Brian or Oleg?

Merlin5 · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:03

I'm getting £2.50 difference between car insurance quotes on two comparison sites. The cheaper quote gets me Brian the Robot and the other gets me Oleg the Meerkat. Which to go for? You'd think it would be obvious but I'm going to give the toy to my nephew's son who is 5 years old and I don't know which he'd enjoy more. Oleg is cuter but Brian moves and speaks. He's a technological miracle :eek:

Nix · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:05

Not to point out the obvious, but why don't you ask your nephew?

BDEE · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:06

Obviously get Brian and keep it for yourself.

OR

Have you tried using a cashback site comparison tool? I used topcashback and it knocked the socks off all the other comparison sites - Was about 15% cheaper once cashback was accounted for.

No toy, but I care not.

Merlin5 · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:10

BDEE said:
Obviously get Brian and keep it for yourself.

OR

Have you tried using a cashback site comparison tool? I used topcashback and it knocked the socks off all the other comparison sites - Was about 15% cheaper once cashback was accounted for.

No toy, but I care not.

I already went to Quidco and TCB but quotes came out more expensive even after cashback. My quote at the comparison sites for RAC came out cheaper than RAC via the cashback sites.

garsands · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:14

When seeing the ads for car insurance I always thought do people really decide who to chose by what toy they offer.
This thread has just answered that question.

Brian

mollymoo · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:20

Oleg, we have Brian and he's rubbish, in fact you could buy him off us if you want.

Steve2000 · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:21

Which one's worth more on ebay?

Arsonist · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:22

Oleg, obvs. Simples. *Meerkat noise*

Merlin5 · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:31

mollymoo said:
Oleg, we have Brian and he's rubbish, in fact you could buy him off us if you want.

Ah, that's interesting, I'd have thought Brian would be popular.

Steve2000 said:
Which one's worth more on ebay?

Well looking on fleabay, Brian is going between £25 and £40 but mostly £25. Oleg considerably less between £7 and £15.

Craig1981 · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:48

The choice, my friend, is seemples!

FoxEye · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:51

If I was a child, Brian would give me nightmares.

You just know that behind that un-changing smile is horrific monster waiting to kill you in your sleep.

Captain · 7 Sep 2015 at 21:54

Brian looks like a peado robot.

Adam · 7 Sep 2015 at 22:04

Try googles comparison service. I paid a little over £230 when every other comparison site was £350+ from the same insurers.

Those toys are pointless!

Caged · 7 Sep 2015 at 22:05

Don't you also get cinema tickets with the Oleg option?

Merlin5 · 7 Sep 2015 at 22:15

Clov!s said:
Brian looks like a peado robot.

Adam said:
Try googles comparison service. I paid a little over £230 when every other comparison site was £350+ from the same insurers.

Those toys are pointless!

Sounds good! This one? google.co.uk/compare/

I'm already getting £394-396 on confused and comparethemarket which I'm happy with so if google can knock that down further, worth a try. Gets tedious though, I've already done my details a few times on these sites, but I've got till the 24th so worth a few more minutes of my time if I can save more.

Street · 7 Sep 2015 at 22:54

Steve2000 said:
Which one's worth more on ebay?

I sold my Oleg for about £30 on Ebay, Maya only got me about a tenner, she was cheap!

Merlin5 · 7 Sep 2015 at 23:05

I'll go for Oleg then.

I just put my details into google compare but there were only two insurers, Kwik Fit and Sure Thing that were slightly cheaper, certainly nothing like Adam's £120 difference. I'll stick with RAC and get myself a meerkat.

russell664 · 7 Sep 2015 at 23:35

Oleg!!!!

kaptainmarc · 7 Sep 2015 at 23:41

Oleg because they now have Arnie in the adverts and that makes it even more special.

bloodiedathame · 8 Sep 2015 at 00:01

I will never use GoCompare again after they irritated me for so long with Opera man. I even wrote to them and told them to stop.

I have a meerkat on it's way to me as we speak.