What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?

MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
The wife was watching it and so I couldn't avoid picking up some of it and I just thought it was shite. It was, as you'd expect, the kind of story written by some middle class knobhead to deliver a 'message' with little to no understanding of the real world of ordinary white kids in the UK. We are dictated to by a minority who think that the world of the majority is akin to a fucking comic book and they think they have to right to tell us what is right and wrong Let's face it, if you want to end 'knife crime' in the UK make sure that all folks, young or old, know that they will go to jail for the rest of their natural or, better still, be executed and it will take the figures down. We had far more access to weapons as youngster than they do now but we didn't kill each other because we understood that we wouldn't like being punished and teachers and Police didn't take any shit when it came to dishing out punishment.
 
Big Sandy

Big Sandy

Legendary Knight
I got my renewal notice for the RAC yesterday. Been a member for nearly 10 years.

Renewal price has gone up by £96 a year (+£8 a month by DD). I have called them out twice in that ten years, once for a burst steel pipe in the coolant system (and what a swine of a job replacing that was) and once for a battery that had dropped a cell and wouldn't turn the engine over. That was last December.

So I did some shopping around for the same cover. Roadside, at home, recovery, and key cover. RAC £45 a month, AA was £27. No competition, right?

I thought I'd give the RAC a chance to compete... After 35 minutes on the phone in a queue, I got the comment that that would be an introductory price from the AA, and they couldn't match that except for new members. They weren't amused when I said I should just cancel and rejoin.... No offers of a reduction in price to keep me, a member who has only called them out twice in 10 years.

Guess I'll be joining the AA today then. Oh, I get extra member cover for that price with the AA too, RAC wanted another £4 on top!

Thinking about it, that's about £3000 they've had out of me for a coolant loss, and a flat battery. By the gods I wish I hadn't just thought of that. But, peace of mind when out, kind of worth it I guess? Maybe ...
 
Don the Don

Don the Don

Legendary Knight
Big Sandy said:
I got my renewal notice for the RAC yesterday. Been a member for nearly 10 years.

Renewal price has gone up by £96 a year (+£8 a month by DD). I have called them out twice in that ten years, once for a burst steel pipe in the coolant system (and what a swine of a job replacing that was) and once for a battery that had dropped a cell and wouldn't turn the engine over. That was last December.

So I did some shopping around for the same cover. Roadside, at home, recovery, and key cover. RAC £45 a month, AA was £27. No competition, right?

I thought I'd give the RAC a chance to compete... After 35 minutes on the phone in a queue, I got the comment that that would be an introductory price from the AA, and they couldn't match that except for new members. They weren't amused when I said I should just cancel and rejoin.... No offers of a reduction in price to keep me, a member who has only called them out twice in 10 years.

Guess I'll be joining the AA today then. Oh, I get extra member cover for that price with the AA too, RAC wanted another £4 on top!

Thinking about it, that's about £3000 they've had out of me for a coolant loss, and a flat battery. By the gods I wish I hadn't just thought of that. But, peace of mind when out, kind of worth it I guess? Maybe ...
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Loyalty to any organisation these day's is almost worthless be it Insurance breakdown cover or other items it's seems to be a shop around world
 
Scrappy

Scrappy

Legendary Knight
Big Sandy said:
I got my renewal notice for the RAC yesterday. Been a member for nearly 10 years.

Renewal price has gone up by £96 a year (+£8 a month by DD). I have called them out twice in that ten years, once for a burst steel pipe in the coolant system (and what a swine of a job replacing that was) and once for a battery that had dropped a cell and wouldn't turn the engine over. That was last December.

So I did some shopping around for the same cover. Roadside, at home, recovery, and key cover. RAC £45 a month, AA was £27. No competition, right?

I thought I'd give the RAC a chance to compete... After 35 minutes on the phone in a queue, I got the comment that that would be an introductory price from the AA, and they couldn't match that except for new members. They weren't amused when I said I should just cancel and rejoin.... No offers of a reduction in price to keep me, a member who has only called them out twice in 10 years.

Guess I'll be joining the AA today then. Oh, I get extra member cover for that price with the AA too, RAC wanted another £4 on top!

Thinking about it, that's about £3000 they've had out of me for a coolant loss, and a flat battery. By the gods I wish I hadn't just thought of that. But, peace of mind when out, kind of worth it I guess? Maybe ...
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My AA cover has just renewed, I've been a member for 36 years. My annual price is £102 so would be £8.50 a month, which includes unlimited call outs, at home cover, legal assistance, European breakdown cover, etc

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So they have rewarded me for being a loyal customer, and being a good boy, less than last year, and big a discount without having to ask (y)
 
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DD67

DD67

The Peace Keeper
Staff member
Big Sandy said:
I got my renewal notice for the RAC yesterday. Been a member for nearly 10 years.

Renewal price has gone up by £96 a year (+£8 a month by DD). I have called them out twice in that ten years, once for a burst steel pipe in the coolant system (and what a swine of a job replacing that was) and once for a battery that had dropped a cell and wouldn't turn the engine over. That was last December.

So I did some shopping around for the same cover. Roadside, at home, recovery, and key cover. RAC £45 a month, AA was £27. No competition, right?

I thought I'd give the RAC a chance to compete... After 35 minutes on the phone in a queue, I got the comment that that would be an introductory price from the AA, and they couldn't match that except for new members. They weren't amused when I said I should just cancel and rejoin.... No offers of a reduction in price to keep me, a member who has only called them out twice in 10 years.

Guess I'll be joining the AA today then. Oh, I get extra member cover for that price with the AA too, RAC wanted another £4 on top!

Thinking about it, that's about £3000 they've had out of me for a coolant loss, and a flat battery. By the gods I wish I hadn't just thought of that. But, peace of mind when out, kind of worth it I guess? Maybe ...
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Buy the AA or RAC cover via a cashback site Sandy.

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You'll be best to go to the AA. As often the T's & C's exclude existing customers.
Use this referral link to sign up & we both get something for you doing so.

Here’s my referral link for TopCashback https://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/Member891883535322/?source=App-Android-TAFPage
 
DD67

DD67

The Peace Keeper
Staff member
Big Sandy said:
Cool @DD67 will check that out later....sat at the hospital in Wick (Mrs BS, not me this time, aneurism scan) so will do it when we get home. Thanks for the link. 👍
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No problem mate & I hope Mrs BS is ok?

Ref TopCashback, you don't get the money straight away. Especially if you don't pay in one lump sum. So if for example you took out cover with the AA today at £20pm with £100 cashback. You probably won't receive the £100 for 6 months.
Obviously that's to stop you making 2 payments of £20, getting the £100 payout then cancelling your direct debit.

I use the App for almost everything I purchase. From grocery shopping to car insurance etc etc.
I've just had a payout of £66 for a holiday I had in February.
I could have gone straight to the travel agents website to book. But an additional 20 seconds to go there via the TopCashback App earned me £66 😀
And I got £45 back on each car when I purchased insurance. I think the house insurance netted me £50? My new broadband contract gets me £110. £15 back when I purchased an already bargain telly etc etc.
And there's absolutely zero downsides. i.e. the prices you pay for goods/services aren't inflated. In fact TopCashback even have their own version of the various comparison sites. So you don't have to mess about getting dozens of separate quotes.

That all probably sounds way too good to be true? So I wouldn't blame you for thinking there's a catch. Well there genuinely isn't mate!

Unless you think this is a catch?......
If you go for their premium membership they take £5 per year from the cashback you earn. So not directly from your pocket. It's money you wouldn't have had if they hadn't given it to you to begin with.
There is (I think?) still an option that's totally free? But the cashback rates are a fair but lower.

What's in it for TopCashback?.....
£5 each from hundreds of thousands of customers. They must make millions! Just by passing on the backhanders that companies give them for sending customers their way 🙂

Give it a try & revive this post in 12 months time. If you haven't earned somewhere in the region of £400 I'll be very surprised.

PS...
The hardest part is remembering to check if the retailer you're thinking of purchasing from are on the App? I've dropped a boll#ck a couple of times by not remembering to look. And that's very annoying! 🙄
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
Aye just like being a UK citizen loyalty counts for fuck all now. When I was due to renew with Triumph insurance in 2023 the bumped about £150 or more on to my original price (I think as I can't accurately recall now but it was high) and so I tried Bennetts and they came in less than half the price and a better package. I bounced that off of Triumph Insurance whose literature said at the time that they wouldn't be beaten on price and was told 'sorry can't beat that I'd take that if I was you', Last year with Bennetts my renewal came in at heading for double the first year despite plenty of no claims. I cancelled as I wasn't paying that when I wasn't using my bikes. Anyhoo, this year got a quote with Bennetts and it was just a little higher than I paid with them two years ago so went with them. When it's time to renew again next year I've no doubt it will go and I will going elsewhere.
 
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