The customers try and get away with it all the time as well. I have often time represented insurance companies in Electronic losses were the customer is out of their minds. The guy said he had a 40,000 dollar projector. He had a projector that was 7000 dollars. When they asked me what was the closest projector I said that I have a 17,000 dollar one in my shop and I would give it to him for free. He had 4,000 dollar subs and he wanted them replaced with 100,000 dollar ones. He had front speakers that he paid 1000 dollars for and he wanted 70,000 dollar ones. It was insane.

These are the types of customers I typically get to deal with. Don't get me wrong, some homeowners are great to work with after they figure out I know what I am talking about. I won't even bring up the restoration end of the business, it would make most here, sick!

Been there too and its not a fun activity. Good bar stool stories though.

I hope a couple of insurance company big wigs go down also if they had any clue what so ever!Hey ya never know???

Wow! The owner of CardShark really screwed up. He should of filled his basement with 4" of water & nabbed a quick half million. It is so much less complicated than all this Powerboat stealing & shredding. Anyway, back to the CS thread .

The difference is I weed through the BS between who the ins. co has representing them and the homeowners private adjuster. Some of what you are saying is fact..but I look at it when I go into a 2-400k house...99% of the homeowners are not going to have a 75k system....and vise versa where the insurance co says it was 2k. I have to find a happy medium..and have told homeowners and ins. company representatives if they continue to play this game I will be more inclined to side quickly for the other side. My deal is you pay all these years to never have a claim...and the first time you do.. example Katrina..the ins. company figures the majority of the homeowners will accept the first offer...I get the deals where the homeowner can hold, and usually just wants whats fair coming to them vs 25% on the dollar they were offered to settle. I'm fair, I side both ways, its whom ever does their paper work the best usually gets what they have coming to them. Jeff

I'll tell y'all what strikes me as strange.
If it's truly an insurance scam because the owner wanted it gone then why wasn't he implicated in the disappearance???
It looked like the storage facility chose to settle out rather than fight the potential charges, to me that implies knowledge of what the owners wishes were if a boat that was blocked by others before the theft but then had access.
I thought I read that there was now a Card Shark 2 from the magazine report.
Personally, I have no compassion for any thief or insurance scammer. I've seen insurance costs on everything insured in my world from business liability to home to autos and toys rise bigtime, and I've only had 1 claim when my wife was at fault in an accident in 2001 and have had no business claims.
My shop has been hit three times in the past couple of years for tools and after the deductible it wasn't even worth the potential of an additionally raised premium that comes from exercising the claims because due to the high deductible the payout wasn't worth it.
I know that there are friends of all involved parties here but IMO towing anything on an owners request is not a tow when you know that it's for scamming an insurer, it's a committed crime or conspiracy to commit a crime by everyone involved.

Just my .02

See ya,
Kelly

Thank You

Your welcome, I'm certain that you and I aren't the only folks who feel this way.
I'm not sorry for the driver of the tow rig, I'm just sorry that the system always seems to favor those with the jingle in their pocket.
It's a crying shame the way our judicial sysytem prosecutes offenders of our laws nowadays. If he's the only one who catches a sentence over this it really speaks out loud about just how pathetic we've become as a nation of law abiding citizens and our law enforcing authorities.
The saddest part is that a couple of my best bud's are peace officers and they'll tell you this is commonplace in todays America.

See ya,
Kelly

Here is what I dont get... aside from jay and catmanisheevenaroundanymore, you guys are all a buch of right wing, pro buisness, free trade, get the govt out of our lives type people (no offense ment to either party)... an insurance company IS A BUISNESS...the sole purpose of having a buisness is to make money, turn a profit. if you want to take it in the arse and help people your a charity. If the insurance company isnt taking in more than its paying out, it goes broke, doesnt make money for the company owner/shareholders etc. Doing everything it can to prevent paying claims and paying as little as possible is in the BEST INTEREST of the insurance company. A buisness not a charity, they are there for the shareholders, NOT YOU. So WTF is this biotch ass pansy whinning because the company is doing what its supposed too and taking your money, and passing it on to the shareholders. It a free market, thats how it works...if you dont like your rates find another company, if you cant find another company, start one...its a basic free market system you all love so much when it puts money in your pocket, but when it takes it out... if you are going to play the free market game for gain, dont cry like a beetch when you feel the pain. its hypocritical, two faced and childish.