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A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by giarc »

swozey wrote: post #15

Speaking of unclaimed property, do any of you Texans know of a way to use this absolutely trash website to look for something more specific than your First/Last? https://www.claimittexas.gov/ I have a fairly common first name and there are literally 50 pages of results and "Your search returned 1000 unclaimed properties." One of my financial apps (mint/ck not sure) told me I had unclaimed money and I have no way to f…

From the FAQ page. Providing your SIN/DOB etc will likely help.

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Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by IshKebab »

Jun8 wrote: post #5

I'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 a…

Surely someone in the chain goes through these bags for obvious expensive things beforehand. Why would that not happen?

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by giarc »

Jun8 wrote: post #5

I'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 a…

I suspect a show for entertainment would script it a bit and add some high end stuff. So the fact that even after watching you say it's rare to find good stuff tells me it's even worse than the show lets on.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by bozhark »

swozey wrote: post #18
chankstein38 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's advertised in a creepy way and it's sold out. People will never stop being sketchy lol

Maybe someone buys them for a few bucks and dropships them for $25 as a vtuber? Think I have a new side gig

Need an AI character to model said wares?

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by behringer »

pessimizer wrote: post #8
ggm wrote: post #2

A 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."

sounds good to me. Then nobody's making money off of stolen goods except the landfill.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by KolmogorovComp »

> Some say the store has an ethical duty to reunite people with their lost luggage — especially highly personal items, like jewelry inscribed with names and dates, or electronics with identifiable information. But historically, the store has maintained it has a business to run.

I’m quite surprised by the opposition here, I’d assume that the high sentimental value could be converted in a much higher price than its off-the-shelf value.

Now would it be more ethical than not contacting them? That’s up to debate, but at least the owners would have a choice.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by wvenable »

pessimizer wrote: post #8
ggm wrote: post #2

A 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."

I'm more worried about the perverse incentive structure.
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