AA Renewal Price

Westyfield2

Westyfield2

Westyfield2

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I’ve just had the renewal letter through for my AA cover. I’ve got:
  • Roadside
  • Home Start
  • Relay
  • Breakdown Repair Cover
Last year when I first took it out online this cost £172.50, and I then got £50 cashback from Quidco. Obviously I wasn’t expecting to get the £50 Quidco again, but I was expecting the renewal to be something around £172.50.

The renewal letter I’ve had says the Total Cost by single payment would be £270.97 :eek:, or the ‘discounted price’ of £203.39 if I renew by a continuous payment method (“25% discount is applicable to the next 12 month Membership only if renewing by your renewal date and paying by a continuous payment method and phoning the telephone number shown and quoting the reference number shown”).

Now obviously £203 is better than £270 and I’ll probably just pay it by continuous Credit Card, but... on a matter of principle that’s still £30 more than last year (or £80 taking Quidco into account). So much for loyalty!

Do the AA do this every year? Can I ring them up and haggle them down by the £30? Can I cancel and join again as a new customer and get the £30 cheaper price and the Quicdo cashback?

Coincidentally, when I just logged into Online Banking (to find out how much I paid last year) up came an advert for Added Value Accounts... £7.95 p/m for one with AA Breakdown Cover with Roadside Assistance, and £17 p/m for one with AA Breakdown Cover with Roadside Assistance, Relay and Home Start. They timed that advert right :D Hmm...
 
My AA membership runs out at the end of this week. The renewal came through at £59 (roadside only, multiple vehicles).
I was about to start shopping around when they phoned me up yesterday and asked if I was going to renew. I explained that I was, but not at the inflated renewal price. They offered me a renewal rate of £39 with no haggling. The current online price for that cover is £40.95.

Give them a ring, or wait for them to call you.
Otherwise cancel it and sign up again, that how I did it last year.
 
I tried cancelling and renewing my AA coverage, they said you couldn't do that for 6 months. Fine by me, I switched to RAC for the same price...
 
Westyfield2 said:
Coincidentally, when I just logged into Online Banking (to find out how much I paid last year) up came an advert for Added Value Accounts... £7.95 p/m for one with AA Breakdown Cover with Roadside Assistance, and £17 p/m for one with AA Breakdown Cover with Roadside Assistance, Relay and Home Start. They timed that advert right :D Hmm...
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Packaged bank accounts are rarely good value. Cancel your AA cover and take out RAC cover via Quidco?
 
Phone to cancel, they will do you a deal... if they dont, go RAC as a new customer get Quidco etc again.

But im sure if you say how much you paid and how much the RAC will be, they will come down in price.
 
If you've got joint cover - cancel it, and take it out in your partner's name. Get the introductory discounts, plus any Quidco etc cashback, all at once :)
 
Sacked AA and RAC off years ago - both useless - slow, unreliable, grumpy, un-intelligent call center staff, expensive - need I go on?

With GEM since I sacked the above two off and they've been faultess ever since. provide the same level of cover I had on AA/RAC for £86 - joint cover (driving any vehicle for the following:-

Roadside Assistance
Recovery - Local
Recovery - UK
Home Assistance
Onward Travel
Accident Management Service

http://www.motoringassist.com/Breakdown-Cover/Cover-Calculator
 
Everything is going up in price its a joke. My insurance renewal jumped from 61.54 a month to 103 :eek: thats with admiral, in the end I got it to 72 a month but I had to stay on the phone for over an hour and remove my girlfriend from the policy.
 
I've recently been through this. My cost for the full monty ( except the europe option and repairs ) was about £14 per month.

I got the renewal through - excellent value for money at £22 per month.

Called them, chose the "thinking of leaving" option on the phone, told them the RAC and green flag were cheaper, and got my current level for £10 per month.

I was "stopped" by one of the street sellers, I told him the story, he showed me his list, and he wasn't happy that he was being extremely undercut !

It pays to call !
 
I have had hassles with AA, in terms of their service when you call them out I cannot fault them, however as a customer at renewal they seem to be always looking to screw existing customers over.

A couple of years ago, I got through my renewal and it had shot up, so I went online as as a new customer it was over £50 cheaper.

I called them up and said that I had been with them 10 years and the price they had quoted for my renewal is way more expensive than online. Immediately they offered me the online price, but I told them to shove it, as as a loyal customer they should have given me the best price in the first place. Also as I had some tesco clubcard vouchers and I then joined the RAC for a year as I got 4 to 1 on the voucher values.

This year I was out of tesco vouchers but AA sent me a renewal invite again, and they were including extra covers for FREE, however looking online for a quote and excluding the FREE covers the online cost was again far cheaper than what they were saying in the letter....so the FREE covers were not exactly FREE.

I called them and this time argued the toss with them and eventually after referral to a manager they gave me the online price with the FREE covers included.

Diddy
 
Are any of these network rescue services any good? The ones where individual garages sign up and in the event of a breakdown the nearest available garage is sent out.

I've heard that the waiting times are greatly reduced.
 
Liquidfox said:
I tried cancelling and renewing my AA coverage, they said you couldn't do that for 6 months. Fine by me, I switched to RAC for the same price...
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I did a similar thing this year

Rang up to haggle on my renewal

Was created with a jobs worth who refused to budge, and wouldn't even honour the price on the internet as it was for "new customers only"

So i just left and went with the RAC. *@(@$ head.
 
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