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Insurance Trivia...is Direct Line actually Tesco's?

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Old 09-16-2002, 10:31 AM
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Default Insurance Trivia...is Direct Line actually Tesco's?

...because I have just been entering information which has brought the premiums out exactly, to the penny, even after making minor adjustments to the policy quotes on-line.

Just thought it might be of interest to anyone looking at all these insurance issues which have been springing up on the board recently.

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They're both part of the same group, owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, I think.
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Oh, ...right.

Funny that the S2 GT is only listed as an 01-01 model (?!) Anyway, I can't criticise the premiums -
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Originally posted by Mark Turner
They're both part of the same group, owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, I think.
Dirct Line, like Privelege (and even Green Flag, Jam Jar, Dixons Motors, Motorcycle City......), is part of the RBS group.

Both Direct Line and Tesco use eactly the same back end (RDBMS) for thier insurance quotes but with different front ends.

I think that Tesco's get a commission for selling the RBS products like the insurance - all Tesco financial products are actually RBS products.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Roadkill
[B] Anyway, I can't criticise the premiums -
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Tesco are part of Direct line group services, as are Privilege, Barclays, Nat west and Egg
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Originally posted by indigo
Tesco are part of Direct line group services, as are Privilege, Barclays, Nat west and Egg
Direct Line and Privelege are seperate operations but do come under the same RBS group along with Green Flag.

Barclays ?? Egg?? selling RBS products. I can understand NatWest as they are now owned by RBS.

I could get probably get exact details at work tomorrow as I am currently working for RBS IT Services. I was at Coutts but they were owned by NatWest and now we are all one big hap^H^H^H family.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by StevenM
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They have obviously never seen the roads over there
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