So after a year long love affair with my empeg, i walk out to my car this morning to the worst thing that could possibly happen... my beloved 20 gig empeg was gone! the bastards had to destroy my gear shift to get to it too...

ugh...

if anyone has an extra for sale, i can't go back to cd's....

~jason

Greetings!

Please send email to support with the serial number. Sorry to hear about your loss!!!

will do paul... i'll send that off as soon as i get home from work. thanks for the reminder.

Why not post the serial # here as well? I for one have been keeping a hawk's eye on what's for sale on eBay and the board, should I decided that money meant for other toys would be well spent on a 2nd. I'd be happy to query new sellers on eBay for the serial # of the player and other such details.

a quick update: i got together all my paperwork/receipts/etc for the insurance claim, and to post the serial number here. as i pull out this morning on my way to work, i see my precious empeg on the street corner about a block away from my house. looks like someone couldn't figure out how to get the cd's into it or something, and decided to smash it instead. the unit also got stormed on last night, but i'm going to give it some love and see if anything about the unit is salvageable. i will also still make the insurance claim, of course, so i can continue my love affair with this gadget.

Wow, a discarded Empeg sitting on the street corner... THAT's a new one!

Hope you can breathe some life back into it, but after being smashed and left out in a rainstorm, I think you might as easily create Frankenstein's monster...

Well, the rainstorm couldn't do a lot of damage to an unconnected empeg. Water is only damaging it with power connected.
That it was smashed on the other hand is definitively worse.

cu,
sven.

PS: Jason, good luck reviving it.

Greetings!

You are very lucky to get it back. There is still the car damage, and (from the sound of "smashed") quite a bit of repair on the empeg itself, but you might be able to salvage something...

One interesting point, though - I hope you handled it carefully to try and get fingerprints / get the police involved. Since it was found so close to home, that means (assuming they stole it from your car parked at home), they did not take much time to study or work with the unit. If they were in a car, it would have only been seconds; on foot, maybe a minute or so. In any case, the thieves are likely still in your neighborhood.

Yeah, tell me all you want about water not damaging it, but I won't be putting my empeg in the dishwasher anytime soon...

The whores on the street corners round here come for about a tenth the price of an Empeg, and a tenth the enjoyment.

Sincerely hope you get it working, couldn't do without mine!

As prompted by an e-mail received privately, no I don't know from personal experience, it was just a joke!

i would seriously snap if what you described happened to me. snnnnnap i tell you.

hehehe.. then make sure you take your empegs in at night. i had "it would never happen to me" syndrome. when i get another one, i'll buy a nice hardshell case with a lock, and take it with me whenever possible.

Let me know what is damaged and I'll provide a repair quote.

Hi, i talked to tony lastnight, from the group buy thread. I'm waiting for my unit. People have already stated that they received their units its perfect condition. He said he has 6 more empegs left for sale. Just thought i would toss this into the thread. They are $520/each for a 10gb. You could switch your hard drive, or maybe David would do it so you wouldn't void your warranty.

This is ever so sad, but at least you got your empeg back. It seems that those damn thieves don’t have a clue on how priceless these units are. Ever since I got my mark 1, then the mark2a, I’ve never let it out of my sight. Expect for a quick trip across the pond.

i've had my apline for over a year now and i bring the face with me every night. im actually on my way to buy a pelican 1400 and it will have enough room for the alpine faceplate too ;P

"i'll buy a nice hardshell case with a lock"

And don't forget a car alarm and a shotgun.

No, the shotgun would be too quick, I'd like to see the thief suffer. I heard a story about a guy who caught a thief breaking into his car. He kicked seven shades of sh*t out of the guy and left him tied to a lamppost in the center of town with a sign around his neck saying 'I'm a car thief, please kick me', apparently they had CCTV footage of almost every other passer by putting the boot in! I would love to have seen that!

/me wants to see that video.

/me too!

My last car was broken into 3 times. They never found him. But recently someone was arrested breaking into a car on my street. Maybe his prints will match up with the screwdriver left behind in my car when the thief was scared away.

Give 'em the chair, that's what I say!

I would settle for the old "take away the instrument of the crime" approach. In this case, cut off his hands, and make it illegal for him to have any kind of prosthetic.

This is why I'm not a politician!

Neither am I. I just prefer the guilty to be able to think about what they've done while they suffer. In my case I lost the faceplate to my stereo at the time, a portable cd player I was using, and a really big binder full of CDs (each one was a burned copy of the original, safely tucked away in my house). The officer, however, did not take note of that last tidbit, and valued my loss at about $1000. So if they find the guy, I might get my money. But it's been long enough that I'd settle for jail time.

I must know... does it work? were you able to give it enough TLC to get any life from it? Was it a little smashed or a lot smashed? Possibly the guys at support could repair it if it were just a little smashed. Please let us know.

here's the damage:

http://www.krack.org/temp/empeg1.jpg
http://www.krack.org/temp/empeg2.jpg
http://www.krack.org/temp/empeg3.jpg
http://www.krack.org/temp/empeg4.jpg

with it being smashed and rained on, should i try to plug it in to see if it still works?

thanks!

That's really sad, I hope you manage to do something about getting it going again. If I caught the b***ard who did that I'd give him the kicking of a lifetime. On a positive side, it doesn't look like connectors have been damaged, maybe the motherboard is intact. What does the front look like? Good luck with getting it fixed

i agree about kicking the poop out of the bastard that did this. the front looks fine, surprisingly. no cracks in the faceplate or anything. so what's the vote, should i plug it in?

I would take the top off first and check to see if there is anything loose in there or metal pieces laying on the mainboard.

I'd open it up first... make sure it's all dry and clean it out a little. Check if the mobo is in tact and the connectors are on... that sort of thing. Wow. You're lucky the facia wasn't smashed! Maybe with some metal work it could be back to working order...

wow. It looks like it was run over. It would take a LOT of weight to bend the metal like that... it doesn't look like a hammer was taken to it or anything. Weird.

I would at least pull the faceplate and see if the VFD is shattered. If you are brave, open the case and make sure the dented part of the case is not shorting anything.... Does it rattle?