Better Honda eu2000i generator security?

Huntindog wrote:
With all the talk about Honda handles being cut to steal them... I have been looking hard for one to purchase. I figure that since that would be a dead giveway that the unit was stolen that it could be purchased really cheap as it would be practically worthless. :B I have never seen one. I have also never read where anyone actually had it done to theirs, or of anyone who has actually seen one. I have never seen anyone using a cut handle Honda as well.
I am beginning to think that this risk is overblown. Likely by those that are selling security devices for them.
In the unlikely event that it should happen to me, I will let my insurance do it's job and get a new one... Heck mine have go a ton of hours on them anyways.

In my course of looking for a used Honda EU2000i generators, over a 6 month period before buying, I came across two Honda's that had cut handles, both were at pawn shops in the Northwest, one in Portland, the other in Tacoma, advertising on Craigslist. The third was in Las Vegas on Craigslist, a private party sale. All of the ads featured pictures, and all of them indeed, in the pictures had cut handles.

They do exist, and I don't support buying what appears to be stolen property. I remember quite clearly the city's they were for sale in.