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And also it seems to me it'd be easier to walk in and steal tablets, phones, and laptops which are actually worth something really quickly compared to casing the whole house for jewelery which may or may not be locked up, can be very unique, and probably way harder to fence.

So you've got expensive non-unique items that others want in easier to find locations, a definite win for the burglar I'd think.

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I'd look at this the ither way around. All the electronics have serial numbers and need to be taken out if state or out of country to have any value. Gold jewelry is easily melted down and completely untraceable.

Last time our place was burgled, they ignored laptops and cameras and went for the jewelry.

Very strange. I'd assume they'd fence it to known associates.

If somebody steals my phone, I can report it stolen and none of the major carriers in the US will allow its IMEI to register on their networks. This effectively renders it useless to anyone who buys it.

There was an organized crew here that would snatch phones from people's hands and run off the subway as the doors closed. They just changed the IMEI and resold them and got away with this for almost 2yrs before getting caught

Until the phone is sent to a foreign country. We have had IMEI registration here in Australia for years and phones still get stolen.

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