Originally Posted by 1kBill

A few words of caution: I was told by a bag claim agent at LAX last year that a lot of Tumi bags are stolen because they are Tumi.
(She passed this little tidbit on to me as I was filling out a claim for my Travelpro bag that was stolen. I think it was stolen because it spun around on the carousel for quite some time because it got to LAX about 5 hours before I did and some opportunist took it because he could, not because it was a Travelpro.)