Rants: Geico, please leave me alone

I switched Auto Insurance companies last week. State Farm was charging me $1400 a year for Auto Insurance. I’ve never had a speeding ticket, accident or any moving violation outside of a few paid-up parking tickets. Yet, State Farm had me in a very high price bracket. They said I’m saving 30% a year because I’m a safe driver and have had no lapse in auto coverage but they wouldn’t lower the rates any more. I’ve been with them for 5 years.

I shopped around with Geico and Progressive. Geico was $200 cheaper per year at around $1200. Progressive wanted to charge me $800 a year and that’s with the same coverage as State Farm and a $0 deductible on comprehensive (I had $500 with State Farm). I switched to Progressive Direct last week and I’m saving $600 a year on insurance.

Geico has emailed me 4 times asking me to finish my rate quote and switch to them. Their emails contain no way to unsubscribe which I’m pretty sure is illegal. I did find a Geico Opt-Out page which has resolved the email issue for now: http://optout.geico.com/OptOut/index.jsp

Geico Spam

I logged into Google Voice today and found in my SPAM folder that Geico has called me from 18663450281 number asking me to finalize the quote. I’ve blocked them from calling me again. 

This is the most aggressive sales I’ve ever gone through with an Insurance company. Geico needs to leave me alone. If they continue calling, I’ll phone them and ask them to stop but I doubt it will help.

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