Churchill

[just_william]

You know that really annoying advert where you can "Challenge Churchill"? Has anyone done so and got the "we guarantee to beet your renewal" successfully?

[redleicester]

If they fail, you can report them to the ASA for misadvertising - IIRC someone did that with Norwich Unions "Quote me happy" rubbish and they ended up slapping NU with a fine for it.

[byker28i]

YUP - Wife's MX-5 insurance was £100 cheaper.

Norwich Union were rediculously more expensive.

"I thought you should quote me happy - that's £125 more than anyone else"
"Well I'm happy sir"

Cocky git.

[Wilder]

NU are the most expensive robbers around-- believe this -they quoted £1250 on my Cerb that I eventually got for £495 from Priviledge.
Quote me happy - I think not

[just_william]

I'm with Haggerty and they gave a very reasonable quote for my chim but am waiting for my renewal to go and annoy that dog!

[farrowby]

Insured my Griff with RAC for a tad over £400, NU were about £650 if I remember, but the policy from the RAC is underwritten by NU ? how do they work that 1 out both appeared to be the same cover (unlimited windscreen cover, same excess, etc etc) but I didn't go into the depths of the small print.

[just_william]

Interesting I paid £486 for the chim with 5000 limited miles and I'm 34 with no claims and 3 points.

[anonymous-user]

farrowby said:

Insured my Griff with RAC for a tad over £400, NU were about £650 if I remember, but the policy from the RAC is underwritten by NU ? how do they work that 1 out both appeared to be the same cover (unlimited windscreen cover, same excess, etc etc) but I didn't go into the depths of the small print.

NU own RAC.

The difference is all down to branding, I presume

[Griffter]

The Chruchill ad states 'like for like basis', 'conditions apply'. I expect the conditions will be the downfall of anybody trying to get Chruchill to beat their £250 renewal quote from Hagerty - but I'd be interested to hear otherwise. I'll be sticking with Hagerty anyway - I doubt Churchill will match an agreed value even under their 'like for like'...

[profstoff]

I've just tried Churchill for a quote. The quote I got was "From the information provided we are unable to quote at this time".
One nodding dog out through the window.

[Mr Freefall]

just_william said:

You know that really annoying advert where you can "Challenge Churchill"? Has anyone done so and got the "we guarantee to beet your renewal" successfully?

They use Direct Line for their policys, its just another was of Direct Line gaining market share...

Mr f

[b2tus]

Churchill's annoying ad campaign is same as the old Kwikfit offer of matching any price.
Renewed my sensible Audi insurance this week.....renewal from Axa went up 30% from £320 despite no claims and car going down in value.
So phoned around..Churchill were £369 and I finally got A Plan to insure on same terms at £239.
Frankly, like Kwikfit...I could not be arsed to test their price promise. For the sake of beating it by £1, I really couldn't be bothered.
My view...if their starting price is so much higher than others before the price promise, they are screwing me and must be feeding the damn dog on prime angus steak.