I was woken up by a phone call from Kwik-Fit car insurance today. It's a bank holiday and unsurprisingly I decided to have a bit of a lie in. How rude can you you get.

 

I hate companies phoning me up, knocking on the door, sending stuff through the post or bu email unless I have asked them to. Kwik-Fit insurance have done this to me before, so I will not be spending any money with Kwik-Fit from now on, even if they are the cheapest. It's that kind of rude, pushy attitude that I hate most of all.

 

I had a similar bad experience with the AA a few years ago. Every few months they sent me stuff through the post offering credit. I didn't want it so I returned it each time along with a letter asking to be removed from their database. This continued for about three years. The only way I could get this sorted out was by writing a final letter of complaint to the AA's head office at Fanum House in Basingstoke and sending it by recorded delivery. This worked, but the previous phone calls and returned letters should have been enough. I won't buy anything from the AA for the same reason.

 

I have joined the mailing preference service, the telephone preference service and opted out of junk mail from the post office. This should be enough, but obviously it isn't.