Last weekend i went to a biking competition in essex. stopped over the saturday night in a field then awoke sunday morning to find a text from my girlfriend saying some guys had been in the house in the night and tried to rob us. I called her and she said they'd come in, come upstairs and saw her in the house and then legged it. Apparently both her and my other housemate had gone to bed without either of them checking the doors, leaving both the front and rear unlocked.
After calling again a little later sunday morning she tells me my xbox games had gone, so roughly twenty games (MW2, ME2, Borderlands, Guitar hero etc...) so probably what, £15 each average?
Get home and go to ride my bike to work the next day and that is nowhere to be seen either. I'd only just finished building that up and it was a lovely bike. Spent maybe £350-400 on it by only buying extreme bargains. If selling on ebay it'd probably fetch £500-550.
This seems to be the only stuff missing and all of their stuff is fine, so just mine gone.
Now my girlfriend is mega guilty about it and has offered to pay me back, though she has very little money at the minute so it'll be a while. My housemate just sort of said "unlucky" and i walked out the room to avoid ramming the sofa through his skull.
The big question is, am i being unreasonable in thinking i should be asking them to sort it out/replace everything or maybe even just some of it. There was no insurance, but the policy i now have (mrs boats heard the two guys comment on the tv, speakers etc in the lounge so i got one straight away) won't cover if the doors are open so it would have been irrelevant as it would be void. I'm not really confrontational and hate asking for things from people at the best of times so to me it feels wrong asking them to sort it, but other friends seem to think i should be making them fix it or claiming my housemates bike as my own.
What do the OCUK'ers think?
After calling again a little later sunday morning she tells me my xbox games had gone, so roughly twenty games (MW2, ME2, Borderlands, Guitar hero etc...) so probably what, £15 each average?
Get home and go to ride my bike to work the next day and that is nowhere to be seen either. I'd only just finished building that up and it was a lovely bike. Spent maybe £350-400 on it by only buying extreme bargains. If selling on ebay it'd probably fetch £500-550.
This seems to be the only stuff missing and all of their stuff is fine, so just mine gone.
Now my girlfriend is mega guilty about it and has offered to pay me back, though she has very little money at the minute so it'll be a while. My housemate just sort of said "unlucky" and i walked out the room to avoid ramming the sofa through his skull.
The big question is, am i being unreasonable in thinking i should be asking them to sort it out/replace everything or maybe even just some of it. There was no insurance, but the policy i now have (mrs boats heard the two guys comment on the tv, speakers etc in the lounge so i got one straight away) won't cover if the doors are open so it would have been irrelevant as it would be void. I'm not really confrontational and hate asking for things from people at the best of times so to me it feels wrong asking them to sort it, but other friends seem to think i should be making them fix it or claiming my housemates bike as my own.
What do the OCUK'ers think?
