Aa Renewal For Car Breakdown

[ladybird49]

Phoned up to say i was considering changing breakdown cover to another provider as they wanted £124.80 ,( i paid £100 last year ) got it for £87.36 with silver membership 10 minutes ago , if you dont ask you dont get : )

[wendilla]

Nice one ladybird. I have been with them since 2001 and only had 1 call out , Now classed as a gold membership. Due in June will give it a try . Many Thanks

[Baldric]

Did similar, back in November, almost identical amounts

[ladybirder]

See my thread on exactly this situation 49.

Only I am sick of having to go through that ritual every year with the AA and so have cancelled. Why can't they give you their best price in the first place? Three years running they've had me having to haggle with them and this year I've gad enough.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Insurance/Question1229081.html

[pdq1]

We had a similar AA offer that seemed to hard to refuse that is until I read the small print at the bottom of the letter. No car over 10 years old accepted.

[ladybird49]

mine is an 03 so ive probably scraped in then ?

[buildersmate]

I have a straightforward answer to these people who do what you say, LB (and I agree AA are one of the worst).
I phone 'em up, say 'look I doubt this is your best offer to me. I'm about to go online looking for alternative sources of breakdown cover so let's stop messing around and you tell me what your best offer is." (Wait for answer - depending on price quoted, the next line goes: "Last time we went through this palava, your price came down by 18%". If we can agree 18% off this price I'll renew now".

I have Green Flag in mind as an alternative if the AA screws me once too often. Buenchico seems to recommend them, so I think that must be kosher.

[gingejbee]

buildersmate: if you look at Which? report on this subject, you'll see that Green Flag was poor- narrowly escaped being a "Don't Buy". And that's BAD!

[pdq1]

I once had to call out an AA man and the result was it needed to be transported to my home address. I asked him what was the position if I only had the standard roadside cover and he said I could add the recovery option there and then. I thought afterwards the recovery option can add £100 or more which seems a very expensive option if you only need it once in 10 years or more.