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AS THE SAYING goes, it pays to shop around. Particularly when it comes to car insurance, it would seem.
A motor insurance comparison the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission released today has revealed some drivers could save over €1,200 on their policies simply by getting multiple quotes.
It compared prices for nine different “consumer profiles” and quotes from eight insurance companies and found there was an “enormous difference” in the amounts charged by each firm.
The commission’s consumer help director Fergal O’Leary told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland there was a significant variation in the prices quoted for all driver groups.
“I can’t say that a particular insurer is cheaper than all the others in all cases, that isn’t the case,” he said.
What it does mean is if people spend 15, 20 minutes – maybe half an hour – and get two or three quotes when they are taking out insurance or when they are renewing insurance they stand to save a lot of money.”
Big savings
In the most extreme example, the prices quoted for a 47-year-old physiotherapist from Trim in Co. Meath driving a five-door Toyota Avensis – who also wanted to insure their 19-year-old child on a novice licence – varied by €1,249 for a comprehensive policy.
FBD produced the cheapest quote in that example, while Aviva had the highest price, O’Leary said.
It’s a huge amount of money, but I guess the really important thing … is that whatever circumstance you’re in there seems to be a good variation in quotes so don’t simply just go with what drops through the letterbox,” he said.
Policies also varied significantly when it came to the excess drivers were expected to produce out of their own pocket for any claim.
The full results of the survey can be found here.
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McAfee is like a real life Hank Scorpio
Awweee the Denver broncos!
Breaking news: John McAfee to change his surname to ‘Intel- Security’.
His comment is priceless
In fairness he’s right too, constant pop ups, overpriced, and bloatware. Hate McCrapffe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
Haha that’s some of the maddest shizzle I ever did see..I love him!
It’s a real killer though.
Nothing will put me off purchasing a new laptop / desktop than the sales guy saying “and it comes with anti virus software pre-installed”
not difficult to uninstall, don’t let that put you off.
Bought 3 laptops in my time. First thing i did with them was a full format. Lots of manufacturers crap comes with one. Background running memory eating crap.
Seems like the man himself is a virus
Such wit hiding behind that beard. Who’d have guessed?
I thank McAfee because they are the best at putting viruses on my computer and then even better at protecting me from that same virus ..
Ever notice how your computer always got infected just before your subscription was up ?
Same with norton, I have no virus protection on my comp and heyyyyyy gues what no viruses. Companys cteate them to get then to buy their bullshit
That’s just such bullshit, Dave! Too many AVP’s are resource heavy but very few are designed with any sort of malicious intent, esp the popular ones!
Too may people becoming stupidly cynical about these things. There are literal craptonnes of dedicated and independent communities that test, monitor and disassemble AV softwares in order to find out their true efficacy. And nobody has yet proven it to be true for the biggest players, barring Norton a few years ago with the whole ‘PIFTS.exe’ thing; when they attempted to censor people who found potentially dangerous flaws in the software.
Complacency is by far the most dangerous thing when it comes to security, be it online or personal, You may not require any third party protection, but for every one of you there are a hundred that really do, and if they decide to go without it then no matter how careful *you* are; you’ll be subjected to the inadequacies in and lackadaisical ‘use’ of resources by others.
He’s the sort of crazy SOB I’d want associated with my company
So who is more excited with the name change?
He killed his neighbour? That’s real cyber crime
Belize is in Central America.
Isn’t that where Mike went on ‘vacation’ in Breaking Bad?!!!
His comments are a bit harsh. Symantec is the worst software on the planet. McAfee only gets silver.
Check out YouTube video I posted here, it’s very funny. It’s not a vid on how to uninstall, it’s mcafee himself taking the pi#s
Watched it, it’s hilarious!!
That McAfee antivirus kills anything that gets in its way…..
He is really chuck norris stupid evil twin
McAfee ? anti virus ? What are these of which you speak…..
I laughed so much at his spectacular comment! Brilliant!
They’d wanna do more than just change the name
Now that’s what you call a well lived in face if ever I saw one.
You’d think he could afford better highlights too.
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