ChrisnAmanda1
Elite Member
Hi Chris, this is LovestheShiny's wife here. I used to work in a pawn shop. Stories like yours make my blood boil. You've gotten some great advice here, such as filing a police report and including the significant physical markings to help identify it, and reporting the serial number to Nox.
I'd like to add just a bit. Some pawn shops won't enter a serial number in their record keeping. It adds traceability to merchandise, and puts their bottom line at risk. If you decide to visit or call pawn shops looking for your Nox, do as as a buyer, not a victim. What I mean by this is that if someone sells a piece of stolen merch to a pawnshop, then someone else tells the shop that they've been robbed of xyz, and asks if the shop has recently gotten in an xyz, if the shop answers honestly, they are out the item and the money they paid for it. As you can imagine, that significantly reduces the incentive to be helpful. Some jurisdictions require pawnshops to hold items 30 days before putting out for sale, so if you walk into a shop, just because you don't see it doesn't mean it is not in the back room, or another location. On the other hand, if you walk in or call as a buyer, they have a lot of incentive to show you what they do have, and may even show you items that are not supposed to be available for sale yet. Best of luck to you. Keep us posted.
Thank you! That's great advice. I havent gone to any shops yet because I didn't think it would be available yet anyway. I might have to go shopping! I appreciate it!