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#3274266 21-Aug-2024 20:14

Eva888:

Friend yesterday said she moved her insurance from State to AA and saved a lot. Good to hear.

i put my online claim in at 9.07 am and got the ok it was accepted at 9.37 am the same day

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3274267 21-Aug-2024 20:20

Wow, tempted to move to AA based on that.

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#3274316 22-Aug-2024 07:56

Another vote for AA who provided insurance prior to settlement when our previous insurer (AMI) was dragging their feet.

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#3274349 22-Aug-2024 09:35

AA Insurance website.

Based on the previous replies I thought of checking insurance options with them. Member for more than 20 years, so discounts (yay!)

Tried their website last night for home contents ($5 more expensinve) and car ($ 15 cheaper).

The website did mention multi-insurance discount for home and home contents. So I decided to try the quote again to check.

Entered the required AA number, and address.

Was greeted with a "Please call us so we can discuss the suburb or town where your home is located."

Annoying: I don't want to talk to people who will try to push it. I just want the quote. And calling takes too much of my time.

Annoying: they know I requested a quote yesterday, because they ask for a membershi number and I am sure they track sales performance based on that.

Compared to when I asked for a life insurance quote with another provider last year (to possibly replace my old one), this process already started with a "Nope"

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#3274412 22-Aug-2024 10:12

Another sob story about travellers not insuring themselves properly, read the policy people!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350387052/christchurch-woman-indonesian-hospital-after-being-seriously-injured-scooter

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#3274415 22-Aug-2024 10:19

floydbloke:

Another sob story about travellers not insuring themselves properly, read the policy people!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350387052/christchurch-woman-indonesian-hospital-after-being-seriously-injured-scooter

I nearly posted that one too. Not dissimilar in principle to people who enter into fixed-rate home loans, then are 'shocked' and 'surprised' when they want to break the contract (after rates decrease) and find there's a charge by the bank.

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#3274422 22-Aug-2024 10:33

floydbloke:

Another sob story about travellers not insuring themselves properly, read the policy people!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350387052/christchurch-woman-indonesian-hospital-after-being-seriously-injured-scooter

Read it this morning - felt sorry for them until I read that they weren't aware they needed a licence for a scooter over 50cc in Bali and that they weren't covered for anything over 50cc in their policy - I'd be checking both requirements as a formerly-frequent traveller

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#3274425 22-Aug-2024 10:38

floydbloke:

Another sob story about travellers not insuring themselves properly, read the policy people!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350387052/christchurch-woman-indonesian-hospital-after-being-seriously-injured-scooter

Wonder if that applies to getting on a motor bike taxi which is common in Asian places, you hop on the back. You’d have to also make very sure that tuk tuk rides are acceptable. So many pitfalls when travelling.

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#3274431 22-Aug-2024 10:57

Is it actually possible to insure yourself against stupidity and ignorance? I mean, everyone makes mistakes, but so naive and obvious? Especially as you should know that the accident rate with 125cc scooters is abnormally high in Asian countries (I've seen accidents there myself).

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#3274461 22-Aug-2024 13:13

Oh yeah people, lets hear it for the virtues of capitalism -

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/as-hospitals-failed-and-patients-died-ceo-reportedly-netted-250m/

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#3274478 22-Aug-2024 14:04

floydbloke:
Another sob story about travellers not insuring themselves properly, read the policy people!!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350387052/christchurch-woman-indonesian-hospital-after-being-seriously-injured-scooter

I don't see any gratuitous sob story thing going on there. They had a problem, they asked for help simple as that, and their experience is valuable to everyone else.

Article: Blair’s partner Cameron Mitchell, who told NZH he was getting by on three hours sleep a night, said he only realised after the crash their 1CoverNZ insurance policy only covered moped claims involving bikes with engines of 50cc and under. The couple did not realise the mopeds they had hired were 125cc.

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#3274482 22-Aug-2024 14:12

Eva888: Wonder if that applies to getting on a motor bike taxi which is common in Asian places, you hop on the back. You’d have to also make very sure that tuk tuk rides are acceptable. So many pitfalls when travelling.

Looks like this one is related to driving accident insurance.

As for the 'moped' part I have not seen a real one for years. It happens to be an NZ legislation defined thing originally designed to provide a license exception for users of underpowered pedal assisted motorcycles.

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#3274714 23-Aug-2024 11:42

Job ads that list their location as being "Auckland" but then have "must be able to do 3 days in office in Wellington"
Makes the search filter absolutely useless.

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#3274723 23-Aug-2024 12:29

floydbloke:

Another sob story about travellers not insuring themselves properly, read the policy people!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350387052/christchurch-woman-indonesian-hospital-after-being-seriously-injured-scooter

I'm going to dissent here and not join in the victim-blaming: Do you really read and memorise all 124 pages of your insurance policy, and every single time you do anything request full technical details of whatever you're using and then go through the entire lot to check that there isn't some obscure clause or corner case that you might be violating? This seems like a completely arbitrary cutoff, it doesn't say how the accident occurred but if someone hit them then it wouldn't make any difference whether they were on a 50cc bike/moped, a 125cc bike, or a 1250cc bike.

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#3274811 23-Aug-2024 14:57

Opening a csv file with a new install of Excel and it prompts me about the different conversions it can run including for large numbers into scientific notation

I click don’t covert.

Large numbers are still in scientific notation

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