Car insurance anecdote.
Posted: November 16th, 2023, 12:26 pm
A friend has been getting quotes for her car insurance and obviously has far too much time on her hands
She tried several comparisson sites, and changing the number of named drivers between her and husband, plus daughter, plus Son in law.
She reports that 2 named drivers is cheaper than 1, but it goes up again when you add a third!.
Also that the cheapest quotes were unsurprisingly the same companies across the quote sites, Tesco then Hastings Essential, however the interesting thing is that she tried Money Supermarket, then Go COmpare, then Confused, then Uswitch, and each time the price for the Tesco Insurance dropped, From £309 to £299 to £290 (plus a £20 voucher) to £287.
Now this is something i've never tried - I simply go to the meerkat, log in, check they haven't done anything odd and get the new quotes. But it seems using a few comparisson sites could drop the price the more you do, or she was simply lucky that she chose the dearer one first.
I asked her to delete cookies and history and try the comparisson sites again in a different order. I suspect her response will contain the word "off" in it somewhere.
Paul
She tried several comparisson sites, and changing the number of named drivers between her and husband, plus daughter, plus Son in law.
She reports that 2 named drivers is cheaper than 1, but it goes up again when you add a third!.
Also that the cheapest quotes were unsurprisingly the same companies across the quote sites, Tesco then Hastings Essential, however the interesting thing is that she tried Money Supermarket, then Go COmpare, then Confused, then Uswitch, and each time the price for the Tesco Insurance dropped, From £309 to £299 to £290 (plus a £20 voucher) to £287.
Now this is something i've never tried - I simply go to the meerkat, log in, check they haven't done anything odd and get the new quotes. But it seems using a few comparisson sites could drop the price the more you do, or she was simply lucky that she chose the dearer one first.
I asked her to delete cookies and history and try the comparisson sites again in a different order. I suspect her response will contain the word "off" in it somewhere.
Paul