Stolen Books Alert!! 6 6

[Daniel Boshell]

I bought them all from Heritage over the last couple years. 5 books in total were stolen from my unit worth about $2000 total along with old photos I collect plus several electronics.

I have my higher end books in a safety deposit box thankfully. 

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

Sorry to hear about the theft.  Glad the boards, specifically Bumble Kitty , were all over this. 

Please keep us updated on the outcome. 

Hope you manage to get all of it back and the insufficiently thoughtless person gets what they deserve.  

Edited February 13, 2021 by onlyweaknesskryptonite

[BabaLament]

That the books were on ComicLink instead of eBay leads me to believe that the thief knew what they were after, where it was, and how to get rid of it in the most profitable manner. The thief knew enough to get the books up for auction. 

So, “friend” who helped load books into the storage unit, disgruntled family member, or shifty storage facility employee? 

[Daniel Boshell]

3 hours ago, Dr. Love said:

Likelihood of traceability - 100%. Even if passed through multiple hands. And how many of those could there be, if we're just hearing about the theft?  And all for a few hundred $ in profit?  

Strange.

 

Does CL have my books or can someone like them on the site and still have them at their house?

[Daniel Boshell]

These 5 books were all stolen and all are in the auction right now. 

[greggy]

2 minutes ago, Daniel Boshell said:

Does CL have my books or can someone like them on the site and still have them at their house?

If they are at auction, they should have it at their offices. 

 

[Bumble Kitty]

It looks like Young Love 83 is also in the current auction.  Young Love 80 and 89 are in their next auction.  I agree with Greggy -- C'Link should have all of these books in their office. 

[Dr. Love]

Yeh, this could actually eventually work out. You should be able to get your books back in time, and justice served.

[Daniel Boshell]

3 minutes ago, greggy said:

If they are at auction, they should have it at their offices. 

 

That would be great, better chance of getting them back. Hopefully they can track it back to the thief

[Dr. Love]

Depending on when you think they were stolen, while you can prove you owned them in the past, how can you prove you didnt sell them to someone who sold them to someone who consigned them to auction. That's going to be the thing. I assume the consignor isn't going to be the insufficiently_thoughtful_person thief and might have some push back on the claim.

[Daniel Boshell]

8 minutes ago, Dr. Love said:

Depending on when you think they were stolen, while you can prove you owned them in the past, how can you prove you didnt sell them to someone who sold them to someone who consigned them to auction. That's going to be the thing. I assume the consignor isn't going to be the insufficiently_thoughtful_person thief and might have some push back on the claim.

I filed a police report showing the books were stolen.

[KCOComics]

3 hours ago, Daniel Boshell said:

I filed a police report showing the books were stolen.

Keep us updated! 

My guess is the person who is selling them at CL didn't break into your storage locker.

The person who broke in took them to whatever comic shop or pawn shop would give him quick cash and the shop owner is trying to flip them at CL, not knowing they are stolen. 

Just my guess.  The good news is, you know where there are. Hopefully this gets resolved! 

[Funnybooks]

This is great news. I hope the books are returned to you post haste.

[serling1978]

Seems strange someone broke into a storage unit, stole what they could find including some comic books and immediately had the knowledge to list them on comiclink. If it was ebay or Craigslist I would get it, but is comiclink well known outside of the collecting community? Sure maybe the thief just googled "sell comics" and randomly went with comiclink but seems odd. Maybe I shouldn't admit this for fear of judgment, but I've been collecting for over 25 years and I've never once sold on comiclink. This thief knows more than I do 

[Funnybooks]

26 minutes ago, serling1978 said:

Seems strange someone broke into a storage unit, stole what they could find including some comic books and immediately had the knowledge to list them on comiclink. If it was ebay or Craigslist I would get it, but is comiclink well known outside of the collecting community? Sure maybe the thief just googled "sell comics" and randomly went with comiclink but seems odd. Maybe I shouldn't admit this for fear of judgment, but I've been collecting for over 25 years and I've never once sold on comiclink. This thief knows more than I do 

I have to imagine books were all sold to another party ( dealer/comic shop or collector ) that subsequently listed them for sale on C-link...no thief is that stupid?

[Daniel Boshell]

6 hours ago, Funnybooks said:

I have to imagine books were all sold to another party ( dealer/comic shop or collector ) that subsequently listed them for sale on C-link...no thief is that stupid?

This has to be what happened. Someone that breaks in and steals stuff probably doesn’t know about comic link. Most likely a pawn shop.

[Lightning55]

If they sell for high prices due to all this publicity, maybe you can keep the net proceeds instead of the comics.  After they find the actual culprit, that is.

[babsrocks31]

Any response from Clink? I'm curious how they will handle this. Hope they do the right thing and get on it.

[babsrocks31]

6 hours ago, Lightning55 said:

If they sell for high prices due to all this publicity, maybe you can keep the net proceeds instead of the comics.  After they find the actual culprit, that is.

there is so much talk of market manipulation, imagine if op had his books stolen just to drive up the auctions (I am not suggesting this is what happened, just that it could make a good dark comedy film noir plot).

[Arkham]

On 2/13/2021 at 10:10 AM, Bumble Kitty said:

You might want to check out the current ComicLink auction.

Hardly bumbling. Not living up to your name.