DO NOT automatically renew, DO start a new policy with the same company

In the battle of humans versus insurance companies, one simple human scored a small win yesterday. He is me.

I took insurance off of the Harley-Davidson Sportster Iron 1200 because I sold it yesterday, and I put it on another bike... Let's call it NewBike.

Agent on the phone told me NewBike would cost $72 less/year than the Iron 1200.
Seemed ridiculous because two weeks ago I did a quote online with them and NewBike would've cost about $400 less/year.

I asked the agent about it, and he said the rates may have gone up since two weeks ago, but the new rate he gave me is what the price for NewBike would be moving forward until rates change again one day.

So I pulled out the Change Direction card from my Uno deck and I put him on hold and I ran my online quote again.

This time the price was even cheaper than two weeks ago. Now it was about $550 less/year vs the Iron!

I told the agent this, he was surprised, but I gave him my quote number and he confirmed everything was on point (same VIN#, same driver's license #, same coverage, etc.)

TLDR: We insured NewBike on my same account, but under a new policy number, and it saved me over $400/yr versus keeping NewBike on my existing policy number.

Insurance co's are crooks. A story as old as time.

"Our quote is a bit high but if we bundled in your house you'd save a ton" Nope. Nope Nope. I make payments to 3 different co's for vehicles house and condo.

I auto renew, same bike, lower rate than previous year. If either changes I would the put the effort into a new policy.

I am very surprised that they wrote you the new policy and didn't just tell you to FOAD.

Meant to include this in my original post but had an unexpected visitor so I had to disappear for a while...

But wait, there's more!​

Since I was saving nearly $500/yr on insuring NewBike instead of the Iron 1200, I decided to ask about putting the Vespa back on insurance while I had the agent on the phone...

Get this...

2006 Vespa GTS 250... capable of about 130 km/hr-ish maxed out... $60/yr. to insure.

Last year it was a little under $200 to insure it. I don't know why it's down, I don't know how. All I know is it's on my new policy # where everything is cheaper, and I wasn't going to question it.

So now, compared to the Sportster, I'm saving $400 ish per year on insurance, have an arguably much better liter bike, AND my Vespa as the little red cherry on top.










Yes the $400 saved will be spent entirely on mods. Obviously.

They'll get you next year!

AllistonGT said:

They'll get you next year!

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Yep, and then I'll get a quote online, get the quote number, and call the agent again to start a new policy. Maybe even post a thread on GTAM about it when I'm done lol

Truth be told we aren't strangers to making the most of corporate greed trying to lure new customers while fleecing loyal ones. The missus and I switch names on our internet (but stay with the same plan and same provider) every 13-14 months because Teksavvy does a $50/month off for the first year offer for new customers. It's about 30 minutes of work between the phone call and mailing their modem back to them, but it saves us $600 every 13-14 months. I think this is our 4th or 5th time one of us have moved to this address.

Next week we can talk about getting a free Apple Macbook Air from RBC.