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d'Insurance

Ubbquittious · 2018-12-02 16:05:58

Chances are if you question any unreasonably steep price quoted to you by any tradesman or shop in this country you're lining yourself up for a long spiel about how high his operating costs are and the centrepiece of said spiel will be the insurance costs and how much it's gone up in recent times. It wouldn't be unusual to…

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Chances are if you question any unreasonably steep price quoted to you by any tradesman or shop in this country you're lining yourself up for a long spiel about how high his operating costs are and the centrepiece of said spiel will be the insurance costs and how much it's gone up in recent times.

It wouldn't be unusual to find out after that yer man is infact winging it without insurance except maybe on his van. Yet he'd nearly convince you that his sole purpose in life was to help the insurance company get rich and maybe have a tin of baked beans left over for himself at the end of it.

Why are fellas so ashamed to admit they're making a decent living out of some profession? If you called up some insurance company looking for quotes for someone of his profession you'd find it's maybe a few 100 quid a year yet often enough a lad will swear black and blue that his profession is almost undoable due to high insurance costs. How did insurance end up being the go-to excuse for high costs?

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