Well, my Dad had his renewal through from Hastings. They wanted to auto-renew at £930! Up from £625. That is a 50% increase pretty much. We cancelled the auto-renewal. Then immediately received a revised quotation with £150 knocked off the price. If they can do that then why was the price not £150 cheaper to begin with? Surely they have to by law offer the best price? Anyway, that email was promptly deleted. Will be shopping around this weekend.
This really annoys me. I know companies are there to make a profit, but it's basically a "con" offering it for one price, and then - without any haggling etc - they reduce it. Most times they do that to me I just move on straight away.
However, the best one in terms of "WTF" was a few years a go.
I rang a car insurance company as I was told they offered good deals. I'd already been on the comparision sites etc, as well as making a few calls to other brokers.
After giving all my details, they asked if I'd already had other quotes. I told them I had, and they asked me for my best price so far. They ran the figures, and the cheapest they could do was around £100 more expensive than the £275 I'd been offered elsewhere for the same level of cover.
After the agent told me this, she went on to ask, "So how would you like to pay today?"
I told her I wasn't interested, and she asked why I wasn't..
seriously???!!
Never been back to them either. First Class Muppetry