Ideally, I’d see the bags just go straight to charity rather than providing a potential profit to both the airline and a middleman.
Yes, this store does give some to charity, but they are primarily looking to make a profit off other people’s stuff when that isn’t actually necessary to resolve what happens to lost luggage.
Did the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES really receive any material damage from reporting that occurred about him while he was PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
I do understand this, yes.
Do you understand that airlines have a relatively low amount of liability for lost luggage and don’t cover at all many items that people commonly travel with?
Do you think the original owner of the Rolexes, statues, or signed memorabilia might actually want to retain ownership of them? Cause an airline isn’t liable for timepieces, art, or unique irreplaceable items. Also airlines don’t necessarily assume ownership of lost items even if the airline is liable for the loss (though contract terms following a successful claim are not available in all contracts of carriage).
TL:DR
Airlines don’t owe you shit for anything but normal clothes and it’s still your stuff even if they lost it.
“We all lose [things] sometimes,” said Kritner, who is also director of the company’s Reclaimed for Good Foundation, which gives about one-third of incoming items to charitable organisations. “Our goal is to do the best with what comes in… some [items] are sold, some are donated to those in need and some are recycled. But they all receive a second life. The question, really, is: ‘What is on the other side of loss?’.” She paused. “Being found.”
Except in this case “we” didn’t lose something, a major corporation lost it for us.
It dawned on me there was more happening here than simple consumerism. There’s an archaeological aspect. A thrill-of-the-hunt search for the bizarre and unexpected.
After boasting that everything [Dian H, an Unclaimed regular for decades] wore or carried was found here – shirt, shoes, trousers, necklace and Peruvian tapestry bag – she pulled another recent purchase out of her bag: a 28cm Art Deco statue forged in France in 1930 and valued at nearly $2,000. She paid $2.99.
When I find something like this, it reminds me why I love coming here: for the passion of owning something so special for a little while. And look at me. I’ve got a Peruvian purse. I have a French sculpture. Why would I need to travel?
That seems like simple consumerism to me. Why travel away from *checks notes* Alabama if I have nice stuff that was sold to me without consent of the previous owner!?
Capitalism breeds innovation, y’all–and that innovation is selling stuff that doesn’t belong to you. What’s next: selling rentors items out from under them during evictions?
So glad this whitewash bullshit article exists to brainwash rubes of atrocities committed in the name of profit.
I can’t wait for hardware companies to let go of their designers prematurely in the pursuit of AI everything only for there to be a bug in a major board and no one available to troubleshoot thereby stranding customers with a broken board, no revision on the horizon, and no recourse.
Who cares.
Republicans
Insomuch as that shit happens all across the US, sure.
And that’s how you get the Zootopia abortion fan-comic.
In America, where 1 in 3 own guns and there are more guns than people, somehow owning gun related things is incriminating evidence.
The hardest to recognize seem to be short words for me:
At an average weight of 2.5 mg per ant that’s 6.25 kg of ants per person or about the weight of a 6 month old human baby.
Actual drug trafficker is pardoned by POTUS at the same time POTUS is airstriking fishing boats in the name of stopping drug trafficking.
Help me understand why this was posted on this channel.
Pizza for pizza Friday.
No.
Maybe try “all static images are single frame animations.”
1 guy shoots up a school: nothing we can do, thoughts and prayers, deranged mentally insane individual.
1 guy shoots a CEO: dangerous terrorist that must be stopped.
1 guy shoots 2 National Gaurds: ALL immigration from 3rd world countries will cease, denaturalization of immigrants that can’t conform to the American way.
Depraved gun-fucking racist traitors.
The sitting president is threatening perjury charges against the former president if the former president says he made a decision that he made just because the sitting president has a stupid nickname for the former president and wants to arrest his family whose pardons where signed with an auto-pen.
To be fair a lot of people with PHDs are dumb as shit. Maybe not in their field, but in every single other aspect of life. That’s part of why arguments from authority should be avoided–the authority may be expert of their field, but their area of focus is likely extremely narrow.
Bob Jones III is outliving a lot of genuinely good people.
So photographers/videographers, musicians, artists, tradesmen, etc shouldn’t travel? Or they should only travel with a backpack and a duffel even if their kit takes up more room than that?
As for what is to be done: give it to charity–don’t support a system that provides a profit means for both airlines and an unnecessary middleman.