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stolen collections
severcool:
Most of them were old NES and SNES boxes. There were series like Double Dragon, Mario, Zelda, Contra, Wizards & Warriors, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, etc. Some were N64 or Gameboy. Most were in pretty good condition. I had the habit of not throwing boxes out as a kid and never knew that stuff might be valuable one day.
FritzWhite:
Someone broke into my car a couple years ago and stole over $300 worth of DS stuff
reklen:
Last summer someone broke into my house, stole my laptop, which was connected to the TV, my white Wii U, and my PS3. For some reason he didn't take the XBOX One, the 360 or the Atari XE. He also stole some collector coins and stuff, probably 800.00 worth of stuff. I know it had to be random because if the person knew me, all my better stuff was downstairs. Besides feeling violated, the thing that made me angry the most, was that my insurance told me I had a 1000.00 deductible and they didn't steal enough stuff for me to be reimbursed The weirdest thing was, I was on vacation home all week, and was only gone from my house for an hour. The cops came right away, and even brought the forensic guys with them, they dusted for prints. The cops liked my game collection. Unfortunately, I didn't get anything back. The Laptop was the worst, because I had a lot of pictures and personal stuff on it. Luckily I had backup disks of most of that.
Taketheword:
This is the most depressing TCP thread.
BadChad:
I actually had my apartment broken into 3 weeks before X-Mas last year. They must of been complete idiots because all they got away with was my PS4 (with just the power cord, no controllers, games or anything), 3 regular Wii systems (none of which they took any cords for, just the units) and my Last Guardian Collectors Edition I had just bought about a week before. Lucky for me, I had left the game itself at my girlfriend's place since she wanted to watch me play it.
As much as I was pissed, I have to count my blessing as it seems they didn't even set foot into my game room. Or if they did, they had no idea what they were looking at because nothing was missing and that's where all the real value was. I've got 10 plus years of collecting in that room with a ton of rare stuff.
Since then, I've moved because just the though that whoever broke into my apartment may be aware of just how much I have to take vs. what little they actually got out with and the possibility of them planning to come back weeks for another attempt, days or months down the line was something I couldn't shake. They must of been into drugs or something though because they went into y medicine cabinet which didn't have anything worth taking in it. I don't even take Aspirin when I have a headache.
On the humorous side, I had to tease my roommate afterwards because his X-Box One was on the TV stand literally right next to my PS4 and they didn't take that. I told him "You know you made the right choice when someone breaks into your apartment and steals the PS4, but leaves the X-Box One sitting right beside it!" :P