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Towergate Insurance Brokers

1.4(5 reviews)See reviews ↓·Cambridge

What customers say

Based on genuine customer reviews

Cambridge customers of this insurance broker describe a consistently frustrating experience, with several accounts pointing to serious difficulties in reaching anyone by telephone. More than one review highlights lengthy waits on hold, with calls going unanswered for extended periods, and one customer reports giving up after an hour and a half without a response. The same theme recurs in attempts to cancel or amend motor and motorbike cover, where the process is described as impossible to complete online and equally difficult by phone.

A particularly common complaint concerns communication around policy renewals and underwriting decisions, with one account of a two-week wait for an underwriter and another describing repeated failures to return calls after a decision not to renew a portfolio of buy-to-let properties. Long-standing customers express disappointment at the level of service received, describing a lack of effort to help when problems arise. The reviews centre on car and motorbike insurance and buy-to-let cover, and the difficulties described relate mainly to cancellation, renewal and reaching a member of staff. Wait times on the phone and unreturned calls are the points that come up most often across the accounts.

Reviews

Reviews are taken from publicly available sources.

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Steven Downham20 August 2022

Waiting for underwriters 2 weeks now not good

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Treve Jackson-Hicks20 June 2022

Awful

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Adam Wellesley17 February 2022

Terrible, terrible, terrible. I do not know where to start with this company. I had five buy to let properties insured for over 10 years with his firm. They decided a few months ago that they would not renew as they are no longer doing buy to let insurance and would pass the business to another Towergate branch. I could not get anyone to return my calls from the other branch and when contacting Cambridge they made no effort to help me whatsoever. It would’ve been easy for them to pass my file onto their other branch and we could’ve got the insurance sorted immediately. However this disjointed, dysfunctional, uncommunicative company doesn’t know it’s right arm from its left arm. Hours and hours on the phone with promises to return calls that never came. I ended up doing all five properties through direct line which I found so easy and friendly. Please avoid these people.

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Alan Scott18 August 2021

Hi...I had to cancell my motorbike cover so the new owner could instead the bike.I have tried to insure my bike by phone over 8 days a total of 5 hours 13 minutes listening to the horrible tune every 11 second.Well you did ask...Alan Scott

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Peta Ewers31 May 2021

Going on Web site to cancel my car insurance. Impossible. Then phoned but after 1 and Half hours of waiting and getting no reply gave up. They are supposed to be ringing me tomorrow so hopefully I can cancel my insurance. After being a customer fir many years a bit disappointed with the service.

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Contact
+44122327310045-53 Mill Rd, Petersfield, Cambridge CB1 2AP