I insured my £400 phone for £50 for a year with a £50 excess.
How hard can it be to return an IPhone to it's owner?
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I insured my £400 phone for £50 for a year with a £50 excess.
Hah, fancy that. Gallows gig were going to be the perfect example of why I don't take expensive phones to festivals, and why my camera (still a fairly cheap one) barely left my tent all weekend. Crowd surfing and moshing just asks for stuff to fall out of my pockets.
Really? I use mine a lot to meet up with people, and it makes me glad its got a battery life of forever.You can easily make an iPhone last a weekend, unless you're constantly on it which seems strange if you're at a freaking festival.
Am I a bad person?
Also, since we're on the topic of stuff getting nicked at festivals, let me ask people's opinions on this:
On Thursday at Leeds we decided to get the bus to Tesco's to stock up on booze, and I found a wallet on the top deck. Had a drivers license, debit card, a cheque, some random bits of paper, and £25. Could have handed it in, could have nicked the cash in it and left the wallet to rot. But instead, we decided to spend the money on random **** in Tesco's, and pack it into the wallet, then hand it in to lost property, so he'd have a present when he got it back. We got him:
Tight, or genius? Even I have trouble deciding.
Also, since we're on the topic of stuff getting nicked at festivals, let me ask people's opinions on this:
On Thursday at Leeds we decided to get the bus to Tesco's to stock up on booze, and I found a wallet on the top deck. Had a drivers license, debit card, a cheque, some random bits of paper, and £25. Could have handed it in, could have nicked the cash in it and left the wallet to rot. But instead, we decided to spend the money on random **** in Tesco's, and pack it into the wallet, then hand it in to lost property, so he'd have a present when he got it back. We got him:
- Whoopee cushion.
- £5 worth of American dollars from the currency exchange.
- Some gift wrap, which we wrapped his cards up in.
- Some sticky letter decorations, with which we spelt "Hey we found your wallet" on the outside of it.
- A selection of gift vouchers and discount cards we each had on us.
- A passport photo of the four of us, inside a keyring/bottle opener doohickey.
- An unused scratch card (to make up for spending his money).
- A receipt for a £5 bet on it snowing at Christmas (from the neighbouring betting shop).
Tight, or genius? Even I have trouble deciding.
The worst bit is there's absolutely no payoff! We spent the rest of the weekend wanting to know if he found it, but being afraid that he might want to kill us if he had.
Hope they have a sense of humor when they find their wallet
A friend of mine had her bag nicked in bristol last week with wallet, phone, camera etc in. She rang her phone and said some chavvy scrote answered and was mouthing off telling her he was gonna rinse her bank account etc etc.
Her mum later rang and the thief responded with "she's in the shower, i'll get her to call you later".... Harsh but i found reply to her mum funny.
Her mum later rang and the thief responded with "she's in the shower, i'll get her to call you later".... Harsh but i found reply to her mum funny.
That's fantastic! I would have a good giggle at that. Though I woulda posted the wallet back to the address on the driving licence as there's a high chance he wouldn't have gone to lost property.
The ones I see are usually more than £4.50. Is there no excess on that?
Again, £50 for a year is cheaper than most of the ones I see but even at that cost, with the excess you are paying 25% of the phone cost just in case. It's just too big a % of a potential payout to be paying as a premium.