Just read this on our local news website. What a bunch of fucking cunts. I think it wouldn't hurt for us to keep a bit of an eye out for any suspicious collections of stuff suddenly being on the market.
Thieves grab ?10,000 sci-fi collection
bastards
Gang o' twats...
Much the same thing happened to a guy who lives locally. He used to have a Star Wars toy collection, the price of which ran into the thousands, with some very rare figures. He was more a collector than a speculator, though, and the collection was more nostalgia than investment.
When his house was broken into ONLY the rare and valuable figures were stolen, and he later had private words with someone from the area. Stuff like this isn't nicked on a whim - the jewels are one thing, but stopping to nick a memorabelia collection sounds deeply suspicious for a random burglary. The chances of getting a good price for anything in the collection is slim, especially when you consider carting it around with you and getting out of the area without being seen. It's most likely someone from the local area.
It's a shitty thing to do to anyone.
The scumbags must have known about his collection-sounds like it was an 'inside job' from the geek community or a steal to order.
I think I'll keep mine quiet from now on-not that it's worth 10K or anything,but what if me art was stole!
(but i did smirk at the "I could get some of it in conventions in America, but I've never been to America)
M.
?600 for a signed picture of Scottie? My former insurance claims man senses are tingling!
Round em up.
Put em in a a field.
And bomb the b?$$%%$?.
You can say 'bastards' on here. It's only jokes that end with 'Because your ***'* **** tastes funny' that are really frowned upon.
There was this dodgy guy. Lived round our parts. Cut a long story short, had a massive StarWars Collection and a police scanner.
I shit you not.
"sounds deeply suspicious for a random burglary"
Not necessarily. Apparently most career burglars can spot a collection when the see one, and will have their suspicions that it must be worth something, or why horde and look after it? They're pretty good at knowing what's worth taking. I seen it on the telly.
Of course, even chancers will steal art treasures and collections. But once they realise it might be identifiable and hard to flog, they'll often chuck it in the river. Sad but true.
Whoever did this is pure scum.
Maybe we could have a board whip-round and send some GNs and stuff to this guy?
Its not gonna replace his collection, but might cheer him up a bit.
I'll start things off with 'Batman: A death in the family' and..um.. something else when i have a look at my books later!!
...and the feckers stole his suitcases to cart it all off with! Bastards!
You know I have always been alittle suspicous of some comic stores around the place that they have supposedly employed professional cat burglars to reclaim for them, what they had sold.
I'm not naming any names or suggesting the bigger more popular comic book stores are doing this, but perhaps those places that are more se nondescript and fly by nmight that are doing this..
I think these places may have been doing this for while, though. Thats' how they stay in buisness. BY reselling stuff they have already sold once they get it back.
Now if that particulare customer returns, they have system where they might put back in their back room and put them back on shelves on a rotational basis.
This is probably exactly what alot of those secondhand bookshops do.
They either have someboby ready to follow this person home or already have their chosen customers's home address on file.
Most of the time, this would be the hard to get stuff that that would either be out of print or hard to get in that particular area. The products that are in plentiful supply, they wouldn't really bother with. Why steal something that would be easy to replace or then agaion they might just take those as well.
Why I am saying this. Well, a few years back, I think it was in 2004 when I was bumming around Sydney in the New South of Wales and I was buying alot of the 2000AD comics as well. Keeping these in one of those commercial storage facilities. I was paying fornightly for the use of a small room that I had put all these plastic crates full of my belongings and recent purchases in. The place where I had put all my comics would have been hard to get too without going to alot of trouble as I had numerous other stuf and lot of junk piled on toip of it.
Anyway, onew day, I was going through all my stuff checking on my stuff, when I noticed that two comics had gone missing. I wasn't imagining this as I kept a written record of nearly every issue I own. They were mint condition 2000AD's still in their clear plastic envelop. ( As I had remerbred buying them that way.) Publications most recent to that same year. Sombody had come here and pulled everything out, saw the comics and took just two of them. Alittle weird, perhaps that person may have been a 2000AD collecter also and had need those exact two comics to fill in the gaps in his or her collection. To say the least, I was still very annoyed and alittle devastated.
Anyway, within the next two days I had paid visit to the palce where I had brought them and immediatly started looking through their entire collection of second hand 2000AD's and recent issues that they still had copies of.
When low and behold I noticed they did indeed have the exact same two issues that had gone missing from my cache. Now I did make a mental note to myself and sometimes write down whats' usaulley availbale in the shop before I have money to buy next time and nknew that previously that those two comics were sold out or maybe it just looked that way. Anyway those two comics could have come from anywhere, though they were alittle more worn than my mint conditions and I still went ahead and repurchased them.
I didn't say anything to the store clerks, either, I just kept my mouth shut.
Until now.
Besides it was obivious to me that there is no way of proving to me that may have been the comics I previously brought from them in better condition a few weeks earlier. I just couldn't help but be alittle suspicious when I saw them instore.
Think about it for a minute. It's unlikely that the shop would have instigated the theft if indeed one has taken place. If someone has stolen comics from your storage facility, the shop where you bought them is probably the only or most likely place the thief could get any money for them, and so they would almost certainly end up back there if the thief was after money, not comics.
"...and the feckers stole his suitcases to cart it all off with! Bastards!"
That's what they always do.
I'm sympathetic but is it a worse crime because he's in a wheelchair?
Burglary is a horrible thing to happen to anybody, regardless of wheelchair-ability.
Incidentally, I think he's a bit off on the value of a signed picture of Scotty, judging from eBay. About forty quid seems more like the going rate, not six hundred.
Link: A random eBay auction of a signed picture of Scott
...and extrapolating that drop to approx 6.5% of the value to the full collection... the whole lot of his ?10k would be worth ?650 on eBay.
Flippancy aside though, did he get Scotty to sign it in person? That'd make the sentimental cost higher then anything you could buy over eBay.
If anyone does feel like finding out his address, I've got a items I could probably donate to him.