Car Insurance - 25plus.ie - €35 off

I have had the worst experience with this company. I took out insurance & then bought a new car. I have tried contacting them to change the car insurance to the new car but they are ignoring all of my messages & they do not answer the phone. Stay a million miles away from this company. I have posted a letter of cancellation but they are probably going to ignore that also.

Rosscoe wrote: »

I have had the worst experience with this company. I took out insurance & then bought a new car. I have tried contacting them to change the car insurance to the new car but they are ignoring all of my messages & they do not answer the phone. Stay a million miles away from this company. I have posted a letter of cancellation but they are probably going to ignore that also.

Holy sh1t...joined nearly 7 years ago and waited all this time to have a go at this company with your first and only post. Well done!

mikeym wrote: »

Im ditching 25plus after 3 years with them, my insurance went up by €200 this year :mad:

Have you got quotes elsewhere? My misses policy went up about the same and is now 500 the next cheapest I could get was 1600.

All policies are increasing.

The_Conductor wrote: »

Shop around- and don't assume that any company is more expensive or cheaper- than any other company. I had insurance with 25+ up to last September- and following a call around- getting a series of quotations from 8 different companies etc- I got my best offer on fully comp from FBD. Prior to 25+ I was with Aviva- and come September again- looking at current quotations- Axa are rather bewilderingly offering me the best quote (I know quotes are only good for 30 days- I spend coffee break once a month seeing who can offer me the best online quote).........

I'm also the same type of person who hasn't stayed with the same gas/electricity supplier more than 12 months ever, either.........

Shop around- and don't make assumptions that any particular company is better or worse value than any other company- there are deals to be had out there for people who are willing to put in a little bit of effort to go hunt them out.

I shop around but from what I'm seen is that no insurance companies are actively looking for new customers as all quotes are ridiculous high

I get staff discounts on my Elec but move gas, health insurance, house insurance every 12 months.

code is still working - happy days

Its4women / 25plus are quoting me just under 500 - FBD are quoting 1040!!!!
Tried as many as i can think of and they are cheapest by a long shot!

About 18 months ago I got quite a few quotes online prior to my insurance coming up for renewal. I got a quote of €475 from the AA (insurer would be Axa) and also an identical quote directly on the Axa website.

The following day AA rang me and offered me the cover with Axa for €400 which I took. Less than half an hour after that phone call (and subsequent agreement on cover) Axa rang me and long story short the best they could do for me was €440.

So dealing with the company directly was potentially going to cost me €40 extra. But bear in mind that the AA were still getting their cut out of this which I believe is in the region of €50 - €60. When the AA deducted their slice of the cake from my €400 something in the region of €340 - €350 would then have been paid by AA to Axa. In real terms Axa basically tried to screw me for the guts of €100 extra for dealing directly with them.

It just goes to show the sheer amount of bad practices, profiteering and dare I say it, scamming, that is prevalent in the insurance industry today and sadly us motorists are compelled under law to run with it.

ted1 wrote: »

Where you with them last year? I find companies are not bothered looking for new business so quotes are much higher

And they are not willing to do any loyalty offers either for staying with them - i was told by its4women to go find a cheaper quote and show them it then they'd consider looking into it!!

Jet Black wrote: »

Find Bank of Ireland pretty good. Was €400 last year and only went up by €40 this year. Other insurance companies looking for at least €900. Most people I talked to didn't know they did car insurance, I think they are relatively new so worth checking if you haven't.

I found BOI good last year and went with them for €407, they were a good deal cheaper than any alternative. Renewal quote however came in a couple of weeks ago for €691 and they wouldn't budge even when I told them I got cheaper elsewhere and would be moving. Circumstances unchanged and a perfect customer with full NCD, 0 penalty points etc so no logic as with the disparity of the quotes below:

123.ie - €478
BOI - €691
FBD - €842
25Plus - €957
Allianz - €1093
Axa - €1230
Kennco - €1239
Chill - €1539
AA - €1552
Liberty - €1633
AIG - Won't quote
Aviva - Won't quote

That's just for TPFT, absolute madness and a proper pain having to ring 10+ companies every year answering the same questions to be given those sort of quotes.

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

I found BOI good last year and went with them for €407, they were a good deal cheaper than any alternative. Renewal quote however came in a couple of weeks ago for €691 and they wouldn't budge even when I told them I got cheaper elsewhere and would be moving. Circumstances unchanged and a perfect customer with full NCD, 0 penalty points etc so no logic as with the disparity of the quotes below:

123.ie - €478
BOI - €691
FBD - €842
25Plus - €957
Allianz - €1093
Axa - €1230
Kennco - €1239
Chill - €1539
AA - €1552
Liberty - €1633
AIG - Won't quote
Aviva - Won't quote

That's just for TPFT, absolute madness and a proper pain having to ring 10+ companies every year answering the same questions to be given those sort of quotes.

Have you tried its4women? I know it's the same as 25plus but i got different quotes from them....

irishgeo wrote: »

I got a cheaper quote off its4women than 25plus last year. They wouldn't match it.

Exactly the same for me around a month ago, they're the same company as far as I can see!

Bank of Ireland are competitive also and I noticed today you can spread the cost over the year at no additional cost.

I got mine with Acorn insurance today,worked out cheaper than 25plus.ie.
Best I could find around after hours of calls and online quotes.
If I need to change every year , I will , money better in my pocket than theirs.

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

Optimal time is to purchase insurance 12 days prior to the cover start period. Massive disparity in quotes depending on how far in advance you want to start cover as shown with my quote graph below. Completely illogical since it's a year long annual cover and 123 could explain why there was such variations in the premiums.

That's crazy!! 11 days til mine is due now - i will start the search again so!!

Sleepy wrote: »

Voucher Code Still works. Used it for my renewal this morning.

The code still works with itsforwomen.ie also. A new policy with them was over €160 less for me than a renewal with 25plus.

I loathe the Irish insurance industry, hate having to spend a day each year giving all these ba$tards my details just to get a bunch of offensively high quotes.

And at the end of it all I am getting the exact same policy from the same underwriter with the same company just under a different marketing brand, but if you don't go through this nonsense you are sure to have your loyalty in renewing taken advantage of.