New PCs for (normally) as little as £30
This is easy. Everyone has access to a well and truly ancient PC. Open it up, bend a pin on the CPU or switch it to 110V if you're in Europe, and enjoy a little firework display. Do NOT break it by throwing it out a window/down some stairs. Make sure it does absolutely nothing when you turn it on. Call our friend Churchill (or whoever) and make a claim on the house insurance. You'll have to pay the excess (normally £30-£50) and you might end up with a voucher for Pissy World, but you'll still end up with a new PC.

I get old ones all the time, and sell them on by doing this for people. I even do a conveyance for them, stating what's wrong. The insurance company doesn't even investigate. The customers love me.
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 17:20, 8 replies)

Premium
Doesn't it go up?
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 17:24, closed)

Not Normally
Especially if you have 3 years no claims.
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 17:30, closed)

yeah but no but
I thought you meant you were doing it on your insurance many times.

I have a cunning plan, it involves insuring the contents of my house with 1,000 different insurers and the PC World skip.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 17:35, closed)

A genuine quote
I even had one insurance company say "I'm surprised you haven't done it already." This must mean that they factor in the claims into people's premiums.
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 17:51, closed)

.
Everyone elses premiums go up.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 17:56, closed)

Friend of mine
did a similar thing.
Claimed his kid broke his laser disc player.
As this was 1999 the only laser disc was about £500. So they got a £500 voucher for Curry's.
Score one for his team.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 17:58, closed)

i cant believe
there are still poor deluded souls in this world that use nasty little plastic computers

*strokes beautiful MacBook Pro*
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 19:39, closed)

@spimf

( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 21:49, closed)