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usfan51473

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Someone Stole My Stuff
« on: June 07, 2011, 01:29:12 AM »
The title says it all. While visiting my mother in law at a hospice facility, someone broke into my car. Got mine and my daughter's bags. Her bag: 8# pink/black White Dot, pair of size 4 Dexter pink and white skull/crossbones, LH Master wrist support xtra small, purple Dutchman Tourney towel, 1 Ebonite puff ball, and Columbia 300 purple/ black bag with rollers. My bag: 16# purple /orange Freeze 15# Spare Tire, pair of size 11 black Linds (brand new), grip sack w/Taz on it, 2 Master Wristers, purple Dutchman Tourney towel, red/blue Cheers towel, tool kit with sand stick, tape insert tool, scissors, ect. Anyone in the DE, NJ, PA, MD area notices anyone trying to hock these, please let me know. 


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                 Spare Tire


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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2011, 09:41:47 AM »
I will keep an eye out.  But, thats a shame that people still do these things.



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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2011, 09:50:13 AM »
Thanks, I appreciate it. The thing that sucks about this whole situation is I now have to spend around $500-600 to replace it all. My wife dosen't want to report it to Homeowners Insur. b/c she was told that two claims w/in five years will cause the policy holder to drop you.


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                 Tsunami




                 Freeze Orange/Purple




                 Spare Tire


                 "Know thy enemy...it is the 10 pin"     

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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2011, 11:45:12 AM »
By the time you pay your deductible, it's really not worth reporting. Save the HO for something big..

 

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usfan51473 wrote on 6/7/2011 9:50 AM:
Thanks, I appreciate it. The thing that sucks about this whole situation is I now have to spend around $500-600 to replace it all. My wife dosen't want to report it to Homeowners Insur. b/c she was told that two claims w/in five years will cause the policy holder to drop you.



In the Bag:





                 Tsunami





                 Freeze Orange/Purple





                 Spare Tire



                 "Know thy enemy...it is the 10 pin"     


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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2011, 12:07:19 PM »
If you spent $600 to buy all of that, your pro shop is seriously very expensive!   I would go to your pro shop and explain your situation and then have them give you a discount this time on replacing your stuff.   I know I wouldn't charge you $600 for all your items listed.   I'm looking at around $400,   $200 more is alot of money.  The Spare Tire would be the most expensive ball, and those are not easy to find anymore, so you would have to substitute that with a different plastic ball that is less money.  
 
Generally if somebody came to me and their stuff was stolen, I would give them a good price break on new equipment, but that is me. 
 
 Good luck getting your stuff back, It may show up at your local bowling center, if it was stolen locally.  If you were out town visiting than it may show up at one of the centers there, but it will be harder for you to monitor it.  The local pro shops maybe able to help you if it comes into their shop.  
 
It may show up on Craigslist or Ebay.   The odds are it will not.  The odds are the people that stole it were looking for some other kind of "score" and will just discard your bowling items.  Unless they were people that bowl, they wouldn't really have much use for the items, plus the resale value on your balls/equipment isn't very high.   I would check around the neighborhood where it was taken, it is posiable they may of just discard it down a street or in an alley once they found out what it was. 
 
 
 
Edited by Xx 12 X 300 xX on 6/7/2011 at 12:26 PM

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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2011, 12:08:20 PM »
A few years back my son had his 4 ball roller, 4 balls and all inside stolen. We reported to all local pro shops with serial #'s of the balls. Nothing came up. But a few days later...voila....his stuff was on E-Bay. We contacted E-Bay and the local police. Got his stuff back...and E-Bay yanked the account of the kids father. Who was doing a lot of valid business thru it. Was a high school teamate of his....post season and stolen from the lanes.

 

Good luck....check E-Bay and the local shops...usually that stuff doesn't travel far...and try craigslist too.

 


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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2011, 12:39:44 PM »
Sorry in the costs I forgot to mention I now need a new bag as well. They only took to top part of my 4 ball roller. So now the bottom is pretty much useless.

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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2011, 01:03:32 PM »
Oh ok, than a 4 ball roller is expensive.  That would make the cost closer to what you figured.  Thank makes sense.


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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2011, 01:50:40 PM »
 I have a program to search craigslist and it will notify me if something I'm searching for posts.  I will keep my eye out.

 

Hopefully you find your stuff.

 

And hopefully the scum that took your stuff get what is coming to them.


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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2011, 02:54:21 PM »
also check the for sale items here and on BBE!  I would expect to at least see the spare tire!  As stated before those are pretty rare and I've seen a few get top dollar even used

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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2011, 10:29:20 PM »
If you would like I can give you a ball (15#) to help you start out...

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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2011, 11:13:42 PM »
wow that sux big time!!  all they took was the bowling equipment..??  have any stereo stuff etc etc in there also???
 
they prolly thought those bags had "better" stuff in it... go drive around to areas to where u think some1 mite dump some junk/krap... never know, may just find a thing or 10!! LOL
my buddy was successful  doin this... had his ride broken into, they got the stereo equipment and took the 2 two ball bags.. we drove to a couple areas and bingo, found the bowling balls!!!
 
and your insurance will not and can not drop you....duh, its what you have those f u ck ers for!!
unless its some fly-by-night company then i would wonder...??fi



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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2011, 04:51:20 AM »
 When they broke in, there was my cell (droid incredible) on the charger, a $500 new computer in the box, and a bunch of stuff we just bought from Target. All they took was the bowling stuff. WTF?!!!

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                 Tsunami




                 Freeze Orange/Purple




                 Spare Tire


                 "Know thy enemy...it is the 10 pin"     

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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2011, 09:26:47 AM »
I know how that goes.  Back in October of 2003 I bought a copy of Macho Man Randy Savage's rap CD from Best Buy, you should of seen the expression on the guy's face at the checkout.  I told him "hey man you better cop yourself one of them CDs before those bitches sell out!"  A week later the CD got stolen out of my car.  I had half a pack of Marlboro Lights and my cell phone sitting next to it and $200 sitting in the ashtray and they didn't even touch them, only the CD!  If I ever find who stole that CD I'm gonna hit them in head with a metal chair!

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Re: Someone Stole My Stuff
« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2011, 10:10:20 AM »

The fact that they left the other valuable stuff behind suggests that they probably got scared away before they found it. Perhaps someone drove by, or walked close by and they decided to scram.

Sorry about the bowling equipment. It represents an investment over a period of time for many bowlers. To have to re-purchase everything at once can get expensive.

 


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