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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5761363" data-attributes="member: 14159">About a decade ago, our gaming club on campus had a problem like this.We had a small office space on campus for our club.  We had a filing cabinet and bookshelf for public perusal of gaming books, and had a decent-sized library in there, including Dragon Magazines going back to the late 80's.  We noticed books slowly vanishing from the shelves.  At first we thought members of the club were borrowing them and neglecting to sign them out.Then one day we pulled out our copies of the Planescape Boxed Sets (all 4 of them) and found that the contents were completely gone.  Inside the boxes were some of the old issues of Dragon, put in there to weigh the boxes down.We took an inventory, and realized that a LOT of our books had vanished over the last month or so, and almost all our boxed sets were plundered of everything except the box.What was worse was that right across the street from campus, and maybe 200 feet from our office was a FLGS.  This FLGS, like many, deals in used gaming books.  We went over and took a nice long look at the books he had for sale.  He the vast majority of books we were missing, he had copies of on his used books shelf. . .including some fairly obscure small-press stuff from the early 80's.  The icing on the cake was the four complete Planescape boxed sets, without the boxes (bound together with a rubber band), we even recognized the wear on the maps as being ours.  We confronted the owner, he said that he just bought the stuff people bring in, and he re-sells it, no records of who sells what.  We figured that somebody bringing in a few dozen books, including multiple box sets worth of stuff sans-box, within the last month would be memorable, but he was keeping tight-lipped.  He also refused to do anything unless we could conclusively prove it was our stuff that was stolen.We had a stamp made saying "property of suchandsuch" and stamped all our books with it, and put them under lock and key. . .with a sign saying this was needed because of thefts.</blockquote>

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