Hi,
Does anyone have any good advice regarding insuring your household goods to be shipped. We are due to head to Melbourne in October, and the cost that most removal/shipping companies are quoting for insuring our things seems quite expensive - 3% of the total value of those goods that we specify we want insured. So if value all our goods at £30,000 the insurance alone is £900!
Am I understanding this correctly?
Has anyone used different insurers and what sort of premium did you have to pay?

Thanks for any help you can give.
Al

I think you are understanding this correctly. Am in exactly the same boat. Due to go in October but moving out of house in couple of weeks. Everyone i have spoken to has also quoted 3% of the value of the goods for insurance which seems very high to me also.

Hope you get some useful replies!

When we emigrated and were looking at insurance we decided to only list items of value that were at greater risk of being lost or damaged in transit, or that we would want to replace.

So (for example) we didn't insure chairs and tables. But we did insure our microwave and a printer (both of which were damaged).

Best regards.

Apologies for going off topic a bit Alan but something to think about. If your printer hadn't been damaged, would you be using it?. I brought 3 printers over and can't get cartridges for any of them. All the models in Aus are different numbers.

Yes, it was usable (it was an HP) after repair.

What make and model are your printers?

Best regards.

Hi Jenel, just a word of caution re the insurance. We followed Alan's advice when we moved and only insured items of value one of which was an almost new dining room table and chairs. Although we had little damage, one chair was damaged very slightly, the material back rest was stained, the insurance company would only compensate for the one damaged chair to be recovered, not the set. No company will compensate for 'sets or pairs' so the moral is check the small print of the policy and ensure your goods are packed to your satisfaction. I was present when our goods were packed to ensure there was no chance of damage during transit.
The 3% sounds about right but I can't remember who we used.
If you were to search this forum there is history of other peoples moves both good and bad.
Hope that helps.

Alan,

Epson Stylus CX6400
Epson Stylus D68
quite a few on ebay from Hong Kong & USA but couldn't find any listed in the Aus print shops

Also Lexmark 2030 but i see that one is available, didn't really look before as it's not a brilliant machine. Don't even know why we packed it.

I ended up buying a Canon MX700 /Fax & an Epson CX3900. Printers aren't that dear anyway so it's not a big problem, more of an issue is the number of cartridges we get through.

Jenal, our insurance is 3% and it also covers pairs and sets, mechanical derangement and mould and mildew. It is Fortis insurance through our removal company (which is Doree Bonner).

Thanks for the advice and info everyone.

judym - we are looking at using Doree Bonner too, so thanks for letting me know that.

all are given very good and wealthy information to us.thankx to all.

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Further to my above posts re using Doree Bonner, just thought i'd say that when our container eventually made it to Brisbane it turned out that they had managed to leave some of our possessions behind in their warehouse in High Wycombe. Nobody noticed until the removals co in Brisbane checked the inventory. Doree Bonner then had to search for them. I am now waiting to hear when we will eventually get the rest of our goods. They have apologised but we are not very pleased with the mistake. Pleased to report that only one breakage in the boxes that we have taken delivery of (so far).