If you’ve made a career out of providing solid financial service to your clients, InsureMe isn’t for you. Quote seekers drawn to the site are
- Non-exclusive leads
- Un-serious buyers
- Leads focus on price to the exclusion of all
- Leads received based in part on your account’s age
In other words, they’re more suitable for a vending machine.
The initially free leads are unrepresentative of the quantity you’ll receive once you’ve signed up. The test leads appear to be sent as if you were the first to sign up in the relative geographic area, providing an unrealistic volume.
What’s more, the IT department at InsureMe is incompetent. They allow insecure, non-SSL access to their site. If you don’t look closely, you can easily login over regular HTTP. (If you’re curious, it’s because they neither redirect any traffic from agent.insureme.com on port 80 to the same host on 443 nor explicitly POST to the HTTPS URL when clicking the login button.) Additionally, they email the quote request out over email, including names, addresses, and phone numbers. They prefer you use the agent connection web page for leads, so why email at all?
I mentioned the HTTPS issue repeatedly via email and phone to my InsureMe representative. It’s such a glaring security issue it is nothing short of negligence of the highest order, since you can input your credit card information accidentally over HTTP (non-SSL) when you sign up. There’s simply no excuse for such willful incompetence where credit cards are concerned.
If you’re interested in Internet delivery of leads, seriously, look elsewhere.
Oh, wow. It looks like InsureMe needs to read their own blog. Hilarious.
Update. Oh, and I forgot to mention, their silly system won’t let you use a credit card billing address out of a P.O. Box. It rejects P.O. Box ZIPs. Why? Who knows. Truly crazy.