I had a similar conversation with an Asian-sounding gent at the AA. My price too came down to £119, but I'd already got cover with an online provider at £89 INCLUDING full European cover!

That is a good one, is that including actual "Taxi" cover. It was no good me putting it down as a saloon and taking off all of the signage (as some do) as mine is an E7 - and sort of stands out.

I paid £87 pounds with aa in August, and yes I had to haggle, like I do every year.

Yes I'm a hackney, I used to be in the rac for 10 yrs, then the first time I needed em, they wouldn't come out because I was a taxi, so when I went over to the aa I made sure.

My A.A membership was up for renewal. Last year we paid £143.99,up about £5 on the previous year, but acceptable - this year they wanted £221.52 .

I got on the phone and spoke to a nice gentlemen with an African accent that was none too easy to understand, however when it comes to money, I have been known to be patient..........to a point. Anyway, after pointing out the errors of the ways of the A.A giving new customers the same facilities for £119, and rewarding loyal customers by charging them a whooping £102 more, I eventually after much interpretation got them to drop it down to (if I remember correctly) £147 ish.

The trouble was that by now as I had been on the phone about 20/25 mins, and my heels had got dug into the carpet , so it was by now - sorry mate I want to renew.......but as a loyal customer I want the same price as a new customer - or better.

The guy would not budge, and by now I was starting to speak with a similar accent as him, I did not think that it would go down well with the family so I told the guy I would not be renewing. Tbh it was not because of the accent that I did not renew, it was really to do with the money, however the accent was becoming an issue, if you know what I mean

I said to missus cabby - now the game of poker begins

Lo and behold a week or so later a delicate little voice comes on the phone telling us something we knew, " You have not renewed your A.A membership", yes we said, we know because we are the ones that pay. After explaining how we as long term customers were being "Abused/taken advantage of/not being looked after etc etc by the A.A, the young lady (sounded young) said hang on a minute I will speak to my supervisor...........I love supervisors xxxxxxxxxxxxx £119 - thank you very much, I was not holding a full house..........but I guess I did hold the money.

I just changed from AA to RAC for the same reasons.

Same but no home start.

I put my address down as my daughters, she lives 3 miles away so I have home start, I just don't pay for it.