re geico goldberg oasys dt navy mil mark goldberg writes in rec autos jmh hopper virginia edu jeffrey hoffmeister writes my suggestion stay where you are or shop around but stay away from geico i strongly agree with jeff here s my horror story many years back i switched to geico from state farm to save some i have a relatively new sports car for which we covered with liability collision and comprehensive with this make of car new models came out in january not september like other makes the car was purchased in august of that year we also had a much older clunker for which we only wanted liability low and behold a vandal slashed the roof of the sports car and we put in a claim this was in october still the current model year for the car a new top with installation was we had deductible so we should have gotten you had to go to geico s local office to have an adjuster see the car unlike state farm that sent the adjusters to the shop or your place he said since the car is now one year old we ll depreciate the top by so you ll get on the claim this will also count as an accident against you so your rate may increase the hassle continued then we got a letter from geico saying claim denied your policy on this car doesn t cover this i then learned that their records had the full coverage collision etc on our old clunker and only had liability for this new car they mixed up our cars in their records i fixed the top myself with some carpet thread and dropped my claim they still charged me with an accident i cancelled my policy and switched to another company the coup de gras came when they sent me a bill for an additional balance due for the difference in collision comprehensive cost between my sports car and my clunker i returned the bill unpaid with a nastygram plus explicity directions to perform recto cranial insertion haven t heard from them since everyone s entitled to my opinion goldberg oasys dt navy mil imagination is more important than knowledge albert einstein good for you i am convinced that someone should start a boycott against geico any takers chintan amin the university of illinois urbanachampaign mail llama uiuc edu sig under construction hard hat area
