Someone stole our stuff.

[digi]

I may have bought your collection off of craigslist.  I have the original shipping box from a ctrlalt order and an invoice for an HHKB that came with it.  Both have a name on them.  Please PM me your name and let's see if this is a miracle.

[exitfire401]

I may have bought your collection off of craigslist.  I have the original shipping box from a ctrlalt order and an invoice for an HHKB that came with it.  Both have a name on them.  Please PM me your name and let's see if this is a miracle.

O___O The fact that you're coming through with this is awesome. Please tell us you also still have some info from the seller if this is the case.

[Belfong]

I may have bought your collection off of craigslist.  I have the original shipping box from a ctrlalt order and an invoice for an HHKB that came with it.  Both have a name on them.  Please PM me your name and let's see if this is a miracle.

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Holy **** indeed.

[audax989]

I may have bought your collection off of craigslist.  I have the original shipping box from a ctrlalt order and an invoice for an HHKB that came with it.  Both have a name on them.  Please PM me your name and let's see if this is a miracle.

Good guy mind is good.

[xtrafrood]

I may have bought your collection off of craigslist.  I have the original shipping box from a ctrlalt order and an invoice for an HHKB that came with it.  Both have a name on them.  Please PM me your name and let's see if this is a miracle.

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Holy **** indeed.

Aye, I want this story to have a happy ending

[mind_funeral]

Don't worry, he will get his items back regardless of whether I get my money back.  I'm an adult, work a full time job and make plenty of money to buy senseless crap.  To a 16 year-old with 2200 posts on this forum, this is his hobby and his life.  I don't go to meetups and enter to win crazy rare raffles for artisan keycaps.  I think this stuff is cool,  but it's not my life.  So, of course, I will be more than happy to return this stuff to its rightful owner.  I have the seller's first name, phone number and address and I hope that giving information to the police will help get back his dad's medals.

[exitfire401]

Don't worry, he will get his items back regardless of whether I get my money back.  I'm an adult, work a full time job and make plenty of money to buy senseless crap.  To a 16 year-old with 2200 posts on this forum, this is his hobby and his life.  I don't go to meetups and enter to win crazy rare raffles for artisan keycaps.  I think this stuff is cool,  but it's not my life.  So, of course, I will be more than happy to return this stuff to its rightful owner.  I have the seller's first name, phone number and address and I hope that giving information to the police will help get back his dad's medals.

[ANightOnCloudNine]

Don't worry, he will get his items back regardless of whether I get my money back.  I'm an adult, work a full time job and make plenty of money to buy senseless crap.  To a 16 year-old with 2200 posts on this forum, this is his hobby and his life.  I don't go to meetups and enter to win crazy rare raffles for artisan keycaps.  I think this stuff is cool,  but it's not my life.  So, of course, I will be more than happy to return this stuff to its rightful owner.  I have the seller's first name, phone number and address and I hope that giving information to the police will help get back his dad's medals.

AIR TREE LOOK  LOOK THE PERP HAS BEEN CAUGHT

[exitfire401]

Just gonna cross here in case anybody here doesn't reddit currently. Air Tree has been notified and the items were indeed his.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4gm8m6/photos_i_just_bought_an_hhkb_off_craigslist_for/

[ANightOnCloudNine]

Just gonna cross here in case anybody here doesn't reddit currently. Air Tree has been notified and the items were indeed his.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4gm8m6/photos_i_just_bought_an_hhkb_off_craigslist_for/

****ing cool

[Binge]

Air_tree firmly planted in the clouds anightoncloudnine... I can't make this **** up.

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[switchnollie]

Don't worry, he will get his items back regardless of whether I get my money back.  I'm an adult, work a full time job and make plenty of money to buy senseless crap.  To a 16 year-old with 2200 posts on this forum, this is his hobby and his life.  I don't go to meetups and enter to win crazy rare raffles for artisan keycaps.  I think this stuff is cool,  but it's not my life.  So, of course, I will be more than happy to return this stuff to its rightful owner.  I have the seller's first name, phone number and address and I hope that giving information to the police will help get back his dad's medals.

This is fantastic.

gg mind_funeral

[Belfong]

Just gonna cross here in case anybody here doesn't reddit currently. Air Tree has been notified and the items were indeed his.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4gm8m6/photos_i_just_bought_an_hhkb_off_craigslist_for/

wow, such a great story reading this.. and mind_funeral! You are DA MAN!!!

[noisyturtle]

oh wow, stuff was recovered! very cool to see

[xtrafrood]

Just gonna cross here in case anybody here doesn't reddit currently. Air Tree has been notified and the items were indeed his.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4gm8m6/photos_i_just_bought_an_hhkb_off_craigslist_for/

[–]skiwithpete1upkeyboards.com 21 points an hour ago
Hey,
We're hearing that there will be a whip round for /u/mind_funeral for returning this stuff to the rightful owner.
Just wanted to pop on here and say that http://1upkeyboards.com will contribute a sleeve to you once this stuff is back to its rightful owner.
Cool? Just reach out to us once this all gets sorted.
We're really proud to be part of this community. And it's amazing people like you that make it happen.

Dude skiwithpete is an awesome guy

edit - So is mind_funeral (obviously)

[ANightOnCloudNine]

Air_tree firmly planted in the clouds anightoncloudnine... I can't make this **** up.

im ****ing just in awe by how amazing this is. i was ****ing dissapointed as hell when i heard about this and now hearing this makes me so happy for air_tree

[asdfjkl36]

Holy....


Wow

Happy to hear everything wasn't lost.

Still have hope for humanity with people like mind_funeral

[Air tree]

To say the least, I'm truly blown away by this and by mind funeral for being such a cool dude. 


I haven't been this happy, besides when everyone got me a new HHKB, in years. 


I'm going to go take a breather.

[exitfire401]

To say the least, I'm truly blown away by this and by mind funeral for being such a cool dude. 


I haven't been this happy, besides when everyone got me a new HHKB, in years. 


I'm going to go take a breather.

Congrats again, dude. Glad everything got sorted out in one area. Hopefully it'll result in getting the rest of your family's stuff back.

[SixtyLife]

this story needs to be turned into a movie. props mind_funeral!

[demik]

some dope **** man.

big ups to mind for being a cool dude. may the topre gods smile upon you.

[Halverson]

Amazing, just so awesome to see this happen.


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[mind_funeral]

*x-post from the subreddit*

UPDATE: I have given /u/Air_tree's belongings to my local police department handling the case. They already had a case number for his family's burglary and with the detailed description of the stolen goods from the family, the police told me they had enough evidence to get a search warrant for the seller/thief's house. Air_tree's family is driving to my state tomorrow to get his stuff back. Hopefully the police come up with the rest of the stolen goods. The police asked me to compile all correspondence with the seller/thief and Air_tree to further strengthen the case.

I just want to say that regardless of the amount of gold, gifts, and praise I have received, it's not all me. Without the forum members of geekhack and redditors of /r/MechanicalKeyboards, I would have had no idea I had stolen goods. Those artisans could have been gone forever if certain users offered to buy them instead of letting me know they were stolen. So for that, I thank you. Geekhack, we did it.

[exitfire401]

*x-post from the subreddit*

UPDATE: I have given /u/Air_tree's belongings to my local police department handling the case. They already had a case number for his family's burglary and with the detailed description of the stolen goods from the family, the police told me they had enough evidence to get a search warrant for the seller/thief's house. Air_tree's family is driving to my state tomorrow to get his stuff back. Hopefully the police come up with the rest of the stolen goods. The police asked me to compile all correspondence with the seller/thief and Air_tree to further strengthen the case.

I just want to say that regardless of the amount of gold, gifts, and praise I have received, it's not all me. Without the forum members of geekhack and redditors of /r/MechanicalKeyboards, I would have had no idea I had stolen goods. Those artisans could have been gone forever if certain users offered to buy them instead of letting me know they were stolen. So for that, I thank you. Geekhack, we did it.

Agreed, thanks to all involved who noticed and brought it to Air tree's attention. What an amazing day.

[appleonama]

Glad to hear this is getting settled out.

awesome cooperation guys. 

[naasfu]

wow, this is really good news.  hooray for mind_funeral and air tree, and i hope they jail those thieving ****ers.

[theteam]

definitely good news

[Venatorious]

The odds of this happening is just... Wow.    Great job mind funeral, I am sure Air Tree feels better now. 

Also I remember someone stole the outside AC unit to my local church where my scout meetings happen, and the value of the copper in the unit was like 200$(that is what they think the thieves were after) and the church had to spend like 2000$ to replace the whole AC system in the building since they were no longer making the one they stole.  ****ing thieves, not caring about anyone but themselves.  I doubt they even pause to think about the consequences or impact on the life of the person they are stealing from. 

[Dihedral]

Nothing to add other than to say this is wonderful news!

[Puddsy]

I just saw on reddit that someone found your stuff.

Grats.

[kekman]

this is incredible

hope this helps find the culprit

[clacktalk]

damn it's like a miracle witnessing all this happening. the internet is so powerful. geekhack too overpowered

[funderburker]

This is amazing. I can't believe this is for real. ****ing amazing I say.

[rurushu]

cant believe such thing really happens in real life and not just some movies or tv shows, good job man mind_funeral, GOOD JOB!!!! 

and congrats Air_Tree, for getting back your items from those filthy burglars

[Chachal]

Great news. This story made my day

[rowdy]

Fantastic news, and great community spirit shown by mind_ in particular!

[whentheclouds]

wowza, what a nice story

hope the thief is soon apprehended if not already

[absyrd]

Nice work mind funeral and anyone else who helped.

Crazy that these communities can come together and find stolen keyboards and caps.

[beehatch]

I'm so freaking excited right now. This is such an amazing outcome.

So glad you got your stuff back air, can't imagine what you are feeling right now.

[dgneo]

Best thing I've heard about this community in a long time. Super happy for you air tree, and mind funeral, you're a really good person.

[mobbo]

Now kiss!


But seriously this is an incredible story. I'm not sure if you're going to pursue this any further air_tree, but if you do, I hope you catch the bastard responsible for this.

And then laugh in his face when you tell him one of those caps is worth x3 what he sold the whole package for.

[pwade3]

This is the kinda stuff that makes me glad that reddit and geekhack aren't 100% segregated. If it weren't for overlapping users, who's to say this would've been caught?

Kudos to mind_funeral for being a mature adult with all this, I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who would've become a ghost as soon as they heard what the collection was worth (stolen or not), sad as that is to say. You said you're new to the mech game, but I think you're about to get one of the warmest welcomes to these communities that's ever been seen.

[Belfong]

This reminds me of the books I read as a kid, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators. The main hero, Jupiter, would use his network of kids to track someone down. He called.5 friends who will call 5 more friends. Except that this is more exciting than some fiction. He he.

[HoffmanMyster]

I already posted in the reddit thread, but this is amazing new.  Congrats air tree on getting your stuff back and catching this guy, and huge props to mind_funeral for doing the right thing. 

This is the kinda stuff that makes me glad that reddit and geekhack aren't 100% segregated. If it weren't for overlapping users, who's to say this would've been caught?

There's obviously a bit of a rift between the communities, but I do think it's blown out of proportion more often than not.  I browse both regularly, and know many others that do.  And while redditors have done things that make me facepalm pretty hard, geekhackers have done just as ridiculous and stupid things.  Never really understood why we don't just all accept that each community is going to have its good and bad, ups and down, but maybe that's just me.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  I know this has been discussed ad nauseum and is a slight deviation from the topic at hand, but it almost seems like this is something that's perpetuated by bringing it up more so than by actual issues.

[Venatorious]

Deskthority is the true beacon of keyboard enlightenment 

[romevi]

Deskthority is the true beacon of keyboard enlightenment 

Huh?

[pwade3]

I already posted in the reddit thread, but this is amazing new.  Congrats air tree on getting your stuff back and catching this guy, and huge props to mind_funeral for doing the right thing. 

This is the kinda stuff that makes me glad that reddit and geekhack aren't 100% segregated. If it weren't for overlapping users, who's to say this would've been caught?

There's obviously a bit of a rift between the communities, but I do think it's blown out of proportion more often than not.  I browse both regularly, and know many others that do.  And while redditors have done things that make me facepalm pretty hard, geekhackers have done just as ridiculous and stupid things.  Never really understood why we don't just all accept that each community is going to have its good and bad, ups and down, but maybe that's just me.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  I know this has been discussed ad nauseum and is a slight deviation from the topic at hand, but it almost seems like this is something that's perpetuated by bringing it up more so than by actual issues.

Oh yeah, I use both as well. I don't think it's as bad as some say either, I hope my post didn't come across that way. As you mentioned, it's just a bit of a rift, we're not hitting gang-warfare status yet.  )

But hey, maybe this will do some good for both communities, coming together like this over our mutual love of keyboards.

[demik]

Deskthority is the true beacon of keyboard enlightenment 

Whenever I have insomnia I just visit deskthority and I'm asleep in seconds

Thank you deskthority <3. (Their site looks 100% better than ours tbh)

[Venatorious]

Well GH is okay when I change the layout to the orange creamsicle looking one. 

I do like the fact that DT automatically saves your sent messages in an easily accessible box below rather than making check a box every time 

[pwade3]

I do like the fact that DT automatically saves your sent messages in an easily accessible box below rather than making check a box every time 

I didn't realize that was something you had to do at first and I was so confused when I couldn't find an old message.