Posted By:
peter chaoJay,
You can give up on hoping that the BP will go back down to 17.5%. However, from this thread some enterprising soul may see a potential business plan. The idea would be to make a more formal "collecting community" that would band together to locate significant stolen collections.
Most of us realize that insurance will only pay us a pittance for the lost of our collections. Instead of buying insurance (or in addition to buying insurance) wouldn't it be better to pay a fee to the organizer (or organizers) of the "collecting community" and locate and return stolen collections.
Who knows the time may be ripe for this type of service.
Peter