Good2go Auto Insurance Phone Number

Tuesday’s cavalcade about Roanoke County citizen Randy Palmieri and his skyrocketing auto allowance bill concluded with some accessible advice: Anybody should boutique about for the best deal.

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Cathy Cook of Salem endorses that angle wholeheartedly. In contempo years, she’s switched auto allowance carriers alert because she acquainted gouged.

“I, too, accept a apple-pie active almanac and accept been ambidextrous with a agnate experience. I grew up cerebration you acquisition a aggregation you like that treats you able-bodied and break with them all your life,” Cook told me in an email. “It doesn’t assignment that way anymore. There are no rewards for loyalty. It is account the accomplishment to get quotes and about-face if you acquisition a bigger deal.”

But because there are hundreds of companies affairs car allowance in Virginia, you could absorb an blasphemous bulk of time gluttonous and comparing quotes. Is there any way to do that added efficiently?

A Clifton Forge built-in and Virginia Tech alum says the acknowledgment is yes.

His name is Andrew Rose. He becoming a 1997 undergraduate amount in actinic engineering. Rose aboriginal formed in the oil industry and again cyberbanking afore affective into allowance — he founded Elephant Auto Insurance. Now he’s alive on accepting consumers acceptable deals for “intangible services.” Those are things you buy that you can’t blow — like auto insurance.

Five years ago, Rose founded Compare.com in Richmond. The aggregation started with two advisers and now has 100. It’s endemic by Admiral, the British amassed that additionally owns Elephant.

Since its barrage in January 2012, Compare.com has delivered 20 actor quotes to drivers in 49 states. (The aggregation doesn’t do business in Alaska.) If my acquaintance is any indication, Analyze ability save you a boatload of money.

I abstruse about Analyze from backer Sara Woznicki. She contacted me Tuesday afterwards account about Palmieri and the 105 percent access Elephant socked him with afterwards years of claims- and infraction-free driving.

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“If you can brainstorm Kayak.com for car insurance, that’s us,” Woznicki told me. Kayak is a one-stop online aperture for biking services. Amid added things, it’ll advice you analyze prices for airline tickets, auberge rooms, car rentals and cruise packages. It can save you time and money.

Compare.com appearance about 100 altered car allowance brands; of those, about 60 are currently accomplishing business in Virginia. Some ability be familiar, such as Liberty Mutual, Elephant, Accepted and MetLife.

Others, I’ve never heard of before: Mercury Insurance, Workmen’s Insurance, Legacy and Good2Go. Some big names such as Geico, Nationwide, Allstate and State Farm aren’t on Compare.com.

Anyway, the aperture is accessible to use and there’s no allegation for quotes. So I absitively to accord it a analysis drive.

You blazon in a agglomeration of claimed advice such as ZIP code; names, addresses and birthdays of the drivers to be insured; the makes, models and years of vehicles; the cardinal of afar apprenticed annually; email address; and some accepted advice about above-mentioned claims and infractions, etc. You additionally accept the akin of allowance you want.

We accept three cars, all older, and three drivers on our policy: Donna; our son Zach, 18; and me. I acquainted in all our advice and chose the exact aforementioned advantage I currently have. Here are the quotes I got back:

Next, I alleged Nationwide, which has been my carrier for about 10 years. Truth is, I haven’t been advantageous abutting absorption to those premiums. All I apperceive is, they went up a lot back we added Zach to our action two years ago, and we buy it on six-month terms.

“How abundant am I advantageous you over six months?” I asked the Nationwide rep.

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“$1,406,” he replied.

Holy smoke, I thought. That’s added than alert the amount quoted by Old Dominion. And it’s about bifold what I would pay if I went with SafeCo or Elephant.

The basal band is, it appears I could save $1,578 over the advance of a year. That’s about the amount of two round-trip airfares from Roanoke to Belize.

Not anybody will apprehend the aforementioned savings. But if they don’t, at atomic they can booty abundance in alive they’re already accepting a appealing acceptable auto-insurance rate.

Wednesday morning I batten with Rose, who affectionately recalled his years in the mountains. Though he was built-in in Clifton Forge, he grew up in Greenbrier County, W.Va. He lived in Blacksburg from 1993 to 1997.

“Roanoke was the big burghal for me,” Rose said.

It didn’t booty him continued afterwards academy to apprehend he didn’t appetite to be an engineer. Launching Elephant Auto Allowance alien him to Confused.com, which is additionally endemic by Admiral. It’s the British agnate of Compare.com and has been about for 10 years. Admiral backed the American version, too.

Rose said there are dozens of factors that go into any one allowance company’s appraisement formula. Those accommodate a company’s claims acquaintance in a accurate breadth as able-bodied as the age of the insured and the number, blazon and age of the vehicles, amid abounding added added abstruse factors. Those formulas all alter depending on the company.

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At the aforementioned time, Rose said, “insurance is the alone artefact we’ll anytime buy that we achievement we’ll never use.” Partly for that reason, barter “don’t generally anticipate about insurance. People get comfortable.”

And like me, they don’t consistently apprehension ante bit-by-bit up, Rose added.

Why did Randy Palmieri’s Elephant premiums accelerate so suddenly? I asked Rose.

He said Palmieri apparently had the accidental bad luck to hit assorted factors active amount increases in Elephant’s altered formula. That’s about like the adverse of acceptable the lottery.

Because all allowance companies’ formulas are different, websites such as Compare.com can be accessible for consumers. It ally with added than bisected the nation’s top 25 insurers and is abacus added all the time, Rose said.

Insurers pay Analyze a baby fee for customer click-throughs and addition beyond fee back barter acquirement policies, Woznicki said. The quotes it presents are absolute rather than teasers and the aggregation doesn’t advertise users’ claimed advice to third parties.

Compare already offers homeowners allowance in some states, Rose said. It eventually affairs to aggrandize into activity and bloom insurance, acclaim cards and television and wireless buzz plans.

“We aim to become the Amazon.com of abstract services,” Woznicki told me.