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Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by jasontraff »

qeorge wrote: post #10
AznHisoka wrote: post #6

site:leaky.com only returns a couple hundred results. 99% of your success depends on search engine love, not buzz.

To that end, you guys may want to try creating some evergreen content pages that are accessible to the search engines. Right now there's only 3 pages (other than your blog) which can be reached by a crawler: home, about, & contact. Mint.com does a great job with this, if you need inspiration.

All very true and good points from both of you all - we're currently working through a site redesign, and this'll be a big part of it.

Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by geoffry »

misterbwong wrote: post #12

Great news and a market niche that needs innovation. Nice, clean interface though I'm getting 500 errors posting /api/getrate/ while trying to get a quote. Chrome ver 19.0.1084.46 on Win7 x64

Thanks for the help, if you let us know the email address you used (by emailing sayhi@leaky.com) we'll be able to better hunt down the problem.

Edit: We've found the problem, let us know if you encounter anymore difficulties, thanks again for the heads-up.

Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by Davey »

thawy wrote: post #7
jasontraff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Who'd have thought someone would say that an insurance comparison site has a 'fun to use' interface! We run lots of randomized test cases for our accuracy, if your prices have been off by more than 3% - please email us at sayhi@leaky.com with the email address you used on the site. We'll (anonymously) add you to our test cases. Accuracy is a big focus for us; for example, when we added Esurance, it tested wit…

I can't wait to see the accuracy data. As an insurance industry veteran, it's frankly shocking to me that you could average better than +/- 20% using filed rates. I'm especially curious how you are getting within 1-3% on Progressive's rates without running their proprietary credit model.

I would guess they are really +/- 50% for Progressive because credit really does play a large part. I can't imagine they won't get sued again by these companies for falsely posting their rates as higher, so that they can sell more policies with the companies that actually pay them.

Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by maxerickson »

jasontraff wrote: post #9
maxerickson wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it reasonable to consider them separately from Allstate?

I think so - at least for now. Heck, I'd imagine that's a significant reason that Allstate ended up acquiring them. In any event, the pricing structures are different so it still makes sense to compare them separately.

Sorry, I was talking more about calling them a relatively small company. Considering the products separately makes sense.

Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by ajays »

I just tried them. They said the best quote was Geico, for $410/six months. I went to Geico's site, and it came to more than $600/six months.

This much discrepancy doesn't bode well.

What I would love to see is a button, so that it'll take me to Geico's site with the exact same quote (all the information filled in).

Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by computerbob »

jasontraff wrote: post #5
computerbob wrote: post #3

The interface is awesome and really fun to use...however I found the results to be higher than when I manually went to the companies websites. Has anyone else found this to be true. I am currently looking for car insurance so this website is awesome for a quick snapshot. EDIT: I also got an error on the "Drivers" section when I entered my occupation as a "Computer Programmer".

Thanks! Who'd have thought someone would say that an insurance comparison site has a 'fun to use' interface! We run lots of randomized test cases for our accuracy, if your prices have been off by more than 3% - please email us at sayhi@leaky.com with the email address you used on the site. We'll (anonymously) add you to our test cases. Accuracy is a big focus for us; for example, when we added Esurance, it tested wit…

What sort of data are you looking for if I was to email the prices. My old insurance is through progressive and leaky was around $350 more than what I am currently paying. While geico was much closer. Is there a form? Or just use what I got on the other sites and paste them accordingly to to leaky's estimated prices?

Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by jasontraff »

ajays wrote: post #16

I just tried them. They said the best quote was Geico, for $410/six months. I went to Geico's site, and it came to more than $600/six months. This much discrepancy doesn't bode well. What I would love to see is a button, so that it'll take me to Geico's site with the exact same quote (all the information filled in).

Hehe, we'd love to see that button too, but that's what we got in trouble for the first time!

Also, _please_ email us at sayhi at leaky dot com with the email address you used on the site so that we can look into it; that difference is well outside of the norm.

EDIT: Thanks for emailing us and including screenshots. As discussed, we've already identified a few issues (we blame Geico's website), and have added it to the list of test cases for further testing.

Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by [deleted] »

computerbob wrote: post #17
jasontraff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Who'd have thought someone would say that an insurance comparison site has a 'fun to use' interface! We run lots of randomized test cases for our accuracy, if your prices have been off by more than 3% - please email us at sayhi@leaky.com with the email address you used on the site. We'll (anonymously) add you to our test cases. Accuracy is a big focus for us; for example, when we added Esurance, it tested wit…

What sort of data are you looking for if I was to email the prices. My old insurance is through progressive and leaky was around $350 more than what I am currently paying. While geico was much closer. Is there a form? Or just use what I got on the other sites and paste them accordingly to to leaky's estimated prices?

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Re: Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons

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Post by jasontraff »

computerbob wrote: post #17
jasontraff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Who'd have thought someone would say that an insurance comparison site has a 'fun to use' interface! We run lots of randomized test cases for our accuracy, if your prices have been off by more than 3% - please email us at sayhi@leaky.com with the email address you used on the site. We'll (anonymously) add you to our test cases. Accuracy is a big focus for us; for example, when we added Esurance, it tested wit…

What sort of data are you looking for if I was to email the prices. My old insurance is through progressive and leaky was around $350 more than what I am currently paying. While geico was much closer. Is there a form? Or just use what I got on the other sites and paste them accordingly to to leaky's estimated prices?

We'll check your entries to make sure that we've mapped everything correctly (zip code, vehicles, etc.). If there are any date-related fields (like speeding tickets) or discounts, we'll check those to make sure we've correctly applied each carrier's rules. We do this all anonymously, of course.

The only thing we need to do this is just to have the e-mail address that you used on leaky.com and we'll do the rest. So _please_ email us at sayhi at leaky dot com so that we can correct your results.

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