Anyone here who is responsible for renting out breastpumps, do you have specific protocols to keep from having them stolen? I am asking b/c I got news that our volunteer group had a Lactina stolen a while back and I wondered if there were good ideas to make this less likely. The lady came to rent the pump and paid a deposit and 30$ which I think is about 10 days rental (3$ per day). She left with the pump and the personal kit that you have to buy when using one of these pumps. Well, a couple of weeks later, our pump rental person tried calling her to see if she was still needing the pump and would be coming back/sending a cheque to pay more or if she'd be returning it soon and the phone number didn't exist. She tried sending a letter and the address was unknown. Didn't exist. One pump down the drain. She said she couldn't figure out what the lady would do with this pump once she didn't need it anymore and I said to her "J, do you not think it's possible she didn't even need it in the first place, and paid her whatever amount the 30$ plus deposit and kit made out to be and then went and sold it for a big profit on e-bay?". I mean, these pumps are 1400$+ canadian so even if she sold it like 400$ or so she'd make a profit. It seems it would have been easy to do, no? Anyhow, ever since this, the pump rental person uses her call display to take down the phone number, and finds an excuse to call the person back with an extra question "right after the call", plus pluggs it into 411.ca on a reverse lookup so she has the supposed address and matches it with the address the person fills out on the rental form...but are there other good ideas out there? Also...is there any way to trace a pump via say serial number or whatever? Thanks in advance! Fio ressource person with Allaitement Québec Mama to Sandrine, almost 4 and Nyssa, 15 mos, tandem nursing. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html