Found GOLD ring w/ name, Facebooks roadblocks!

[DeerJerky]

Found GOLD ring w/ name, Facebook's roadblocks!

I found this 10k female high school ring at the beach. After quickly locating and messaging the person on facebook, I find out that all messages that are not from friends go into a seperate inbox called "Other". I suspect that the good majority of facebook users don't know that this "Other" inbox folder even exists, and after several months of hoping that this person might look in the folder offhand, I gave up and just dropped the ring off at the local police station.

I see tons of posts of people returning lost rings to their owners, and I've seen many chicago ron return videos. How are you guys so easily contacting these people!?

 

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[Jeremy S]

I just discovered my "Other" inbox not too long ago. It has messages from people dating back to 2007!

Why not send a friend request, but include a message in that request asking if they had lost a class ring, etc? I would not take anything to the police around here. Unless it is a small town and a cop knows the rings owner, I would be skeptical if it ever gets returned.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Blindly handing a ring over to a police dept is the same as throwing it away. They won't take the time to track down an owner and it will eventually go home in some cop's pocket.

If you found the owner and they didn't reply to you, it's their loss; keep the ring.

 

[DeerJerky]

Why not send a friend request, but include a message in that request asking if they had lost a class ring, etc? I would not take anything to the police around here. Unless it is a small town and a cop knows the rings owner, I would be skeptical if it ever gets returned.

Unfortunately, (as far as I know) there is no way to attach a message to a friend request, though Facebook has introduced this new system where you can pay $1 to send a message directly to a non-friend's friend inbox, but it has to be enabled (the person didn't have it enabled)

And interestingly enough the cop I talked to was also a metal detectorist, and said they would put it in the lost and found; I just assumed they could type the name into a database and get a phone number. It was just frustrating looking at the person's face on the internet and the engraving on the ring, and not having anyway to contact them. I was hoping Treasurenet could give me some tips for the future so I can get myself some honorable mentions...