Is State Farm screwing me over?

[PAB]

Short version, car accident. Claming two laptops.

One is an Inspiron 5160. Other is an 8600.

They called me up one day and said they're giving me a dell 1705 and something else for the other. I say, thats great.

They called last week. We're paying you $944.67 times two, for two E1505's.

I go round robin with them about three times in a week. Apparently an inspiron 8600 is like kind and quality for an E1505.....and so is a 5160.

Am I getting screwed over getting $944 for each?

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: PAB
Short version, car accident. Claming two laptops.

One is an Inspiron 5160. Other is an 8600.

They called me up one day and said they're giving me a dell 1705 and something else for the other. I say, thats great.

They called last week. We're paying you $944.67 times two, for two E1505's.

I go round robin with them about three times in a week. Apparently an inspiron 8600 is like kind and quality for an E1505.....and so is a 5160.

Am I getting screwed over getting $944 for each?

take what you can get and don't use your laptops for claming. They only work for oysters.

 

[PAB]

Originally posted by: daniel49

Originally posted by: PAB
Short version, car accident. Claming two laptops.

One is an Inspiron 5160. Other is an 8600.

They called me up one day and said they're giving me a dell 1705 and something else for the other. I say, thats great.

They called last week. We're paying you $944.67 times two, for two E1505's.

I go round robin with them about three times in a week. Apparently an inspiron 8600 is like kind and quality for an E1505.....and so is a 5160.

Am I getting screwed over getting $944 for each?

take what you can get and don't use your laptops for claming. They only work for oysters.

One thing that makes me different is I almost never accept a first offer, unless it's mine.

I'm not going to take what they're giving me and being thankful for it. That's not how insurance works, it's an element of negotiation.

 

[TuxDave]

Depends.. how much does an E1505 cost?

 

[AnyMal]

Did you get into ANOTHER accident? Regardless, at $944.00 you'll have money left over after buying two 1505's

See for yourself

 

[DaTT]

Just keep in mind that you don't have to accept the first offer.

 

[PAB]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Did you get into ANOTHER accident? Regardless, at $944.00 you'll have money left over after buying two 1505's

See for yourself

I got in one on the 2nd of last month, I got in another the third of this month.

I also narrowly avoided eating the front end of a dodge one ton because a lady ran a stop sign and made a left turn without so much as looking.

 

[DaveSimmons]

> Is State Farm screwing me over?

No, you're just being "aggressive"

That will buy you 2 Core Duo laptops that are nicer than your old P-M's. Today you can get them with 1 GB, 80 GB HD, and Radeon X1400 or nv 7300 graphics for that price.

 

[PAB]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
> Is State Farm screwing me over?

No, you're just being "aggressive"

That will buy you 2 Core Duo laptops that are nicer than your old P-M's. Today you can get them with 1 GB, 80 GB HD, and Radeon X1400 or nv 7300 graphics for that price.

Mine already had a gig of ram, a huge hardrive, and decent graphics.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: PAB

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
> Is State Farm screwing me over?

No, you're just being "aggressive"

That will buy you 2 Core Duo laptops that are nicer than your old P-M's. Today you can get them with 1 GB, 80 GB HD, and Radeon X1400 or nv 7300 graphics for that price.

Mine already had a gig of ram, a huge hardrive, and decent graphics.

Then it's comparable, right? (Except for upgrading from single-core to dual-core.)

Giving you a better machine can't sanely be described as "screwing you over."

 

[kt]

Someone want to trade in their 8600 for a newer and nicer Dell laptop?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Generally speaking, based on your driving experiences over the past few weeks, I'd have to say South Florida drivers are terrible.

 

[mdcrab]

I thought PAB was from The Yukon. ICY roads maybe?

mdcrab

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Two laptops got ruined by a car accident? Were they being used as hood ornaments?

 

[PAB]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Generally speaking, based on your driving experiences over the past few weeks, I'd have to say South Florida drivers are terrible.

I don't live anywhere near south florida.

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Two laptops got ruined by a car accident? Were they being used as hood ornaments?

This was a month ago.

When you hit a curb doing 40, swerve right, and left again - newtons law tends to make 13 pound laptop bags go airborne, though momentarily.