Hexites, lend me your eyes!

[scaryjim]

Hi All,

Just a quick request for some assistance, or rathger vigilance, from all the lovely hexites. Unfortunately I was broken into over the holiday. Fortunately, very little was taken, and nothing that we were desperately upset about, but a few electronics were half-inched and I'd really appreciate it if you could all keep half an eye out and let me know if you see someone on the interwebs (ebay, other tech forums, etc.) selling a collection of items including the following:

HP TC1100, 1GHz Pentium M, 512MB RAM, no keyboard or docking station (idiots left those behind )

Acer Aspire 5050, 2GHz Turion 64, 2GB RAM

Sony Vaio BX series, 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo Mobile, 1GB RAM

26" LCD Television.

Obviously individually those items could turn up anywhere, but if they all turned up from one seller it'd be mighty suspicious and I'd appreciate it if you could drop me a PM with the details of the sale so I can pass them along to the police.

Just to make it plain, this isn't a desperate fish for sympathy - while it's obviously not nice to have been broken into we really haven't lost anything we can't do without. However the electronics taken would make a fairly distinctive collection if they hit the market together / from one seller and I'd like nothing more than to get some link to the gits who did it!

Many thanks for your time, ladies and gents

[spoon_]

Sure thing, will keep an eye out for ya!

[g8ina]

Bummer, what location are u Jim ?

edit, skip that, it says Manchester

[Macman]

Dirty Thieving Bastords :/

Swift Kick in the nuts is what they need.

Hope you recover the goods!!

[Iron Sights]

my eye is peeled, only got one atm (long story)

[j.col]

sorry to hear that.
will defo keep an eye out.

have you checked the local cash converters, pawn shops, etc...?

[razer121]

im on ebay alot so will keep an eye out chap

[DDY]

Jim, YGPM.

I'll keep an eye out for em.

[Mithrandir]

Will keep an eye out. Cash converters and gumtree seem to be a good call to keep an eye out.
Also, do you have serials #s?

[Knoxville]

Consider my eyes on loan, if I see anything suspect you'll be the first to know dude

It is worth checking your local Cash Converters and CEX if you have one though, in my area if it's stolen electronics and it's not flogged on down the pub those are the two places it ends up.

[shadowmaster]

Will keep a look out, what make is the television?

Did you make sure that they did not nick stuff like credit cards, bills, etc (for identity fraud)

[Rave]

Just save an ebay search for those items in your bookmarks, then it only takes a couple of seconds to check every day. It might well be possible to do the same thing on gumtree, I haven't checked.

Sorry to hear you got burgled, I know how much it sucks, we live on the corner and are apparently the most burgled house in the street as a result, since people can just climb over the wall into our garden from the road down the side.

[scaryjim]

Thanks for the useful comments and offers of help everyone, very much appreciated.

Since we're close to central manchester there are lots of cash converter and CEX type places within easy reach - far too many to check sadly. I'll stick my head in a few of them though. They didn't get any cards (we had them all with us since we were away on holiday) but they did get my passport and a couple of other supporting docs, and possibly some utility bills. I've already (on the advice of my bank) rung CIFAS and arranged a year's worth of protection on my credit record (so if anyone tries to get credit in my name they'll have to go through additional security checks).

The TV was a five year old no-brand. It did the job for us beautifully for five years, but it's no great loss, and since Manchester switched to digital it's actually no more than a large low-res computer monitor now anyway.

And please can anyone who feels so inclined thank DDY's post on this thread: he's an absolute star and has provided some very useful information that will help me reclaim the items should I ever find him. I'd thank him 50 times myself if I could

[pollaxe]

Will also keep my eyes peeled for you - we were burgled once, it's a horrible feeling.

[oolon]

I am sorry to say but, Now is the time to check your security and upgrade it, it is not uncommon to be broken into a second time (After the insurance checks come through and you have new stuff), and third if you have artwork an other specialist stuff. Alternatively if you are renting consider moving at the end of your agreement. One this worth considering is to put a couple of screw holes in the bottom of your PC case, then screw it to the floor, anything that costs time to remove will make it more likely they will just leave it.