CheckMEND statistics & facts

Mobile Phones and laptops

Over 800,000 mobile phones were blocked in the UK last year and CheckMEND has their serial numbers, make sure you're not buying one!

A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds in the UK - Make sure you are not buying one. Remember if CheckMEND knows it’s stolen so do the Police, and potentially every second-hand dealer and member of the public in the UK.

CheckMEND is the biggest database of it's kind in the world

With over 100 million records of information that are relevant to purchasers of second hand goods ranging from iPods to bicycles CheckMEND is the largest database of its kind in the world. The service currently does over 1 million checks a months and one in ten checks returns information that assists the buyer in making an informed decision about their possible purchase.

Adrian Portlock, Recipero Ltd - 11 June 2008

Warning given to online shoppers

Research unveiled by CheckMEND has estimated that £5 billion worth of stolen goods are on sale over the internet at any one time in the UK. Every minute, two items are identified via CheckMEND as being stolen.

Victims of robbery

CheckMEND has access to over 100 million records of stolen and blocked items from information supplied by the Police, Insurers, trade bodies and the Public. Over 500,000 bikes or their parts are stolen each year in the UK, CheckMEND has a very large percentage of their frame numbers.