{"id":1675,"date":"2009-06-03T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2009-06-03T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:43:56","slug":"do-past-customers-get-a-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/do-past-customers-get-a-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Past Customers Get A Discount?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Steve, I&#8217;m a satisfied past customer, but like many people, I&#8217;m trying to spend my money wisely. So, do past customers get a discount? I&#8217;m asking because my travel agent said her travel insurance plans are discounted for past customers. Margaret<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hi Margaret,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for writing. Unfortunately, travel insurance prices are regulated by each State&#8217;s Insurance Department, so the prices for a particular policy are the same no matter where you buy it.<\/p>\n<p>One reason to use a particular travel insurance agent over another is the service you get. Anyone can sell you a policy, but there&#8217;s no guarantee they&#8217;ll help you with it later. And as you&#8217;ve already found out, you get better advice from us, so that&#8217;s another reason to get your travel insurance from us.<\/p>\n<p>As for your travel agent telling you her travel insurance plans are discounted for past customers, find out if she&#8217;s talking about a &#8220;real travel insurance plan&#8221;. There are many plans out there that imply they are travel insurance, but in reality they are not. I suspect if she&#8217;s telling you there are discounts it&#8217;s not a &#8220;real travel insurance plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase &#8216;travel insurance&#8217; is used loosely causing people to assume all plans are essentially the same. <a title=\"What is travel supplier default coverage?\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/travel-insurance-vs-travel-supplier-waiver-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to learn more about &#8220;real travel insurance plans&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Insurance is actually a legal term and it has certain understandings associated with it. Yet, many people in the travel business, who are not insurance agents, seem to apply the phrase a &#8216;travel insurance&#8217; to every type of &#8216;protection plan&#8217; and &#8216;waiver plan&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a title=\"CNN Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TRAVEL\/traveltips\/04\/07\/travel.insurance.scams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Elliott&#8217;s article &#8220;6 tips to avoid travel insurance scams&#8221;<\/a> for more information (I, Steve, am in this article, too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe Steve, I&#8217;m a satisfied past customer, but like many people, I&#8217;m trying to spend my money wisely. So, do past customers get a discount? I&#8217;m asking because my travel agent said her travel insurance plans are discounted for past customers. Margaret Hi Margaret, Thanks for writing. Unfortunately, travel insurance prices are regulated by each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[85,87,88,305,310,319,339],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-travel-insurance-advice","tag-cruise","tag-cruise-insurance","tag-cruises","tag-travel","tag-travel-insurance","tag-trip-insurance","tag-waiver-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}