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If you found a wallet...

My sister found a $100 bill lying on the ground at her workplace once. After posting signs and asking around, nobody claimed it, so she give the money to charity. I'd do the same.

The golden rule applies here. I still remember a ski trip in grade 8 (so I was 14 or so, and this would be 20+ years ago) where I had left a couple of bills unattended on my lunch tray for only a moment in the ski chalet; by the time I turned around, it was all gone, the tray, the rest of my lunch, the money. Ever since then I've been a little extra sensitive to how people would feel if their stuff just disappeared on them.

I lost a cell phone once by putting it momentarily on the roof of my car and driving off. A truck driver found it and called my contacts trying to get in touch with me. Alas, he was far away and he wanted me to pay for either transportation to meet up with him or to mail it back. I told him to keep the phone, it was time for me to upgrade anyway.
 
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End of the night a few yeas ago and last customer leaving. Manager goes and finds a wallet and assumes it belongs to the guy just leaving. She hands it to him and doesn't check the ID to make sure it is his. He takes it and leaves.

Phone rings a little while later with a guy asking if anyone found his wallet. Manager explains that she gave it to a guy who was leaving assuming it was his. He comes down extremely upset of course screaming that his entire paycheck was in there, $450 as it was Friday. He calls the police. Police show up and were surprisingly supportive of the manager stating that it was a mistake. They leave and so does the guy and never a word was heard from him after.
 
Actually I did find a wallet just recently and I did return it. The owner offered a reward, which I refused to take.
 
Lost my wallet at a restaurant and got a call within ½ hour after leaving to go to a movie theater in the same plaza (I already had tickets for the show). I offered a reward to the worker who found it but she wouldn't take it. So about one month later I left her (she was serving me along with some work friend at the same time) a $50.00 tip in the bill. This was my way to try to say thank you to her.
 
Shrink said:
I'm sure all of us feel your pain. Your wonderfully ethical decision didn't work out for you...a shame!:(
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i clean up nightclub aftermaths for over 3 years now and not one person has came back looking for there stuff l've found iphones,jewlery and wallets..if you dont have an id in it i wont mail it back too you

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Zombie Acorn said:
I don't carry cash so they'd probably just return it since all my cards are chipped anyways.
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what does a chipped card mean?
 
RoastingPig said:
what does a chipped card mean?
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steve-ballmer-facepalm.jpg
 
yg17 said:
We don't have chipped cards in the US, so it's an entirely valid question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
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Do you seriously not have chips in the US? So anyone can just take your card and use it without a PIN? Ha, how slow are you guys? We had this since 2003 and France had it since the 90's. Catch up! :p

What's really funny about this is MasterCard and Visa are actually American companies, so why didn't they bother to provide the service over there?
 
A few umm disturbing posts here I'm afraid. Definitely would try to return it or take it to the police or something. In fact I was robbed once on the bus when a group of fellows bumped into me getting off the bus (I was standing). Then I noticed my wallet missing and got off the next stop but of course it was too late. I was fuming but later got a call at home from a guy who found my wallet and phoned me back. Intact minus the cash (something like 80 Swiss francs or so) still changed my cards etc. But it was nice of the fellow, btw he gave me his name and address and we met in front of his building near the bus route.
 
0dev said:
Do you seriously not have chips in the US? So anyone can just take your card and use it without a PIN? Ha, how slow are you guys? We had this since 2003 and France had it since the 90's. Catch up! :p

What's really funny about this is MasterCard and Visa are actually American companies, so why didn't they bother to provide the service over there?
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I've been wondering the same thing myself. I would have thought that the marginal cost to start putting those things in our cards would be easily recouped by saving on fraud expenditures. Perhaps I'm missing some dark angle here...:confused:
 
0dev said:
Do you seriously not have chips in the US? So anyone can just take your card and use it without a PIN? Ha, how slow are you guys? We had this since 2003 and France had it since the 90's. Catch up! :p

What's really funny about this is MasterCard and Visa are actually American companies, so why didn't they bother to provide the service over there?
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If you're talking about debit cards, yes they have pins. Credit cards don't. (at least mine do not).
 
eric/ said:
If you're talking about debit cards, yes they have pins. Credit cards don't. (at least mine do not).
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Debit cards can still be used without the PIN, you can choose CREDIT when you swipe the debit card and then just scribble something for the signature and off you go. I've let friends use my debit card before and its how I let them use it without giving my PIN away.
 
Found a wallet once. It was right before a basketball I was going to. I was walking up to the arena to meet up with some friends. Saw it on the ground, picked it up, looked around and see this man who was obviously looking for something he lost. I look in the wallet and see the ID, its him. I walk up to him and give him his wallet. He's super excited and thanks me. I start to walk away.

This dude runs towards me, grabs my shoulder and says "give me back my $100". Apparently, he claimed there was $300 in the wallet and now there is only $200. I told him I didn't have it (really, I'm going to take $100, leave $200 and give you the wallet back?). So he's arguing with me, people start to gather around. I empty my pockets to show him that all I had on me was my phone, game ticket, car key, two credit cards, ID and $40 in cash (I don't carry a wallet). He wanted my $40, which made no sense since I didn't even have this $100 he claimed is missing. He basically wanted me to pay him $40 for finding his damn wallet.

Lesson learned. I'm not touching your wallet if I find it, walking right passed it. Let someone else be a good samaritan.
 
mobilehaathi said:
So I was talking to an acquaintance recently, and somehow the topic of lost wallets came up. He told me that while he would do everything possible to return a lost wallet, he felt he was entitled to any cash inside and would immediately take it.
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The owner should protect his own wallet. If he does not protect his wallet, he should lose some money, or he will never learn. Believe me-i lost money and i learned a lot. :)
 
Mr. Retrofire said:
The owner should protect his own wallet. If he does not protect his wallet, he should lose some money, or he will never learn. Believe me-i lost money and i learned a lot. :)
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Very punitive aren't you? Do you apply this outlook to everything in life?

I suppose blame-the-victim is quite popular these days.
 
mobilehaathi said:
Very punitive aren't you?
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No, not really. Kids & adults learn fast, if something hurts.

mobilehaathi said:
I suppose blame-the-victim is quite popular these days.
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I did not lose his wallet. He is responsible for the loss (fully or partial). I would not call him a victim. If you want to call him a victim, call him “a victim of his own carelessness”.
 
0dev said:
Do you seriously not have chips in the US? So anyone can just take your card and use it without a PIN? ...
What's really funny about this is MasterCard and Visa are actually American companies, so why didn't they bother to provide the service over there?
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It's because the guber'int men in black suits can track you if you have a chipped card. Which is why there more radio wave proof wallets sold in the US than there are chipped cards. ;)
 
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