My memory may be a little slippery in matters of 'television-commercial'-content, but I seem to recall "Progressive Auto Insurance"-commercials claiming that Progressive is '
the only company that quotes competitors' possibly-competitive rates as well as their own.'
While I don't doubt that they stay current on the rates they quote, I could quite-easily cast that doubt; because the description-of-singularity there ('only') is a universal lie. (That is to say that--though Progressive Auto may be the only company that has a
company-policy of offering other companies' quotes--an insurance-agent who
doesn't offer all possible rates is an ineffective, inefficient, unworthy, dumb∀$$ parasite!)
How do I know that the idea is not singularly Progressive Auto's? By seeing--as nearly everyone else has--
Miracle on 34th Street. In that movie (at least the original version), one of the Macy's-executives' first complaints against using Kris Kringle as Santa Claus was that he would send customers to other stores if Macy's didn't have the exact toy the children sought.
So, if Progressive Auto is indeed the originator of the "customer-service that actually serves before purchase," then they are claiming all rights-&-royalties attributed to
the producers of
Miracle on 34th Street.
Originally posted on:
The Enlightened Xombee