Ever had computers stolen? What did your insurance company pay you for them?
 

I was broken into last week and lost three computers, among other things. Police are doing nothing, as I expected. Won't even show the photos of the thief I have in their weekly crime report. (so I am taking out an ad in the paper myself)

Anyway, dealing with the insurance company now and was wondering how badly I am going to get raped on my computers.

As an example, one of them was purchased in Sept 2008 and I had an invoice showing purchase price of around $1800 total, then I had two receipts for upgrades, one for $450 for a quad core processor and one for $190 for a 2 TB hard drive I added to it.

Do they just totally fuck you on the price for something like that? If they tell me it's worth $500 I will probably go on some sort of shooting spree.:Oh crap:mad::helpme

depends on your insurance honestly. i had a laptop stolen in college and was covered under my parents home owners insurance. they covered everything to replace it with a brand new one equal of what I had, which was about 9 months old.

Depends if they are insured for replacement value, or actual value.

Computers and most other electronics are usually calculated to lose 20-33% of their value each year with most insurance companies. So best case scenario, they take the computer from 2008 minus 40% of purchase price = 60% re-imbursable from the insurance. Then for upgrades, depending on when you got them, do the same calculation.

it really depends on your insurance company. Some pay better than others.

Totally sucks that happened to you. Good idea on taking out an ad with his picture :thubmsup