I went on confused.com to obtain a bunch of quotes for my bike insurance which is imminently up for renewal. There were a couple of very attractive quotes, one from a company I’ve never heard of and another, costing about 6p more from the AA.

I made a mental note to go with the AA and thought nothing more of it.

About 15 minutes later, my phone rang.

“Hello”, said the man, “I’m from Company X, and I notice you’ve had a quote for insurance. This is a courtesy call to find out if you are planning to follow up and take our offer?”

“Ah, hello”, said I, “I was very happy to see that you offered the cheapest quote but I’m afraid there was a quote not much more expensive from the AA which is a name I trust.”

“Are you saying you don’t trust us?” he replied shirtily.

“Um… no”, I replied slightly taken aback, “it’s just that the difference in price was only about 6p, and so I…”

beep beep beep said the phone I was cut off.

Charming.

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