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A Letter from an Ex Farmers Agent:
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A Letter from an Ex Farmers Agent with another vote of agreement in the farmers-online.com cause.

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<Letter Start>

Your web site is good reading however, it does bring back bad memories of always being hounded for life sales. I don't know how those Farmers agents put up with that crap. Your doing a heck of a job educating people about Farmers. Just don't do to good of a job. IA's need Farmers agents to take business from them. Seriously I would say a good 30% of my business comes from Farmers. When we quote against Farmers it's a slam dunk.

Anyway keep up the good work and the best of luck to you in the IA world.

<Letter End>

Hi (censored),

Thanks for the comments.  We appreciate your vote of confidence.

The odd thing about it is I'm heading down this road now that seems to become more clear with every bit of info.  I recently wrote that article on Farmers having the most agents, collected and compared total premium data for the state of California against ballpark agent numbers and merely divided premium.

I'm sure many farmers agents are undocumented from the source that I got the agent count from for reasons stated in the article so at worst it would benefit farmers in having less agents listed than they really do.  The disturbing thing about this calculation is that there is no possible way that more than a handful of Farmers Agents per district can be profitable under this system.  Its exactly the trend I saw in my district too.  I just need to dig up some more facts and I think I'll have absolute proof that they are running a system very similar to a ponzi scheme.

There will always be Farmers clients to pluck away.  It’s the nature of the business!

Take care!

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