Share your pickup loot and finds

[SparTonberry]

I hope to convince the manager at GameXchange to let me reimburse them for what they paid out to her for my games and get the rest back.

Shocking to what I'd have thought about laws regarding protection against stolen merchandise being sold at pawn shops...
it sounds like it's normal for laws to be like "if you can prove you legally own merchandise, you are entitled to only pay the store back what they paid the thief, in order to get your stuff back".
But I'm guess I'm wrong in thinking it should be the thief legally responsible for paying back the store, since they were ones that received the payment. Pro-business ruling, since good luck getting a thief to pay up. Make the legal owner pay ransom for their own goods.

[Gameguy]

Well, here's an update on the theft... I have almost all of my games back. My brother's been communicating with the woman who stole my stuff, and got her to give back all the stuff she hadn't yet tried to sell in order to get me to drop the police charges. So, other than the games she had already sold to the GameXchange, everything's back (except for my copy of Cotton Fantasy for the PS4, she said there was no disc inside - which makes me wonder if somehow she lost it someplace, one of her scummy friends took it, or did the game store I bought it at last month accidentally not include the disc?). I hope to convince the manager at GameXchange to let me reimburse them for what they paid out to her for my games and get the rest back. I also wanted to replace my copy of Cotton Fantasy, so I ordered another one off Amazon. And while I was there, I ordered Umihara Kawase Bazooka and Cotton Reboot for the PS4 as well.

Don't drop the charges, especially since you still didn't get back everything and she still didn't pay you for everything she didn't still have. She's still supposed to give you your property even if she's charged, it's dumb that she's trying to bribe or extort you with your own property.

If you drop the charges then asking the game store to sell you those games for cheap sounds more like you're trying to scam them. Just don't drop the charges.

Shocking to what I'd have thought about laws regarding protection against stolen merchandise being sold at pawn shops...
it sounds like it's normal for laws to be like "if you can prove you legally own merchandise, you are entitled to only pay the store back what they paid the thief, in order to get your stuff back".
But I'm guess I'm wrong in thinking it should be the thief legally responsible for paying back the store, since they were ones that received the payment. Pro-business ruling, since good luck getting a thief to pay up. Make the legal owner pay ransom for their own goods.

The store already gave him back various games and refused to accept payment for them, probably because accepting payment for stolen goods would be illegal and they'd get in trouble for it. It sounds like Steve W realized he had more games missing than he originally thought, and was going to go back to the store to mention additional titles.

You're right about the thief needing to pay for those games, she should be held accountable.

[Gamevet]

I doubt that the girl even has a job.

[Steve W]

She doesn't have a job, she's on disability due to several medical issues including cancer. And she would never pay me back, she has no way to unless she steals it from somebody else. I just want all of this over and done with, and forget that it ever happened. I went through this weird depression after it happened due to that feeling of violation and loss, even though it was just a bunch of video games. Now that I have everything back except the stuff the game store is holding on to, I simply want to see an end to this and get my remaining stuff back. $20 is easily worth it to bring this junk to an end.

I stopped at a Movie Trading Company location yesterday and bought a PS4 game called Root Film. It looks like a mystery visual novel. I've seen it there for almost a year, it felt like the right time to pull the trigger and buy it. I didn't take a picture.

[Niku-Sama]

oh wow, i was internet less the last few weeks and apparently i missed a lot. thats pretty crappy man, i always though what a person could do to verify ownership\possession of a game or games like these in a case like this.
Was having the pictures from the earlier posts in this thread enough for the cops in this instance?

any way

i finally got a place of my own, as far as finds go.

I got a Bag o Wii system with controllers and the like for $30
I found a Playstaion 3D gaming monitor thing for $25 the week i moved.
Another slim PS2 and memorycard for $26 the other day. some other odds and ends.

i'll post pics when i can but i cant remember where i put some of this stuff already. moving sucks and i'll probably have to do it again soon

[Gamevet]

I keep all of my game and electronics receipts in a file cabinet. Worked out for me when we lived in an apartment and (most likely) a maintenance person stole my PlayStation, N64 and Dreamcast stuff. I got plenty of money back from the insurance claim.

[Niku-Sama]

hmm yea some of these things i have never had receipts, like the sharp NES tv and my arcade cocktail machine.
maybe i'll have to start taking my camera and documenting everything individually

[Steve W]

I've been putting off going back to the GameXchange because I'm anxious about whether or not I would be able to get my games back without filing a police report (and I've been working midnight to 8am three days a week, and it's trashing my sleep schedule). But I popped in, she gave me my games back, and even refused to take the $19.55 reimbursement for it. That was incredibly nice of her. So, everything's back in my possession.

I was in such a good mood I decided to go to the Dallas headquarters of Half Price Books, since they stay open until 9pm. Picked up Rime and Fruit Ninja VR for the PS4 - I used to see Rime all the time in just about every game store when I first started collecting PS4 stuff, and haven't seen it in a while, so I grabbed it because it was fairly cheap. Fruit Ninja VR was just goofy of me... I have a hard time with motion sickness with VR, and still I keep buying VR games. I'm an idiot. An idiot with a weak stomach.

They had several Doctor Who sonic screwdrivers from multiple Doctors. So I grabbed the Tom Baker model. They also had loads of Star Trek action figures from pretty much every series and movie. And freakin' loads of European copies of Rock Band Track Pack volume 1 for the Nintendo Wii. Since the Wii is region-locked, I have no idea if this thing would be compatible with a US Wii version of the game, or would people have to use a "Codebreaker"-style disc. $4.95 for a data disc that probably won't work in America seems like a bit much. Especially when they have more than 50 copies.

[Steve W]

The past couple of days off I managed to at least try to do a bit of game shopping even though I'm barely able to get to the stores before they close. Wasteland 2 for the PS4 was from a GameXchange. I also picked up the Irem Arcade Pack 1 for the Evercade tonight. It only has three games on it; Moon Patrol, R-Type, and In The Hunt. With games that good, I don't mind only 3 titles in the cart.

[Steve W]

I headed across town to try out a new restaurant that was supposed to have its grand opening yesterday, and it was still closed. Since I was in the area, I hit a couple Half Price Books. The first one had Enter the Gungeon, a Special Reserve game I was looking at ordering but never got around to it, and Hollow Knight. The next Half Price Books had diddly squat. I stopped at a nearby place called Retro Madness, and picked up Super Gunworld 2 and Rustler. And at a really reliable game store I bought Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. And then I found a package from FedEx on my porch when I got home, a copy of Gal-Gun for the PS3 from Japan that I ordered a while ago.

[Steve W]

I love the PS4 library. It's so freakin' large that you absolutely never know what you'll come across, no matter how weird. A few days ago I was looking for something on Amazon, and Nippon Marathon for the PS4 popped up. I remember seeing it being played on YouTube once, so I put it in my cart to keep track of it. Then I came across Deathsmiles I & II (I have the first one on the 360), so I put that in the cart. Then I came across Puzzle Bobble 3D/VR, and Star Renegades, and so I threw them in the cart and ordered them. They came in this morning before I left for work. I played Nippon Marathon when I got home... man, that's a weird one. I like it. Games like this are why the PS4 is such a great machine, the library is amazingly, gloriously eclectic. Outstandingly collectible.