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Have you ever used a car insurance comparison website? Did you manage to save money by using it? Now I am not sure about you but I have just managed to save myself a decent amount of money after using a comparison site.

I had not previously used a comparison website as I thought it may be some kind of scam. I am not sure why I had this opinion perhaps it was because I thought that the car insurance companies were in some way sponsoring the sites; I still believe that some of them are.

Anyway back to how I managed to save myself the cash. The annual car renewal papers arrived in the post and the price was some what similar as to what I had paid last year. In that period I had not submitted a claim but I was actually fairly happy with the price that they had quoted. I also rather liked the company that I was insured with as they do offer an excellent customer service.

Even though I was happy with the quote I still decided to put my relevant details into one of the comparison sites.

Instead of just taking up one of these quotes I decided to contact my current insurer and stated the following:

“I have been insured with your company for the last three years and would like to stay with you. I have however been quoted a cheaper price via a car insurance comparison site. Are you able to match their price?”

To my surprise the company agreed and I felt like I had won a major victory. It was now time for a pizza!

People have told me that there are no simple ways to make money but this definitely was one.

There are numerous other comparison type sites for example ones where they compare loans, and others where that compare home insurance.

There are even sites that offer such things as comparison prices for ”upvc doors“; who knows they may even compare “link building” websites in the future!

I will certainly be using this type of service again in the future.

If however the above does not work for you then you could appoint a group of business cost cutting experts to devise a cost reduction strategy.

Whichever option you take I hope you are successful at saving some cash, let’s face it in this financial climate we could all do with some extra money.

During these rather harsh financial times I am sure that we could all do with some tips on how to save some extra money. In recent years, due to the internet revolution, there have been some massive savings to be had when renewing our car insurance, home and contents insurance and breakdown cover. I will be writing about how you can make these savings within this article.

For the purposes of this article I will be writing about people’s annual car insurance renewal – mainly because I have just had to renew my own auto insurance.

I am not an insurance specialist in fact I am just a regular guy from the UK who is involved in providing jobs in foster care, offering people quality external doors and stammering therapy.

Around two weeks I go I received my annual car renewal notice with the new premium. I was quite happy with the premium but I of course thought it was prudent to try to obtain an even lower price.

I decided to use a car insurance comparison website to see the prices that they could offer me. The cheapest price was in fact twenty pounds lower than what I had been quoted.

I then telephoned the company that I was already with and therefore the car insurance company that had sent me the renewal notice and told them that I had used a car insurance comparison site and that I had managed to obtain a quote that was £40 lower than what they had quoted. I asked them if they could offer me a cheaper quote than they had previously.

I went in with a lower price than what I had actually received as I knew they were never going to offer me the full reduction. They did come back with a lower premium that was in fact £30 off their original renewal price. What a bargain and what a saving!

I hope these tips help you in the same way that they have worked for me, please let me know how you get on. You never know those extra pounds that you save could help you to start saving towards a new car or perhaps a holiday – every penny counts, as they say – especially in a recession.