Originally Posted by
R. Mark Desjardins
marybrewster, you are spot on in recommending that vgalindo check out local sites to hopefully track down the stolen CD's. I had 1,200 CD's stolen about 10 years ago. The thieves even came back for the ones they didn't get the first time, two weeks later. Fortunately, I had home insurance, and my insurer actually gave me credit for the total of missing titles. Of course it helped that I had a complete list and photos of drawers pulled open to show my collection.
Long story short, I discovered that a local flea market vendor had purchased the bulk of my soul CD's and I recognized the titles and was able to claw back about 475 hard to get titles there I was told by "people in the know" that my jazz titles were most likely sent out of the city as they were so unusual that identification would be very easy.
Due to my very large claim, my insurance policy now limits the coverage to 150 titles. I have smartened up and have installed a "lock up" area in a closet. All my Hip-o Select sets reside there. But with the great decline in used CD shops due to nobody buying them anymore, I find that there is very little likelihood of having them stolen again.
Best of luck in finding your stolen property!
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