Ouch, thats a lot of expensive gear

[theshadow2001]

The amount of money those guitars would collectively sell for is phenomenal.

http://video.musicstore.de/diebstahl/index_EN.html


At least there were no basses involved in the incident

[crispygoat]

that has to be the happiest guy in the world.

[gweimer]

As I recall, Warrior had a theft of a large number of basses a few years back. That had to be even more costly than this one, even with the PRS guitars on that list.

[bluestarbass]

Man someone knew what they were doing. Thats lots of one offs and really rare cool guitars. That totally sucks for that store, I hope they have insurance. Im not sure if warriors are more expensive than some of those. I didnt see a guitar that retails for less than 5 grand on there.

[Hawaii Islander]

Thats anywhere from $350,000.00 to $500,000.00 USD

I hope they catch the a-holes that did it.

[gweimer]

Originally Posted by bluestarbass

Man someone knew what they were doing. Thats lots of one offs and really rare cool guitars. That totally sucks for that store, I hope they have insurance. Im not sure if warriors are more expensive than some of those. I didnt see a guitar that retails for less than 5 grand on there.

Warriors can go for up to $20K each, and I think it was a warehouse that was cleaned out. It's been a while, so the details are little fuzzy.

As far as insurance goes, it may be more costly than the robbery. I knew a store owner some years ago. He got broken into 3 times in less than 2 months. The first two were back-to-back nights. His losses were about $20K. He'd been there 3 years, and didn't have any insurance. When we asked him why, he said that his insurance would have run him $1000/mo. Over 3 years, that's $36K.

[Hellbastard]

That's the store I buy gear everytime I go to Germany and I gotta say the guys who stole this pulled an Ocean Eleven's stunt. First of all the guitars involved were on the 3rd floor of a giant buliding whose only access is through an elevator located outside the building, which is located in one of the most central areas of the city of Cologne(Köln)
2nd as far as I remember the police precint is located very close to the area of the building´. That's gotta be an inside job.
It's very sad what happened to those people man the gretsch guitars alone cost almost 50.000€.

[gweimer]

Found the info on Warrior. The Dude posted it here back in 2000.

ALERT: Stolen Warrior Basses