• poayjay@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I always wondered what if someone started an insurance business that didn’t spend billions on advertisements, it just offered genuinely lower rates. When you sign up you have to sign something promising you’ll tell 2 other people.

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      5 months ago

      “We can’t lower prices! Look at how much we have to spend!!”

      Points at billions in ad slots being watched by mostly AI now

    • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      There are plenty of insurance companies that are like this. They’re significantly cheaper than the nationally advertised insurance options.

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        5 months ago

        Massachusetts (funny enough also where MB is popular) used to have only small car insurance companies, I think it had something to do with no-fault or something. But they opened up to the Geicos and co. A decade or so ago.