Well TVs… think about that again, Price of TVs has gone down, size has gone up. pick up a nice 50" or 70" TV for $200 or less.
Big, hard to move, fragile… Very bulky, very non descrete… and pawn shops are kind of over loaded with them so… big cut in price.
Games consoles are probably it, but obviously only a hand full per house, and thanks to the modern era having more digital games, accounts etc… New risks in ways you can get caught and you can’t steal the games with it.
Lets say the theft is successful of a TV or game console. The thief likely wants cash, not consumer electronics. So they need a way to convert stolen goods into cash. Any TV worth money worth bothering with is also very large and fragile which is a problem for offloading it. Sure, there’s craigslist and facebook marketplace, but there aren’t many that will buy a TV off of those because of the likelihood something is already wrong with it, and TVs just aren’t that expensive new. Many consoles also have a theft reporting function that will block or limit how the console can be used. I imagine this also make theft of a console a high risk, low reward path.
TVs, game consoles
Well TVs… think about that again, Price of TVs has gone down, size has gone up. pick up a nice 50" or 70" TV for $200 or less.
Big, hard to move, fragile… Very bulky, very non descrete… and pawn shops are kind of over loaded with them so… big cut in price.
Games consoles are probably it, but obviously only a hand full per house, and thanks to the modern era having more digital games, accounts etc… New risks in ways you can get caught and you can’t steal the games with it.
Lets say the theft is successful of a TV or game console. The thief likely wants cash, not consumer electronics. So they need a way to convert stolen goods into cash. Any TV worth money worth bothering with is also very large and fragile which is a problem for offloading it. Sure, there’s craigslist and facebook marketplace, but there aren’t many that will buy a TV off of those because of the likelihood something is already wrong with it, and TVs just aren’t that expensive new. Many consoles also have a theft reporting function that will block or limit how the console can be used. I imagine this also make theft of a console a high risk, low reward path.