I have no experience with these websites but there are a number of service providers attempting to maintain a database of stolen goods to aid recovery:
I hope this is helpful. I suspect recovery is a low probability (but non-zero) event.
Edited by Dje: Sorry but we do not allow links to commercial websites, among others.
By the way welcome here!
This message has been edited by Dje on 2008-08-09 12:52:27