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Miscelleaneous

14/11/2013

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There are times when my wife gets quite frustrated with me because she believes I have a somewhat cavalier approach to managing our finances. On the one hand, she knows that I am always looking for ways to save the odd penny here and there; turning off lights or electrical appliances when I've finished using them, for example. However, she is ess comfortable with me spending a small fortune to buy my trike - despite the fact that it was being sold for almost £1,000.00 below the list price because it had been "on the road" - albeit for only 30 miles.

Anyway, the point of this blog is to draw attention to a rather disturbing practice which seems to be designed to take advantage of people like me.

This morning I received notification for the renewal of my car insurance; and, printed very prominently on it was the message, "Don't forget - you don't need to do anything - just sit back, relax and we'll automatically renew your policy for you".

Now, in normal circumstances, I would have taken that comforting assurance in the manner for which I suspect it was intended and I would have tucked the letter into the folder I use for car issues and forgotten all about it. However, something caught my eye; and that was the claim, "We've searched to find you a great price."

Now, what they were quoting seemed somewhat higher than I thought I had paid for the current year and I dug into the aforementioned folder to discover that last year's price was a little over £100.00 less than the "great price" being asked for now.

So, somewhat aggrieved, I telephoned the insurers and spoke to a nice man called Stephen - who, studiously neglecting to offer an apology - "had a look into my records" and discovered that I was apparently entitled to some "discounts" and came up with a revised figure less than £2.00 higher than the current figure.

Incredible!

The question now is, "how many people are being duped (because, make no mistake, they are being deceived) into paying the original asking price?"
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