Even Criminals Hate Moeblobs: K-ON! Guitars Ditched

Actually I'd think these thieves, however assholic they be, are smart for doing this. They probably saw the news about the theft, and realized they had hot goods that could be identified and traced back to them without any real trouble at all wherever they tried to pawn them off or even keep them. On a long enough timeline, someone would match the numbers and models. So of course it's a bitch move to bitch a guitar like that, but they're relatively smart to not try anything more retarded with them like... sell them and get caught.

No.

I was merely commenting on how haters will really laugh at it(which i think is pretty valid if you hate it that you want to stamp on all K-ON! merchandise) and otakus will really get pissed over it(which i think is plenty valid too if you love it, to the point where you wanna pick up a gun and shoot these guys on their balls).

While i can understand if people may think that its sarcastic, but why people treat like you can treat it as a biased comment is beyond me.

But really, i can see this shit happening on 2ch right now. Either starting a thread over there on this and the flame wars that ensue.

@Rethardus

i think he meant; even if Otaku say that they would do something like this on the net, they would never have the guts to actually do it in RL. So he knew that the robbers could not have been Otaku

@Darkrockslizer

What do you mean "irl"? Is there any other way to steal those items?

really... exactly how on earth can you sell stolen K-ON! guitars and figures? Trying to sell them on the net would bring the police down on you (or should, if they are doing their jobs) They are pretty much a shining beacon that says "IT WAS MEE!"

it is not like there is some sort of large otaku black market...... well, that i know of

@alidan

"the guitar that yui uses Gibson Les Paul Cherry Sunburst is worth 2500$ minimum, and depending on where or when you buy it up to 3500$

are you telling me these retards couldn't hold onto a guitar for more than 3 months, sell it and pose as an otaku who want thinking when he bought it, and needed to recupe some money."

It's called serial numbers, dawg. You don't think they've got them stored somewhere? I own 12 guitars and I have digital and paper copies of all 12 serials, and any half-intelligent instrument owner would have their serials documented as well, so I'm sure the schools reported the serials to the cops as soon as the robbery was reported. Any pawnshop or music store has to document the serial when they buy from a customer and check it against the stolen-goods database; it'll be an instant match. Fucking busted. Even if a private buyer were to buy them, they'd know about the theft and would surely check the serials themselves to make sure they weren't being sold hot goods. Smarter to dump the stuff than get caught red-handed, although there will surely be fingerprints and DNA evidence on the instruments.

Also as someone who used to sell guitars for a living, a new cherry sunburst Les Paul Standard might be worth $2500 at a store, but the value of guitars, much like cars, depreciates like a motherfucker once sold, even without damage. You might be able to get $1800 tops for a mint LPS on the secondhand market. More likely $1200-1500.

HouseLife
10:57

i have to disagree. the Gibson Les Paul Cherry Sunburst should be an easy sell to fellow otaku, and otaku i'm assuming don't really know much about the gibson registering system, and even than, gibson uses a weird serial system thats hard for people who like guitars to figure out.

but even than you are assuming that the school made note of the serials, in 3 to 4 months, this would have been a who the hell cares kind of thing, and so long as you got rid of any identifying marks or things on the guitar, other items, in 3-4 months, NO ONE would have noticed, especially if you sold them off 1 at a time about a week apart from each other.

i still think these criminals are fucking retarded for not hanging onto the guitars at least, they aren't that big and are not that hard to store.

Anonymous
11:51

that realy depends on their ware and tear, looking online i see some of those models going for 3000+ but i'm assuming huge mark ups.

im also going to go out on a limb and say that those guitars are harder to find in japan, with them being imports and the otaku who bought them up.

now yea there are serials on almost every thing you own, from computers, to remotes, handhelds, and so on so forth, however do you document everything that has them? im going to say most people dont.

now that said, its a school, in japan. ill assume that the music teacher there is probably older. now this is taken from my experience, but out music teacher when i was in school, i think 10 or so years ago, didn't consider electric guitars musical instruments, hell anything that wasn't a classical instruments, and needed anything electric she wouldn't consider it music. i'm going to assume that the school didn't get the serials on them, because they were gifts, if i read that right, not something they bought.

now lets go with who you sell it to. selling hot goods isn't all to hard. if they were smart they would have wore gloves, so no finger prints at all. and never directly handled any of the goods, and before they sell them all off give them a final wipe.

japan is small as hell, now lets assume that each figure could go for 50-100$+ depending on its type and its quality. those could be advertised online and sold online with out ever meeting the person. and you mail them from somewhere at least 50 miles away from you.

now the guitars may be more of a bitch to sell. those may need to be sold in person, because online, everyone sees it, print a piece of paper and put it up in the otaku hangouts to see if they want the guitar, you will probably get a more personal and less cop likely solution. otaku to otaku only getting it because of k-on, probably wont serial it or check the serial, or know how easily they can be tracked (if you know how). and will be around 2 grand of a profit at least, and hell if you kept it and got good at it, you would have a pretty nice guitar, and after long enough no one would suspect anything that it was stolen.

see this is a risk reward type of thing. its relatively low risk to sell it to an otaku, and if they are caught with it, in all likeliness it will be long enough that they cant remember your face all to well. see, its the kind of thing people think about when they fence a stolen laptop, the risk is getting caught, the reward is big enough that its worth it.

"like so much worthless moeblob trash"
shame on you Artefact!