Ted the Kiwi said..Every year the bloody thing goes up !!
This yr my beloved insurance company sends me my new quote for $499.78 in the post. I check on-line and can get it for $416.
I have two comprehensive car polices, 2 greenslips and home insurance with the one mob - never had a traffic infringement or an at fault crash in 25yrs of driving. I call them up and immediately they drop my quote down to $422. It feels like a win. But I am annoyed. Why the farrrrk do I have to call them up for the best price - perhaps people just pay whatever comes their way and never bother to check? Jeepers it annoys me that in this day and age that I still have to call them for the best price - why can not they just give me the best price first up? Do they not know that I have a busy life and I do not enjoy calling them
I think when the next one comes up I might just sit down and re-price everything and potentially move my business elsewhere - I am over it. Rant over.
Nah, nah, you got it all wrong. They brought it in so that it would open up competition and make rego cheaper... It was. For the first year, and then it went up for some reason.. who would have figured that moving something from public control to private enterprise makes it more expensive... who would have thunk it??
Having said that, I think I remember paying a fair bit for rego 20 years ago, so I'm not sure if it really has gone up that much, although it is surprising how much greenslip prices vary and how much they don't cover. At least with a government system it was easily understood.
