insured for purely pleasure purposes, doing 5k miles a year, kept on private property.

Fucking ridiculous. Literally the only thing that changed was my occupation.

Oddly enough, apparently one of the riskiest professions is a computer programmer. They seem to always come out pretty expensive.
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PostPosted: 12:54 - 20 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
-Matt- wrote:
If you select 'other' at the bottom you can search 'ambulance' and get an ambulance crew option Thumbs Up


Perfect! Thanks Smile
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b422063
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PostPosted: 12:55 - 20 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ste wrote:
Getting a quote to get cash back... why does it matter what you tell them your job is? Laughing


I'm getting insurance to get the cashback, not a quote.
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PostPosted: 17:06 - 21 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
What "technical" stuff do you do?


I unplug the machine that beeps and occasionally plug it back in? I also charge people up with said machine when they run out of electric. Technical stuff. Embarassed
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 21 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Albigularis wrote:


When I worked at esure, we wouldn't insure anyone who would identify as a celebrity


So Michael Winner was lying? That's shattered my illusions...
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