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Northern Ireland Car Insurance Made Easy

July 4, 2008

If you are like me you just pay your existing insurer whatever they ask for just to avoid the hassle of it all. But wait, what about the Internet, surely everything is cheaper online including car insurance.

It is true that the Internet has brought about a new era in motor insurance. You can now sit in the comfort of your own home at a time convenient to you and get almost instant online quotes and shop around from your sitting room. The more astute insurance brokers have caught on to this rapidly so several years down the line we arrive at a position where there are almost too many companies offering online quotes and discounts all vying for your business. Once you repeated your details over and over again by phone now you do it by typing risking repetitive strain injury.

So whats the solution? Whats the next step in online insurance?
The answer is what is known as the Aggregator Website. An insurance aggregator site allows you to submit you details once and then these cutting edge technology sites submit your details to lots of online insurers, returning lots of quotes in real time and ranking them in price order. Sit back with a cup of coffee and watch your quotes come back in minutes. You can then complete the transaction online or by phone with the cheapest company. A real breath of fresh air in an otherwise dull business!

Will it work for Northern Ireland?
N Ireland has always suffered at the hands of mainland insurers most of whom just didnt want to know about the risks of the Province. With the outbreak of peace that has steadily got better, with more and more big name insurers offering motor insurance products on and offline to Ulster residents. From my research to date the best Aggregator Website for Northern Ireland car insurance is powered by a company called ComparetheMarket and can be accessed directly from specialist Northern Ireland insurance websites such as www.quote-buster.co.uk.

At present aggregators are only available for car and van insurance, but in the not too distant future home insurance will also be marketed this way. As more and more of us become savvy to online savings my own personal view is that the days of the local insurance brokers office are numbered unless they fully embrace the power of the internet.

George McGonigal is an online insurance marketing specialist based in Belfast.
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