15 minutes can save you 15% or more? Geico speaks the truth
By JimK
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Vox.Robotica wrote:
I can see the ad campaign now “Other insurance companies stick it in dry without any sweet-talk, but at Geico, we buy you drinks and bring our own lube.” 
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Muk314 wrote:
I use State Farm, but my dad was an agent for 27+ years and my uncle is still an agent. So, you know, discount and all that.
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JimK wrote:
Vox: In my head, that’s a scene where I pitch that exact campaign to the company in a really fucked up version of Mad Men that airs on Cinemax.
Muk: family discounts rule. Lucky bastard.
Like all insurance, it’s only cheap if they pay out when you need it… I’d rather spend 15% more instead of finding out that my insurance was (for a practical matter) worthless, or spend thousands of dollars on court costs collecting from them.
Plus, I’ll never buy Geico just because I don’t want to contribute a dime to their fucking awful, annoying-as-shit commercials. I hope their cavemen die of gonorrhea.
I switched to Geico back in August, after getting the second consecutive rate hike statement from AIG (they were going to jack my rates up to $166/mo for one car. My wife and I had no tickets on our records, she had turned 30 in February (right before the previous rate hike), our car was paid off, and was 8 years old, but they kept hiking the rates. I checked Geico on a whim, and ended up with a policy with better coverage for only $58/mo. Over 65% savings. Fuck AIG. Fuck them right up their stupid asses. We’ll see how the coverage goes, if I need to, but for now I’ll take that extra $1300 bucks.
Muk314 wrote:
Jim: What can I say, it pays to have people on the inside.
Yeah, that’s what the hookers tell me.
According to Car and Driver magazine (can’t remember the issue…) Geico gave $950,000 to bail out LTI, a company who’s LIDAR guns are inaccurate enough to have tickets thrown out in at least one jurisdiction. Something smells funny about that…
JimK: I just got all my cancellation and new account paperwork from both my old and new insurance companies at the same time, and that has prompted this post. Sometimes I like to pimp companies that do me right. This is one of those times.
I laughed like everyone else at the silly Geico commercials, then groaned as the joke was ran deep into the ground…but the phrase “15 minutes can save you 15% or more on car insurance” never drove me to test the statement. I noticed the commercials but I never, you know…followed the directions they gave. I was with Progressive for years and years and I thought well hell, almost two grand a year is just what it costs. After all, I may not have collision and comp but I have higher payouts on all the basics (I live where Yale students walk and drive, and these kids can sue for future earnings if I hit them!), so that’s just what it costs.
Yeah…no.
I literally saved 60% of the cost of insuring two older cars (a 92 Taurus and a 98 Subaru Outback) with Geico. If you are a Progressive customer, RUN LIKE HELL. They are sticking it in dry and not even sweet-talking you first. Shop around. Start with Geico. You might save a crap-ton of money.
Commercial ends here. Hey Geico, if you catch this through some Google alert or something…you know it would be okay if you paid me for this. Just sayin’. I’d say it anyway, but I’d also accept cash.
01/5/2009 5:37 PM
Categories: Stuff
Tags: progressive