Got my renewal quote from Swintons this morning…£195 fully comp including recovery and protected no claims
Spent an hour on the phone phoning all the insurance companies in the back of MCN
Got it down to £143
Phoned Swintons back, they matched the price and threw in free legal expenses cover as well!!
It pays to shop around…
I spent 20 minutes on the phone to them last week for a quote and the guy said he would me back in an hour as he reckoned he could beat my quote of £385 from ebike. Never heard back form him so went through it all again today. The girl came back to me and said “we’ve got this amazing price for you of £1100”!! I had a chuckle and told her my best quote. She said she would pass it on to another team to see if they could do anything better and she would call me back. As you can probably guess i havent had a call back… 
yeah definitely think you had a good deal there Johnse1.
Swintons said they would call me back with a re-quote. Had a few missed calls from them so thought i was in for a nice surprise.
They were in fact calling me back NOT with a bike insurance quote but with a life assurance quote in case of death or redundancy
:crazy::w00t::unsure:
I am probably lucky and match Swinton’s profile of a low(ish) risk customer, other people will always match other companies profiles, but it definately pays to shop around… as a slight aside, of the 12 or so companies I phoned only 3 of them had staff that sounded like they were remotely human and had any kind of personality, they were Swintons, Carole Nash and MCE. Most of the others were completely like robots, and one or two were completely rude! Again, I think it depends on which member of their team you speak to. If I tried again today I might find the people with personalities are on duty at different companies today:)
I rang swintons the other day and they came back with a 2 bike policy of £700+. I could have insured them separately with Swintons for about £400. Go figure. I stuck with my current insurer at £220. Madness.
I would personally recomend aquote.co.uk
They have an online quotation thingy they emailed me a quote in minutes and also text you the quote:)
it was the text thing that let Swinton call my mobile trying to flog other products. I’m waiting for other ’ carefully selected Swinton Partners’ to start phoning me now.
Oooh, I hate that, I always opt out of marketing stuff, and go nuclear pretty quickly if I get unsolicited calls
So do I:w00t:To be fair, they did ask me if I wanted the option of saying no to promo calls and texts…we will see:D
I wasn’t even asked.The best thing about Swinton’s is the pic of the ‘Swinton Siren’ straddling the orange and black ZX10R that was posted on LB a few weeks back:w00t::w00t::w00t:
I like to think that I was speaking to that young lady on the phone yesterday when I was buying my insurance…
