Flatmate stole my iPhone from sittingroom table

clearz · 30-06-2011 12:15am #1

Hi,

Last Wednesday I left to visit my folks. I forgot my iPhone, leaving it on the sitting room table. When I got back I discovered it was gone. I live with two other guys. I am generally more responable with things like this and this was the first time in a year of living here that I left something outside of my locked room.
I have spoke to one of my flatmates but have not seen the other one yet. I also have the Track My iPhone app installed but the phone has been off since last Thursday. One anoying with Apples tracking site me.com is it only stays logged in for a few minns before logging you out. This is anoying as I would like to keep this running 24/7 constantly on one of my desktop computers so that if they as much as turn it on then it will show up.
I don't have a password on my iPhone for this purpose. I would rather whoever stole it to turn it on and make a few calls or use the internet so it will show up in my online stats.
Who should I contact. If I call o2 now they will cancel my sim so that will make getting tracking/phone call/sms/sites impossible.
I am gonna contact the guards. Will they take this serious? or am I just waisting my time?
I used to use ilocalis on my 3gs which was great but I never got it for my iPhone 4. I'm kicking myself now.
I don't have insurance for my phone. Do landlords have some kind of house insurance that would cover something like this.
Has anyone had something similar happen to them and how did they go about it?

Thanks for any help,
Mike.

mikemac · 30-06-2011 12:18am

clearz wrote: »

Do landlords have some kind of house insurance that would cover something like this.

You can forget about this.

Landlords have insurance for flooding or fire or even an act of God!

Tenants have to insure their own contents

liamygunner29 · 30-06-2011 12:18am

cool you got an iphone.

KeithM89_old · 30-06-2011 12:19am

Moved from AH.

Copper_pipe · 30-06-2011 12:20am

He had an iphone

Oranage2 · 30-06-2011 12:20am

maybe ask the other guy if he seen it furst?

I love how Iphone users tell you they have an Iphone.......even when it's stolen!

theteal · 30-06-2011 12:23am

insurance probably wouldn't cover that phone anyway, they'd claim you weren't taking due care of it

sound house mate by the way

clearz · 30-06-2011 2:43am

Oranage2 wrote: »

maybe ask the other guy if he seen it furst?

I love how Iphone users tell you they have an Iphone.......even when it's stolen!

Never even thought of that. I guess I was trying to show that it is not just a cheap phone. And the fact that iPhones allow you to track your phone means that it was important info to the matter at hand.

mconigol · 30-06-2011 11:11am

clearz wrote: »

Never even thought of that. I guess I was trying to show that it is not just a cheap phone. And the fact that iPhones allow you to track your phone means that it was important info to the matter at hand.

OP It's better to have loved and lost than never to have had an iphone at all!

At least you have the memories...:p

partyatmygaff · 30-06-2011 10:48pm

Get your network to block the IMEI. If it was your flatmate who stole it then you will more than likely "magically" find it back again where you last saw it.

katiebelle · 30-06-2011 11:03pm

With o2 you generally have to report the phone stolen within 24 hours of you realizing it was missing.That is if you have O2's insurance. The other poster was right about having to take care of the iphone. If you left it in your car for example it would have needed to be in a locked glove compartment. That kind of thing. You also need to make a garda report asap. You are reluctant to report it to O2 because you thing you may get it back. I would think the chances of getting it back are slim. Remember if someone decides to ring america for 12 hours you are responsible for these calls if you have a bill phone. With o2 insurance you need to have reported your phone stolen within the 24 hours if you dont and its used you are responsible for any use. If you have reported it I think you are covered for calls up to 650 euro. Whoever has your phone may no longer have your sim card in it. It would make sense to block the sim at least because it can be used in another phone and that would be untraceable. You could be looking at huge bills if you are a bill pay customer. Get a sim replacement and you will at least have your number back in action. Good luck

katiebelle · 30-06-2011 11:07pm

Sorry just seen you have no insurance. Pity. still report it to the gardai. Get your imei blacklisted too

barryd09 · 01-07-2011 12:54am

steal something of similar value to an iphone from said iphone housemate thief.

that really is all the advice i could give you.unfortunatley you dont have insurance and as already pointed out,due care wasnt paid to the phone so it wouldnt matter anyhow.

Gileadi · 01-07-2011 9:49am

Its fairly crazy to live in a house where you have to keep everything under lock and key or it'll get nicked. If a phone is sitting on a table and goes missing its obvious its one of the two guys who you live with and were in the room, have you tried telling them to return it or the guards will be getting involved? Personally I'd have lost the head with the two other housemates...

Aside from the crappiness of losing your iphone I would question why you would want to live in a place under those circumstances?

faceman · 01-07-2011 10:41am

I wouldn't consider someone leaving their phone unattended in the sitting room of their house as being careless.

listermint · 01-07-2011 10:44am

Im not an advocate of violence, but i would be kicking off if someone i shared rent with stole from me, especially such a high value item. Thats really low.

CardBordWindow · 01-07-2011 10:51am

Get a rocking chair and a shotgun.
Place rocking chair in the suspects room.
Sit on rocking chair.
Place shotgun in hand.
When suspect enters, just slowly rock back and forth, stroking the gun, whispering 'Soooooon my dear. Soon'

That'll freak the guy right out! I'm sure he'll crack up and confess.

leviathon · 01-07-2011 11:00am

Maybe go down the route of asking him before you go getting guards involved and all that? Could be that he didn't take it, maybe a mate of his was over and your housemate will go round to that mate and rob it back for you. worth a shot.

clearz · 02-07-2011 1:58pm

OK Two flatmates(fm) fm1 and fm2

Ok Ive pretty much have narrowed it down to one of them fm1.
First fm2 hasn't even been near the house in about two weeks.
fm1 was in the house when I left and saw me getting into a car to leave.
The phones battery was full because I had charged it knowing I was going away.
I called it a half hour after I left and it rang. I then called it about 2 hours after I left and it was off and has been off since.

I logged into me.com(iPhone location site) to send the phone a message. That message is still pending. It says "Message pending sent: 23/06 00:47" which was around two hours after I left. The phone should have been full at this time and would have been connected to the house internet (has 3g also). So it obviously had been switched off by fm1 the only guy in the house.

when I got back to the house days later once I saw the phone was not where I left it I went straight to fm1s room to see did he put it somewhere. Before I got a chance to speak he blurts out that I had left the back door open the same day I left. Now I know I did not do this as I always lock the door behind me (was he trying to set up some story that someone could have come into the house, took my phone from the sitting room and not touch anything else?)
He told me that he had came back from a "friends" house the next day and it was open. Now I quoted friends because I have never saw him or heard him talk about any friends before. He is foreign, works long hours, sleeps and sees his kids on a Friday. This is the life I have seen him live for a year.(Was this "friend" the guy he sold my phone to?) Rent is due this week and he owes me 100 bucks which he seems to be able to pay no problem even though I have been trying to get the money of him for months.

When I told him my phone was stolen he gave the OMG look with the "I never saw it bs" This guy sees everything. Our sitting room is bare and he is trying to say he never saw the black phone sitting on the center of the white table even though you have to pass through it to get to the kitchen or the stairs.

The thing that really pisses me off is he suggested to me to go to the guards straight away and to call the phone company to block it (Is the phone getting sent to his home country and he is confident I can prove nothing?).

AntiRip · 02-07-2011 7:09pm

TBH OP, if I knew for absolute certain it was this guy that stole the phone I'd forget about the phone. You will not get this back, ever. But I would be thinking of somehow getting back at him...somehow. Keep your powder try and wait. Sometimes a house is broken into twice, happened to an aunt of mine.

Oh yeah, you should find a new place to stay, maybe with a couple of sound guys you can trust

barryd09 · 03-07-2011 1:40am

take something/somethings of the same value as an iphone from the suspected thief.

charlemont · 03-07-2011 1:43am

barryd09 wrote: »

take something/somethings of the same value as an iphone from the suspected thief.

Bang on, And hit him a box as well.

3rdDegree · 04-07-2011 8:25pm

clearz wrote: »

Ok Ive pretty much have narrowed it down to one of them fm1.

I knew it would be fm1. I just knew it!

I think AntiRip's advise above is spot on here.

tfitzgerald · 04-07-2011 8:27pm

barryd09 wrote: »

take something/somethings of the same value as an iphone from the suspected thief.

This would be my plan too he would soon get the message

Flatmate stole my iPhone from sittingroom table

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