Insure your phone.

Charlie19

Insurance is a must nowadays with all these expensive smart phones on the market.
So lets say you dropped your phone in say a storm drain, would you go in after it?

Well a teenage girl in Kent, England did and got stuck.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-26878349

Maximus Alexander

Replacing the phone will be a real drain on her finances.

SparkySpitfire

On the insurance thing... most of them don't cover a basic thing such as "theft" unless it's being taken from you at knifepoint. I was lamenting my lack of insurance on my brand new phone when it got robbed from behind the desk at work when I actually looked up the gadget insurance I could've gotten only to see I wouldn't have been covered anyway! Such a scam!

But who the hell would jump into a storm drain...for a Blackberry? *

Edit: it was an iPhone, I'd heard it was a Blackberry. Either way :pac:

GuyFawkes

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

On the insurance thing... most of them don't cover a basic thing such as "theft" unless it's being taken from you at knifepoint. I was lamenting my lack of insurance on my brand new phone when it got robbed from behind the desk at work when I actually looked up the gadget insurance I could've gotten only to see I wouldn't have been covered anyway! Such a scam!

Agree.

Insurance for a phone just isn't worth it. In most circumstances that arise with phones they're covered under warranty anyway.

Never lost or had a phone stolen myself. Try to be as careful as possible.

Artful_Badger

Nah, It'll be grand.

SparkySpitfire

GuyFawkes wrote: »

Agree.

Insurance for a phone just isn't worth it. In most circumstances that arise with phones they're covered under warranty anyway.

Never lost or had a phone stolen myself. Try to be as careful as possible.

That's the best type of insurance you can give your phone...and it's free!!

(Unless like me you had to learn that lesson the hard way, to the tune of a brand new €650 iPhone being stolen haha)

Canis Lupus

I'm confused why she went in feet first.....

Stavros Murphy

I use a €29.00 old school samsung flip phone and I buy a few at a time. They have a life-expectancy of a few months before the pace kills them, then I open another. I bought a samsung note yokie and it lasted the glorious total of a day before I sat on it and it cracked like an egg. I hated it anyway. I live on the phone for work too so it has to be simple and reliable - Samsung flip ftw. Three days out of the one charge-up helps too. Insurance not required.

the groutch

just buy a cheaper phone, problem solved.

Truckermal

Wouldn't mind getting stuck in her drain.:)

131spanner

My phone is like a car. The insurance would cost more than it's worth.

G'won the Nokia 113!

Odyssey 2005

Truckermal wrote: »

Wouldn't mind getting stuck in her drain.:)

Which one, the one in the drain or the reporter:rolleyes:

Truckermal

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Which one, the one in the drain or the reporter:rolleyes:

Actually on closer inspection neither!!!

anncoates

Most bizarre segue into a piss-taking thread ever.

Odyssey 2005

Truckermal wrote: »

Actually on closer inspection neither!!!

Another couple of pints and you'll be grand......so will she:D

Menas

Phone insurance is like idiot insurance. A nice little earner for the provider that rarely pays out.

Menas

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

I use a €29.00 old school samsung flip phone and I buy a few at a time. They have a life-expectancy of a few months before the pace kills them, then I open another. I bought a samsung note yokie and it lasted the glorious total of a day before I sat on it and it cracked like an egg. I hated it anyway. I live on the phone for work too so it has to be simple and reliable - Samsung flip ftw. Three days out of the one charge-up helps too. Insurance not required.

The drug squad will be on to you soon. Burners!

Stavros Murphy

Trigger Happy wrote: »

The drug squad will be on to you soon. Burners!

Yeah, I buy the Tesco ones and get them unlocked, sadly, no drugs, just work.

humbert

I read that in the voice of Brass Eye. I smiled. Then I saw the picture and I smiled some more.

MonstaMash

Truckermal wrote: »

Wouldn't mind getting stuck in her drain.:)

She's 16 you perve :eek: :P

ArtyM

Nice of the person to stand there taking pictures and nice to then give those pics to the media.

hatrickpatrick

When my iPhone got stolen, I worked out that the €10 monthly payment for insurance would have paid for about 3/4 of the price I paid for a second hand replacement - and as people have said, there would have been a question mark over whether the feckers would have even covered it. Not worth it IMO.

anncoates

Can you not just put the phone on a household policy?

Ficheall

I think I paid €80 for my current Irish phone 6 years ago.
Granted, there are some messages on there that hold sentimental value, and I'd be sad to lose it, but how much would an insurance company pay out, and how much would they have charged me in the interim?
I can almost, sort of understand why people pay ridiculous amounts for phones, but they seem to lose them with surprising regularity

Truckermal

MonstaMash wrote: »

She's 16 you perve :eek: :P

So am I...





.along time ago!!

Duggy747

That BBC video made a complete fool of her............well, bigger fool of her.

Stavros Murphy

I'm struggling to see the "logic" of her efforts, unless she has really, really clever toes. Which might be a stretch.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Maybe she was trying to pick it up with her fanny.