i had seen a thing about numbers. the headphones must had been pre-sold, before the heist. a number so low cannot be considered worthy of effort, if the thieves did not knew every single detail already.
also, about the inside job. think about the fact that some of the people who sell these things are truck drivers, or car drivers. so inside can mean a truck driver who works for a truck company. he can dissappear without audeze ever knowing, because no company is keeping trace of truck drivers that are employed at transport companies.
After the look of the deed, it looks like it was done by begginers, who had enough data to know exactly where to steal, and how the equipment works, but not enough data/knowledge do open the door through computer/key cracking, which is medium difficulty. Also, a pure inside job would steal progressively one per day or so, replacing what was in the box for a while, then carry the thing at once, leaving little to no trace. much cleaner.
the thieves can be recognized by height/clothes/what can be seen, but i doubt that police are going to to it for audeze.
I live in eastern europe. No trace of any type of data of any kind about audeze things from anyone else but authorised dealers that sold from the beggining of time. I will keep looking. Audiophile folks involved in stealing, is something that i doubt will be seen so easly, i mean, most audiophile are already rich, or collectors. mostly the sold things were pre-sold, within some organization that already was doing bad buisness.
on the bright side, assurance companies can cover around 80% of the market price of the lost products. i have experience, and if stock assurance was made, around 80% should go to audeze within 60 days.
also, take notice that due to how it was done, the thieves have to travel all the way with the products. there are plenty of chances of them being caught along the way. If all the securities had not been taken care of one by one, the thieves should be caught very fast when exiting or entering the countries. it is very hard to work your way with entering a country and customs around there.
Also, as i always do, i tried thinking this from what the theves can get from this point of view.
Think about it.
You know that there was this thing.
This can either been done to cripple audeze, or cripple the sales from re-sellers. To me, it looks much more of a hate crime, because it cripples more than it steals value. Think about how hard it will be for most buyers to re-sell, this lowers sell numbers for audeze, by a little.
also, if the number of headphones stolen is 100, it is much more to do a bad thing to someone than it is to make profit
