The other shoe drops

 
So, as related previously, it took a lot of persistence and going up
the chain of command to get my insurance company to repair Noisy Glide
from the accident June 16.  (It's still in the shop.)  Yesterday the
other shoe dropped -- although there are only two incidents on my
record, a "failure to obey traffic device" in 2009 and the
aforementioned accident, State Farm is dropping our family's coverage
on all vehicles.  They said we could apply for high risk policy.  Gee,
how nice of them.

So I called the gecko and they were happy to insure and were cheaper
to boot (I guess you really can save money) and I called Progressive
and the rep said "gee, another state farm customer.  We've been
getting a lot of them lately" and they were even cheaper than the
lizard.  So I guess I'm ok, just another thing to take care of, but it
is annoying.

A friend said I should have offered to take State Farm up on totaling
the bike, see if they change their minds on cancellation, but I
wouldn't do that even for a joke.

Oh, and State Farm wants to continue providing my homeowner's
insurance.  Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

Geeze, it's been so long I have to look at photos to remember what my
bike looked like.  Time to be fixed, dammit!


    Ron
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2003 FLHTCUI "Noisy Glide"
http://www.christianfamilywebsite.com
http://www.ronaldchristian.com

 On 8/31/2011 8:44 PM, Ronald O. Christian wrote:

I have State Farm on my house and two cars and their rates are fairly
competitive.

BUT....when I first got back into riding in 2006, I went ahead and put
my bike on with my cars without shopping around.

I found State Farm was almost twice as much as Progressive and GEICO and
that was with my auto and homeowners insurance bundled in.

I have since gone with Progressive which is fairly close to GEICO in
their rates.

Only thing I dislike about Progressive, is the CEO is a big supporter of
the ACLU.
  http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/peterlewis.asp

Andy

 
Do you know if any of the vehicles you own are made by a company with a CEO
who supports the ACLU? Local schools superintendent? Any other insurance
company execs?

If you treasure your country for it's freedoms, you should also treasure an
organization who's dedicated to preserving it. And if you don't, that's
cool but I would hope you wouldn't hold it against CEO Peter Lewis' right
to support the ACLU. Do you not do business with any companies run by
Democrats? Liberals? Should everyone be just like you and believe exactly
what you believe to get your business?

 Schmoe axed:

Support those you have an affinity with.
It can't always be done, but if you do know, you have power.

ASSHOLE#104 Len

 
I'd rather support an honest company with good customer service that makes
a good product. I cherish people's right to think differently than me. If
some of us didn't (read: Jinks & I), we wouldn't like the majority here
much. And yet we do. Though I do drink. I wouldn't support a Nazi skinhead
run company but I think it's fair to exclude extremes and though I'd better
some will disagree, the ACLU is not an extremist organization.

Let it rain...