State Farm on lynx

[TGD]

Hi everyone
I'm a newbie to the forum but I been practicing wr for a little time now. I am trying to set up my business full time but have a lot of questions to help me get started. My first one is ; after applying on line to lynx services, it says that I've been approved by lynx, and allstate but for some unknown reason, statefarm declined me and says to resubmit next year. They did not give an explanation why.
Does anyone know why this could be or has anyone have this happen to them before?

Thanks

[TGD]

FYI: I just got off the phone with State farm and they said that the reason for declining the application was that they have too many repair shops in my area and they do not need anymore at the moment. (Gee, I didnt know I had so much competition out there lol).

[kennycrane]

You are not mising out on anything, where I live in the south if you do not have a zero deductible on their glass policy they do not waive the deductible and pay for the repair anyway. I am always getting people with state farm ins, but they have to pay cash or just drive on.

[shepardh1]

I love my local state farm folks, but the company stopped paying for chip repairs on 99% of their policies in my area about 5 years ago. So far, the only company I know of that has completely stopped waiving deductible and paying for chip repairs.

Lynx? grrr... I have the bureaucratic tech's style. Customer calls and talks to them, then I talk to them, then customer talks to them, then customer hands the phone back to me and the tech pretends that we have never talked and begins to tell me all the customer's info (customer is standing 2 feet away) bla bla bla... I have found Safelite to be easy, I just ask my clients to call them... it is done!

[SanAntonioWindshield]

Ok I'm still new this, but I need clarification. Does State Farm cover repair if the customer has a deducitble? Because, I see other postings stating there doing "most' repairs for State Farm. But then seen others saying only for members with deductibles. Can someone clarify?

[StellarChip]

I've personally visited every state farm agent in my service area with a flyer, a business card and a smile and offered a 20 dollar discount to any of their insureds and have had phenomonal success. I visit each and every one once a month. Go out, have fun and be yourself!!

[DryStar]

Ok I'm still new this, but I need clarification. Does State Farm cover repair if the customer has a deducitble? Because, I see other postings stating there doing "most' repairs for State Farm. But then seen others saying only for members with deductibles. Can someone clarify?

In my area State Farm does not cover repairs (unless customer has a zero deductible) I charge $50 for those that are not covered and never had a problem with anybody.

StellarChip,

I'm surprised you offer $20 off. A $30.00 mobile repair could cost you $10 in gas charges not to mention other billing fees. I would only hope these jobs serviced are within a short distance.

[SanAntonioWindshield]

Thanks guys for the clarification. I really appreciate it.

[StellarChip]

StellarChip,


I'm surprised you offer $20 off. A $30.00 mobile repair could cost you $10 in gas charges not to mention other billing fees. I would only hope these jobs serviced are within a short distance.[/quote]
Well, over here I'm at 59.99 a repair and 10.00 for each additional so it would end up at 40.00 dollars a repair. We have a 25 mile radius as a service area and we are never more than 10 miles away at any given time since we perform on average btwn 10 and 20 replacements or repairs a day. So for me, the extra 4 or 5 repairs we get directly from an agent is worth it. I'm actually considering raising our retail repairs to 70 even since safelite went to 140 a POP two weeks ago. Im friends with the dom at safelite Baltimore he told me recently he has 38 full time wsrepair techs on the road each doing btwn 6-8 shots a day. WOW! I'm shooting for 5 trucks in the next year or two. With friends like you guys I know I can do it!

[shepardh1]

State Farm's corporate decision to stop covering chip repairs was bad. The good news is that most folks know that lunch is important, even when it isn't free. My local SF office send me their clients, and I drop from $65/$15 to $50/$10 for them.

To the guy getting lots of trucks going, best of luck to you!