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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 9 months ago (17 children)

In this land of legalised extortion in the form of insurance my friend who is in his mid 30s and been driving over a decade with no claims has to pay £700 per month.

My mum wanted to add my sister (again mid thirties and driving for nearly 20 years now with no claims) to her policy so she could borrow her car for a week and then maybe use the car once a month if that and they wanted an additional £1000 a month for the privaledge.

Fucking scum.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah of fucking course. you guys are forced to buy insurance in the US, they have a big juicy captive market.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's tons of car insurance companies. We can shop around. Most people don't, for some reason.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 9 months ago

Insurance market is just another oligopoly... As with anything else they collude to fix prices. Sure you can lower rate of price gouging by switching every year but at the end of the day theybare still price gouging and there is nothing end user can do about it.

Parasites like warren buffet with geico bullshit...

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