Record collection insurance (UK)

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Sorry, this is phenomenally boring question prompted by the 'What would you do if your CDs were nicked' thread.

I live in rented accomodation in the UK. I share my flat with a friend and keep my stereo and CDs in the sitting room.

It appears that no one will insure me. I suppose I have about 500 CD albums in there. I used to have Endsleigh graduate insurance, listing the CD collection as a seperately insured item (CDs were excluded from general contents over some paltry figure like 200 pounds). But that had a maximum of 1500 pounds and it was only supposed to insure things kept in your own bedroom. Useless.

Anyone have any advice?

― Nick, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Don't let dodgy people sleep on your couch :)

― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Was it *you* who stole the Badly Drawn Boy album? I wouldn't mind, as it's a bit crap, only it belongs to a friend.

Bastard. .

― Nick, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Nick, Direct Line should do it without specifying where you keep them. I have 5 grand of CD insurance with them. They attached it to a Home and contents policy as a separate item for less than an extra quid a month.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i think endsleigh will cover an entire house for contents up to £25000, you could maybe share that with the other bloke, can't remember how pricy the policy is though

i've got the endsleigh contents insurance for my room only (in a shared house), this is £5000, of which only 30% can be used on cds and records. not exactly ideal

― gareth, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i never touched yer bdb cd, i've got my own, i bought it in a shop and everything. And graham, i don't think lucy will like being referred to as a bloke...

― carsmilesteve, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

lucy is a man? ally really is a big gay? nick, why don't you lie and say it *is* in your bedroom? incidentally, i didn't steal bdb either.

― alix, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Obviously I'm all for a cheap laugh at the expense of my girlfriend, but I feel I should say something. Just to clear things up, yes, she is a man. Well disguised though. Oh, and I stole BDB. You can have it back. This is quite the dullest thread I've ever seen, well done Nick.

― Ally C, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It was the dullest thread you'd ever seen / But you didn't know where that thread had been.

― Tom, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

six months pass...

I am afraid I haven't got an answer, but I have a similiar problem with my CD and vinyl collection, if that is any consolation. I don't think it matters if you live in shared accomodation or not, it appears that unless they are "rare collector's pieces" e.g. antiques and insured & valued seperately... no chance!! Any financial service entrepreneurs out there ??

― Steve Ward, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

seven months pass...

I know your pain!! i have around £25000 of vinyl in my house and i cant insure it all. Any ideas let me know. cheers adam.

― , Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Hrmph, I just tried to get a quote from Direct Line and they basically told me to sod off, on the basis that the value of my records/cds is about as much as all the rest of my stuff put together.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, this is the modern condition.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I thought they were covered anyway.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

Does anyone here have any experience with using discogs.com for insurance valuation?

― mmmm, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 07:43 (four years ago) link

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