I knew I forgot something I was meaning to do yesterday. The post. I spent yesterday afternoon chasing down more information regarding the value of the Saab 2000, and then shipping it off to the newest insurance person. This is the 4th person I've dealt with, if you count the first fellow who took the initial claim information over the phone. Next there was the gal who was supposed "own" my claim, but that only seemed to last until the field agent went and inspected the car. We received the initial settlement offer from him Tuesday, and it was much too low compared to what the various websites like Kelly's Blue Book, Edmonds, and NADA Guides reported it to be worth, by at least $1000. So he had to turn our claim over to this last guy, who discovered for himself what I've been telling the previous agent; there aren't comparable cars out there to assess our car against.

This most recent fellow got involved yesterday, and to both of our amazement, he has already heard back from the dealers that he contacted to provide value estimates

. They're also giving values that are about $1000 apart, but to his credit, rather than average the two, he's just going with the higher one. His current settlement offer is about $800 higher than the previous one, and I don't really think that I can do better than that, even if I still think it is a little low. I'll look over the details tonight with the DH, and I'm assuming that we'll release the car to them tomorrow. Monday, we'll bring the title into the office and presumably walk out with a check. When all is said and done, it's effectively cost us about $100 a month plus maintenance to own this car over the past year, so I suppose that might be considered reasonable. The irksome thing is that even with the insurance check, it's going to cost us over $3000 to replace it, if we go with the 2001 S-5 that we're considering. Blah. But it could be worse.