Just had my renewal letter from the AA.
We play a silly game every year where they send a renewal price that is more than the new customer online price.
This time for joint breakdown and relay£138. Online price for the same thing £88
1 phone call later all sorted get it changed to £88
Every year this happens, I wonder how many people just let them auto renew from their credit card.
Gits.
Steve
Our annual renewal is in July. So will definitely check it out then. Thanks for the heads up.
Hundreds of thousands, thats why they do it. It's all about the money.
Wife has the same with her insurance every year. I think it's Norwich Union Direct or whatever it's called these days.
With insurance do you notice 'new customers' get M&S vouchers or similar?
She always asks what about loyal customers and every year she gets £20 of vouchers 
my sister had her car insurance renewal, it was a couple of quid more than last year (around £600) , popped online and had a quote from her current insurance company for nearly £200 of the renewal price!
I just threaten to go to RAC.
Gets the price down nice and quickly.
I did the same thing with the AA end of Jan.
They just hope people blindly pay it. And I bet most just do.
Just on a side note, my bank account has AA 'recovery to the nearest garage' included.
That was no use to me, I wanted recovery to the house so I could fix it.
I rang the AA and upgraded for something like £40 ??
I'm gobsmacked at the price difference! guess who one of the fools is who just renews every year!!!
cheers for the heads up, guess I'll be having a chat come August
when you sign up - make sure you do/don't tick the auto renewal box (i can't remember how its worded hence the do / don't).
I didn't but the guy signing me up did - i suspect he got more of a bonus. I ranted at them a year later and got free home start. Had it ever
since. As i'm not auto renew i seem to get the 90 quid price for the first three options.
I just switch to the best deal every year for both recovery and car insurance. Some insurers chuck in recovery free, so make sure you don't pay twice!
Cheeky Burgers!
Same thing every year with the RAC Quick phone call, all sorted, prats!
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Originally posted by BenB
I just threaten to go to RAC.
Gets the price down nice and quickly.
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Originally posted by will121
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Originally posted by BenB
I just threaten to go to RAC.
Gets the price down nice and quickly.
I said/done this a couple of years ago and must have caught the person on a bad day as all they said was ok in that case i will cancel renewal from today and hung up!!!
Easy answer, change to ADAC.
Much better deal and you still get recovered by the AA when used in the UK
Try Auto Aid - recovery insurance for £37 per year for a couple driving any car
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Originally posted by balidey
I did the same thing with the AA end of Jan.
They just hope people blindly pay it. And I bet most just do.
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Originally posted by 02GF74
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yep, I do and have been doing so since I joined back in 1904, probably could have bought Paraguay with the money I could have saved.
Jesus christ you must be one old bastard, thats 106 years ago
big_wasa - 9/3/10 at 05:07 PMquote:
Originally posted by fesycresy
Just on a side note, my bank account has AA 'recovery to the nearest garage' included.
That was no use to me, I wanted recovery to the house so I could fix it.
I rang the AA and upgraded for something like £40 ??
I do the same
eddbaz - 9/3/10 at 07:19 PMJust noticed on my credit card statement that I had been auto renewed two and a half weeks ago,can't remember receiving any notification of it. Charged me £103.5 for single person with recovery, checked and online price is £69 phoned and was told can't get refund as only available for 14 days after policy started,explained that I was happy to stay if I could pay the online price of £69,was told they couldn't do this either as it was only for new customers. Eventually agreed to refund me when I said I wasn't propared to accept this. Gone with the rac now for £71 and will have to keep an eye out when the renewal is due with them.
jacko - 9/3/10 at 08:51 PMAs a side note i am with the RAC but when i was with the AA they told me if i was in a crash / accident they would not take me home / recovery it was only breakdowns
thats why i went to the RAC
this was about 5 years ago so may be different now
Jacko
flipp - 9/3/10 at 10:54 PMyep have done the annual haggle over price for around 10 years now,sometimes on the plus side I have recieved some freebies,ie road maps, first aid kits etc,so is always worth the phone call.