[quote=svelte]We’re not much of a price shopper for insurance, if we find a good company we stay with them. Which is why we were with AAA for auto insurance forever.
That is, until our car purchase last year. It was an expensive car, granted, but they insured us immediately then put the car on a “pending” list. I called and asked what that was and they said it hadn’t received final approval but I was covered in the interim. It was like that for a month before I lost my patience and started calling around.
Turns out that, by transferring auto insurance over to who held our home insurance (Liberty Mutual), I could get the house, cars, earthquake, AND umbrella insurance and still pocket $800/year over what I was paying before. AAA was putting the screws to us! Or maybe I’m talking too soon and LM will jack up the rates when we renew in a couple of months. We’ll see. I will say this: the LM agent was a pleasure to work with. We’ll see if that is true if we ever have to file a claim. :-)[/quote]
Insurance is something that you don’t really want to cheapen out on. But when the price difference is so out of wack for the same coverage, it begs a revisit. I know I was getting stiffed by Allstate because while companies like AAA have been lowering rates for their clients, Allstate has been raising mine for the past few years. They started out lower than everyone else….
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Also John Hine Mazda is closing down for good in September 6. (owner sold to Carvana and carvana doesnt want to keep the mazda franchise).[/quote]
I just read that Carvana is building a Carvana car vending machine at the corner of I-15 and 78 in Escondido. We had been seeing the structure going up and couldn’t figure out what it was.
So I read up on the car vending machine thing. What a gimmick! But I guess if it makes car buying fun, who am I to judge? I just hope they don’t regret building that thing next to RR tracks, with brake dust and all.[/quote]
Carvana is going to be failed business model. Lots of people i know sold their cars to carvana for more then they paid a few years earlier.
Oh, and one of the largest owners of Carvana??? Remember Charles Keating and the S&L scandals?? Yup…
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