TVs are getting pretty light. They only need one person to deliver ~55" TVs now. I remember when a team was needed to lift a ~30" TV. But they are big, bulky, and difficult to hide and transport. They are also fragile. I don’t think they are very traceable, though if you’ve recorded your serial number and the TV is found, it is a positive identification.
I think the main thing is that the Geek Squad Truck doesn’t also include information as to whether the homeowners have a security system, numerous barking dogs, how many people are home at any given time, whether the occupants are armed (I know one guy who keeps a gun hidden in every room so as to get the drop on any intruder, no matter where he is in the house at the time. A bit extreme? Yes. But anybody breaking into his house is gonna have a hard time getting out with his skin.), etc.
In short, there’s a lot more that goes into deciding whether to burgle a house than the knowledge that there’s a shiny new television inside.
I’m a guy - I have all of my electronic’s boxes. What if I move?
Ha!
I share the OP’s concern, which is why I painted my van to look like a delivery vehicle for “TARANTULAS R US”.
The presence of the Geek Squad Home Theater Installation Truck is telling the neighbors, “Don’t come to this guy’s Super Bowl party because the installation was probably botched and will fail at the worst possible time.”
I don’t think people really steal home electronics so much anymore. They become obsolete so quickly and are sufficiently inexpensive new that there isn’t much of a market for used stuff. Compared to the time, trouble, and risk involved in removing heavy equipment from somebody’s house.
If I were buying firearms, jewelry, or precious metals, I would be careful about advertising it to the world.
The movers wrap everything in bubble wrap and moving blankets. No boxes needed for electronics. I they feel it needs a box, too, then it gets a box they have on-hand. It’s nice, I’ve never had anything broken or scratched, and no closet full of boxes (or garage, or wherever). Besides, that would mean I would still have boxes for my bigass stereo I bought in 1993, that I use with my computer and flatscreen in the living room now. You just never know! (female, moved that stuff 5 times since 1993)
As to the OP, Meh. I guess the Macy’s, and Smithe’s and Ethan Allen trucks should be whitewashed, too, since they indicate the homeowner must be loaded and have other good stuff to go with that nice furniture being delivered. Hell, that BB truck is downright discreet compared to the home renovation trucks I’ve seen parked outside homes, with *pictures of entire kitchens *painted over the entire trailer. Hey, those people must have good stuff in their house, too, and with construction going on the home is probably less secure, ya know. I guess I should have been alarmed at the Abt Electronics truck outside my building last year when I had my air conditioners installed. Their trucks don’t differentiate whether they’re delivering a home theater system, or a kitchen full of appliances.
Indeed. They are, at best, the McDonald’s of home theater. Anybody who is actually competent is not going to stay there for very long. They’ll go to their competition or strike out on their own. I’ve repaired their installations many times.
Which is even worse. Now a crook is going to break in and be extra pissed that you got a new stove and kept the crappy huge rear projection tv. That’s the kind of thing that makes people stabby.
As an FYI Geek Squad as several types of vehicles, the regular and giant sized van that says “Home Theater Installation,” little VW Beetle, a van that just says Geek Squad, and then another van that has “Repair.”
Car, truck, and bike are kept in the garage. Tri-bikes are kept in the basement, out of site.
After moving in I walked around the house looking in windows. Then moved stuff so it wasn’t as visible.
After one of the of snowfalls last winter I looked at my backyard and saw foot prints that went from the back of my property, up to my back door, then over to my neighbour’s back door, then to his neighbour’s, and so on. Next winter I put out a few bear traps…
I agree with you.
Fuck.
I live in a fairly nice neighborhood, and I’d guess that 90% of the houses in it have a reasonably nice home theater setup. The Geek Squad van doesn’t really raise the odds that much.
My beef has long been with UPS. I bought a guitar and an amp last year, both of which were delivered in boxes helpfully marked with the Fender logo (and one of which was roughly guitar-sized). Both times UPS just left the boxes on my front porch. I don’t see why an enterprising thief wouldn’t just follow the UPS truck around and clean up behind it.
That’s a really, really bad idea…
Jeez, I hope your friend doesn’t have any children.
He doesn’t.
…anymore.
Of course not. He got the drop on all of them years ago.
By the way, OP, I know you were joking about the bear traps, but it’s actually illegal to place a man trap on your property. And that goes double for your den full of punji sticks.
ETA: beaten to the joke by gaffa. Nevermind.
I’ll just note, it was a truck with the exact same signage that delivered my low-end (with scratch-and-dent floor discount) washer and dryer set. 
To assuage the OP’s fears I suggest he henceforth silences with extreme prejudice any and all delivery personel. You best start with your mail carrier.