Estimating value of shipped items

[TomJonesDad]

Anyone got any suggestions on an easy way to estimate?

I wouldn't have a clue how much some of our stuff is worth and I don't relish spending hours on the internet looking for similar to price them. We don't have anything that would bump up the value so a ball park figure for a 3 bed house would be a help. We are taking most of our contents including fridge/freezer, washing machine etc. etc.

What did others do for their insurance and value to give to the shipping company?

[sidestep]

Depends how much you value your goods.

 

[TomJonesDad]

LOL - I do value everything, hence my question!

 

I'll get the wife to do some research and get a list together of costs to replace - then I guess double it and add some more to convert it into Aussie costs to replace

[jillyg65]

what figure did you come up with??

also don't want to spend forever working it out!!

[snifter]

How much does your home insurance cover you for on the contents? I'd go for around that mark personally.

[Guest Cornish Pasties]

Hi,

 

I was same wondering how I was going to work out how much it was worth "at destination" I mean..how on earth are you meant to work that one out! In the end I just went round & just guessed at rough cost of our things. We aren't taking most of our white goods as integral but for 3 bedroomed house ours worked out at 22k. Perhaps with white goods maybe 25k?

Good luck!

[TomJonesDad]

We came up with a figure of about £25K but for shipping insurance purposes (remembering you'd have to replace it all in Oz) we actually added £10K to that. We had a look at a number of big items on some Aus web sites and the additional cost was about right in terms of the difference in costs between UK and Oz.

[Guest vikkiann]

Just don't under value for insurance purposes!

 

We had to itemise and stupidly under valued on certain items then when furniture got damaged, argue with the insurance company.

 

5 months later and the battle is still going on.

[Rachiegarlo]

why don't you use one of those house contents insurance websites where they handily go through average contents and come up with a value to insure for.

[Guest Chris_J]

What's the excess? Is it worth saying something is 300 if the excess is 250 for example. I have probably under insured but some stuff isn't worth much more than the excess and then there is the ball ache of claiming. I think I insured for about 22 to 23k. I bet I would only get a cost for 2nd hand replace cost or to take account of wear and tear etc etc.

[Guest vikkiann]

We didn't have any excess on our insurance.

Furniture is fairly cheap here but high end stuff is mega expensive!

[TomJonesDad]

We have a £250 excess but it is a new for old policy. We have some good quality furniture so wanted to make sure we could replace it like for like if anything happened.

[Guest Chris_J]

We used Letton Percival not sure if it was a new for old policy though.