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Make Sure You Don’t Lose Out When Your Gagdets Go Wrong

February 27, 2010

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 do you do when something go wrong? Sometimes when you have to send your gadgets off for repair, it can cost more to repair it than it did to buy it initially. A large number of cases is never down to the user, normally it’s because the product wasn’t made correctly to begin with. Despite the Xbox 360 being the best console to have in this current console generation, it’s been found to have had one major flaw. The red rings. Any Xbox 360 owner will know that once you have the three red rings, you might aswell just hand over your bank details to Microsoft. Unless you are still within your warranty you are looking at paying at least 50 to have to send it off to be repaired for a problem that should not have been there in the first place.

This never used to happen with older consoles like the N64 or the Playstation 1, however, now the problem is becoming more widespread. We are seeing more and more Playstation 3′s and Nintendo Wii‘s being sent off, as well as the normal flow of Xbox’s. This rise could be put down to more people playing their consoles due to the massive amount of game releases, however, it could just be that manufacturers are more interested in making sales, rather than making healthy consoles.

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. This is mainly because if you were ever to drop one of your gadgets like an iPhone, it would set you back around 100 pound to repair. If you think about the money, paying 20 pound every month to insure 5 gadgets is a good price, rather than spending 100 pound every time you drop your iPhone. 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.

You don’t have to pay to insure 5 items though, whether it’s an iPod or an Xbox, you can simply pay for iPod insurance seperately. Unfortunately, the majority of home emergency insurance policies don’t cover your gadgets like iPods and gaming consoles.

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