stolen collection

[neutopia6]

Hey guys, last Wednesday my house was broken into and they stole $13,000 worth of my collection, I'm completely f*cking devastated, it was my life's work, and basically my only passion
I'm writing this because whoever did this is in British Columbia, I live near Vancouver, and if they try and sell it chances are it will pop up there.
50 TurboGrafx games, a Turbo Duo, I have the box with matching serial numbers, also taken was my Dreamcast with about 40 games, my Super Nintendo with about 150 games, my Wii U, and both my NES in box with around 400 titles.
If anyone knows or sees anything words can't describe how much I would appreciate it, I lost a huge part of my life with this.
Should be weird to see 50 TurboGrafx games and a turbo duo pop up in the wild in Vancouver so I thought I'd just let you all know in case there is a nice person out there who may have seen or heard something.
Thanks for your time.

[mitsuman]

Man sucks to hear this.
Any word from the police on what can be done? Insurance cover it in a any way? I know it won't be the same, but maybe some solice in getting some money back from if insured.

[neutopia6]

It wasn't insured, I'm kicking myself for that now, didn't think anyone would break down the door and walk away with like 600 games, blew my f*cking mind.
Well because its theft of over $10,000 the police seem to enjoy the case, apparently a list of my stuff with all the serial numbers are sitting in many of the pawnshops, but in case the person was trying to get rid of it through a private seller I figured spreading the word here might help, its kind of hard to find a Turbo Duo with 50 games sitting in the wild, and if there are collectors here from Vancouver it may only be a matter of time before they stumble across it out of nowhere, my fingers are crossed.
Fuuuuuuck.

[mitsuman]

Well good luck!

Oh and what he said...

if you find the f*cker who did this, i hope you make him eat his own nuts before he bleeds out after you cut them off.

seriously.

[jelloslug]

I'm always shopping so if I see anything like that pop up for sale I'll let you know.

[spenoza]

Keep an eye on your local Craigslist and on Ebay.

[jelloslug]

Has anyone been to your house and seen your collection lately?

[cjameslv]

Has anyone been to your house and seen your collection lately?

This is exactly right, it is most likely someone you know.

[jelloslug]

I hope you cross post this on other forums also to get the most coverage.

[neutopia6]

I've been checking buy and sells, pawn shop pages, kijiji, craigslit, eBay pages for the past five days, nothing yet.
I always have people over, ever since I was young I was the dude obsessed with gaming, I know its someone I was close to, no stranger breaks in, sees wall after wall of games, then goes for TurboGrafx, I had some shitty Xbox, Wii, and ps2 stuff they left, they didn't grab any master system, genesis, 32x, no 64, GameCube, nothing, they specifically went for my favorite shit, I'm always bragging about TurboGrafx and NES.
Its gonna be hard to move fifty TurboGrafx games at once at a pawn shop without someone stumbling across it, I just want it back, don't care about anything else really.

[esteban]

Damn.

[thesteve]

do a search for any rare game you had
the systems will be harder to find in a search

[SamIAm]

A couple years ago, at my brother's wedding, someone stole an envelope with $5000 in it. The freaky thing was, the only people attending the wedding who were there at the time of the theft were family members. There was no way to prove anything, so that was that.

Trust no one.

Sorry about your loss.

[HailingTheThings]

Also, never underestimate the power of vengeance and wrath. Getting your games back = awesome.  Getting your games back after feeding someone their nuts before they die? priceless.

*feins*

*swoons*

*melts*

[tg16manaic]

wow, i'm really sorry to hear about this. I hope u can still recover some money from your home insurance, even though the collection itself wasn't insured, they should at least cover some of the value of your possesions like in any general case. The problem is proving what u had. If you have pics of your collection that might help, or someone who saw ur collection and can vouch for u to prove that u had it and what u had. Although nothing will cover the sentimental value, all the work and time u must have put into it. It's heartbreaking to hear about this. I can't even begin to imagine how bad u must feel. This makes me wonder what could possibly happen to all of our collections. We all need to have our stuff appraised and insured. Does anyone know a good way to go about doing that? We can learn from this horrible experience. Any suggestions?