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lame plumber
So a nice builders merchant wagon decided to reshape my parked up van this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So finished of the fire install and went home and called Hastings van insurance to kick off my van repairs.
First call got kicked around for a bit and then a claim handler took all my details etc etc and after an hour I was handed over to the "credit repair handling team"
So this is a company dealing in getting vehicles repaired under a credit type basis, means the insurance co gets paid by them and doesnt have to wait for its cash or risk it. So after another hour, I got handed over to the "credit car hire team". So all over again id oneself and proved it wasnt my fault etc etc. So signed up for a replacement hire van for the duration of repairs, BUT no one could give me the cost of hire, only that ultimately if anything went wrong the bill comes back to me, not that this will happen as theres yet more insurance to protect me, unless I lied, got the facts wrong etc etc. So email verifying everything arrives, cost of hire for 10 days around £800, so I rang local hertz base, same van 10 days £176!!!!!!!!!!
So I thought, what if I go to the lorry drivers insurer direct and ask them to deal with everything for me? They wont charge stupid money for van hire or ridiculous credit charges for vehicle repairs. ring ring hello Allianz, your drives smacked my parked van, will you repair it please? Hang on they say, gonna chat to the lorry drivers boss, 5 mins later, yup our fault, we will pick up your van 1st thing tomorrow, do you want a van? no upfront fees, just a drivers licence no needed, so I ask for some compo for days lost dealing with this hassle, no probs just invoice us with proof of costs (have a look at my website says I, which they do)
time to deal with Allianz 40 mins all done, time to deal with Hastings van hire 4 hours plus and being ripped off by my own insurers as would be the guilty drivers insurers. Probably saved the insurance world over £2000 by going direct and refusing to use these middlemen. If everyone who was able did this all our premiums would plummet, these semi fraudulent beggars should be banned, they are the curse of drivers today
So finished of the fire install and went home and called Hastings van insurance to kick off my van repairs.
First call got kicked around for a bit and then a claim handler took all my details etc etc and after an hour I was handed over to the "credit repair handling team"
So this is a company dealing in getting vehicles repaired under a credit type basis, means the insurance co gets paid by them and doesnt have to wait for its cash or risk it. So after another hour, I got handed over to the "credit car hire team". So all over again id oneself and proved it wasnt my fault etc etc. So signed up for a replacement hire van for the duration of repairs, BUT no one could give me the cost of hire, only that ultimately if anything went wrong the bill comes back to me, not that this will happen as theres yet more insurance to protect me, unless I lied, got the facts wrong etc etc. So email verifying everything arrives, cost of hire for 10 days around £800, so I rang local hertz base, same van 10 days £176!!!!!!!!!!
So I thought, what if I go to the lorry drivers insurer direct and ask them to deal with everything for me? They wont charge stupid money for van hire or ridiculous credit charges for vehicle repairs. ring ring hello Allianz, your drives smacked my parked van, will you repair it please? Hang on they say, gonna chat to the lorry drivers boss, 5 mins later, yup our fault, we will pick up your van 1st thing tomorrow, do you want a van? no upfront fees, just a drivers licence no needed, so I ask for some compo for days lost dealing with this hassle, no probs just invoice us with proof of costs (have a look at my website says I, which they do)
time to deal with Allianz 40 mins all done, time to deal with Hastings van hire 4 hours plus and being ripped off by my own insurers as would be the guilty drivers insurers. Probably saved the insurance world over £2000 by going direct and refusing to use these middlemen. If everyone who was able did this all our premiums would plummet, these semi fraudulent beggars should be banned, they are the curse of drivers today