I was having breakfast with my mom last weekend at the Seahorse restaurant at Pass a Grill beach. On a side note, that is a great place to eat at for breakfast. Great water views and very affordable. See location below:
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Anyway, during our conversation over breakfast my mom told me that she bought new car insurance. She was very excited because of the new savings. She was a customer of the Farm Bureau. Evidently, you have to be member of the Farm Bureau in order to buy insurance from them. Her yearly membership fee was somewhere around $60. That was what annoyed her the most.
I don’t think she priced many insurance companies out. She called Geico on their 800 number and have a feeling that was the only auto insurance company she contacted. Geico gave my mom a quote of about $240 less a year. Also, she does not have to pay the $60 membership fee to the Farm Bureau. So, her total savings were around $300 a year. Quite honestly I don’t know of her coverages are the same but I suspect they are.
One of the requirements of Geico was for my mom to get her car inspected by a Geico representative. Since Geico primarily works over the internet and telephone they rely on other companies to inspect cars for them. The first place my mom went to was an Enterprise rent a car. Unfortunately, the line was very long with only one person working and she waited 30 minutes and eventually left. Geico actually called my mom asking if everything worked out at Enterprise and she said no. So Geico told her to go to a Pep Boys retail store for the car inspection. She went over there and the guy inspecting the car did it within just a few minutes. It was very quick and painless.
She has been very happy with Geico’s service. They made a follow up call to her and she called them for clarification on something with her policy. So far she is very happy.
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