Mine has just broken, and in14 years ive never claimed for anything, but this soon after christmas i ve no money to replace it, have you claimed on your insurance, and how did you do it?
Thanks
2007-01-09 08:04:09 · 7 answers · asked by HJD 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
I have, told them I was moving it from the bedroom to downstairs and I lost my footing and the tv got smashed when it reached the bottom. Got a new tv, like you I had never claimed and a friend of mine said why not.
2007-01-09 08:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The following is true and should not be re-enacted...hee hee!
My bloke (at 6 feet 4") kept hitting his head on the old Victorian light fitting in the lounge of a house we were renting.
He decided that enough was enough and went to the shed to fetch what could only be described as the ladder that Adam used to trim his bushes in Paradise. It was certainly old enough anyhoo..
My bloke clumped these great ladders into the lounge and asked me to hold the ladder steady whilst he scaled to the top of it to unhook the chain of the light fitting. The idea being that he would refix the light further up the chain and thus stop it from bashing his head every time he got up off the sofa.
Up he gets (Lights still on by the way). Unhooks the light and immediately finds out that it must have been made from LEAD!
He drops this entire fitting onto my smiling, helpful, upturned face and I loose the ladder, getting a face full of light fitting and hot bulbs for my trouble.
He was electrocuted and jumped backwards off the ladder
I landed on my *** on the floor (smashing the phone in my back pocket)
At this point, the rickety ladder decides it has had enough and topples over sideways - straight through the front of our brand new Sony Wega TV.
I still have the scars from the bulbs. I just wish that someone had videoed it...I could have purchased a new TV with the proceeds! That is what insurance is for. Please keep within the law. (TIC)
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2007-01-09 18:17:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep i did told them the kids knocked it off the tv unit :S they sent some bloke round to see it b4 they paid out to see if it could be repaired first so make sure u drop it :D had to pay first 50 quid but tht depends on your policy details it will tell u your excess somewhere in your policy so just have a look then get urself a new tv!
2007-01-09 16:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by Poppy28 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dropped it moving it from one room to another, it was a terrible accident, i also managed to drop the video as well as I was balancing it ontop of the tv at the time. My insurance paid up for both pieces. Lovely new tv and video combo, its out of date now of course, so it could be ready for a move back to the other room!
2007-01-09 16:13:58 · answer #4 · answered by janet h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not claimed myself but know someone who blamed an incontinent cat for the water that blew the TV
2007-01-09 16:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you break your TV by throwing your Nintendo Wii remote at it? I hear there's a lawsuit against Nintendo for that.
2007-01-09 16:08:00 · answer #6 · answered by Lowa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could you spill some drink on it or drop it. Make sure you have accidental damage first though. I have never done it but i think i would and i know others who have done.
2007-01-09 16:08:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋