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Boredsurfing, always good to maximise your web revenue stream though, and having used Snowcard since 1999, recommending them to all her guests and about 3 links on her site to them Susan Beesley seems to be doing just that - not good to have a snowHeads post from 2006 with some bad PR knocking around in such circumstances 
To be serious though, there are some good testimonials on here which would warrant referral, so fair play to Snowcard
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wayne, I think you were rather biased against pandora, 's post, given that you are a TO yourself
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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rayscoops, yep me too.
Did we ever hear the result BTW?
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never saw the thread... care to share anyone
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Boredsurfing, nope
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| pam w wrote: |
| snowbunny, that must have been annoying, but probably most insurance companies would do the same. They only survive, after all, if they mostly insure people against things that ain't gonna happen. |
What I felt unreasonable was that they would only continue to insure me against unrelated conditions. This was nonsense, as no condition had been diagnosed, and a diagnosis was not going to be made until an MRI was completed and the consultant had studied the results.
As a policyholder, how would I be able to prove in the event of a claim that a previously insured risk was unrelated to the (un)diagnosed condition. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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snowbunny, so if you did not have a problem why did you notify them ? sometimes you have to box clever
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| snowbunny wrote: |
| I'd read my Snowcard Ski policy when I duly informed them that I'd been referred for an MRI scan on 1 knee one summer. Their swift response was to withdraw cover for knee related conditions... |
What else did you expect?? Any insurance company with an ounce of sense would have too.
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| Snowcard however, would not reinstate cover until I'd sent the consultants' letter to them several times over. |
Not good, though every company screws up sometime.
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| Contemplated driving it to their office. I've not been back. Skied 40 days last winter, knee just the same as usual, but now I know how to manage it. Snowcard for me were just a tad too keen to take their umbrella back. |
Your call. I'm sticking with them, following their very good treatment of me when I had an accident in Alpe D'Huez.
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brian
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| Wayne wrote: |
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then throw a Pandora
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I just thought your BIG whinge was so over the top it deserves to become a verb
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Just jumping in before Hurtle gets to you. It might deserve to be a verb, but you've made it a noun.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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brian, 
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Poster: A snowHead
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brian, verbalising a noun eh 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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brian, But, Wayne, it's a lovely turn of phrase, however you define it.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| rayscoops wrote: |
| snowbunny, so if you did not have a problem why did you notify them ? sometimes you have to box clever |
The policy required me to notify them of any material facts which might affect the terms of the cover. So seeing a consultant and having an MRI Scan ordered would most likely be considered material facts. Boxing clever only works in this instance if you don't need to make a claim at any stage of the current policy life.
achilles with their policy costing me close on £200 for a couple, I'd expected a better service.
They withdrew cover for any knee related conditions, when I was due a scan on 1 knee, which turned out to be an age related degeneration, and nothing exciting. I have 2 knees, and they didn't even bother to check which one was being scanned. I consider that shoddy practice.
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it is perfectly possible to insure an excluded injury, most companies have a referrals department who will pass on underwritting of a previous injury, think it cost me a whole £9 to add the OH's previously dislocated patella (only needs to be an addition for 18 months from last treatment on our policy)
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Good lord - if I were a rep from "snowcard" I'd want to be disassociated from Susan Beesley rather than one unhappy testimonial. How on earth can her type of "publicity" be good for any company? Seriously, if they're paying her I wouldn't touch them with someone else's! 
Wayne, you really need to get over the whole Pandora thing. All she did was complain about a TO - if I'd paid for one of your holidays I'd be complaining that you sell Italy and use Utah for your promos...
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Alexandra, I think she stumbled on to the thread through google and did not realise it was 4 years old. No idea if she gets paid by Snowcard but her web site includes a few links to them - maybe she gets 'paid per click' the same way snowHeads does for their favoured insurers. Nothing said here would put me off Snowcard
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| Alexandra wrote: |
| if I'd paid for one of your holidays I'd be complaining that you sell Italy and use Utah for your promos... |
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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If this is Susan Beesley's website I think I am going to vomit.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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stoatsbrother, you'll have to wait, I'm occupying the vomitorium.
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Join the queue.
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You know it makes sense.
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don't try laughing and vomming at the same time - it comes out of your nose!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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rayscoops, It was a private referral, for a private consultation and for a private MRI, which was to confirm the Orthopaedic consultant's initial suspicions. Snowcard pulled the plug on my cover for a July Hiking trip. Additionally, many years ago, I had a ski policy with Snowcard, and needed an Arthroscopy at the end of a ski season. Back then, there was no question of withdrawing any cover, got the boss on the phone who was very reassuring.
How times change.
CEM I imagine it is quite possible to insure any pre-existing condition. It would have been nice to have been offered at least some choice in the matter.
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Poster: A snowHead
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brian
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| Wayne wrote: |
No, it a verb.
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No it's not. A window does not become a verb if I open it.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wayne, nice. (I haven't looked anything up to verify this, but it looks plausible.)
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Pass the popcorn, please. 
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Hurtle, can you decide the winner please 
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rayscoops, can't face doing the research required. Sorry.
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I agree with Ni....brian
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FAQ
so, in this case "run a mile" becomes a verb.
