What is the value of food you normally keep in fridge and freezer?
Our fridge recently got busted and we lost over $200 items but insurance is saying it is too much to claim. We had 420L fridge.
What is the value of food in your fridge?
Ash-Say on 27/08/2016 - 10:23
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Used 4 Amex cards to utilise Harris Farm deal. Spent well over $200 and then 1 month meat stock from another local butchery. Most of fridge items are lost :(
600 in freezer and 200 in fridge if need make claims you can only claims the max or take photo of all food and price tags they will give u abit more.
At the moment, less than $50
Seriously $200?
If you're a household of four that even seems low - although if you're living alone I'd think the opposite.
THat's not low for a family of 4. Not everyone has their food in fridges. Pantry and freezers are other places where we keep our food.
Drop off the spoilt and mouldy items at the claims office and they can work it out :)
if beer counts as food then ~$300
The value to me…Priceless.
You should get your insurer to do all of your shopping, if they can fill a 420L fridge with good fresh food for under $200 they must be Gold Medal OzBargainers!
Bloody hell, $200 in a fridge is pretty average. Name and shame insurance!
Name and shame insurance!
Not really necessary, since all insurers are parasitic scumbags…
i think you'll find that $200 is a very reasonable amount for you to claim
i would put our 500L fridge contents at about $400 (and that's just the stuff that would spoil - not beer and wine etc…)
Do you have your bank/credit card statement which shows what you spent at the supermarket?
One insurer paid $1200 to anyone who had a 300+ litre freezer that lost power for 4 days during Cyclone Yazi in 2011. When I did the sums my total was about $900.
Most of the food in our fridge is worth for medical research than eating.
Update: They finally offered $250 which I happily accepted :)
Thanks everyone for your feedback.
Got any grocery receipts?
That might be the best way to convince them otherwise.
I'll say there might be ~$100 worth in my fridge ~ 550litres.