Car insurance up for renewal, letter through post from Hastings 189 quid. Right then lets go on confused.com. Cheapest £146 Halifax with Hastings coming in at £164. Right lets phone them to cancel as policy is on auto renewal, after hours on hold I'm through. "My name is Alan how can I help you today?" "Want to cancel my policy renewal." "Why's that sir?" Explained the prices to him including their £164 quote and what do you know!!! They can now do it for £148, bit of a result for me but every year it the same old dance I go through, why oh why can't they just give you a cheap price from the start or is it because with the auto renewal system people just let it go and don't bother looking for a better price or find out too late and are going to get charged £25 cancellation fee so stick with them. Rent over sorry!
The auto-renewal scheme that insurers use is a con. They should be forced to give you an option to not have it when you take out the policy.
