Lucy, 23, has suffered structural damage due to her pipes freezing, then bursting in the thaw. Her third party, fire and theft insurance doesn't cover the damage so she has started a crowdfunding page. At the time of writing her repairs are complete and she is on a short break in Mallorca with her bestie on the surplus.
Billy had his 2014 Kia Sorento back-ended by a hit and run. The insurance company wanted to write it off and offered £250 scrap value. His crowd funder is still running, but only because Ferrari just put their prices up. Until then, it's the bus for Billy.
Insurance companies are feeling the pinch with the success of crowdfunding sites. Why insure when you can crowdfund? That exorbitant insurance premium for the once in a ten year claim can be used to pay rent, mortgage or energy bills. Nearly, at least.
'We're losing insurers left, right and centre,' said a Lloyds underwriter. 'A major petrochemical company hit by Ukrainian drones has set up a crowdfunding page, luckily nobody can understand Cyrillic script in London,' he said, before being corrected. 'Outside of London, then.
'So we're setting up a crowdfunding page. Contribute to our page annually or, if you want to set up a direct debit, monthly, and we'll respond to your crowdfunding page, if and when you need us,' he said. He stressed this wasn't through one of the established crowdfunding pages which take ten percent of your donation before paying the intended recipient. 'We will need to retain an admin fee,' he added.
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