LG John

LOL, just had a great conversation with my insurance company. Paul (in fairness he did sound like a real Paul (as opposed to yakub-akkbar pretending to be a ‘paul’)) phoned me and the conversation went down something like this:

Paul: Mr MacLeod we are phoning to offer you a deal on a new service we offer. It’s called NSS (or something) and it covers your car for all forms of mechanical failure.

<normally I cut them short here but I was interested to play a little>

Me: Uh-huh

Paul: So, if any mechanical part on your car fails our guys will come round, uplift the car, take it to an approved NSS garage to identify the problem and quote you for repair. You then get 30% off all parts and labour!

Me: Sounds good, how much?

Paul: £14.50 a year and it covers you for blah, blah, blah <more sales pitch>

Me: Paul, do you know what car you are phoning about?

Paul: Yes sir it’s a ……..<clearly scrolling> Subaru Impreza

Me: Right, so you are telling me that if I’m sitting at a set of lights in my 300hp modified Impreza next to some wide boy in an M3, that you’ll have no problem sending a guy round to flatbed my car to a garage, diagnose it and offer a near 1/3rd discount on repairs because I blasted the clutch and popped a diff trying so spank him off the amber!?

Paul: Eh? Um? Yes sir!

Me: Paul…..this car gets driven only at the weekends and usually in anger. It will break in the next year! I find it very doubtful you won’t have some get out clause based on the fact it’s a modified performance car, etc.

Paul: Oh no sir, etc, etc

Me: Ok then so my repairs come to £1000 but I get them for £700 with my discount. Am I right in assuming it’s probably the case that most other local garages would do the work for £650??!

Paul: Well sir, you are under no obligation to repair your car once you’ve had a quote. You can easily collect it and take it to any other garage of your choice.

<pretty sure I’ve rumbled them now>

Me: Well, it does sound good and if I had a 1.0 polo or something I’d probably take you up on it for 15 squid but for now I’ll leave it. Many thanks.

turbomatt

iTrader: (1)

Thats ridiculous, they'll try anything now to get some money ot of you.Which reminds me, i got a cold call from an Indian lady the other day and at that exact moment a massive fart brewed so i put the phone to my *** and let rip needless to say the phone was dead when i put it to my ear again

Prasius

iTrader: (1)

It's great isn't it..

Its like when I get the calls from my Bank that my pay gets put into every month offering me life insurance..

"You DO know what I do right???"

JPL

Oh how cruel!

JPL

Just make sure you're not backing up Prince Harry if he goes in!

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

dont know whether to laugh at post 1 or 2

LG John

ST, I'm liking post 2 These call centre cold-callers must get some amount of abuse. I'd love to hear some of the stuff that is said to them. Not so much the crude abusive stuff but the funny stuff.

Chip Sengravy