I am looking into this for myself
How do these quote comparison websites work? Do they have setup partnerships with all these insurance companies where they can instantly get a quote using some kind of software? Or do they get the information directly from a database.. or infinitly worse do they ask for quotes from each company using a script that poses them as the actual customer??
I asked for a quote from one "compare quotes" website and now every insurance company under then sun is sending me email. It seems to me like the website (I dont want to publicly trash them, PM me if you are dying to know the website though) is filling out quote requests for all these companies and getting paid 8.95 (or whatever they give) from each real company. Seems lucrative, but also seems illegal.
If it is illegal its not that hard to track unless they(Compare quote company) mask or otherwise change their IP address each time before submitting a quote request.
Forgive my inexperience (incompetence?) but I was just wondering how they can do/get away with this.
-Nick
How do these quote comparison websites work? Do they have setup partnerships with all these insurance companies where they can instantly get a quote using some kind of software? Or do they get the information directly from a database.. or infinitly worse do they ask for quotes from each company using a script that poses them as the actual customer??
I asked for a quote from one "compare quotes" website and now every insurance company under then sun is sending me email. It seems to me like the website (I dont want to publicly trash them, PM me if you are dying to know the website though) is filling out quote requests for all these companies and getting paid 8.95 (or whatever they give) from each real company. Seems lucrative, but also seems illegal.
If it is illegal its not that hard to track unless they(Compare quote company) mask or otherwise change their IP address each time before submitting a quote request.
Forgive my inexperience (incompetence?) but I was just wondering how they can do/get away with this.
-Nick