Avoid Paying For Costly Gadget Repair Bills
Technology is great there is no doubt about that. With new recent breakthroughs in the form of the new iPhone being able to recognise voice recognition to the new announcement that Microsofts Project Natal for the Xbox 360 is set to have full body motion sensing capabilities with no wires and nothing plugged into you in any way at all.
However, what happens when it breaks down or you drop it? In some cases, the costs to repair the gadgets can be more than you initially paid for them. A large number of cases is never down to the user, normally it’s because the product wasn’t made correctly to begin with. Even though the Xbox 360 is clearly the more superior console in this current generation of console, it’s still hosting some flaws. The red rings of death. Now to any Xbox 360 owner, when they see the three red rings, it’s just the same as handing your wallet over to a thief. If your Xbox warranty is still in place, you won’t have to pay for the repair, however, if it is, you generally have to pay around 50 to repair a problem that should never have been there.
It always used to be a rare occurence if your N64 or Playstation 1 broke, however, we are still seeing the flow of broken Xbox’s, but we are also seeing Playstation 3’s and Nitendo Wii’s being sent away to be fixed. It could be down to the fact that this year has seen a record boom in the sale of computer games but it is more likely to be that manufacturers are more interested in shifting units than making a full proof package like they used too.
There is a solution to this and it comes from gadget insurance. You can purchase insurance for up to any 5 of your gadgets and it will cost you only 20 pounds a month. Although the price does seem high, it’s alot less than if you had to repair just one of your gadgets each month. The main reason for the price of the insurance is because the cost of repairing gadgets is not cheap, repairing an iPhone that had been dropped would cost 100 pound to repair. So if you think about it, having to 20 pound each month to protect your 5 gadgets is not as pad as having to pay 100 pound to repair something that you can break over and over again. Also, for fixing items like a Nintendo Wii, they tend to charge you more money than you actually paid for the console to begin with.
Of course if it is just the one product you want to insure, even if it’s not a gaming console, you can simply pay for iPod insurance seperately. Unfortunately, the majority of home emergency Insurance policies don’t cover your modern day gadgets.