On Oct 4, 2008, at 23:52 , Anthony Farr helped out with:
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Anyone know of a
national registry that will list such things?
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
IIRC, phot.net has a stolen goods register. Yep, it's here:
http://photo.net/registry/
Whether or not used equipment buyers bother to check their purchases
against
the lists is another thing.
Googling "stolen camera register" gives some other options, it'd
wouldn't
hurt to use them all FWIW.
Regards, Anthony
Thanks for the suggestions.
Been to Photo.net. Started to list the items, but it takes a while to
do one at a time. Also went to a national site called "juststolen.net"
which purports to be a national registry that law enforcement uses to
register and hunt for stolen goods. But I was suspicious of it. The
way it is set up, they want you to list all your valuable possessions
before hand assuming that the police will be able to match any goods
they confiscate to your registered goods and return it to you. Sure. I
have all this valuable stuff, and here where I live, and here's where
I work so you can get in touch with me, which means I'm not home
during the day, and so on.
Also, there is no category for registering cameras or photographic
equipment, just electronics, jewelry, etc. It concerned me to put all
that information out there if it was a site just "trolling" for the
location of goodies. It just seemed a bit amateurish to be used as a
national "official" police register. I wrote the webmaster about it.
We'll see if the Boston Police (the supposed creators of the site(?))
respond.
The other sites seem to be camera brand specific, and there isn't one
for Pentax. But I sent emails to the local camera clubs and collectors
sites, where I could find an email address.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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