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By China at 1:54 PM

Direct TV was the only insist that my roommate Meghan made when we moved into our house this year at school. I on the other hand wanted to make sure we had a beer pong table, heaters and enough room for my treadmill. She said when we were signing the lease that she didn't care about what the house really looked like and that all the decisions could be made by us as long as she got DirecTV. So sure enough, two days before we moved in she called and had her TV set up. It made me wonder though, how do people choose, like at college age, what kinds of service providers they want. Meghan has Direct TV at home so it seemed like that was what she knew and she really liked it, but when it comes to other things, how do we make those decisions.

We are taught in finance to look into every option and find out what you can get the best for your money for. Well when we did the chapter on insurance and we had to ask our parents about our car insurance (or people in the class who had their own insurance already) and how they went about choosing it. My dad told me when I asked him that the auto insurance provider that we have now and have always had is the same provider that my grandparents have and have always had. While my grandparents are probably the most efficient and smart people I know, they have two cars and only two very experienced, clean record drivers on their plan. While at my house, we have 4 cars, my dad, who is a great experiences driver, but then my sister and I who are young and have gotten many into many accidents and tickets combined. It just makes me wonder that if we looked and shopped around if we would get a better deal? We looked online for DirecTV at http://www.directsattv.com/. Don't get me wrong though, I love the people with our auto insurance provider (unfortunately I have had to talk to them several times). And I am sure that we do get a good (well as good as you can with our records) price and we are treated very well and have had no problems. But the thing is, since he (like a lot of other people0 only looked at one option, we don't know really if we could be doing better).