Miata Mailing List: May 1993, Message #83
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Subject: Re: Insurance panic
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In message <9305122200.AA05797@axys69.axysdev.krldwa.mccaw.com> to Multiple
recipients of list  on Wed, 12 May 1993 18:01:37
-0400, Alan Dahl  writes:
[...]
> Back in '91 my Miata side-swiped when it was parked by a hit-and-run driver.  
> When I went in for the estimate the GEICO guy insisted I meet him not at their  
> office but at a local MAACO-like body shop. The shop was cheesey and the GEICO  
> guy insisted that he would only pay what that shop said they would fix it for  
> (And there was no way I was going to let that place touch my nice car). I  
> insisted that I wanted to take it somewhere else and the GEICO estimator said I  
> could but I woudn't get any more (depite the fact that Washington state law  
> says I can get my car repaired where *I* want).  The other shop's estimate was  
> about $300 ($750 vs $450) more. I called and talked to the GEICO adjuster for  
> the area and he backed up the estimator and accused me of tryimg to take them  
> (other shops had quoted me even higher prices than teh one I selected). It took  
> a letter from the state insurance commisioner to GEICO's home office before  
> they finally coughed up the money. As soon as my record was clear I jumped to  
> State Farm and have been happy ever since. For the $14 a year GEICO would save  
> me I don't think they're worth it. Stay away from them, they are bad news...

Geez, this sounds *exactly* like one of the "Letters to the Editor" I read in
_Road_and_Track_ recently.  In the May issue (I think that's the one -- its
got the, ahem, red Miata on the cover with three other "red, rapid, reasonably
priced sports cars" following it) there's a slew of letters about GEICO,
apparently in response to an article about the company in a previous issue.
All of the letters are bad, some horrendous.  Why don't these GEICO guys move
into something more up their alley, like hiring starving college kids at five
bucks an hour to get on the phones and bilk old retired people out of their
life savings?  >8^)
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