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"David Clayton" <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2010.02.26.03.41.45.972458@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com...
> Get Home Contents insurance renewal in the mail, cost is up again on last
> year...
> Go to the company's web site and put in the exact same details as on the
> quote.... instant 15% discount for doing it on-line and the total works
> out to be almost 30% less than the renewal!


Yep, AAMI were doing that 30 years ago. Nothing much has changed except now
you can get a different quote on the internet rather than phone :-)
The idea has always been to attract new customers while fleecing the
existing ones as much as possible.
The banks and Telco's do it *FAR* better now though. They simply state the
lower charges ONLY apply to NEW customers and NOT existing ones!
They rely on the effort needed to continually switch accounts being too much
for most people.

MrT.