A company that sells lost airplane luggage
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A company that sells lost airplane luggage
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Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage
#2A point is high value items, investment grade diamonds, expensive watches could reunite with their owner trivially because their sales are tracked. The point being insurance and compensation has been paid. So the closing ethical concern is perhaps overstated. It's the more personal effects, a treasured family memento, letters which beg questions.
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#3I've been to Unclaimed Baggage in Alabama, just once, and it was no nicer than the nicest thrift stores in my hometown. An interesting concept, but it seems that the best items are priced-out.
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#4To quote the man interviewed in BBC who was sorting "lost luggage" after Heathrow's Terminal 5 fuckup
"don't you feel bad that it's someone's else possesion?"
"no, that's why it's such a good stuff"
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#5I'm a sucker for found antique/goods types of shows and bought & watched a few seasons of "Baggage Battles" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggage_Battles) on Amazon Prime. It was OK but they very rarely discovered valuable stuff and even those were kind of meh.
Still the art of the selection (should you go for the expensive bag, the heavy one, or the well-used one) was exciting. If I had the money I'd see myself attending baggage auctions just for the entertainment value; but doing it for flipping is not profitable I think.
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#6In a related note, some canadian passengers found their Air Maroc luggage at a liquidation center in Québec, Canada in even 3 weeks after being lost this month.
https://www.bladi.net/colere-royal-air-maroc-perte-bagages,1...
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2024/01/28/saga-des-valises-egar...
Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage
#7Luggage is fairly expensive and easy to reuse - sizing isn’t personal, and most designs are fairly bland. I’m surprised that the bags themselves aren’t a substantial source of income.
Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage
#8A point is high value items, investment grade diamonds, expensive watches could reunite with their owner trivially because their sales are tracked. The point being insurance and compensation has been paid. So the closing ethical concern is perhaps overstated. It's the more personal effects, a treasured family memento, letters which beg questions.
If they didn't exist, the headline would be "The company that dumps your lost airplane luggage into a landfill."
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#9Luggage is fairly expensive and easy to reuse - sizing isn’t personal, and most designs are fairly bland. I’m surprised that the bags themselves aren’t a substantial source of income.
Probably comes down to how difficult it is to gain access, and whether that's destructive.
Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage
#10Luggage is fairly expensive and easy to reuse - sizing isn’t personal, and most designs are fairly bland. I’m surprised that the bags themselves aren’t a substantial source of income.
Probably comes down to how difficult it is to gain access, and whether that's destructive.
I guarantee they have TSA keys