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Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> I realize no one reads this group so I'll vent on a stupid State Farm 
> commercial.  If Jerry keeps running into his house because he's an 
> idiot, it's not Jerry who would drop his insurance, it would be State 
> Farm who would drop him.  But the commercial suggests otherwise.

> The State Farm radio commercials are the most devious I have heard in 
> awhile.

State Farm, probably like most of the other major ones, once they carry you
for a few years and have no or little in claims, automatically move you into
that "no drop" catagory. I got my letter congratulating me like 20 years
ago.

The problem is of course, there is nothing there saying they won't increase
your premium to $2000 a month in case you decide to go out on a vehicular
manslaughter run. They can't drop you but can make it financially
uncomfortable to continue their services.

Anyway, I don't do radio but there is a matching tv commercial with "Jerry"
in it, which sounds similar and is about as stupid. His car is nearly
vertical against a pole with him standing next to it, on the phone with "a
policy question". 

Besides the obvious, how did the car get there, how did he get out of it,
the stupidity of calling back an insurance company you dropped "with a
policy question" is the icing on the cake. The point they are trying to get
across is it only takes a few minutes to sign up with the other comapany,
but takes a lot longer to hear back from them with a claim.

But still, what is the point of calling the ex-insurance company.

I think they are just trying to be clever and have some humor like the
Alstate ones, especially the guy who represents mayhem ones. I like those
but still wouldn't consider switching.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

In article bje@ripco.com says...
> Anyway, I don't do radio but there is a matching tv commercial with "Jerry"
> in it, which sounds similar and is about as stupid. His car is nearly
> vertical against a pole with him standing next to it, on the phone with "a
> policy question". 

I hop around talk radio and sometimes XRT and IIRC all stations I listen 
to carry those State Farm commercials.  There's the one where they use 
all those B words.  Jerry and Jessica flirt back and forth and finally 
Jessica lets loose with a low pitched girlfriend laugh.  Not the 
girlfriend you fuck girlfriend but the one that's just your friend who 
happens to be a girl.  State Farm didn't want you to think of their 
agents as mere whores, when you join State Farm you get a girlfriend 
that you can have pillow fights with.

On 2012-02-22, Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article bje@ripco.com says...
>> Anyway, I don't do radio but there is a matching tv commercial with "Jerry"
>> in it, which sounds similar and is about as stupid. His car is nearly
>> vertical against a pole with him standing next to it, on the phone with "a
>> policy question". 
>
> I hop around talk radio and sometimes XRT and IIRC all stations I listen 
> to carry those State Farm commercials.  There's the one where they use 
> all those B words.  Jerry and Jessica flirt back and forth and finally 
> Jessica lets loose with a low pitched girlfriend laugh.  Not the 
> girlfriend you fuck girlfriend but the one that's just your friend who 
> happens to be a girl.  State Farm didn't want you to think of their 
> agents as mere whores, when you join State Farm you get a girlfriend 
> that you can have pillow fights with.

All of these shitty commercials are still better than watching Eddie and 
JoBo shill for some shitty SR-22 policy on channel 7. God those two are 
shitcakes.

-- 

Kristian M Zoerhoff

On Feb 21, 6:05 am, Bruce Esquibel <b...@ripco.com> wrote:
> Mark Anderson <m...@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> > I realize no one reads this group so I'll vent on a stupid State Farm
> > commercial.  If Jerry keeps running into his house because he's an
> > idiot, it's not Jerry who would drop his insurance, it would be State
> > Farm who would drop him.  But the commercial suggests otherwise.
> > The State Farm radio commercials are the most devious I have heard in
> > awhile.
>
> State Farm, probably like most of the other major ones, once they carry you
> for a few years and have no or little in claims, automatically move you into
> that "no drop" catagory. I got my letter congratulating me like 20 years
> ago.
>

The SF snail-mail spammer is sending me junk now for a menage-a-quad
with Caryn (in Lemont), Ruth, and Russ. This company is run by
psychos, not paying Katrina claims and now trying to scoop up low-
claiming suburbanites. Bleeech

In article <MPG.29acfab26a35ff049897ef@news.speakeasy.net>,
Mark Anderson  <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>I realize no one reads this group so I'll vent on a stupid State Farm 
>commercial.  If Jerry keeps running into his house because he's an 
>idiot, it's not Jerry who would drop his insurance, it would be State 
>Farm who would drop him.  But the commercial suggests otherwise.
>
>The State Farm radio commercials are the most devious I have heard in 
>awhile.

After my garage fire, I joined most everyone else in the neighborhood
and had my roof repaired after a very bad hailstorm last year.

SF dropped me.

The first in the pile of "change your insurance to ours" junk mail
was Allstate.  I called the local agent, who after a quick look
on the computer said "sorry, can't cover you".

Weeks later, a letter arrived "including information from LexisNexis..."

LexisNexis will give its information to anyone who can prove their
name/address for free, so I did.

It is scary how much information they had, including all car/auto
insurance claims, every address/PO box I have had since college,
every work address, etc.

I wonder if their "opt-out" really works.

https://personalreports.lexisnexis.com/access_your_personal_information.jsp


--Ken

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Ken R. Dye                               an optimist is a guy             |
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On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:32:49 PM UTC-6, JG wrote:

> 
> The SF snail-mail spammer is sending me junk now for a menage-a-quad
> with Caryn (in Lemont), Ruth, and Russ. This company is run by
> psychos, not paying Katrina claims and now trying to scoop up low-
> claiming suburbanites. Bleeech

Caryn wrote me again, this time with a Black/White picture. She has tint streaks in her hair, or that Jay Leno skunk graying.

I hope the plutonium dust from Argonne blows throughout Lemont and the town's residents all have grandkids with tainted DNA and an ear lobe on their foreheads.