Deer season - aarrgghhhhh

[pomtzu]

My DIL took her SUV for the estimate yesterday, and that minimal damage will be over $3000 to repair. YIKES! Thank goodness for good insurance. I don't know how some people drive without any or adequate coverage.

I'm going to convince my grandson to go into auto body repair after school. There's never a lack of business or a good paycheck there.

[wombat2u2004]

There's never a lack of business or a good paycheck there.

Because it's mostly insurance money.
I did heaps of insurance work for people as a builder....my bills to them were double, sometimes triple the cost of what I would charge for non insurance work.

[pomtzu]

Because it's mostly insurance money.
I did heaps of insurance work for people as a builder....my bills to them were double, sometimes triple the cost of what I would charge for non insurance work.

Hmmmmm------are you telling us you were a crook and took advantage of a bad situation???

Shame on you, Womballina!

[wombat2u2004]

Hmmmmm------are you telling us you were a crook and took advantage of a bad situation???

Shame on you, Womballina!

Hee hee. Well you know, Insurance companies have been ripping us all off for years and years.....so simply put....when it's their time to be ripped off, then we simply just go for it.
I don't know what it's like in the USA, but here, all builders do it, and car repair companies do it to.....it's the done thing.

[pomtzu]

Don't get me going on insurance companies, Wom. I could write a book of a rant. They pretty much have you over a barrel. With them, it's take it, or leave it. I just left one, tho I'm sure losing one little sucker isn't going to amount to a hill of beans with them.

[lizbud]

Hee hee. Well you know, Insurance companies have been ripping us all off for years and years.....so simply put....when it's their time to be ripped off, then we simply just go for it.
I don't know what it's like in the USA, but here, all builders do it, and car repair companies do it to.....it's the done thing.

You aren't ripping off the insurance co. They don't suffer a loss, they
just up the rates for all it's other customers. So the average good guy
is the one who actually pays.Thanks a lot.

[Puckstop31]

You aren't ripping off the insurance co. They don't suffer a loss, they
just up the rates for all it's other customers. So the average good guy
is the one who actually pays.Thanks a lot.

I....agree.....with......Lizbud?


WORM HOLE!


Anyway, Wom... She is right. Its practices like what you (and others I reckon) do that get the government invovled in 'regulating' the insurance industry. We all know how THAT ends up. Yeah, the insurance companies might still jack up their rates, but insurance fraud like you admitted to gives them a valid excuse for doing so.

Personally, I shopped around for my insurance needs. I found a great company that does it right and I am very satisfied with my premiums. My home, auto and life insurances are via this company.


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Does this thread win an award for most off topic, back on topic, then back off topic?

[pomtzu]

Personally, I shopped around for my insurance needs. I found a great company that does it right and I am very satisfied with my premiums. My home, auto and life insurances are via this company.


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Does this thread win an award for most off topic, back on topic, then back off topic?

Yeah - I shopped around too a number of years ago, and thought I had found a company that was fair. Wrong again. I just dropped them (car is all I have) a couple of weeks ago and went with another top known company with much better rates for the same coverage, and has been around for eons. Time will tell if it continues to be fair and just.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Hee hee. Well you know, Insurance companies have been ripping us all off for years and years.....so simply put....when it's their time to be ripped off, then we simply just go for it.
I don't know what it's like in the USA, but here, all builders do it, and car repair companies do it to.....it's the done thing.

Wow...bragging about insurance fraud. Criminal activity. But then "everybody does it..." wow...or "hee hee"...

I, like most people, have had my share of issues with insurance companies...but to steal from them... is just something that never occurred to me. It's just not the done thing.

[blue]

is just something that never occurred to me. It's just not the done thing.

Arent you in CA and from IL? It should be no surprise that it is SOP for liberals and unions to bilk the insurance companies. Again its one of the reasons I am anti union.

[Lady's Human]

Damn, and now us Union thugs be bilkin the insurance co's?

Damn, just how many pies are my fingers in?

Wait, hold it, we run a health ins. plan for members............if we are, in effect, the insurance co in some cases, does that mean we're blikin ourselves n one big daisy chain? Glory be!

[Karen]

Hey, back to the original point of the thread - remember everyone, drive safely, it is the season, and with the rain and snow some of us have been having, trying to stop suddenly can be more difficult.

I am glad, cassiesmom, that this thread helped keep you a bit safer!

[wombat2u2004]

Hahahaaaa....you lot amuse me sometimes.
I have been accused of fraud ???? Really now ???
Well that coming from the two forum know it alls, Puck and ES, I'll ignore the idiocy and the lack of substance in those comments.
FRAUD is a criminal offence.
BUSINESS is NOT a criminal offence.
If I choose to charge Joe $2 for a nail, and then choose to charge Fred $200 for a nail, then that is entirely MY business. If Fred is stupid enough top pay $200 for his nail, then it's his bad luck.
It's business, plain and simple. The insurance company is under no obligation to accept my quotation for works to be done, but because they did, they were bound contractually to honour their part of the agreement, which of course is to pay ME.

And Lizbud......if my business dealings ever result in you paying higher premiums to your insurance company, I'll eat my hat.

[wombat2u2004]

Wow...bragging about insurance fraud. Criminal activity. But then "everybody does it..." wow...or "hee hee"...

I, like most people, have had my share of issues with insurance companies...but to steal from them... is just something that never occurred to me. It's just not the done thing.

Really ??? You've had dealings with insurance companies ??
How worldly. Tell us more.

[Bonny]

Hey, back to the original point of the thread - remember everyone, drive safely, it is the season, and with the rain and snow some of us have been having, trying to stop suddenly can be more difficult.

I am glad, cassiesmom, that this thread helped keep you a bit safer!

Safety comes first for sure but a deer running in front of you out of a brushy ditch can cause your insurance premiums to go up up up. It is the ineptocracy of our day & age that causes all these inconsistencies in our daily lives.