Swinton Insurance Services

Advantages: Qick cover. Competetive rates. Nice staff.
Disadvantages: Hard work making a claim.

I used to insure my car with Swintons. Once upon a time I was lucky enough to be able to buy a new car. It was bought on finance so I knew I would need fully comprehensive cover. Swintons found me an excellent quote and I was very pleased. They were able to provide immediate cover, by telephone, so I went ahead as I was keen to collect the car as soon as possible. I stayed with Swintons for four years and had no problems. Direct debits from my ...
...due I was sent a new, competitive quote, followed by the certificate, in good time. I always got first class service and used to recommend them to my friends. One day I had to make a claim. I had never had to do this before, but knew that I must inform my insurance company at once. It was past eight o'clock in the evening by the time I managed to get home but I had all my details ready, including the police report and details of the driver of ... Read review

Advantages: Personal Service
Disadvantages: Unreliable, do not tell you all the information, dont admit when they are at fault

...not insure anything with Swinton Insurance. When I bought a new car about 2 years ago, I unfortunately did not have time to shop around for car insurance as I needed insurance immediately. My quickest option was the Swinton branch in the nearest town. On going there at first I found the staff very friendly and helpful, and opened a car policy that day. That was fine, until my partner decided to go with them also. We went there to insure him and myself ...
...the bank, I discovered that Swinton Insurance had been with drawing almost £300 from my account for the last two months. Not only had they been taking my own policy out of my account, but had taken upon themselves to take my partners insurance out of my account as well. We had specified when taking out the cover that the money was to come from Jon's account and he had signed a form to allow direct debit from his account. At no time during our time ... Read review

Advantages: helped us to find out about Diamond Insurance.
Disadvantages: Failure to supply legal documents, non-customer friendly, ignorant.

...this Insurance Broker!!! I approached Swinton earlier this year, to purchase car insurance for my Fiancee, although the quote was quite expensive, I went ahead and arranged to insure her vehicle. I waited over 2 weeks for the cover note to arrive! It didn't! I then went to their office in our town, and using the reference number given to me, asked for a cover note. The shop assisstant was helpful, that helpful, she wanted to relieve me of £25 for ...
...informed her that I was not leaving until I received that for which I had paid. Eventually, she gave me a cover note. So endeth the saga, I'm afraid not, this "Company" then went from bad to worse, after 2 months, we changed the vehicle, sent back the old policy and awaited the delivery of the new one, and waited and waited. Numerous telephone calls and 3 strongly worded letters later, (sent recorded delivery to the CEO) and we received Policy Documents,. ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to arrange
Disadvantages: ££££££££££ TOO EXPENSIVE £££££££££

...to deal with people like Swinton Insurance and thats why i guess so many people use them, just ring them up, hand over the relevant information and let them do all the searching to find the best quote. Sounds fine done it, well i decided about 7 years ago to take the easy option and all i can think about is how much money i have wasted over the years. Year after year of just accepting the quote and the reasons for the price increase without really ...
...insurance rocketed up and i was told that the whole of the industry had adjusted there prices up 25%. This was the wake up call i needed to start thinking where is all the money going. This year i decided to check out a few others after the latest quote which jumped another 10% to nearly £450, just so you know i drive a Ford Mondeo on a K reg with full no claims discount and Full Comprehensive Cover. A quick search around and i managed to chop a ... Read review

Advantages: Very helpful and seem to give very reasonable quotes.
Disadvantages: Non

...I stayed with Swinton for my first year and earned my no claims bonus and then on the second year I changed company's as I did manage to find a quote about £60.00 cheaper. But 3 months later I changed my car to a Peugeot 106. I then had more quotes with other company's and decided to go back to Swinton as yet again I could not beat their quote. I have now stayed with Swinton and am in 3rd year. Swinton is professional, reliable, helpful and a competitive ... Read review

Advantages: Able to offer cheap quotes
Disadvantages: See op

...The company ------------ Royal & Sun alliance is a leading insurance company for building & contents although they do offer various other products but are well known for insuring the above. They offer Insurance direct or through intermediaries such as AA, Swinton, Sainsbury's insurance e.t.c. which are all paid commission by Royal & Sun alliance. (they have also recently launched there new service known as More than offering slightly cheaper quotes.) My Experience. -------------- I took out an insurance policy with them through AA & Swinton not knowing that my house was insured by Royal & Sunalliance for both contents & buildings rather than AA or Swinton. Which realised when I made a claim later that year. When my household insurance was due for renewal I decided to go direct thinking it would save money as there would... Read review

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