AMEX and Stolen DSLR Camera

reclusive46

If you want proper travel insurance and everything with Amex you need the platinum card.

Savvy_Money

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To the OP - if you want to pay £450 per year for the privilege of having cover that a platinum AMEX card will grant you then please consider this as a future option - although not reporting the matter to the police will probably void any cover.

I would not bother with the centurion card because if your rich enough to be eligible for the card the cost of the camera will be seen as fairly insignificant in comparision to the fee and the annual spend you have to endure in having such a card.

sfax

happycamel wrote: »

you need to make sure you have proper travel insurance not just for items being stolen or flights delayed but for medical expenses. In Turkey you wouldn't be covered by any EU reciprocal agreements.

I think you've lost the chance to claim for the camera because you didn't get a crime reference from the Police regardless of anything else but really you've learned a valuable lesson. You must have travel insurance, if only for the medical cover.

This is an important point. I was thinking the same. You should also have some legal cover, just in case

k12479

Janie4Now wrote: »

Having said that, were you in Turkey with a tour operator? Did you report it to them? If so, and they didn't tell you to report it to the police, then you may have a case against them for negligence.

How is that negligence?

sfax

MPH80 wrote: »

Ah good - the 'other people do it so it's fine' argument.

I don't understand the "thanking" that goes on some posts. What exactly are you finding useful in this statement? People seem to "thank" to mean tacit agreement which completely devalues it

Tiddlywinks

sfax wrote: »

I don't understand the "thanking" that goes on some posts. What exactly are you finding useful in this statement? People seem to "thank" to mean tacit agreement which completely devalues it

... and how is your point useful to this thread?

sfax

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

... and how is your point useful to this thread?

It has no use; it was only a comment and I wouldn't expect anyone to "thank" it, which is precisely my point (which you seem to have spectacularly missed)

Tiddlywinks

sfax wrote: »

It has no use; it was only a comment and I wouldn't expect anyone to "thank" it, which is precisely my point (which you seem to have spectacularly missed)

No, I chose to ignore it as it was not relevant at all to this thread.

sfax

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

No, I chose to ignore it as it was not relevant at all to this thread.

You chose to ignore it by adding a new post where you quoted it and highlighted part of it in bold. I see.

Bob_the_Saver

Janie4Now wrote: »

Points to remember for next time:

a) always check the cover
b) get a police crime number because, no matter how good your cover is, you can't claim without one!

Having said that, were you in Turkey with a tour operator? Did you report it to them? If so, and they didn't tell you to report it to the police, then you may have a case against them for negligence. Just a thought.....

One more point to remember,

Keep hold of the damn thing at all times or leave them at home.

(Ex-pro photographer of a few decades who never lost a camera - and many of mine were worth a hell of a lot more than that, up to 10K each)