This works great when done correctly, in high school I had a friend (we'll call him joe smith) who had two TI-85 calculators (about $80-100 each at the time)stolen so when he finally bought a third one he painted rainbows on the front and back and wrote 'Joe Smith is Gay' in purple. He never had that one stolen and when people asked him about it, he just told them he did it to keep his third TI-85 from getting ripped off. I just covered mine with racing stickers which worked for me since I was the only person who actually knew anything about cars.
Basically if you make your stuff blatantly unique enough, then thieves will go for something less obvious.
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This works great when done correctly, in high school I had a friend (we'll call him joe smith) who had two TI-85 calculators (about $80-100 each at the time)stolen so when he finally bought a third one he painted rainbows on the front and back and wrote 'Joe Smith is Gay' in purple. He never had that one stolen and when people asked him about it, he just told them he did it to keep his third TI-85 from getting ripped off. I just covered mine with racing stickers which worked for me since I was the only person who actually knew anything about cars.
Basically if you make your stuff blatantly unique enough, then thieves will go for something less obvious.