appliance insurance???
 

anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old
but still working fine, oil furnace.

paul

appliance insurance???
 

Paul Oman wrote:
anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old
but still working fine, oil furnace.


The consensus is: (wait for it now) Scams.

appliance insurance???
 

"Paul Oman" wrote in message
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anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old but
still working fine, oil furnace.

paul

Waste of money. Put that cash aside and buy what you want, not the cheap
crap the insurance company will allow. They are out to make a profit, not to
help you. As for the oil furnace, there may be a reasonably price service
policy that includes a cleaning that may be worth having. You may also be
able to replace that oil burner and pay for it with the fuel savings. My
boiler so far is using 32% less oil than the old one.

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"HeyBub" wrote in
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Paul Oman wrote:
anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old
but still working fine, oil furnace.


The consensus is: (wait for it now) Scams.



Woman across the street fought a battle with one over her split system
AC/gas system for over a year. They kept trying to patch it on the cheap
and she spent just about all last summer with broken AC (mid-south/90+
degrees most of July & Aug).

She finally got a reporter from one of those "on your side" spots on the
TV news station to take an interest. Single mom with infant. They ate it
up. Only after this they finally fixed it.

That's the closest to personal experience I have. Just one story about
one particular company.

appliance insurance???
 

Paul Oman wrote:
anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old
but still working fine, oil furnace.

paul
Hi,
If you are good at getting upset and frustrated.
I never bother with stuff like that. Mostly Ifx things myself.

appliance insurance???
 

Paul Oman | 2009-08-04 | 1:57:39 PM wrote:

anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very
old but still working fine, oil furnace.

I had the functional equivalent: a homeowner's warranty paid for by the
guy who sold me our house.

We had low water flow, so I called the warranty people. They said I had
to use their plumber, who wasn't available for weeks, and if he didn't
find a problem that was on their short approval list, they would bill
me for the call.

Don't waste your money.

--
Steve Bell
New Life Home Improvement
Arlington, TX USA

appliance insurance???
 

On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:57:39 -0400, Paul Oman
wrote:

anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old
but still working fine, oil furnace.

paul


Appliance insurance is very good if you are the salesperson or
company, bad if you are the buyer. It is wise for home owners to have
a few thousand in a money market account, ready when you absolutely
need it. It cannot be that difficult to put away $100 a month to an
account in your name, why give it away to an insurance company?
Insurance companies will try to deny your claim because that improves
their profit, not something you want in an emergency. Insurance is a
statistics game, nothing more. Taking good care of your appliances is
the best insurance you can get.

appliance insurance???
 

On Aug 5, 10:34*am, Phisherman wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:57:39 -0400, Paul Oman
wrote:

anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old
but still working fine, oil furnace.

paul

Appliance insurance is very good if you are the salesperson or
company, bad if you are the buyer. *It is wise for home owners to have
a few thousand in a money market account, ready when you absolutely
need it. *It cannot be that difficult to put away $100 a month to an
account in your name, why give it away to an insurance company?
Insurance companies will try to deny your claim because that improves
their profit, not something you want in an emergency. * Insurance is a
statistics game, nothing more. *Taking good care of your appliances is
the best insurance you can get.

That's the problem with ALL insurance systems.
Insurance companies have whole departments and policies whose purpose
is to 'Contain Costs'.
In other words, to NOT pay out any claims they can avoid and/or pay
out as little as possible. That pressure probably extends to local
dealers who actually do the maintenance work?
So that the insurance company/ies can maximize their bottom
line ........ or profit.
It is one factor that makes, for example, insured health care
insurance, in the USA, so expensive for users/customers!

While we would never go one day without overall home insurance, which
costs only a very small percentage of capital worth of the home, we
have generally considered appliance insurance very expensive and not
worth while. Better to take the premium money and put it (plus
interest) towards buying a replacement appliance unit in say ten years
time. Or just resolve that one of the costs of owning and using a home
involves annual and regular costs for repairs and maintenance.

Although many good appliances last longer, especially if one is
'handy' doing one's own straightforward repairs. e.g.
Late last year a relative bought used washer and dryer for around $200
(for both). Recently had to install a pump on the washer, himself, at
a replacement cost of under $40.

A few auto companies, notably Hyundai here, have included some very
complete insurance in their sales and auto-leasing contracts. Cynics
will say 'Cheap Korean product so maintenance guarantees needed!'. But
a few owners spoken with have expressed great satisfaction with having
'everything' covered.

appliance insurance???
 

Paul Oman wrote:
anyone have any experience/comments/vendors etc. regarding purchasing
appliance insurance for our home? Mostly new appliances but a very old
but still working fine, oil furnace.

Take the money you would spend on the premium, every month, and buy whatever
tool(s) you don't currently have, but which, based on your experience fixing
and building things, would have made a previous job easier.

Eventually you get to a point where you rarely have to run out to buy a
particular tool, and that's half the battle of fixing stuff right there.

Jon