Date:         Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:54:36 -0500
Reply-To:     Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pricing help needed.
Comments: To: Clark Duff <clark@CLARKSPLACE.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <000001c83b57$2b5603b0$82020b10$@com> (Clark Duff's message of
              "Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:04:53 -0500")
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Remember you have no contract with *his* insurance company.  You are
not obligated to accept any settlement you don't feel is satisfactory.
The longer you keep the claim open, the more accomodating they will
become.  Eventually they will want to settle to get the claim closed.

Ask them to find you a replacement camper that is in equal condition
to the one their insured destroyed.

Disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer, but I've read a lot of these kinds of
threads on various groups and this is generally the suggested
strategy.

Allan

Clark Duff <clark@CLARKSPLACE.COM> writes:

> Hello list,
>
>                 My parked, 1988 camper was involved in an accident
> with a Chevy truck, whose driver happened to be asleep. His
> insurance company has totaled my van. Yes, you guessed it, I'm
> having issues with the payoff. I have sent them prices from
> thesamba, autotrader, ebay and anything else I could find, for full
> campers from 1988 to 1991. I wasn't able to find much for 1988, and
> it turns out State Farm will only accept comps from the exact model
> and year. If anyone out there has links or information for 1988 VW
> full campers, ether sold or for sale, I would be grateful if you
> could send them to me.

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