It wasn't a simple question. It was suggesting that, on the basis of third hand information from a Tripadvisor posting, that hand luggage may not be covered by (in this case Tesco Bank) travel insurance.
Over the years CBF members have come to rely on this forum providing accurate information in respect of many aspects of living in Turkey, holidaying in Turkey and travelling to and from Turkey. Some members are less "worldly" than others and when they read stuff like this will a) believe it and b) go on to propagate a completely misleading piece of information - they may even go so far as to change/cancel a Tesco policy. That is the power of CBF.
It took two minutes to verify that this piece of third hand information, from a commercial forum, is nonsense.
It's no different to the "I read it on Facebook therefore it must be true" type of posts.
If you post gossip/rubbish/nonsense/Facebook rumours you are certainly not helping members...
JF
The person in question had a Tesco's Everyday Value Insurance. This requires an extra premium to insure personal belongings in luggage. This is why Tesco's will not pay them out. Now, that seems like nonense to me..
However, it seems that if we read anything on a Forum say...T.A or CBF. Then we should not believe it because people who write on forums never tell the truth.
I would also say that most people would not rush to cancel their insurance, they would check it out first.