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Due to sudden heavy rainfall, our cellars were flooded. Now I need to file an insurance claim on 10 older consoles/computers. How do I estimate their value? Do I take the average sell price on Ebay or what?
The soaked consoles are as follows:
Atari 2600 (old model)
Atari 2600 (slim model)
Epoch Galaxy II
Gamatic 7600
Atari7800 (boxed)
Vectrex
NEC PC-8201A
Casio FP-200
Commodore Amiga 600
Sharp PC-1500
Yes.
Don't most companies have an agent come out to do the appraising? I've never had to file a claim for home insurance so I don't really know.
Or are things just different in your country?
I doubt they will send a guy out, I rarely see that here. I live in an apartment complex and most residents had damages. I believe I have to appraise the items myself, and hope they validate them.
Make shit up. Seriously.
I may have done this when my car was broken into and it may have worked out wonderfully.
I might, although I'm not going to lie to them, but the value of a Vectrex is relative. I mean, some go for insane values on Ebay, and although mine was not boxed and mint, I might as well aim high.
My ignorant advice would be you find out how much it takes to replace. If you didn't have a minty Vectrex to begin with...
So going by final ebay prices isn't a bad plan, but if you can actually find an online store that carries the system, I'd think that'd be better.
No advice is ignorant. Sadly, the word in the basement is, that there is no insurance for these kind of damages. Bottom-line: I need to change the threadtitle to "console/computer funeral". I mourn mostly over the Amiga, for it has served me well. R.I.P.
Baseball time imo. That's what happened to my PS when it decided to stop reading discs.
I was thinking more of a funeral pyre, youtube-style.
Sucks about the Vectrex. Seriously.
That does suck about the flood.
I just want to say I have never played a Galaxy II but it looks awesome.
Galaxy II was a pretty decent Galaxian clone. A wasted Vectrix is always a tragedy.
You can't really buy them at stores, so I would probably either find a website that sells it, or find a high Buy It Now auction on ebay. You can't really base a value on an old system because one guy got lucky and bought a system for 5 bucks on a low auction, since there are 10 of them that are $400. Right?
Man, that's quite unfortunate. Did you play any of those systems at all?
Why haven't you mentioned this on IRC?...or has this recently happened?
I used to play them, now they are just stored. (or rather were stored) I played them a few times, even with the guys from IRC. The Vectrex and the analogue Pong were always a sure win, when the nerds gathered. It happened yesterday.
Let those suckers dry out for a good handful of days, and I bet some of 'em will still function.
We had a bad flood at one of my apts once with nearly knee deep water in our basement. My entire SNES collection was under water for almost 8 hours before I realized it. After unboxing everything I poured the water out of the carts and console, and tried to spread out any salvageable manuals and packaging. The mini SNES console was literally full of water. Besides ruined manuals and boxes, everything works to this day.
It still sucked because a bunch of mint complete SFC and SNES games got trashed, but I can still play them after all.
Yeah, it's just rainwater...
Shootin': After I learned that I wasn't covered by any insurance, that exactly what I did. The Epoch Galaxy II actually works. I can't believe your SNES didn't rust inside? Did you take it apart and blowdry it, or what? This gives me great hope. (Sorry about your story though, I imagine your anguish)
Dunlap: Actually I don't know WHAT it was. The sewers got flooded and I believe water also entered the basement from the overflowing sewage system. I better disinfect the salvaged items...
I had my basement flood with shit water once. Something backed up somewhere in the neighborhood and it was gross.
I got a fuckload of money out of it so whatever.
Ah, that would cause problems, then.Quote:
Originally Posted by dakidski
Keep me in pretend-land, please. It was probably just muddy waters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunlap
hehe, I tried that as well. All fecal matter stopped on our floor and decided to exit into my moms apartment. It was x-mas, and the residents above had eaten well. Shit rose meterhigh from the lavatory. It was like a babylon tower of shit. I was wearing a gasmask and my hair and body was soaked in feces. I gave up and the authorities later sealed off the area as a "health zone". When you walked on the wooden floor it moved like the ocean, due to the insane amounts of waste under it. It even broke through the outer wall of the building and formed the now legendary piss-icetap. People ventured from far just to oogle it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Yeah, it wasn't that bad at my place.
When I was in high school, my parents' basement flooded and my comic books got ruined.
I filed Wizard near-mint value for all of them and got hundreds of dollars for about $70 worth of comics.
I also got new ac adapters for all my consoles, and the old ones still worked after they dried out.
No, i don't even think I took it apart, but I rotated the way the stuff was laid out, a couple times the first day so no water could pool up in the corner of a cart or the console. I also didn't try using them until I was sure they were bone dry to make it less likely of shorting something.Quote:
Originally Posted by dakidski
I had been worried about rust or corrosion, but that was like 4 years ago, and everything still works.
This is exactly what happened at our place. You really just can't think about the fact that it was piss and shit water. The roommate who had the bedroom in the basement really got fucked.Quote:
The sewers got flooded and I believe water also entered the basement from the overflowing sewage system. I better disinfect the salvaged items...
Have you tried any of your other systems yet? I can't imagine the Vectrex monitor making it, nor any of the disc systems. But, good luck.
That's a really shitty thing to happen to your consoles.
*tips his hat*. Well done sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Thanks, I'll try rotating and moving them about a bit. I won't turn them on for at least another week. The longer I wait, the better chance of them working. I'll report back when I test them out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love