Advice needed on good insurer for new expensive home furniture items

[AtW]

Who do you think you are? threaded?

+1. He is.

[Denny]

Sorry, but how does a bed cost £6600 ???? Explain ...

It's got gold bedknobs.

[Diver]

It's got gold bedknobs.

And you say "the lady loves it"

[Ardesco]

I'd like to know what sort of spec that £5400 computer is? I can't think of much to put in it that would knock it above £3000 and we are talking silly things like triple GFX cards all water cooled and physics cards etc to get it that high...

[gingerjedi]

I'd like to know what sort of spec that £5400 computer is? I can't think of much to put in it that would knock it above £3000 and we are talking silly things like triple GFX cards all water cooled and physics cards etc to get it that high...

Only £5,400? Bloody pauper couldn’t afford one of these, a bit excessive for the odd game of counterstrike me thinks.

[Xenophon]

£10k of train set

CUK Geek of the Week

[NotAllThere]

...
bought 1 x £6,600 bed
bought 1 x £5,300 sofa
bought 1 x £5,400 computer
bought 1 x £3,000 sofa bed
bought 5 x £5,000 (total) chairs
...

I never knew such poverty existed. A sofa bed? Why didn't you just buy a flat with enough bedrooms? Cheapskate.

[DimPrawn]

Advice needed on good insurer for new expensive home home furniture items and electrical items.

Ok here it is moved into my flat 1 year ago in the last few months purchased:

bought 1 x £6,600 bed
bought 1 x £5,300 sofa
bought 1 x £5,400 computer
bought 1 x £3,000 sofa bed
bought 5 x £5,000 (total) chairs

I have the receipts for all of these items.

So I called Nationwide this Saturday morning asking to see whether or not I would have to extend my cover and/or declare these items as luxury expensive items so that their full amount would be covered and not only the first £1,000 of each item.

The woman I spoke to who actually dealt with Home Insurance only was totally clueless, she didn't seem to know whether or not my existing £21,000 insurance amount (which I want to extend) will even cover these items at all or only up to £1,000 on each item or for the full amount.

I would assume that you simply designate these items as luxury items which are over £1,000 in value and insure them individually (as I already have done with an item I through away 2 months ago) but she didn't seem to have any idea !

She fobbed me off basically and I am cheesed off.

So in your wisdome do you have any good recommendations for an home insurance company that knows what its doing and can actually insure home furniture / electrical items that are up to £7,000 ????

AXA insurance are they any good ?

thanks in advance

Thanks for propping up the economy during 06 and 07. If you can please spend spend spend in 08 without borrowing, Brown will be very grateful.

[tim123]

Guys it includes the matress which cost £1000.

.

I think that I can understand the 1000 quid mattress (mine cost 250 pounds and all it is is a roll of foam, albeit a high quality roll of foam).

Its the 4 and half grand for the rest I don't get.

tim

[Ardesco]

Only £5,400? Bloody pauper couldn’t afford one of these, a bit excessive for the odd game of counterstrike me thinks.

WTF?? Only 2Gb memory and 1 GFX Card????

I have more memory in my box... and I have the same main hard drives and my box was well under £1000.

I can't belive anybody would buy that....