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Can't really help you . We have a two car membership but get lots of freebie extras because we have been with the AA for 52 years . So can't really give you a comparison price for the same services. They even sent me a golden anniversary present leather bound atlas. Then made it not quite so good by having fixed inside it a large, square magnifier. Do you think they were hinting that I am old?

 

I get Green Flag cover with my insurance and it's always cheaper by doing so. I was with the AA for a while until I discovered that they had automatically renewed the contract at the end of the current one.....they'd also added full European cover plus one or two other services without even asking. I only noticed it when I saw my Bank Statement and that the AA had taken £385. When I rang them up and asked for an explanation they didn't even apologise but merely stated that, at that time, it was standard practice to automatically renew the contract without informing the client. I told them it was illegal and unauthorised and wanted to cancel the contract and wanted all the money back. They returned the money the next day without even an apology and I've never used them again, but I wondered how many times they had pulled that trick without it being questioned.

 

You could always try calling me

 

Not for me I'm afraid, Verdun. I was with the AA for several years until their premiums started to rise and were only kept down by my haggling with them. I always kept the contract to 12 months and then waited for a quote until on the last year they automatically renewed my premium and then sticking on a load of add on's to my normal comprehensive car which then was only around a couple of hundred pounds When I checked my Bank Account the AA had taken out, without my permission, nearly a thousand pounds. On ringing them up they used the kind of talk that is used for Village Idiots, [I failed that job application], and said it was policy now to automatically renew polices without contacting the customer and that the add on's must have been approved by me. I demanded cancellation of the contract and immediate return of the monies, which they did, and I am now with another company at a greatly reduced premium. They send me a higher premium quote every year and, so far, I have kept the premium to the same cost as it was when I first left the AA and joined them