stolen gear

[samui13]

i had my van broken into on thursday the 19th january 8pm and had a brand new sony vaio laptop tx1xp/b £1,800.00 stolen along with a brand new sony pc1000e video camera £700.00. my external hard drive was also taken, which has all my photo's on and was a prestigio 40gb model. i have reported the crime to the police but as usual they dont want to know. if anyone gets offered anything tha sounds like it could be this gear i would love to hear from you. i do have the seriel numbers. of course i will be checking ebay. many thanks, stew and lou

[zepp]

I had the same, but no where near as much moneys worth. Makes you feel alot better when you get that crime number, doesn't it? !!!

[samui13]

not when you find out the insurers wont pay out because it was underneath the passengers seat. even though it was out of view. i put my case under there as i thought it was the safest place. i have £5,000 of tools in the back and shopfitting plastered all over the van. i thought that if i was going to be targeted it would have been the back of my van for my tools.

[Seadart Bob]

Originally Posted by samui13

not when you find out the insurers wont pay out because it was underneath the passengers seat. even though it was out of view. i put my case under there as i thought it was the safest place. i have £5,000 of tools in the back and shopfitting plastered all over the van. i thought that if i was going to be targeted it would have been the back of my van for my tools.

What’s your area???
Where was it Stolen???

No mention in your profile.

sorry to hear about the insurance issue.

b**tards

Cheers

Bob

[triplefin]

So sorry to hear your bad news its not just the money its the inconvenience and of course photos which are so personal and can never be really replaced have a few

[buchhawk]

I know how you feel, had my van empted of joinery tools before xmas, It cost me £2000 just to get back to work

[samui13]

i am from southampton but the items were stolen from outside of a homebase at 8pm at night. i work as a site manager and work all over the country. i had several contractors working on the site that evening from all over england. newcastle area, doncaster area, london area, midlands area.

[buchhawk]

Originally Posted by samui13

i am from southampton but the items were stolen from outside of a homebase at 8pm at night. i work as a site manager and work all over the country. i had several contractors working on the site that evening from all over england. newcastle area, doncaster area, london area, midlands area.

Looks like an inside job to me

[samui13]

well thats my opinion as well. i work away from home all week and for the past 8 weeks have been working nights monday to thursday. all of my personal belongings were in the van as it was my last shift there and i travel back to southampton at the end of the shift on the friday morning. it was the last night of the contract as well.....gutted to say the least. i was in the process of transfering my UW photos from my external hard drive to my new laptop.

[applepie]

thats a bit harsh your insurance not paying out, guess depends on your policy.

also strange the police didnt do much, when my camera got knicked they were extremely professional about it.

I heard from friends, they actually came round to interview other residents.

insurance people were great as well, I had to call their supplier company myself to sort it all out. my insurance company was quite rubbish at communications but when I started to sort it out myself, they just authorised all payments.

and yup, i'm still cheesed off about losing some of my photos because I remember saying I have to d/l to my PC but was too lazy. irreplaceable memories.

hope you manage to recover the items.

oh yeah its also doubly worse when you are pretty suspicious of a few people... in my case was pretty sure it was the cleaners that came in that day (the police agreed but no evidence). I even left a note with cash reward for the return of my photos but no luck.