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Buying Insurance Online versus High Street Broker

In the good old days (whenever they were), insurance was just another thing that you had to dip into the pot for every month. This mainly came in the guise of a quiet, bespectacled man in a drab suit who would come around once a month and, much like the postman, ran the gauntlet of dogs as he knocked doors for the premium. In this way, insurance used to be a far more face-to-face interaction, involving the inevitable sales patter. With the advent of online banking and direct debits, the insurance man has been pretty much consigned to history, but are we missing out on anything when we merely buy our insurance online?

Well, I suppose in one way you are killing one industry to fill another, in that the door-to-door specialist insurance salesman figure has pretty much died away. Having said that, with the explosion in online insurance, there are still jobs going. Another thing you might miss is the actual interaction between you and the company, bar a couple of faceless emails. In some ways, and especially for older people used to that, they might find it far more trustworthy to give their money to someone than to send it across the internet.

However, for me, buying insurance online is an excellent development on the high street brokers, for all sorts of reasons. Firstly, you have far more time to research and decide what you want from a policy, as by looking at them online you are not under any sort of pressure to commit to anything, and can look at your leisure. Along with this point is the other side of the coin relating to missing the face-to-face interaction. In that scenario, the salesman has a job to do and, as the typical salesman cliche would go, they are often very insistent as it is, after all, their job. By doing it online you do not have this hectoring or, to put it nicely, encouragement to buy quickly and possibly unnecessarily.

There is the fact too that there is far more choice available to you if you are shopping for insurance online. Nowadays with the dominance of insurance price comparison sites, you simply input the requirements of your policy and all the options and prices will be presented to you there and then. In this way, you are not committed to one company or broker by dint of being sat in their offices!

One last thing to think about is the actual physical act of going to the insurance brokers and sitting there and going through everything, possibly in bustling crowds and in queues. Most people are very busy, and half an hour to an hour in front of a computer is far easier to manage than directly phoning each company in turn.

So, when you look at it in terms of choice and value, I’m afraid searching for and buying insurance online is far superior to going out to the brokers themselves or even telephoning them. Without the direct pressure of an insurance salesman on the line or sat opposite you, you have a far better chance, in my opinion, of comfortably choosing the deal that will best suit you.

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