Eagle Insurance started it, but when Lincoln Insurance put our 16th president in a prison outfit complete with striped top hat, we knew they had something special.
Here are all of our favorite Lincoln Insurance commercials. Enjoy your SR-22!
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]]>SR-22 is also what you must get after a DUI arrest. Means the insurance company knows that you are potentially a problematic drinker and will adjust your insurance rates accordingly.
In Colorado you have to get an SR-22 to get your license back after a DUI.
]]>Oh yeah - in St. Louis, there were similar commercials for Rodney D. Young and Yellow Key insurance companies. And from what I saw on their websites, Yellow Key also does the same day SR-22; and Rodney D. Young offers month-to-month auto insurance.
I haven't really seen anything like that in California, so it's either a mid-west/east coast thing, or the commercials come on really late at night.
]]>*just now looks at sushiwriters comment*
/Agrees
]]>Here is the Pacific Northwest's wacky insurance guy!
He pwnz all! Vern Fonk! (lol look for the (f)eminem one)
kiiiiisssss my bumper
]]>@ARP: Ahhh, okay, I thought it had to do with state-sponsored insurance, and that was apparently wrong. That's good to know.
Only guy I ever knew (and I didn't know him that well) that had SR22 had several tickets for driving without insurance, a few wrecks without it, and what-not. And at last check, he got into an accident and was begging his sister to come down and say she was driving.
Good ol' South Carolina.
]]>Homeerjay and Paradigmabq- Partially true. It's a standard form that you send to the state to show that you have insurance. Illinois requires that you have minimum insurance coverage. If you are caught without insurance, you get a ticket and you have to provide that document to the state or they'll suspend your license. I had a situation where I had my old insurance card with me when I got pulled over. I had up to date insurance, but not with me. I had to go get an SR22 sent by Allstate to show that I have insurance. A lot of cut rate insurance companies advertise this because most people looking for their services got caught without insurance or have been dropped from their current insurance for accidents or repeated non-payment.
]]>@homerjay: SR22 is insurance for people that have screwed up so badly and so many times that they can't get regular insurance. It's also usually astronomical in price.
]]>Do people think that this sort of advertising works? I mean for me at least, I see crap like this, i make a mental note: "Do NOT do business with 'XYZ' company."
Am I the only one? I wouldn't have thought so, but hey I never asked.
Rules of Advertising to me:
1) Don't talk to me like I'm a 3 y/o. I'll assume you must want kids that don't have speaking skills nor money to buy your product. Smart, very smart.... ?
2) Don't put out trash that looks like a 3rd grader was in charge. I'll assume that if you would hire a 3rd grader to do your advertising and think that's grand, you're somewhere similar yourself. Maybe 2nd grade? 1st?
3) Don't, DO NOT, EVER, not even once, insult my intelligence. If I feel you've insulted my intelligence, I'll just assume that you didn't actually want my business in the first place.
What the hell? Talk to me like I'm dumb and then ask me to give you money? Are you serious?
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