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On Sun, 08 Sep 1996 02:30:59 GMT Rob Thomas wrote:
> I've had GEICO renter's insurance (from '79 to 84) and their auto
> insurance from '88 to the present.  The rates can't be beat.

That's what I thought as well.  Until a situation with Geico prompted me to go 
comparison shopping.  Now I insure my motorcycle and my car with Allstate for 
less than the price it cost me to insure my car only with Geico.

> Do you or any other readers have GEICO stories to relate??

Sure do.  I have so many I'll arrange them chronologically:

1994: I had just signed up with Geico and thought they were a good company.  
So, I recommended them to a friend of mine who signed up with them.  They 
issued him a binder policy, and then revoked it within two weeks because of an 
accident his BROTHER had in his car several years earlier.

1995: Friend of mine called Geico.  Same situation as above, except I believe 
they revoked the binder policy after finding out his car had been broken into 
a few years earlier.

1996: Geico tells me they are going to stop insuring me after two years for a 
ticket I received in 6/94 and because my car was keyed in 9/94.  Their letter 
said I would no longer be eligible for my policy so *poof* it's going away on 
8/13.  I call around and find much better rates at Allstate and call up Geico 
to drop my bike and auto insurance.  The lady was all aghast that on 8/12 I 
called to cancel a policy they were dropping on 8/13.  When she asked why I 
was cancelling, I told her about the letter.  "Oh no.  That just meant we 
can't keep you on our *preferred* policy holder list", she says.  I responded, 
"Well I've found better rates elsewhere and your letter was very vague."  My 
office mate then says loudly, "Yeah!  You LOSERS!!" sending me into a fit of 
giggles as I hung up.

I also enthusiastically left Geico because there's a social stigma attached 
(at least among my friends) to being insured by them, since it would seem that 
they subsidize radar detectors for police... I suppose it pays off in their 
jacked up rates.

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