Best Stolen Guitar Database?

[brians356]

Hoped never to have to post this:

 

What is the best stolen guitar database on the Internet? (Most used, least spam-originating.)

 

I lost an Epi Elitist J-200, an HD-28, and a vintage Telecaster (plus other stuff.)

 

Brian Adams

Reno, NV

[KL]

I don't know but am very sorry to hear your news. What happened?

[NevadaPic]

Hoped never to have to post this:

 

What is the best stolen guitar database on the Internet? (Most used' date=' least spam-originating.)

 

I lost an Epi Elitist J-200, an HD-28, and a vintage Telecaster (plus other stuff.)

 

Brian Adams

Reno, NV[/quote']

Brian,

 

I'm here in Reno too. I will keep an eye open and an ear to the ground. Sometimes folks try to sell stolen stuff at Guitar Center or Bizarre and get apprehended. It's a drag having your stuff ripped off. There are too many junkies in Reno anymore... Hang in there.

 

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[modoc_333]

unfortunately, the fact that you asked this question........ well, it answers itself. there isn't one. make sure you call all of the local guitar stores. pawn shops too. the latter won't help as much but still a good step to take. i hope you get them all back in one piece!

[Taylor Player]

And don't forget to watch Craigslist religiously! You can add a search for your items on Ebay as well. That way if something matching get's listed, you can check to see if it is yours.

 

Here is a link to "Craiglook" which is a pretty sweet Craigslist search engine. It will search all, not just your local one.

 

http://craiglook.com/

[Hall]

And don't forget to watch Craigslist religiously! You can add a search for your items on Ebay as well. That way if something matching get's listed' date=' you can check to see if it is yours.

 

Here is a link to "Craiglook" which is a pretty sweet Craigslist search engine. It will search all, not just your local one.

 

http://craiglook.com/

 

 

Best bet, if they go public to sell, but cross your finger on that. Very Sorry.

[docwatsonfan]

bummer, hope you get them back

 

the umgf has a registry

post edited, I see you already know this......

[tpbiii]

We lost a couple of guitars a four years ago. One was a 1931 L-2 and the other was a 1995 Martin HD-28SO (Sign Out) #16 of 45.

 

We were having a some repair work done to the house, and the contractor put the guitars in storage at his office/home -- quite a secure place.

 

Well, after we brought the guitars home, we did and inventory and found them missing. We had no way to tell if they went missing from the house (before or after the work), in transit to or from the storage, or from storage. They had just disappeared in all the confusion. At first, I just figured they were misplaced -- probably in storage. They were insured, but I was not looking forward to talking to the insurance company or the police -- I could not even say when, where, or if they were stolen.

 

I waited about four months -- really searched and researched, questioned and re-questioned. Then, just before I decided to bite the bullet and talk to the insurance and the police (the house was in one town and storage was in another, so I was not even sure who to file a "missing guitar" report with), I spotted the Martin on a list of guitars that had been sold locally by a dealer -- in yet another town. I knew the dealer, and he knew me, so I got an immediate cooperative response. Long story short, it all got fixed and I got them back. The dealer had done everything right, and he had a copy of driver's license of the seller -- a kid who was a close family friend of the son of my contractor.

 

The guilty was caught, restitution was made, and the guitars came home.

 

So search the internet -- maybe like me, you'll get lucky.

 

Best,

 

-Tom

[TommyK]

W... I was not looking forward to talking to the insurance company or the police -- I could not even say when' date=' where, or if they were stolen....

 

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Never be afraid of talking to the police, even if you have scant information. They can glean through what you do and do not know and know who and how to question suspects. Even if it was an honest mistake, no harm, no foul. Sometimes, when the heat is on, things have a habit of turning up.

 

Just this week, my wife had an i-pod stolen from her car. She checks in with her foreman in one building, along with her co-workers. Takes only a couple minutes. In those couple minutes it was taken, she went immediately back into the check-in office and called the cops. They took her statement, and at the end of her shift, the i-pod had mirac-ulously turned up in her mail box. The scoundrel had to be a co-worker. But when he found out my wife wasn't going to take it lying down, he snuck it back to the office. I do not know if the police were able to identify the thief and counseled him to put it back or if the thief got scared.

 

You cain't trust nobody.

[maface]

We lost a couple of guitars a four years ago. One was a 1931 L-2 and the other was a 1995 Martin HD-28SO (Sign Out) #16 of 45.

 

We were having a some repair work done to the house, and the contractor put the guitars in storage at his office/home -- quite a secure place.

 

Well, after we brought the guitars home, we did and inventory and found them missing. We had no way to tell if they went missing from the house (before or after the work), in transit to or from the storage, or from storage. They had just disappeared in all the confusion. At first, I just figured they were misplaced -- probably in storage. They were insured, but I was not looking forward to talking to the insurance company or the police -- I could not even say when, where, or if they were stolen.

 

I waited about four months -- really searched and researched, questioned and re-questioned. Then, just before I decided to bite the bullet and talk to the insurance and the police (the house was in one town and storage was in another, so I was not even sure who to file a "missing guitar" report with), I spotted the Martin on a list of guitars that had been sold locally by a dealer -- in yet another town. I knew the dealer, and he knew me, so I got an immediate cooperative response. Long story short, it all got fixed and I got them back. The dealer had done everything right, and he had a copy of driver's license of the seller -- a kid who was a close family friend of the son of my contractor.

 

 

 

The guilty was caught, restitution was made, and the guitars came home.

 

So search the internet -- maybe like me, you'll get lucky.

 

Best,

 

-Tom

 

Almost the same thing happened to me but the police report says "missing property" not "stolen property" so my 1,500 G&L guitar is in a Guitar Center right now and I can't get it back

[MR GIBS]

I am very sad to read posts like this one...

This reminds me how lucky I was on the 7th of september 2010.

The entered in my appartement in the morning just after me end my woman went to work.

I returned home an hour and a half after i came out - just forgot my cell phone on the charger in the kitchen.

The hous was robbed and many things were missing - laptops, jewelry, some money for the bills, my cell phone with the box, even our perfumes...

My two wery precious and expencive guitars were in the hall untouched, standing on their stands.

The thieves did not get them because the could not sell them here in Bulgaria.

Almost nobody plays acoustic guitar. There are very few music shops here and no musical instruments in the pawnshops.

I was lucky!!!

Wish you to find all your guitars, mate.