I had previously blogged about ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) and their monopoly on every type of insurance in this province. Well, we just finalized our car insurance and it is so ridiculous - there is no Geico, no State Farm, no MetLife to provide competitive rates and "I can do it better than you" attitudes. Instead, we're stuck with the girl at Yaletown Insurance, that clearly hates her job, to provide us with the one and only insurance this province has to offer.
From reading my above rant, you can probably guess that we did not get a good deal. Believe it or not, we went to the insurance office FOUR times just to get the proper documentation and get the premium as low as possible. We provided our clean records from the States, letters from past insurance companies and information about our car usage (i.e. not used to go to work, parked in a garage, etc). We got a 30% discount, which sounds great, but isn't good enough! AND we had to "surrender" our car title and won't be getting it back!! Can you believe that? They've taken away our licenses and now title!
Now, we have a B.C. title, registration and brand new plates, which Melvin installed today. He held our New York plates up proudly and stated that it was a sad day. We'll be fed-exing those bad boys off to the DMV tomorrow - tsk, tsk.
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