Endsleigh Home / Contents insurance #fail then #win

Probably the best thing about my blog is when I get such bad quality of service that I get to rant about it on here and today was no exception…

Endsleigh have been providing my house & contents and contents insurance for 11 years and sent through the renewal in my dads name. As I am purchasing the family home I wanted to transfer the policy into my name but it now turns out that Endsleigh can not create a new policy to cover this home..
I find it hillarious that a company can provide a service for 11 years then when a customer comes to renew say, erm, sorry we don’t do that any more and we can’t provide an alternative..
To summarize: Save your time, don’t call Endsleigh if you have a property built before 1850!
UPDATE: I received this tweet- @johnmclear Hi John, This seems odd – please call Adrian Nelder in Customer Care 08000858698, as we still may be able to cover you.
UPDATE: I called Adrian today and spent another 30 mins or so on the phone trying to get it sorted, he was able to give me a price for contents insurance but had to go back to the underwriter for a buildings insurance premium.
Good to see a big company is using modern communication methods to contact their customers. I will update this when/if I get my prices.
UPDATE: I now have a price, it is £10 a month less than what my dad was paying but £10 a month more than the insurance comparison websites so I’m going to make some more calls tomorrow then make a decision.
I am happy with Endsleigh insurance, I’m not going to remove this post as it is import for their customer service records. What I don’t understand is why the first girl I spoke to didn’t go through the same effort that Adrian did?

School Freebies is delayed!! Oh noes…

Sorry everyone , I’m working at full speed today but I’m a little behind because I took some time out to go meet a neighbour to talk about wind power.

They have quite a large tower provided by Evoco – it looks great, I love how wind towers look on the horizon. People who hate on them deserve to be ignored.
So expect the freebies very late tonight as I am going out for a meal with a friend to akhbars Bradford.
I made a start on my school holidays last night which will be live in a few weeks probably, nothing too exciting, just a site where schools can put holidays and interface with them using gmail calendars, outlook, api, email and rss…. Consider it open source term date storage or something. I don’t know I just know I need it for a site I’m working on so I made a new service….
UPDATE – I’m working on it! Jeez you folks are hungry! Freebies coming tomorrow instead of today due to “having” to drink wine before it goes off!