Post Your Stolen Or Lost Items!!!!

[skipcareyisfat]

Please read the following article. This is really unfortunate. Few things get me fired up as much as theft. I just spoke to Tim on the phone about a month ago as he was preparing for this clinic. He had some really nice - and unique - things, which I believe will stick out when the losers who stole this stuff try and sell it. Tim's a nice guy and deserves all the help he can get. So, please help keep an eye out for his stuff. As the article partially alludes to, Tim's primary focus was on 1990s - current Braves memorabilia. He owned a lot of Andruw Jones, Francoeur and McCann material, in addition to quite a bit of recent common to mid-tier Braves equipment.

Jason

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/...10098/-1/rss01

[skipcareyisfat]

Try this link if the other one doesn't work:

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com...in-nevada.html

[3arod13]

Please read the following article. This is really unfortunate. Few things get me fired up as much as theft. I just spoke to Tim on the phone about a month ago as he was preparing for this clinic. He had some really nice - and unique - things, which I believe will stick out when the losers who stole this stuff try and sell it. Tim's a nice guy and deserves all the help he can get. So, please help keep an eye out for his stuff. As the article partially alludes to, Tim's primary focus was on 1990s - current Braves memorabilia. He owned a lot of Andruw Jones, Francoeur and McCann material, in addition to quite a bit of recent common to mid-tier Braves equipment.

Jason

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/...10098/-1/rss01

Outraged! I think it would be a good idea if Tim has pictues of his items that were stolen, and he or someone can get them posted in this forum and elsewhere, so we can keep an eye out for his stuff and ensure the thiefs get what they deserve! Sad part is, it's most likely someone he knows and trusted.

I hate reading stories like this. Tony

[Snowbird]

This is awful, has anyone heard any updates about this. As fellow collectors it would be great if we could help solve this one as I know that ones collection can be so important and ones pride and joy. Does anyone have any thoughts?


http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/...10098/-1/rss01

[Oil Can Dan]

Please excuse the rant, but I can relate, somewhat, to this experience. Back when I was 17 years old some people broke into my house one night and stole (amoung other things) a boatload of my baseball cards. They stole a 1960 Topps set (not quite complete) and a 1963 Fleer set, along with 9-card sleeves containing cards of all the "stars", like Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Yaz, etc. They eventually caught the kids and they admitted to stealing then selling my cards to "The House of Cards", in Maryland, for $50. Turns out one of the two kids brought the cards into the store and claimed the cards belonged to his grandfather, who had died, so he wanted to sell them. This was in 1988 and there were cards in those 9-card sleeves there were brand freakin new, so there's no way that story held any water and the card shop knew it, so they apparently declined to buy them at all, but when the kid pleaded with the guy the guy said "I'll give you $50 for them all", which the kid agreed to.

I went to the House of Cards in an attempt to get them back or to at least buy them back, hopefully at some discounted price, but they would have none of it. First they said they didn't buy them, then they changed their story to "we bought them, but we sold them as a whole lot", then to "we bought them, sold some of them, but we don't know what's yours and what's ours". The police contacted them after I met with them but unfortunately there were no laws that dictated that protected me (as there were with Pawn shops), so I was s**t out of luck.

So I can empathize a bit, even though I lost mass-produced baseball cards and Tim lost unique collectables that are far less easy to replace. I spent many years building those sets, though, so I can still feel his pain even though the circumstances are a little different.

BTW, I believe The House of Cards is still in business to this day. I would hope that given the opportunity to bring your business elsewhere, you would.

[stkmtimo]

Please excuse the rant, but I can relate, somewhat, to this experience. Back when I was 17 years old some people broke into my house one night and stole (amoung other things) a boatload of my baseball cards. They stole a 1960 Topps set (not quite complete) and a 1963 Fleer set, along with 9-card sleeves containing cards of all the "stars", like Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Yaz, etc. They eventually caught the kids and they admitted to stealing then selling my cards to "The House of Cards", in Maryland, for $50. Turns out one of the two kids brought the cards into the store and claimed the cards belonged to his grandfather, who had died, so he wanted to sell them. This was in 1988 and there were cards in those 9-card sleeves there were brand freakin new, so there's no way that story held any water and the card shop knew it, so they apparently declined to buy them at all, but when the kid pleaded with the guy the guy said "I'll give you $50 for them all", which the kid agreed to.

I went to the House of Cards in an attempt to get them back or to at least buy them back, hopefully at some discounted price, but they would have none of it. First they said they didn't buy them, then they changed their story to "we bought them, but we sold them as a whole lot", then to "we bought them, sold some of them, but we don't know what's yours and what's ours". The police contacted them after I met with them but unfortunately there were no laws that dictated that protected me (as there were with Pawn shops), so I was s**t out of luck.

So I can empathize a bit, even though I lost mass-produced baseball cards and Tim lost unique collectables that are far less easy to replace. I spent many years building those sets, though, so I can still feel his pain even though the circumstances are a little different.

BTW, I believe The House of Cards is still in business to this day. I would hope that given the opportunity to bring your business elsewhere, you would.

Terrible story, like Tim's. Why people steal things that are not theirs is beyond me. Don't they have anything better to do? How pathetic.

I for one will never buy from House of Cards again and if I hear/see anything about Tim Crowder's collection I will alert everyone.

Thanks,

Tim

[Utopian2630]

Please excuse the rant, but I can relate, somewhat, to this experience. Back when I was 17 years old some people broke into my house one night and stole (amoung other things) a boatload of my baseball cards. They stole a 1960 Topps set (not quite complete) and a 1963 Fleer set, along with 9-card sleeves containing cards of all the "stars", like Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Yaz, etc. They eventually caught the kids and they admitted to stealing then selling my cards to "The House of Cards", in Maryland, for $50. Turns out one of the two kids brought the cards into the store and claimed the cards belonged to his grandfather, who had died, so he wanted to sell them. This was in 1988 and there were cards in those 9-card sleeves there were brand freakin new, so there's no way that story held any water and the card shop knew it, so they apparently declined to buy them at all, but when the kid pleaded with the guy the guy said "I'll give you $50 for them all", which the kid agreed to.

I went to the House of Cards in an attempt to get them back or to at least buy them back, hopefully at some discounted price, but they would have none of it. First they said they didn't buy them, then they changed their story to "we bought them, but we sold them as a whole lot", then to "we bought them, sold some of them, but we don't know what's yours and what's ours". The police contacted them after I met with them but unfortunately there were no laws that dictated that protected me (as there were with Pawn shops), so I was s**t out of luck.

So I can empathize a bit, even though I lost mass-produced baseball cards and Tim lost unique collectables that are far less easy to replace. I spent many years building those sets, though, so I can still feel his pain even though the circumstances are a little different.


BTW, I believe The House of Cards is still in business to this day. I would hope that given the opportunity to bring your business elsewhere, you would.

Oil Can,
I can certainly relate to that experience as a similar thing happened to me when I was 16 or so. Most of my 1933 Goudeys were stolen, about half a complete set with one Ruth and a lot of HOFers. In addition, an entire binder full of 800 autographed cards (mostly baseball cards) that spanned 6 years of my childhood outside of Three Rivers Stadium. One day while at a resale shop looking for music equipment, I noticed a bunch of Goudeys in pretty good shape (as a lot of mine were). I also noticed the person had an entire case of them. I casually brought up that I had similar cards that were stolen from me and he asked how long ago, when I told them it was recent he said "I think these might be yours", since aparently it was a 16 year old who brought them in. Turns out one of my 'friends' from school had stolen my cards, taken them to this resale shop and sold them to 'pay for his sick father's medical bills'. The guy at the resale shop gave them back to me cheap because he said he didn't want the bad karma in the store. As for the autographs, at a card store near my house, I saw a group of autographed cards which looked a lot like the ones I had. In addition, some of the cards were personalized to me. When I brought this to the owners attention he basically flipped out on me saying he doesn't buy stolen goods and most of the autographed stuff in the store he got on his own. I said to him "well did Jeff Bagwell spell your name wrong too?" The guy then asked me to leave the store for accusing him of buying stolen property. The funny thing is, I never accused him of anything, I just said these cards looked familiar.

I never got my cards back, but this guy is out of business. As for the resale shop, last time I checked that place is still around....aparently the 'bad karma' never came to that guy.

[skipcareyisfat]

This is awful, has anyone heard any updates about this.

I emailed Tim a couple days ago but I haven't heard back. I'm still hoping he'll send pics of the stolen items so I can post them here. Keep your fingers crossed.

[cjmedina1]

If anything comes up here in my town of Bakersfield I will let you know.

[BaseballGM]

Another postal worker caught.

http://www.9news.com/news/article.as...7734&catid=188