5 Ways To Beat The High Cost Of Car Insurance |
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Terry Schierer
31 December 2007
If you have a car you need car insurance to protect what you own. You could be the best driver in town but to protect yourself from the driver next to you, you need car insurance.
Buying Auto insurance can be complicated unless you just want to get insurance and don't care what the costs are. In that case there are plenty of places that will take your money and sell you a policy.
If you want a top notch auto insurance policy at the lowest possible cost then there are certain steps you must use to get that low rate.
1. Fill out one form
The biggest nuisance in getting quotes is filling out all the forms. Every place you go to get a quote you have to fill out their form. That's down right tedious work and doesn't make for an enjoyable day. But there is a better way!
You can fill out just one quote request and have it sent to multiple agents or companies and get multiple quotes back. This way there is no duplication of time just one request to multiple sites.
2. Get multiple quotes.
Get quotes, plenty of quotes, the more the merrier. When you get many quotes you know you are getting the best possible price. Great car insurance rates come through competition from local agents. The more agents the better the competition and the better rate you receive.
3. Use Local Insurance agents.
Why local Agents? They are the only ones with the power to discount rates. Online computer generated sites can only quote the rate that is in their data bank and discounts are not included in that data base.
The big insurance companies sell car insurance online and to the local agents. They can't afford to sell you a policy online that would be cheaper than what the local agent can quote. They would lose all their local agents in a heartbeat if that were the case.
No! They need those local agents and will not do anything to jeopardize their relationship. The online rates will always be just a little bit higher than what the local agent can quote.
4. Use the internet to contact the local agents.
Don't spend time dialing for quotes. It's a terrible waste of time and patience. Go online, fill out one quote form and have it sent to multiple local agents.
This way when the local agent receives your quote request from the online quote system he knows that seven or eight other local agents also got the request. Knowing this he is going to cut rates and do what ever he has to do to get your business.
The local agent wants your business, needs your business and will fight to get that business. The result is that you receive the absolute best possible rate that the agent can give and that means - you win.
5. Compare apples to apples.
By filling out just one quote form you have pretty much eliminated this problem but just to be on the safe side always check to see that the agents are all quoting the same amount of coverage that you requested.
By doing these five things you are going to get the best possible quote that you can receive. This means more money in your pocket to spend on yourself or having fun with your family. Either way you win and that's how to beat the high cost of car insurance.