stolen collection

[neutopia6]

No room mates or people staying with me, I'm rather seclusive, most people are too stupid to put up with, I'm in a relationship right now, me and my girlfriend have been living together about a year, it sucks too because I got her into TurboGrafx pretty good.
I was out game hunting, came back with about fourth games, ready to clean, organize and put into my collection only it wasn't there when I got back.
Nobody knew I was gone, as for suspects in not too sure, I have maybe three people I game with but they're mostly PlayStation and Xbox ''gamers'' so they're f*cking clueless, I get them to play old shit but apparently nobody has patience for games requiring skill nowadays.
As long as it pops up eventually I'll be fine, hell if the person brought it back this second I'd hug them, I don't make much money so have $13,000 worth of my life's collection go missing feels like something I can't replace.
Thanks again for all the kind words, its hard to keep my f*cking sanity lol.

[Nighttrate]

No room mates or people staying with me, I'm rather seclusive, most people are too stupid to put up with, I'm in a relationship right now, me and my girlfriend have been living together about a year, it sucks too because I got her into TurboGrafx pretty good.
I was out game hunting, came back with about fourth games, ready to clean, organize and put into my collection only it wasn't there when I got back.
Nobody knew I was gone, as for suspects in not too sure, I have maybe three people I game with but they're mostly PlayStation and Xbox ''gamers'' so they're f*cking clueless, I get them to play old shit but apparently nobody has patience for games requiring skill nowadays.
As long as it pops up eventually I'll be fine, hell if the person brought it back this second I'd hug them, I don't make much money so have $13,000 worth of my life's collection go missing feels like something I can't replace.
Thanks again for all the kind words, its hard to keep my f*cking sanity lol.

How many pc engine / turbo grafix game were in you colection ?

[PikachuWarrior]

No room mates or people staying with me, I'm rather seclusive, most people are too stupid to put up with, I'm in a relationship right now, me and my girlfriend have been living together about a year, it sucks too because I got her into TurboGrafx pretty good.
I was out game hunting, came back with about fourth games, ready to clean, organize and put into my collection only it wasn't there when I got back.
Nobody knew I was gone, as for suspects in not too sure, I have maybe three people I game with but they're mostly PlayStation and Xbox ''gamers'' so they're f*cking clueless, I get them to play old shit but apparently nobody has patience for games requiring skill nowadays.
As long as it pops up eventually I'll be fine, hell if the person brought it back this second I'd hug them, I don't make much money so have $13,000 worth of my life's collection go missing feels like something I can't replace.
Thanks again for all the kind words, its hard to keep my f*cking sanity lol.

Maybe your gf was in on it and told someone else where to find everything. Or perhaps she was there while it happened. You never know. How long were you gone when it happened? Where was she?

Just throwing ideas out there!

[BlueBMW]

No idea if its related at all in any way... but some dude on facebook has been flaunting a big collection of turbo+pc engine+pcfx stuff he bought in a big lot not long ago.  I think he's in Texas though.

[MrFulci]

Neutopia,

Think of the company you keep, or have kept. Sometimes there is a connection. I mentioned a few stories in a prior post, in this thread.

With people I've known, it's usually people who have borrowed stuff, then taken their time to return it. Some stuff I've let go, usually books. That's why I only loan so much of certain things, if I do, and I always keep in mind the chance I may not get it back, and if I do, not the condition I loaned it.

10+ years ago, I had someone ignoring my phonecalls. I even sent a postal letter. They ignored that, also. So, I drove to their house, about a 2 hour drive? I forget, to get a movie back. They gave me the movie when I arrived there. Then, got the excuse, "Oh, we didn't get back to you, because we didn't have the money to post it back, and didn't know what to say, etc.". later, the other part of the couple called, since that person heard from their significant other I just showed up at their house to get my movie, and apologized, etc. Seems a bit wacky, typing the story now, but it bothered me a lot at the time, and it was within a driving distance, so...

I knew them for a while, also.

Sometimes, think of people, even if you knew them for ages, that even if you didn't have a falling out with, that you just haven't spoken with, in a while.

Also, alarm systems, hidden video surveillance (Cheap, nowadays. Don't tell anyone where it is, though, then it's no longer unknown.), insurance, all good stuff.

[neutopia6]

Nah, my girlfriend was with me, I usually do trips around BC every few weeks and she comes with me, nothing like loud punk rock music shit loads of caffeine and someone to laugh and talk with when you're stuck in a car for ten hours.
Apparently the old couple that lives across the street said they were taking out the garbage around seven, noticed the lights were on and someone with short light colored hair was walking around inside, also my car was gone, but they apparently didn't think anything of it.
In my collection there were about fifty Turbo grafx and TurboGrafx CD games, around fifteen or twenty were CD games which will make it look even weirder if it pops up.
Definitely going to get a security system now, if this happens again I'm blowing my f*cking head off lol.

[MrFulci]

Nah, my girlfriend was with me, I usually do trips around BC every few weeks and she comes with me, nothing like loud punk rock music shit loads of caffeine and someone to laugh and talk with when you're stuck in a car for ten hours.
Apparently the old couple that lives across the street said they were taking out the garbage around seven, noticed the lights were on and someone with short light colored hair was walking around inside, also my car was gone, but they apparently didn't think anything of it.
In my collection there were about fifty Turbo grafx and TurboGrafx CD games, around fifteen or twenty were CD games which will make it look even weirder if it pops up.
Definitely going to get a security system now, if this happens again I'm blowing my f*cking head off lol.

Nothing too much to LOL about.

Having security is nice.

People pull all sorts of shit.

I know of someone worked (Still working?) in hotels. He had a maid's ironing board go missing.

He had to go through security video, and noticed a guy taking it out.

He confronted the guy, he denied it, 'til bringing up video. Then, all of a sudden, a damn ironing board did somehow make it to his vehicle. I guess it's like taking towels, for some people. Ironing boards...

Think about who you've known. Beyond that, who knows what you've posted about online. I have not much knowledge about you, other than your thread here. All that's to say, that's been said, is that those people knew what they were taking.

[Jibbajaba]

I feel like this thread should be a reminder to us all.  Posting pics of your collection or recent pickups on social media is not a good idea, nor is "bragging" about your stuff to people around you.  There was a time when no one gave a shit about old video games, but they are now big money.  I'm not trying to blame the girl for getting raped, but OP seems like the kind of guy who liked to run around telling anyone who would listen that he was sitting on $13k in retrogames, or better yet invite them into his house to show them off.  If I invested my money in gold/silver and kept it in the house, I wouldn't post pics of that on Facebook.  Same goes for anything else. 

[Necromancer]

I've invested in claymores.

If I can't have my Turbobs, nobody can.

[munchiaz]

I currently have renters insurance. I have been looking into it, and since i would consider my games a "collection" I'm going to have to look into a "rider" or "floater' for my games. Anyone have any experience in this. I created a sort of itemized list of all my games and consoles when i moved into my new place 4-5 months ago. But this list does not have prices, just the list of games, and pictures. So I'm guessing i need to price out all this stuff as well

Edit:
So i just got off the phone with my renters insurance company. Looks like if i want to get something like a rider on my video game collection i would have to get it professional appraised. I have no idea if there is even a professional video game appraiser company out there. I do know that the with my type of insurance i should be fine if something were to happen. I have a itemized list and pictures of my collection. I don't need to, but it would help if i had a list of what i value these games at.

Hopefully this info helps someone out there

[jeffhlewis]

I currently have renters insurance. I have been looking into it, and since i would consider my games a "collection" I'm going to have to look into a "rider" or "floater' for my games. Anyone have any experience in this. I created a sort of itemized list of all my games and consoles when i moved into my new place 4-5 months ago. But this list does not have prices, just the list of games, and pictures. So I'm guessing i need to price out all this stuff as well

Edit:
So i just got off the phone with my renters insurance company. Looks like if i want to get something like a rider on my video game collection i would have to get it professional appraised. I have no idea if there is even a professional video game appraiser company out there. I do know that the with my type of insurance i should be fine if something were to happen. I have a itemized list and pictures of my collection. I don't need to, but it would help if i had a list of what i value these games at.

Hopefully this info helps someone out there

This is an issue that I've wondered about for a long time - I'm fairly certain that most collectible items would need an appraisal to be considered worth more than a buck or two a piece for insurance purposes, especially when it comes to retro gaming stuff and the like. We all know what things are worth on the market but to an insurance company, it's just a bunch of old toys no one cares about anymore.

That being said - if you rent a place, get renter's insurance. It's so cheap it's a no-brainer. Most big outfits will give you mid to high 5-figure total replacement for like $15-20 a month or less.

[munchiaz]

I currently have renters insurance. I have been looking into it, and since i would consider my games a "collection" I'm going to have to look into a "rider" or "floater' for my games. Anyone have any experience in this. I created a sort of itemized list of all my games and consoles when i moved into my new place 4-5 months ago. But this list does not have prices, just the list of games, and pictures. So I'm guessing i need to price out all this stuff as well

Edit:
So i just got off the phone with my renters insurance company. Looks like if i want to get something like a rider on my video game collection i would have to get it professional appraised. I have no idea if there is even a professional video game appraiser company out there. I do know that the with my type of insurance i should be fine if something were to happen. I have a itemized list and pictures of my collection. I don't need to, but it would help if i had a list of what i value these games at.

Hopefully this info helps someone out there

This is an issue that I've wondered about for a long time - I'm fairly certain that most collectible items would need an appraisal to be considered worth more than a buck or two a piece for insurance purposes, especially when it comes to retro gaming stuff and the like. We all know what things are worth on the market but to an insurance company, it's just a bunch of old toys no one cares about anymore.

That being said - if you rent a place, get renter's insurance. It's so cheap it's a no-brainer. Most big outfits will give you mid to high 5-figure total replacement for like $15-20 a month or less.

Yeah the whole appraised value stuff is hard to get for something like games. I know i pay about $16 a month, and i have over 20k of coverage on my stuff. From what the agent told me i can get my stuff replaced for items in the same or like condition, and if that means buying it off ebay then they would cover that cost to get the item 

[NightWolve]

...If you're lucky, you might even get to buy back some of your collection!

I like the cut of your jib.

Risky Business to possibly meet up with the thief to buy your stuff back...

So, I've been away for a few weeks and only now decided to look at this thread again... I too had Necro's reaction...

OK, so neut, you don't like banks and you actually kept serious cash at your place which was also stolen ?? Money is good as long as someone else on the receiving end is willing to trade you for it. A bank account is protected by the FDIC up to $250,000, so unless you're seriously worried about a coming revolution or the zombie apocalypse, your money would've been safe there... Checking accounts are free with a minimum balance, like my bank is $600, so yeah, if it's under that you get fees. Some banks like TCF are fully free. There's healthy paranoia and then there's excess like yours (at least, it sounds like it) - sorry to be a bit critical here while you're down... If only you had been paranoid about security though and loaded up on screeching alarms like sparky there...

One thing that's good to hear is the police there actually dusted for fingerprints. Here in Chicago you need dead bodies at the scene for that to happen. I had a renter who was broken into, we called the cops, they came, asked if we wanted to file a report, the end. Some years later, my garage door got open, they stole my new 24 foot ladder, $169 value, busted my car's window, stole my toolbox. I had a temp construction job at the time, so I left many tools in my car. Called cops, showed them the busted Mexican beer bottle where the window was broken, looked like what they used, I hoped something would be dusted, but nope... That concluded the "investigation."

Fact is, if your shit gets stolen, you're likely not ever getting it back if the thief/thieves escape the scene, sorry to say... Same deal with my renter, she asked me if I want I can file a report, I said of course, I got a card of it, she left, bye bye, and it took damn near $600 at Menards to replace my usual tool set... I lost tools I had since 17, and couldn't exactly remember what I had in the toolbox... I dunno if I ever replaced everything I had, but I guess I recovered over time... It's really a devastating feeling, bottomline, and it sucks you'll likely never get justice...

[jelloslug]

I had a thief break in a long time ago and steal stuff like my Dreamcast and my PS2.  They actually caught the guy and I got most of my stuff back.  He got caught trying to sell some coins he stole to a group of firemen at a fire station.  There was another guy they suspected but could not connect to the thief until after I got my PS2 back and the moron played Gran Turismo on the stolen PS2 and put his full name in and saved it.  I never got my Dreamcast back though....

[NightWolve]

Wow, how dumb can you be to show up at a firestation to sell stolen goods. They deal with cops all the time when fires break out and probably are buds with many... Lucky you, he wasn't as smart as he thought. What exactly is needed for them to give a damn enough to dust for prints though ?? They didn't give a f--k in my 2 cases as mentioned...