yeah, this was the result of a call to AF. It went something like this :
1 call AF, 'no, cant insure you, but let me pass you along to someone who can help'.
2 someone-i-didnt-get-name-for 'yeah, this isnt going to work for us, but we have a partner who will'
3 Call-Connection ? 'yes, we can get you a few quotes- stand by'.
4 pro-insurance 'absolutely can help, forwarding call'.
5 someone else 'our quote looks very high but we can refer back to someone who specialises in insurance for your area'.
6 at this point, i was losing my will to live, but thought I'd speak with the last person. Who did indeed go through things, said they can do something but since they were a Manchester specialise ( whatever that means! And I dont live in Manchester.. ), they were going to refer my details to their underwriter who will get in touch directly via email.
- hung up phone
- get quote in email ~ 15 min later from some completely different broker, with 'MakerStudy' as underwriters. Looking up the broker names, its a company owned by Makerstudy anyway.
checked my credit report a few days later, and found no less than 11 searches from insurance agencies on that day.
the important thing however is : I am actively saving towards a leisure-time LC ( the LC5 has turned into the family bus & DD )