28 Jul
2004
28 Jul
'04
7:41 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:33, Teo Zenios wrote:
I would expect a normal thief to look for items that
are easily sold or
pawned and hard to trace. Do you have the serial numbers written down for
your PDA's and portables? Are they insured?
Insurance was one thing I checked up on before taking anything to the
CGE show. Items being exhibited there were insured by the organisers
against theft, so individuals didn't have to worry about it. I'm not
sure whether this was under the organiser's policy, or covered by the
exhibition hall itself.
Damage, whether accidental or otherwise, at the hands of exhibitors or
the public, was presumably another matter though. I'm not sure how
things stood had the whole site burned to the ground overnight, say!
The people you would have to
watch out for are fellow collectors who might snag an item for their
personal collection that very few people would ever know about.
Well someone did lose a couple of flat display screens at CGE overnight,
despite the doors supposedly being locked. I can only think that another
exhibitor or someone on the exhibition hall's own staff stole them,
which is somewhat alarming. The nature of the items taken suggests
opportunist theft rather than something planned; there were far more
valuable items left on site overnight but presumably whoever took them
knew they stood a good chance of not getting caught and of being able to
sell the items on...
I'll have to ask the event organiser whether there were security cameras
in place which will have caught the people - I very much expect that
there would be as the show was at a well-established exhibition site...
cheers,
Jules