Protecting your collection

[xelement5x]

Saw this this other day and it reminded me of this thread:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article98741242.html

The initial quote is kind of funny though “I can’t believe this. My life’s work of collecting stuff is gone,”. 
LOL. If your life's work is collecting stuff bruh...

[gex]

After reading the thread from Mathius about having had many games stolen from him

Where was this? I would be interested reading this. Do you have a link? O:)

[Necromancer]

"... where he attended Grand Canyon University to study digital film production.  Cline lived there for about five years before moving back to Tacoma earlier this year as he finished up a master’s degree in entertainment business from Full Sail University online."


Translation: this guy ain't bright enough to have had insurance.

[Medic_wheat]

Much of Cline’s video game collection — about 1,500 games with their systems, which he estimates is worth $65,000 — was gone.

i like how he doesn't give any specifics as to WHAT was in the locker apart from 2600 games and that "some were never taken out of the box" as well as "these were my games from childhood". He is now having to go off "memory".


Now I know why a I say will sound dickish. But I don't know how not to sound like a pessimistic dick.


So when he goes to claim insurance why is it I feel he is GREATLY I flaunting the number when it comes to cost of games wth the whole "some games ranging from in the $650".


I would expect to have seen some "rare" titles thrown around in the article where a collector or such could say "yeah that's become expensive" or that there would have been at lest one picture of him with some of the stuff before it was stolen.


This just screams scame job to get a big insurance check then to go and buy up all the rare expensive shit to "build back up his collection".

[crazydean]

Good point, Medic. 2600 games don't typically go for big money. This guy estimates that his games are worth an average of $43 each. Looking at pricecharting.com *shudder*, the average NES and 2600 game price is about $25. However, this means that he would be just as likely to have Stadium Events as Mario/Duck Hunt. It's easy to deduce that unless he was a Neo Geo collector, his $65k was way way high.

[Alt-Nullity2]

Hi

To make safe with video game is to make with gun.

He try to take the game? Is welcome to fighting on my bullet.

Bloody wolf is enough with saving president.

This time is to saving with games.

[esteban]

Bloody wolf is enough with saving president.

This time is to saving with games.

That, actually, is a good point.

HINT: Don't forget to stockpile muscle emphasis pills as well as bullets when you defend your storage locker.

[Zero_Gamer]

The sad thing is the perp is most likely someone he knows.

[Medic_wheat]

The sad thing is the perp is most likely someone he knows.

Had to have been other wise they wouldn't have known to hit the locker or if it was worth their time. Sure they might bust randomly picked the locker by noticing that the owner was hardly there as well. But it is much more likely to be someone you know.



It's why I don't post pics of my stuff on social media. I prefer my friends and family not know I am a horrder.  I mean collector.

[Gypsy]

The sad thing is the perp is most likely someone he knows.

Had to have been other wise they wouldn't have known to hit the locker or if it was worth their time. Sure they might bust randomly picked the locker by noticing that the owner was hardly there as well. But it is much more likely to be someone you know.



It's why I don't post pics of my stuff on social media. I prefer my friends and family not know I am a horrder.  I mean collector.

Sad to say but it really is just marking yourself as a target.

[jonebone]

This just screams scame job to get a big insurance check then to go and buy up all the rare expensive shit to "build back up his collection".

Yup, anyone with a collection that expensive is going to have a very good idea of what they have.  I'd assume most would have a nice up to date collection tool of some sort (Excel, App, Word Doc, etc.), but maybe some don't.  It's not even about value, it is just about understanding what you have and the condition it is in when you get to that many games.  No one wants to rebuy something they already own.

[bob]

...No one wants to rebuy something they already own.

Then the guy is in luck.  He won't have that problem now.

[Medic_wheat]

...No one wants to rebuy something they already own.

Then the guy is in luck.  He won't have that problem now.

This made my day. Good joke.