Health Insurance

[gerefan2]

This was quietly made known to me by one of their sales staff after I told them i was leaving to go elsewhere as I'd sourced cheaper cover and they told me that "they" couldn't compete, but rather than BUPA lose the business they'd get their business team to call me and within two days it was all set up and running. Apparently the business and personal divisions are two totally different sides of the BUPA tree and so can and do operate in a different ( more competitive ?) marketplace and so can and do offer different rates for ultimately the same service.

Any company will trot out that shit! It’s standard practice. Try telling BT you want to move....they will move heaven and earth to keep you.

Tell any Insurance company you’ve found a cheaper quote and they will squirm to keep you. Deductions for this, deductions for that...etc etc.

And after all BUPA is just another Insurance company.

[Nirish guy]

Any company will trot out that shit! It’s standard practice.

Whilst I dont disagree with you in general my point was in this case Bupa the private policy side of the company COULDNT and wouldn't match my other quote and wished me all the best, it was only as I was working through a broker who was pissed at losing my regular business that he and one person in BUPA came up with that plan and once I switched across to the corporate scheme EVERYTHING had to change, different office to deal with, difference direct debit needing set up, complete new set of paperwork etc, this wasn't a case of appearing to move the goalposts just to keep a client, it was a specific change on my part that enabled my to keep my pre-existing conditions list in place without having to update with a new provider and obviously if I hadn't of been in a position to open a company policy they couldn't have opened that for me anyway, so in this case not quite the same thing as when Sky TV etc, appear to give extra discounts etc just to keep their customers on board perhaps.