Potentially very useful FREE website

[Lynton]

Ladies and Gents of TP,

Please find a link to a free website which allows you to register pretty much anything with a serial number or IMEI number and uploads to a database. I registered last night after finding it on another photography forum (for dirty Pentaxians!) and did post a link in two areas today, but one of the "adminnies," who shall remain nameless ( though change the first letter of his name to a P and it might look like something you receive from the postman ) accidentally had a "forumfart" whilst combining them!

This database is used by every police force in the UK, and by a lot of second hand dealers to check for stolen goods etc. I think a lot of ins co's use it as well for fraud checking. I believe as a member of the public you can also search it by s/n to see if reported stolen etc. You can also scan in recepits etc which most insurance companies will then accept as proof of purchase / ownership.


This part of the website is 100% free, and it also offers for sale property marking kits, microdot kits etc etc.

Please note. I have absolutely no affiliation to this site - just thought it could be of use to people on here.


Mods - if you think it's in the wrong place - please feel free to move accordingly

 

[Rocket Blower]

thanks for this. Going to get cracking with my gear.

 

[Andysnap]

That looks very interesting. Thanks mate.

Andy

 

[Catdaddy]

Very useful - especially when you realise that you can get all your stuff listed offline in a single file and upload the bloody lot all at once! Nice find

 

[TR3K]

Thanks for the link, great idea

 

[Lynton]

yep - how many times has someone said, "do you have the serial number?".... erm ....

 

[Photo Plod]

As an extra vote of confidence, I can assure you that we use Immobilise all the time in the police - it does work, and it does allow us to recover stolen goods.

By way of example, officers on my borough recently intercepted a shipment (via a courier company) of over 1500 stolen mobile phones that were destined for Algeria. Only a fraction of them were registered - but of those that were, all were returned to their owners.

It is a very, very useful database.