The company is called "Suzuki insurance" nowt to do with suzuki
I would like to state, that probably like someone else, i couldnt find something for "Suzuki insurance" only this, which i think it by suzzy themselves, could be wrong.
in 2022 i took out a policy, with Suzuki insurance, with experience of previous insurers, ageas and bikesure i was really hoping for another company.
Boy did i have a surprise, i called to cancel my insurance for my old machine, only to be told OH! you just took out another policy for another bike. A little gobsmacked, i said "yes and it isnt with you", she replied "that is another one of our companies", my heart sank. So i was now talking, not with bikesure or ageas, but with suzuki insurance.
She went on about that i wont be penalised for cancelling my policy as i had just taken up a new one. So i would get a full refund of the policy i took out 2 weeks ago, yep a £98 paid in full policy, and my refund £48 would have been cheaper just to let it run. Mind you they would probably have stung me somehow as you are about to find out on this new machine.
So i have signed up for another year of "oh dear me" kerching.
So lets get to the nitty gritty. My policy is due for renewal on the 15 of october, today is the 13th. One month before my renewal i get the usual email asking me to renew, NOW this IS NOT from "my insurer" so they tell me, they have said that over the last 3 renewals. They want you to renew BEFORE you renew date.
What happens is that you renew, due to this email, they then make another policy for your vehicle, it isnt actually a renewal it is a fresh policy. When you then get an email from the "actual insurer", i know even though they ARE the same company, but you dont know that yet, you check up and find you have 2 policies.
It just so happens that you get the "proper renewal" 15 days AFTER you took the other out, so you cannot go for a refund.... yes sneaky.
As i was saying they then suggest you cancel the old policy and go with the new one, which they told isnt anything to do with them!
They have just got a bunch of cash from you, with this manoeuvre.
I had to add this in or nothing would make sense.
So one month before my renew date, i get the usual email asking me to renew, 15 days later i didnt get an email this time from "suzuki isurance" i got a call wanting me to renew there and then.
I told them i would let them know if and when i would be renewing.
On the 11/10/23 i changed insurance, and to start when my old policy ended, 15/10/23.
2 minutes after i did the deed i got an email thanking me for renewing. So i went into my control panel for my policy, and there it was schedule and all FROM the 11/10/23...
Why would i renew before my end date, anyway onto the phone i go. After hearing that MCN compare for the next 20 mins, which is advertised as "mcn bike insurance" is in fact Ageas little baby, and absolutely nothing to do with motorcycle news.
So asked the young lass why they had automatically renewed my policy early, some muffled reply, so i pointed out when they had rang me and i had told them NOT renew, she started rambling on.
I then asked her why after just 2 mins of signing up with a new insurer, they had suddely renewed. Before i could finish that question she put me on hold with the promotion of MCN compare.
To this day i am still receiving emails thanking me for the renewal. They were trying to get me to renew early even though my account was paid up and they supposed to be covering me to the 15th of this month, thats in 2 days time.
We have had to put a block on our bank to prevent them taking money out.
If they product you sell is that good that you have to pretend to be lots of different companies, including motorcycle news, there is something seriously wrong with the product OR you are targeting the vulnerable.
I dont believe in manipulation, and if these "trust" sites have any "rock" to build on, it should be the truth.
This is an account of what happened and just hoping it will stop the same thing happening to others.
Just had an after thought, their renewal was well over £200 PLUS £25 handling fee PLUS another £25 fee, cannot remember what that was.
Using MCN compare the new policy was around £119. you figure.
So this review, statement of fact, cover2 2021, 2022 to this date 13/10/2023
October 11, 2023
Unprompted review