This is what I did to recover my Basses, On April 30th my house robbed, they took my Genz-Benz 2-10 bass cab, Hofner beatle bass, my Fender Jazz Bass , my Precision and my Alembic Epic, the next morning I gathered all my serial numbers with photos of all my gear and went to work, I pulled up all the phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all the Music stores in the Metro, I made Phone calls and sent emails with serial numbers and Photos. by 5 o clock a small music store called me and said he had bought two of my basses (the Hofner and the Jazz bass) so off to the music store I went, I had the Police meet there and when we went in and sure enough there were my two basses. the owner told me he didn't want my stolen basses in his shop gave them back to me along the Thumb print of the guy that sold them, he said now we are both victims, I left with my basses. driving home I notice two pawn shop so I stopped in to check and see if they had seen my light blue Precision and the said YES earlier that day but he didn't buy it, BUT he had some real good film of the guy trying to sell it, so with all that information I called the detective working my case passes it on, the detective told me thanks to proactive stance I was making his job too easy , this morning he found my Precision in a pawn shop and told me now he knew who the guys were and he would find them, but at 3 o clock the guys at the Guitar Center called me and ask if I had an Alembic stolen from me and I said Yes, They called the Police, and they arrested 5 guys, and all of Basses and speaker box have all been recovered!!!!!!!
long story short, if you get ripped off, don't set around feeling sorry for your self, get off your ass and go to work!!!!
the police told me if it had not been for all my leg work they would still be out there
David T
PS; when my Series 1 got stolen back in 1978 that's how I got it back also
