Before returning that item to its owner....

[mvSWAT]

Before returning that item to it's owner....

Before you return that found item of value to it's owner do you consider insurance?
If an item is of value and been lost for any length of time the owner has most likely turned it in to their insurance and gotten compensation for it. If this is the case the item found actually belongs to the insurance company. Now I doubt that someone would file a claim on a lost ring or piece of jewelry for a few days but you never know.
Many pieces of jewelry have more sentimental value than monetary, just food for thought the next time you do your good deed.
Happy Hunting. Dan

 

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[Postalrevnant]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

I would have to vote for giving the item to the owner if possible.

You see I didn't have any insurance on jewerly I had bought my wife. She did sorta of a dumb thing and put 7 beautiful rings (collected while I was in the far eastern countries training with other countries soldiers) on her watch and left them on her friends stairs to help her friend move some furniture so that she could vacuum behind it.

Came back outside and all was gone. Sadly this happened on a military post, and yep was probably a rogue, or perhaps a kid. We ran ads, looked at pawn shops etc. and never got them back.

Still to this day that really sucked. And yes no one to blame but ourselves, however sure would have been nice to have them returned.

This happened on Oahu Hawaii Schofield Barracks, you would have thought on an island you had a chance in a years time to find it in a pawn shop if someone was stealing for drugs or something else, but apparantly not.

Postalrevnant

 

[EDDE]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

Before returning that item to it's owner....































KEEP IT

 

[Cubfan64]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

Before returning that item to it's owner....































KEEP IT

To each his own I guess, but if I find something with initials or inscriptions or something I personally wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I didn't at least make an honest effort to find the owner. I don't have the time to check out every police department "lost" list, but I do make an effort to look through the lost and found section of the paper on a regular basis and if I saw something that sounded like what I had found, I would do something about it.

Keeping it is certainly an option - after all, finder's/keeper's can be argued, but I just personally don't feel right about it when I have a way to try to find the owner.

 

[diggummup]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

What about a sterling silver Tiffany key ring that says on it please return to Tiffany&Co.NewYork? It has a serial number on it.Anyone know how to trace it without turning it over to Tiffany's? They can have the keys,the ring is mine,for sentimental reasons.

 

[j2fun4u]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

My rule is if I can find the owner I will give it back, Im sure its worth more to them than it is to me. A gold ring melt value is prob about 25 bucks depending on the size if that much even. I like to look in the lost and found section and go hunting for lost rings to return.
I always think of what if it happened to me? I would want someone to return it to me. I would give a reward. I have returned rings and a thank you is good enough for me.
But to each thier own

 

[pgill]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

Personaly I would give it back to the person and have a clean heart. If they claimed against the item, it is up to them to sort it out with the insurance company... offer the insurance to buy the item back.
My heart would be clean. Theirs is up to them, not my problem.... Do the right thing.

God bless
Peter

 

[jeff of pa]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

First off If the person Who Lost it is a "Regular" Person,
I would try to Return it and Not even Question, insurance.

of course IF the person who lost it is a Govenment Body,
as in the case of Ship Wrecks by the Spanish Government,
A cache of Gold By the Army, Etc.

I would Keep it.

In Either Case. Insurance Companies are Like Oil Companies.
Multi Billion Dollar Companies, who would't think Twice about Ripping off the poor. Therfore, Insurance Companies get NO Respect from me.

 

[Monty]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

Last fall I saw a notice on a bulletin board whee a lady lost a $5,000.00 ring in the park and was offering a reward for it. I phoned her several times and left messages that I would look for it for free if she would give me a little more information. She never returned my calls. I found out her insurance company had paid her for it and she just wasn't interested in finding it. So much for good deeds! Monty

 

[Roadquest]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

human nature, but I yet would have looked for the ring, if I were
her $5000 mmmm

 

[Sandman]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

Monty, what park was that? I try to return jewrly I find, but I don't run any ads. In most states you don't get to legaly keep what you find, but have to turn it over to authoritys. YEAH, RIGHT. I hang on to the rings I find an if I learn someone has reported it lost, I try to look them up. I don't expect a reward. However I do expect a Thank You. Class rings are very returnable.

Sandman

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Re: Before returning that item to it's owner....

The owners insurance is none of my business.

If I get info on something lost, and luck out and
find it, it goes to the owner; or, like Sandman said,
"Class rings are very returnable."

all have a good un..........