Have you ever used an insurance comparison website? I would guess that the majority of the readers of this article will have answered yes to this question. I absolutely love them. Why do I think this? Because I have managed to save a lot of money by using these types of sites over the last couple of years. In this article I will be describing about the way in which I use them.

Now I am not a financial salesman and therefore I am not attempting to sell you anything. I actually offer a DVD duplication service in the UK, I am also involved in a company that sells composite doors and I offer Comet Voucher Codes on a part-time basis .

A good example of my use of insurance comparison sites would be the way in which I recently managed to save over £70 on my home insurance. I received the renewal notice in the post at the start of June for my buildings and contents insurance. The amount that they were quoting me was slightly higher than last year but I suppose you have to accept this.

I knew what I was going to do, in any case, whatever the premium had shown; I was going to put in my relevant details into one or two of the insurance comparison websites. I duly did this and low and behold there were three companies who were able to beat my renewal premium. The best quote was in fact £60 cheaper for the same cover.

This was not exactly a surprise to me as I have had similar successes on numerous previous occasions. So did I go ahead and take up this lower quote? No. Why not? Well I wanted to save even more money and therefore decided to contact my current insurer to see of they could offer me an even cheaper price! I phoned them and said:

“I have received your home insurance renewal quote but have managed to obtain a better quote by using one of those comparison sites. It was seventy pounds lower (a small lie) than what you were quoting. I am phoning you as I would rather keep the insurance with your company as I have been very impressed with the level of customer service that I have received. Would you be able to match or beat their quote?”

Guess what? They did match it – how cool is that? I was rather impressed with myself, the result and of course the comparison website.

Now I have decided to instruct a firm of cost reduction specialists in a quest to save even more money.