Re:How we came back after being shut down in four days
by rdl on Friday March 30, 2012 @06:17PM
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Auto insurers will definitely give you a discount for certain fields of employment. "Engineer" drops it $100 or so every time I've tried. My business cards sometimes say "Software Engineer", but I dropped out of a math program, so it's pretty bogus.
Re:How we came back after being shut down in four days
by sakai on Friday April 06, 2012 @10:07PM
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Haha, yes but... Consultant. I hope somebody in Hartford, CT (or equivalent) at least finds the notion of giving a discount for having a title which is almost entirely devoid of meaning.
Leaky guys -- I'll try to ring Geico and tell them I'm a consultant so I'd like my $150 discount. Will let you know how it goes.
Re:How we came back after being shut down in four days
by jasontraff on Friday March 30, 2012 @08:10PM
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sakai -- We take our accuracy very seriously; email us at [email protected] and we'll look into it.
If you're in California (the only state that we officially support), we're within 1% in about 50% of cases and within 3% in about 80% of cases - and we're always getting better. However, there are still occasional outliers that we are always trying to identify and fix.
If you're outside California, well - the prices will be different. However, the magnitude changes (eg for switching cars) will be similar to what you would see in your state.
As for the occupation discounts - those come straight from the insurers' filed documents.
For example, if I list my occupation as "Consultant", Leaky says Geico will give me a $150 discount. Bizarre.
Edit: Clarifying that Leaky says Geico will give me a discount, not that Geico actually does.