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20 May 2017, 12:14 PM | #1 |
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Rolex Robbery at Costco (Bay Area)
I wonder if Costco will increase security or stop carrying luxury watches all together?
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...nville-costco/
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Yeah I ws in the Costco in Summerlin, NV today and noticed a Yachtmaster ll for $14,199. Maybe good photo of the watch and a tag to pick it up like they do their electronics would be a better procedure for buying these high ticket items. Also had a single malt scotch for $11,000.
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20 May 2017, 01:02 PM | #4 |
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The Henderson store is considerably less high end.....anything. They are building a new store over on St Rise, Hopefully it has abetter wind selection that the existing Henderson store. I am frequently in some of the Seattle COSTCO's and they have a much better selection that what we see around here.
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This is a liability costco will have to deal with if they want to display Rolex carrying a price tag of several thousand dollars. Seen one Costco shown on a thread here selling a gold Sub for 26K. Bet there is no extra security for that one either. Their jewelry cases are right near the entrance to their stores.
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The thieves were probably just trying to make their mortgage...
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21 May 2017, 05:14 AM | #9 |
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You have to wonder about the perpetrator as in theory at least they have to me a member to get in the front door with photo membership card assuming was not stolen to begin with. That means that some where in their records they should be identifiable. Not sure how easy that would be but if they are locals that would be pretty easy to track down IMO. After all they must have been in this store before as they knew the watch was there for the pickn.
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That would mean some interaction with a COSTCO employee, probably something that the perps would not want. Who knows these guys might never be caught. Wasn't there some other Rolex smash and grab over in the East Bay (Danville), in the last couple of weeks. Maybe there is a trend here? |
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21 May 2017, 11:55 AM | #14 |
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This is a very busy Costco, it's close to my home also. The article in the last paragraph states that this same Costco was robbed earlier this month and a hammer was used to smash a display case.
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That's crazy! I grew up in Walnut Creek right by Danville. Definitely not an area you would expect this to happen but nothing surprises me anymore. Too bad.
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I was at this Costco a few hours after the robbery. There was still a Rolex in the case.
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Costco in Canada already doesn't sell any Rolexes (only Tags and the odd Victorinox or something), and I wonder if it is due to possible robbery. Maybe it's related to our insurance laws or something.
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these guys probably sold that watch within an hour or two on the other side of the bay. Just a watch without any papers, warranty, etc, will make it a hard sell for anyone knowing the slightest thing about Rolex watches. I have seen guys trying sell stuff in strip mall parking lots, moving from car to car and asking if you would like to by a watch. Buyer beware!
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The watches are sitting next to 25k diamond rings and other expensive jewelry, so really a solution is to move the whole Jewelry counter back by the 10k bottles of cognac, scotch, tekilua and Bourdeaux way in the back area by the nice prime meats Just a matter of time now if they don't move that section they'll have to hire security but then you might have injured employees or customers if a robbery occurred. Your not going to stop a crazed drug addicted human who wants to steal but you can make it much more difficult. Costco I go to is a madhouse on the weekends. Their going to move the whole section is my guess
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Rolex Robbery at Costco (Bay Area)
This happened just a few weeks ago in neighboring Walnut Creek. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same group of scumbags:
https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?p=7552827 We always hear of these types of crimes, and it always makes me wonder why they still make jewelry displays that shatter so easily. Surely there's a way to make these displays smashproof? Bulletproof glass, anyone? Not an engineer/chemist, but it sounds like a good business opportunity for an enterprising glass or fixture maker. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Yeah, saw the news about the robbery in Walnut Creek.
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