Hi , just wondering if anyone could help as I'm looking to get my collection insured - anyone got any idea which Companies will do this and does it have to be seperate to contents etc?

Cheers

Phil

Hi , just wondering if anyone could help as I'm looking to get my collection insured - anyone got any idea which Companies will do this and does it have to be seperate to contents etc?

Cheers

Phil

link

Sure John Manship used to provide the service. Insurance companies usually only accept the valuation from a reputable dealer if it is quite valuable. Everything has to be logged too.

Sure John Manship used to provide the service.  Insurance companies usually only accept the valuation from a reputable dealer if it is quite valuable.  Everything has to be logged too.

link

sure have read in past a detailed guide to this

anyone have it or more info

American but will give some idea of what to do.

https://www.recordcollectorsguild.org/insurance2.html

American but will give some idea of what to do.

https://www.recordcollectorsguild.org/insurance2.html

link

thanks Chalky

helpfull

anyone out there have such a policy already up and running or experience of "insurance matters" such as recommendations, problems, actual claims etc etc

Sure I read on another topic (on forum), that someones insurers wouldn't pay out, because the records weren't photographed! I could've misred it tho'.

Sure I read on another topic (on forum), that someones insurers wouldn't pay out, because the records weren't photographed!  I could've misred it tho'.

link

I looked into this a while ago and to properly insure a collection, the cost was totally prohibitive. Even with a valuation from someone such as JM, all records insured had to be individually photographed or scanned, and anything over a certain value (can't remember now but may have been as around the £250 mark) had to have an individual valuation. Just the same as having an expensive piece of jewellry I guess.

I got round this for a while by keeping my most valuable sounds in a box in the safe (we had a pub so a safe was part of the set up) and the total contents were insured for a specific amount. This wasn't all that expensive and wouldn't have mattered if it was a record, a watch or cash. Never had to claim though so I dont know what the upshot would have been.

Sorry its not that helpful, but it's one way round the problem (if you have a safe that is !)

Tie a hungry wolf hound to your record box when you're not there.

Unfortunatley wolves, even when hungry make un-ideal guard dogs and you'd be as likley a victim when you returned to your box...

Simply paint your record box red and place it on top of a pole thereby disguising it as a dog (or wolf) poo bin. No self respecting crim would place their hands in there.

Unfortunatley wolves, even when hungry make un-ideal guard dogs and you'd be as likley a victim when you returned to your box...

link

I can think of one or two DJs who I would specifically like to recomend this kind of insurance to!

Simply paint your record box red and place it on top of a pole thereby disguising it as a dog (or wolf) poo bin.  No self respecting crim would place their hands in there.

link

Given the shit that some DJs fill their boxes with, that would be pretty ironic.

I've posted on this before, actually. You can get insurance which is reasonably priced. Anyone interested PM me.

cheers

Dan

I've posted on this before, actually. You can get insurance which is reasonably priced. Anyone interested PM me.

cheers

Dan

link

had a dig and

here's clip of what Dan posted earlier

I'm happy to put people in touch with a specialist insurance company I use if anyone is interested. I wouldn't consider myself a major collector by any means but it's still been worth doing for me from both burglary and fire points-of-view (imagine the dilemma...the house is on fire and it's your Fascinators or your missus...ummm...errr.....sorry luv.) Just gives you (and your wife) peace of mind.