adzoox's Journal: Insurance suggestions for laptops

Hi everyone ... I really need your help - so PLEASE respond to this journal entry.

I am trying to find a good insurance company that would insure Apple laptops and iPods. I would like to solicit them for advertising on Jackwhispers. I have a good story coming up about Apple computer theft and would like to have an advertiser in place for this article as a recommendation for the people reading the story.

I tried to Google laptop insurance and notebook insurance and came up with only UK insurance. I contacted all of them - but I don't feel I can charge UK advertisers the same as USA advertisers. I will consider placing ads for both.

I want to integrate this tory in to the stolen hardware registry that I started up a month and a half ago.

A couple of notes about JackWhispers:

  - I'm now getting about 54,000+ hits a month

  - The MacMice story has received 240,000 hits since it's debut on June 23 2004

  - The JW BLOG has received 114 comments in 3 months

Honestly

[Red Warrior]

And this is just me: I don't see the point. Laptops are simply too ubiquidous (sp?) a commodity. Too easy to loose (or have stolen) or break. Too cheap to replace[1]. Doesn't replace what is actually valuable - the data, programs, and configuration. I think a better idea would be to advertise security devices. I recently saw a one RF device that that locks the computer when you go more than 10 ft away, and unlocks it when you come back. Another that was an RF audio alarm. Unfortunately, I was on a differnet

Re:Honestly

[adzoox]

Thanks for the insight. However, I would disagree.

Laptop insurance replaces the laptop at a currently compareable value, not current assessed value of a laptop.

Besides this fact you have Apple laptops that are as high as $3000 - fully loaded - my bag and accessories in that bag top $4000 retail.

This really wouldn't matter for PC laptops because it's like wrecking a 5 year old Honda vs wrecking a 5 year old Mercedes. A little more than a fender bender is going to total the Honda. The Mercedes would almost