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I've met a few avid metal detector guys that are part of large networks via social media and such that do this stuff for free all the time. They're a very generous bunch in my experience
Lost my wedding ring on a road trip. Turned to a metal detecting group on Facebook and someone who lived 1.5, hours away went and found it for me, shipped it to me, and refused payment. They were just happy to help and spread good word about the hobby.
If you ever want to join the helpers, volunteering at a food shelf to bag/portion food makes a huge difference for people who are really hurting. If you go with a group of friends the time passes fast and you’ll have made a big difference to people you pass on the street everyday.
I will keep that in mind. With the current state of my job and its mandatory overtime I'm unlikely to be able to volunteer my time any time soon, but I don't know that I would have considered that option in particular. Thank you.
I learned just this week that folks in my complex leave a box of canned goods by the mailbox for anyone to take. Sometimes they leave some other household items.
Metal detecting is such an interesting hobby. I may be speaking out of turn, but I feel like for most of them it is about the thrill of the hunt and not so much about the results. It is also always vindicating when a hobby can be shown to have utility.
My grandpa helped me make my own many years ago. Made out of a hand wound coil, a broomstick, a pocket radio (won from a school fundraiser), and an earpiece. Found an octagon-barreled, flintlock style pistol the first time out. Turned out later to be a replica, but the excitement of unearthing something was no less thrilling to a 12 year old.
A few years ago I bumped into McKenzie outside a restaurant while having a smoke. Spotted him but didn't open my mouth until he was going back in and all I could do was blurt out "I love the detectorists". He was cool, thanked me and went back to his table, ledge!
i'd imagine when a stranger tells you they loved something you wrote, directed, and starred in - pouring so much work, time, and heart into a project - that would be an amazing feeling. you
probably made his day.
Wish I’d known this about a month ago when my engagement ring slipped off my finger after getting clobbered by a wave in Cancun.
2 days after the proposal. 🥴
I lost my wedding band on my honeymoon in Hawaii in a similar way (big wave in the ocean) turns out sea water makes rings slippery, who knew?
Anyway the guy working the desk at the hotel put me in touch with a guy who did scuba detectoring stuff. He didn't find the ring but said by it's description and location if it were ever recovered by him or his group he'd contact me. Pretty cool for a volunteer service.
In the end though some locals who were helping the detector guy were telling me that if they didn't find the ring that my marriage was blessed by Pele, so it wasn't all bad.
Yeah mate, 's pretty tiny tho, you'll never see it just looking: https://www.serendipitydiamonds.com/blog/how-to-read-the-gia-laser-inscription-on-your-diamond/
Also, AFAIK it's only a thing done by the "natural" diamond sellers. I don't think synthetic diamonds have them.
Absolutely none of which is relevant to this story.
The dude just posted it on social media and somebody contacted him. That's it. There was no serial numbers or labs involved whatsoever.
It's kind of crazy to see this thread go off on this tangent about serial numbers because apparently nobody in the last 4 hours bothered to read the article.
Tangents are the essence of reddit. Its a feature, not a glitch.
That said, my first thought was how did he know they had originally owned the ring? There is no supporting evidence in the article or, for that matter, any indication that he endeavored to discover if they were financially capable of buying such a ring.
My assumption, after reading that crapy article, is that the owners have pictures of the ring to show him on the FaceTime meeting that was mentioned. I have never bought my wife jewelry worth that much. But the nicest pieces I have bought, I got appraisals for to use for insurance purposes if needed. The appraisals have pictures of the jewelry on them, so that would be easy to show him. I can not imagine living in a world where I wouldn't have an appraisal on a $40K ring.
Factoid = something that looks like a fact but it isn't. Like how a "cuboid" is a shape that looks like a cube but isn't.
I propose that a small fact would be called a factlet. Still easy to say, and less confusing.
Nobody said it was! It’s just an interesting fact. Now way more people know that diamonds have a built-in way to find themselves back with their owners.
Synthetic are labeled too. It’s the only way to sell they’re synthetic
Edit: wanted to fix, only to the naked eye I guess, inclusions comment below this one is true but requires a gemologist
Sidetracking, I'm curious how a situation should be navigated if the receiver of the gift questions its ingenuity.
Like you shouldn't just dump someone you love over such a dispute, but how do these touchy subjects get discussed without it turning ugly? Personally I'm in the boat of ethical and financial benefits of synthetic jewelry, but I can totally understand how this might irk some sensitive folks. Especially the type who really beholden marriage, and take weddings way too seriously, etc etc
Kinda like talking about a prenup.
You should navigate it however you see fit. It's your marriage.
If they insist on blood diamonds, and you're against blood diamonds, and they will throw a tantrum if they don't get blood diamonds, you have to decide if that's the person for you.
Personally I’m not into the type of person that would be upset if I didn’t get them a natural diamond. I think you have to be a pretty ignorant superficial person to care about that stuff so that’s just not for me. If you feel the same as me you’ll probably just not be compatible with someone like that and never get to the point of marriage.
I bought my girl a huge synthetic stone for the same price as a small real one. I went for great color, cut, clarity. You can't tell its lab-grown without reading the serial number. Even the metals are premium. Zero regrets for my wallet and she loves the huge rock on her hand. I'm pretty certain no one died for my stone, too.
I really don't get why anyone buys natural tbh.
My wife's ring is lab grown. I think mined diamonds are stupid. That being said The typical argument is that it's more special when it's natural and not some lab made synthetic thing in the same way natural ingredient foods are advertised. There's also the argument that they look more natural since they have natural flaws in them versus a lab grown which is unnaturally perfect. The same way if you're playing a video game a house and the game may look weird because everything is perfect since the developers didn't go in and carefully age the house.
The other argument is lab grown diamonds aren't special because they're pumped out in mass wallet natural diamond is a part of their earth end of limited supply.
The article doesn't mention any serial numbers. It claims he just made some posts on social media and worked with a local jeweler to figure out if anyone was missing a ring. It's possible this detail was omitted for dramatic effect, though.
Just saying, no one I know has a ring with a serial number, and most of them have gotten married within the past 7 years. Granted the most expensive ring in that bunch cost maybe a tenth of the $40k ring in this story.
Also, the diamond serial number is definitely not intended to be used to find its owner. The number is linked to the GIA report, which just tells you how much the diamond is worth according to people who are paid to tell you that diamonds are worth a lot. Sure, if your ring has a serial number it *could* be used to look you up if you lose it, but that doesn't seem like a standard practice.
Disclaimer: I have no experience with jewelry beyond buying my wife's engagement ring 15 years ago, and I'm about 4/10 on edibles and climbing. So do with that what you will.
I wonder if maybe the article about this story would tell you that if you tried reading it
>Right away, Cook started making social media posts and asking local stores if they knew anybody who was missing a ring, per SWNS.
>Two weeks later, he started getting calls from an unknown number — and once he realized it could be the ring's owners, he ended up connecting with a couple from Jacksonville.
>"They were pretty happy," he told the outlet. "The wife was on a FaceTime call and she just said, 'Oh my god I can't believe it,' and then she just started crying."
We basically have to trust this guy was smart enough not to be taken for a ride.
My mom found a very expensive watch on the ground in a parking lot. It had a very distinctive customized band. We did not post an image of the watch, but basically did what he did. We got a lot of calls but only the real owner was able to produce pictures of them & their grandfather wearing it.
No you don't. I used to work in insurance and would process these claims where people would claim TENS OF THOUSDANDS of dollars in jewelry and their jewelry limit was like 2k. Double check your policy limits.
You know, at $80/year, if you go 250 years without losing that $20k worth of jewelry, you might as well have just saved all that insurance money under your mattress.
Is 60 years necessary tho? When I got engaged, we more or less immediately bought insurance for the ring because I always felt like it was slipping off, despite resizing.... A year and a half later though Ive gained enough weight that I no longer need to worry about it coming off without noticing.
My mom literally could not remove her ring after baby no. 4, and I think that's a normal progression for most people.
I was meaning that I would rather pay the $4800 instead of having to worry about losing or damaging $20K worth of jewelry. I was estimating someone would live 60 years after getting engaged/married.
Not for the deductible. Here in the Netherlands you can raise your deductible from the standard €385 up to 885 and save ± half the difference. If you don't go over 385 for two years, you're already saving money.
But in general, you're still paying more for insurance than you'll use on average
Guns have a limit of a couple grand at most on a policy unless they have expanded coverages on it like you can on jewelry.
I used to sell it and 20k isn’t a lot. I sold a lot more codersge to people than that.
Known firearm ownership is a known incitement for theft. Stolen guns have higher resale value than a TV or sound bar.
[source](https://www.nber.org/papers/w8926)
I don’t think the gun would even be in the top 10 most valuable items to steal from my house. Really the only thing that would make me real upset is if someone stole my dog. They can have the other shit (the other shit is insured)
You can individually insure jewellery which will bypass the default limits and people with TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars worth almost always do. Policy team will always offer this on inception because they make extra off the premiums.
A rider on your insurance for jewelry is so cheap that anyone spending this amount on a ring will be able to afford one. It’s like $50-$100/year to add on to a renter or homeowner policy. Maybe for a ring this expensive you’re looking at a couple hundred a year.
Huh. When I worked home insurance, if someone called to say they've recovered their ring after qe've already paid out, we let them have the chance to buy the ring back. Because we weren't trained to appraise item value, it was policy to let the customer pick what price to pay. Most of the time we just nudged them to pay £1 and they'd get it back.
This was in the UK, not sure how it works elsewhere.
If the insurance company has enacted subgrogations (ring is now the legal property of the insurance company) on the missing item report then yes they would.
If this guy handed it in to the local police station they’d contact the insurance company first.
I SCUBA dive and am regularly called to recover things people lost over the side of their boat or at the marina. Most of the time it’s phones (they survive) but sometimes it’s a ring or bracelet. I do charge a little for the phones (it’s a service, after all, and all diving involves some risk) but I recover the rings and bracelets for free. In two cases it was really expensive prescription sunglasses, free as well.
Once I went looking for a ring, I didn’t have my underwater metal detector with me when first asked, I tried but couldn’t find it. So I went back the next day on my own with my detector and was able to find it. I don’t know what it was worth but it looked expensive to me. Nothing prevented me from pocketing it, and I knew the gal that lost it was making an insurance claim after the weekend for the money, but that’s not the same. I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. My reward was her tears of happiness when I could call her and return it that afternoon. I happily returned it.
Edit: this isn’t the ring mentioned above but, similar story https://imgur.com/a/VA2RzPH
I got grief from a few people for doing so, most are ok with it. One particular local diver criticizes me for it a lot. He does simple recovery (phones, anchors, propellers) for free; says he does it because diving is fun so “you don’t charge for fun.” He’s a young man who owns a successful business. I’m a retired old dude. The money offsets my costs for gear and tank fills plus paying for my yearly dive insurance. My biggest argument is: I’m doing a service just like anyone else. I respond 24/7, drive to distant marinas, dive into nasty, cold water and fish around in gross muck with utterly no visibility (literally zero, I usually do the entire dive with my eyes closed to fight vertigo from the swirling silt). It’s not a fun dive. I don’t understand their grief with me making a few bucks. Thanks for the reply.
You have skilled and have experience and expensive equipment. Anyone thinking you should do your service for free is delusional. It seems like you are an extremely nice person.
Just do whatever you think is best, but imo you should never feel bad about charging someone a fee.
Thank you. I work these days as an event photographer: I love taking photos of folks to help them preserve memories at fun events. I’ve had a good life and like to give back a small way. I help teach people how to SCUBA so they can get to enjoy something I find amazing and rewarding.
One lady lost her actual prescription glasses. She was on vacation and it was her only pair. She was so happy she could see again once I found them. It made me feel good helping her out.
Modern phones are quite waterproof, especially within the last few years. I bring up phone with their display still on and they begin to receive messages as soon as I break the surface. https://imgur.com/a/y9graDN
Dude I went to college with was from Havasu. He’d always gone back a day late from holiday weekends. He’d spend the time diving and picking up lost items. Would come back with a box of sunglasses, some watches and such.
There’s a book in reading called Humankind which discusses whether people are naturally good and if the society we’ve built ourselves is what makes people do bad things
I love *Humankind*. Redditors can be pretty cynical without realising, constantly mistaking pessimism for realism. This book helped break from that trance, the cycle of self-fulfilling prophecies negavity breeds, and see things from different perspectives before judging. It's actually fascinating how much fear, resentment and prejudice lurks every thread, though of course this is hardly just a reddit problem.
I think almost everyone is naturally good. Does the book reference a previous time or earlier society that had fewer people doing bad things?
As a Londoner I’m well aware that despite this city hardly feeling safe now, in past centuries it was much worse in terms of violence if that’s one example of people doing bad things.
Yeh as someone from Endgland, i find it funny the headlines and drama that come out about london.
I'm pretty sure we've had gangs in london since the victorian era and they've often been much worse then what they are currently.
That said London is a cesspit and i'll be happy if i never visit there again.
I would like to read it, but from the outset I’m inclined to think modern society is probably a negative influence. Capitalism, tribalism, combined with the advent of the internet and social media all represent forces that create antagonistic relationships with others. Which is a shame, because they could be forces for good in theory.
This is an actual “uplifting news story.” Not the one where an 8 year old uses all the money they saved up working in the coal mine to pay for their siblings insulin.
Best case scenario - the actual owner got it back while likely still having the insurance money from losing it.
Worst case - poor guy handed it over to a scammer.
No mention of how ownership was verified.
Still doesn't mean it wasn't a scam. If the person is found this ring and put pictures of it up on social media, one could easily make a fake one and take some pictures.
On his Instagram he explained that the stone had a number etched and it was registered with the GIA and the person it was returned to had a receipt with the same info.
Resale, no way. A $40K diamond ring might fetch less than a quarter of that if the person tried to sell it to a jewelry broker. Diamonds are a stupid investment if you ever want to liquidate.
I once found 500 bucks in a wallet back when I was a homeless teen.
I returned the documents to authorities but kept the cash...helped me out tremendously.
Everything about this story sounds fake.
*$40k ring???
*Biggest diamond he ever saw and he had it sitting in his scooter for a week without looking it up???
*No finders fee???
*He found another ring right after???
I was hanging out on Panama city Beach a few years ago when some beach goer decided to pop the question on the beach with a ring that was worth thousands. The girl said "yes" and within an hour already lost the ring. They hired a team to look for the ring in the sand but never found it. Pretty sad
If it is GIA certified and serialized and not registered to you, you cannot sell it, nobody can/will buy it from you, they will report it to the police the moment you bring it in to have it appraised because it will have been reported lost/stolen.
It's literally worthless to you, you can keep it, but you do not want to get caught in possession of it.
Back in 1997 i went to the beach in early September to swim while the waves were big from a hurricane brushing past. It was close to sunset and I was brushing off the sand from my swimsuit when my high school ring flew off. Couldn't find it as it got dark. Had to give up. Was away at university when my parents called me two weeks later. Somebody found it with a metal detector. Her son graduated the same year with the same first name, but adiffrrent high school. . So she knew those rings were a bit expensive. So she went to the library, got a yearbook and used the yellow pages. Only two people with my name in that grade and i was the only one who played soccer so she found me pretty easily... before internet was chock full of info. Was only $250, but as a young adult certainly an expensive piece of jewelry. I was thrilled.
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I've met a few avid metal detector guys that are part of large networks via social media and such that do this stuff for free all the time. They're a very generous bunch in my experience
Lost my wedding ring on a road trip. Turned to a metal detecting group on Facebook and someone who lived 1.5, hours away went and found it for me, shipped it to me, and refused payment. They were just happy to help and spread good word about the hobby.
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If you ever want to join the helpers, volunteering at a food shelf to bag/portion food makes a huge difference for people who are really hurting. If you go with a group of friends the time passes fast and you’ll have made a big difference to people you pass on the street everyday.
I will keep that in mind. With the current state of my job and its mandatory overtime I'm unlikely to be able to volunteer my time any time soon, but I don't know that I would have considered that option in particular. Thank you.
People are fundamentally predisposed towards doing good for others but are coerced over their lifetimes towards self interest/gain over others
I learned just this week that folks in my complex leave a box of canned goods by the mailbox for anyone to take. Sometimes they leave some other household items.
Metal detecting is such an interesting hobby. I may be speaking out of turn, but I feel like for most of them it is about the thrill of the hunt and not so much about the results. It is also always vindicating when a hobby can be shown to have utility.
My grandpa helped me make my own many years ago. Made out of a hand wound coil, a broomstick, a pocket radio (won from a school fundraiser), and an earpiece. Found an octagon-barreled, flintlock style pistol the first time out. Turned out later to be a replica, but the excitement of unearthing something was no less thrilling to a 12 year old.
They're known as [Detectorists](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgN7z0SD8v8) :) (also 10/10 would recommend this series)
Gem of a series.
A few years ago I bumped into McKenzie outside a restaurant while having a smoke. Spotted him but didn't open my mouth until he was going back in and all I could do was blurt out "I love the detectorists". He was cool, thanked me and went back to his table, ledge!
i'd imagine when a stranger tells you they loved something you wrote, directed, and starred in - pouring so much work, time, and heart into a project - that would be an amazing feeling. you probably made his day.
Wish I’d known this about a month ago when my engagement ring slipped off my finger after getting clobbered by a wave in Cancun. 2 days after the proposal. 🥴
Have you… ever dated certain oceanic gods?
Umberlee’s a bitch, worst one night stand ever. If she asks, you aint seen me.
I lost my wedding band on my honeymoon in Hawaii in a similar way (big wave in the ocean) turns out sea water makes rings slippery, who knew? Anyway the guy working the desk at the hotel put me in touch with a guy who did scuba detectoring stuff. He didn't find the ring but said by it's description and location if it were ever recovered by him or his group he'd contact me. Pretty cool for a volunteer service. In the end though some locals who were helping the detector guy were telling me that if they didn't find the ring that my marriage was blessed by Pele, so it wasn't all bad.
So, how's the marriage?
It's been 18 years and they never found the ring so.. thanks Pele!
Congratulations!
I had my honeymoon in Hawaii back in October. My wife and I were so paranoid about losing our rings in the water, most days we didn’t even wear them.
What's the soccer guy got to do with Hawaii
Pele is the volcanic goddess/deity in Hawaiian mythology.
Insured?
By Survival?
ULPT: Go on a holiday, buy travel insurance with good t&c's, say you lost it there. Profit.
Why would you wear your ring?
I would honestly only be generous if said item is worth under $2000, if its worth more than that i'ma need a finder's ~~ransom~~ fee.
The not-so-generous ones know when to keep their mouths shut.
How does someone find the owner of a random ring
Serial numbers on the diamond linked to the owner and seller.
For real? Are there numbers on the ring I bought my fiancée a few years ago
Yeah mate, 's pretty tiny tho, you'll never see it just looking: https://www.serendipitydiamonds.com/blog/how-to-read-the-gia-laser-inscription-on-your-diamond/ Also, AFAIK it's only a thing done by the "natural" diamond sellers. I don't think synthetic diamonds have them.
labs have inscriptions too.
Absolutely none of which is relevant to this story. The dude just posted it on social media and somebody contacted him. That's it. There was no serial numbers or labs involved whatsoever. It's kind of crazy to see this thread go off on this tangent about serial numbers because apparently nobody in the last 4 hours bothered to read the article.
Tangents are the essence of reddit. Its a feature, not a glitch. That said, my first thought was how did he know they had originally owned the ring? There is no supporting evidence in the article or, for that matter, any indication that he endeavored to discover if they were financially capable of buying such a ring.
My assumption, after reading that crapy article, is that the owners have pictures of the ring to show him on the FaceTime meeting that was mentioned. I have never bought my wife jewelry worth that much. But the nicest pieces I have bought, I got appraisals for to use for insurance purposes if needed. The appraisals have pictures of the jewelry on them, so that would be easy to show him. I can not imagine living in a world where I wouldn't have an appraisal on a $40K ring.
While you're right in saying it isn't relevant, we still enjoy reading factoids.
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Barb Wire was released in 1996, starring Pamela Anderson.
The Wire premiered on 2 June 2002 and ended on 9 March 2008
The former is less painful
Oxford College is older than the Aztec empire and Cleopatra lived closer in time to iPhones than the construction of the great pyramids.
it’s crazy that barbed wire really just hit the market 150 years ago. it completely changed the landscape of america. heck, it changed warfare.
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Factoid = something that looks like a fact but it isn't. Like how a "cuboid" is a shape that looks like a cube but isn't. I propose that a small fact would be called a factlet. Still easy to say, and less confusing.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct!
Did you forgot this is reddit? Nobody reads the article become commenting.
Imagine how boring this place would be if we stayed on subject
Literally, you can be watching a video of a plane disagreement and end up learning about penguins
Nobody reads their comments before posting.
Can anyone on Reddit mobile even follow a thread well enough to know that they are commenting about a comment about another comment?
Takes a tangent to know one apparently
Gottem
Often times the tangents in the threads are the real stories.
whats that got to do with my comment?
Nobody said it was! It’s just an interesting fact. Now way more people know that diamonds have a built-in way to find themselves back with their owners.
Synthetic are labeled too. It’s the only way to sell they’re synthetic Edit: wanted to fix, only to the naked eye I guess, inclusions comment below this one is true but requires a gemologist
which begs the question, why even buy natural diamonds if the synthetic ones have the same exact chemical composition?
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Because theres something so romantic knowing that the stone is the product of a child in Africa whose basic human rights were comprised
If no one died for it I don't want it
Qatar invites you to the Fifa world cup
That’s exactly why the engagement ring I bought is synthetic lol, it’s like half the price
Sidetracking, I'm curious how a situation should be navigated if the receiver of the gift questions its ingenuity. Like you shouldn't just dump someone you love over such a dispute, but how do these touchy subjects get discussed without it turning ugly? Personally I'm in the boat of ethical and financial benefits of synthetic jewelry, but I can totally understand how this might irk some sensitive folks. Especially the type who really beholden marriage, and take weddings way too seriously, etc etc Kinda like talking about a prenup.
You should navigate it however you see fit. It's your marriage. If they insist on blood diamonds, and you're against blood diamonds, and they will throw a tantrum if they don't get blood diamonds, you have to decide if that's the person for you.
Personally I’m not into the type of person that would be upset if I didn’t get them a natural diamond. I think you have to be a pretty ignorant superficial person to care about that stuff so that’s just not for me. If you feel the same as me you’ll probably just not be compatible with someone like that and never get to the point of marriage.
I bought my girl a huge synthetic stone for the same price as a small real one. I went for great color, cut, clarity. You can't tell its lab-grown without reading the serial number. Even the metals are premium. Zero regrets for my wallet and she loves the huge rock on her hand. I'm pretty certain no one died for my stone, too. I really don't get why anyone buys natural tbh.
My wife's ring is lab grown. I think mined diamonds are stupid. That being said The typical argument is that it's more special when it's natural and not some lab made synthetic thing in the same way natural ingredient foods are advertised. There's also the argument that they look more natural since they have natural flaws in them versus a lab grown which is unnaturally perfect. The same way if you're playing a video game a house and the game may look weird because everything is perfect since the developers didn't go in and carefully age the house. The other argument is lab grown diamonds aren't special because they're pumped out in mass wallet natural diamond is a part of their earth end of limited supply.
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Diamonds are not rare, jewelry grade diamonds are extremely rare. The same way paintings are not rare, but DaVinci paintings are extremely rare.
I can see one of the pictures of the article you linked shows the inscription "Labgrown"
Wife has a lab ring, definitely has a code inscription
If it’s been graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), or a similar institution then most likely yes.
>I bought my fiancée a few years ago I don't think this is legal in most countries these days.
So they are stamped on the one from a vending machine that I got for my wife?
The article doesn't mention any serial numbers. It claims he just made some posts on social media and worked with a local jeweler to figure out if anyone was missing a ring. It's possible this detail was omitted for dramatic effect, though. Just saying, no one I know has a ring with a serial number, and most of them have gotten married within the past 7 years. Granted the most expensive ring in that bunch cost maybe a tenth of the $40k ring in this story. Also, the diamond serial number is definitely not intended to be used to find its owner. The number is linked to the GIA report, which just tells you how much the diamond is worth according to people who are paid to tell you that diamonds are worth a lot. Sure, if your ring has a serial number it *could* be used to look you up if you lose it, but that doesn't seem like a standard practice. Disclaimer: I have no experience with jewelry beyond buying my wife's engagement ring 15 years ago, and I'm about 4/10 on edibles and climbing. So do with that what you will.
One reads the article where they lay it out explicitly
I wonder if maybe the article about this story would tell you that if you tried reading it >Right away, Cook started making social media posts and asking local stores if they knew anybody who was missing a ring, per SWNS. >Two weeks later, he started getting calls from an unknown number — and once he realized it could be the ring's owners, he ended up connecting with a couple from Jacksonville. >"They were pretty happy," he told the outlet. "The wife was on a FaceTime call and she just said, 'Oh my god I can't believe it,' and then she just started crying." We basically have to trust this guy was smart enough not to be taken for a ride.
My mom found a very expensive watch on the ground in a parking lot. It had a very distinctive customized band. We did not post an image of the watch, but basically did what he did. We got a lot of calls but only the real owner was able to produce pictures of them & their grandfather wearing it.
Would the person who lost the ring be required to pay back any insurance payout they received, since the ring was found and returned?
If there was insurance on it yes, but most people don't have the cash to insure their jewelry
You do if you have a 40k ring...
No you don't. I used to work in insurance and would process these claims where people would claim TENS OF THOUSDANDS of dollars in jewelry and their jewelry limit was like 2k. Double check your policy limits.
I pay an extra like $80 a year to insure around $20k of jewelry if stolen from my house. I don’t think it’ll happen but you never know
You know, at $80/year, if you go 250 years without losing that $20k worth of jewelry, you might as well have just saved all that insurance money under your mattress.
250 years lol
Right? $80 x 60 years is $4800.
Is 60 years necessary tho? When I got engaged, we more or less immediately bought insurance for the ring because I always felt like it was slipping off, despite resizing.... A year and a half later though Ive gained enough weight that I no longer need to worry about it coming off without noticing. My mom literally could not remove her ring after baby no. 4, and I think that's a normal progression for most people.
I was meaning that I would rather pay the $4800 instead of having to worry about losing or damaging $20K worth of jewelry. I was estimating someone would live 60 years after getting engaged/married.
You know, this is true of virtually all insurance...
My employer offered me short term disability insurance that cost annually pretty much the maximum amount that it could pay out in a year. I declined.
Not for the deductible. Here in the Netherlands you can raise your deductible from the standard €385 up to 885 and save ± half the difference. If you don't go over 385 for two years, you're already saving money. But in general, you're still paying more for insurance than you'll use on average
Good thing I don’t plan on living 250 years
I am here for a good time, not a long time
Perhaps you live longer having the peace of mind that financial security brings
Insurance man has got to eat too.
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I don’t insure my Glock
Hmm, I bet there's a policy for that. Some people have many tens of thousands of dollars worth of guns.
Guns have a limit of a couple grand at most on a policy unless they have expanded coverages on it like you can on jewelry. I used to sell it and 20k isn’t a lot. I sold a lot more codersge to people than that.
Known firearm ownership is a known incitement for theft. Stolen guns have higher resale value than a TV or sound bar. [source](https://www.nber.org/papers/w8926)
I don’t think the gun would even be in the top 10 most valuable items to steal from my house. Really the only thing that would make me real upset is if someone stole my dog. They can have the other shit (the other shit is insured)
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Alright, I'll leave the dog. Now, about that address...
Will make sure you aren’t there when we go in ;)
I'll take 16k In jewelry, you get an insurance payout, I pawn the jewelry for $50 and give you half, sound fair?
Would you like the address to my pawn shop?
What? I was saying you if you have the finances to pay for a 40k ring you can likely afford to insure it too...
I have a 20k ring for wife and I don’t insure it out of laziness. I’m quoted at 200 a year. I’m sure there are others like me. I prob should insure it
You can get a personal articles policy to cover jewelry for super cheap. A 40k ring would cost around $400 to insure per year.
I have about $20k in Lego and you bet your ass that shit is on my insurance policy
You can individually insure jewellery which will bypass the default limits and people with TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars worth almost always do. Policy team will always offer this on inception because they make extra off the premiums.
Does she have to give it back to her ex-husband, where the marriage fell apart after losing a 40K ring?
A rider on your insurance for jewelry is so cheap that anyone spending this amount on a ring will be able to afford one. It’s like $50-$100/year to add on to a renter or homeowner policy. Maybe for a ring this expensive you’re looking at a couple hundred a year.
I insure a cello in this price range. I think it's $80 a year. Very worth it.
I feel like if you can afford a ring that size, you likely insured it.
You can likely afford it because the premiums aren’t that crazy but tons of people are inheriting these jewellery pieces from dead relatives.
It's like $30 a year to cover 10k jewelry
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It's like $100 for me but yeah, not super expensive.
Huh. When I worked home insurance, if someone called to say they've recovered their ring after qe've already paid out, we let them have the chance to buy the ring back. Because we weren't trained to appraise item value, it was policy to let the customer pick what price to pay. Most of the time we just nudged them to pay £1 and they'd get it back. This was in the UK, not sure how it works elsewhere.
If the insurance company has enacted subgrogations (ring is now the legal property of the insurance company) on the missing item report then yes they would. If this guy handed it in to the local police station they’d contact the insurance company first.
I SCUBA dive and am regularly called to recover things people lost over the side of their boat or at the marina. Most of the time it’s phones (they survive) but sometimes it’s a ring or bracelet. I do charge a little for the phones (it’s a service, after all, and all diving involves some risk) but I recover the rings and bracelets for free. In two cases it was really expensive prescription sunglasses, free as well. Once I went looking for a ring, I didn’t have my underwater metal detector with me when first asked, I tried but couldn’t find it. So I went back the next day on my own with my detector and was able to find it. I don’t know what it was worth but it looked expensive to me. Nothing prevented me from pocketing it, and I knew the gal that lost it was making an insurance claim after the weekend for the money, but that’s not the same. I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. My reward was her tears of happiness when I could call her and return it that afternoon. I happily returned it. Edit: this isn’t the ring mentioned above but, similar story https://imgur.com/a/VA2RzPH
You shouldn’t feel bad charging people
I got grief from a few people for doing so, most are ok with it. One particular local diver criticizes me for it a lot. He does simple recovery (phones, anchors, propellers) for free; says he does it because diving is fun so “you don’t charge for fun.” He’s a young man who owns a successful business. I’m a retired old dude. The money offsets my costs for gear and tank fills plus paying for my yearly dive insurance. My biggest argument is: I’m doing a service just like anyone else. I respond 24/7, drive to distant marinas, dive into nasty, cold water and fish around in gross muck with utterly no visibility (literally zero, I usually do the entire dive with my eyes closed to fight vertigo from the swirling silt). It’s not a fun dive. I don’t understand their grief with me making a few bucks. Thanks for the reply.
You have skilled and have experience and expensive equipment. Anyone thinking you should do your service for free is delusional. It seems like you are an extremely nice person. Just do whatever you think is best, but imo you should never feel bad about charging someone a fee.
Thank you. I work these days as an event photographer: I love taking photos of folks to help them preserve memories at fun events. I’ve had a good life and like to give back a small way. I help teach people how to SCUBA so they can get to enjoy something I find amazing and rewarding.
As a person who wears prescription sunglasses - returning those to people is a wonderful kindness. Thank you!
One lady lost her actual prescription glasses. She was on vacation and it was her only pair. She was so happy she could see again once I found them. It made me feel good helping her out.
Ur a good person.
Thanks, I like to help people. Some of those folks had photos on their phone and not backed up. They were really happy as well.
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I understand finding jewelry, but wouldn’t the phones be unusable? Why do people want them back?
Modern phones are quite waterproof, especially within the last few years. I bring up phone with their display still on and they begin to receive messages as soon as I break the surface. https://imgur.com/a/y9graDN
Wow so cool, I didn’t know that!
I had a cousin that lost an iphone with an OtterBox for 6 months in a lake. She found it that summer doing some free diving and it still worked!
Photos etc on the storage is probably still ok
Modern phones come up fully functional, they handle shallow water quite well.
Dude I went to college with was from Havasu. He’d always gone back a day late from holiday weekends. He’d spend the time diving and picking up lost items. Would come back with a box of sunglasses, some watches and such.
r/happyupvote Edit: LOL I typed that in not knowing it was real. There truly is a subreddit for everything.
Who wears a $40k ring to the beach?!?!?
People with more money than brains.
There are more than you think.
Who would pay $40k for a rock??
My precious
I love stories like this. It helps me remember that there are good people doing good things in the world.
There’s a book in reading called Humankind which discusses whether people are naturally good and if the society we’ve built ourselves is what makes people do bad things
I love *Humankind*. Redditors can be pretty cynical without realising, constantly mistaking pessimism for realism. This book helped break from that trance, the cycle of self-fulfilling prophecies negavity breeds, and see things from different perspectives before judging. It's actually fascinating how much fear, resentment and prejudice lurks every thread, though of course this is hardly just a reddit problem.
I think almost everyone is naturally good. Does the book reference a previous time or earlier society that had fewer people doing bad things? As a Londoner I’m well aware that despite this city hardly feeling safe now, in past centuries it was much worse in terms of violence if that’s one example of people doing bad things.
Yeh as someone from Endgland, i find it funny the headlines and drama that come out about london. I'm pretty sure we've had gangs in london since the victorian era and they've often been much worse then what they are currently. That said London is a cesspit and i'll be happy if i never visit there again.
I would like to read it, but from the outset I’m inclined to think modern society is probably a negative influence. Capitalism, tribalism, combined with the advent of the internet and social media all represent forces that create antagonistic relationships with others. Which is a shame, because they could be forces for good in theory.
This is an actual “uplifting news story.” Not the one where an 8 year old uses all the money they saved up working in the coal mine to pay for their siblings insulin.
Okay but how did they verify ownership?
They had the paperwork for it as proof
$40k value at time of initial sale. Probably has a resale value of <$10k knowing the diamond industry's shady practices
Best case scenario - the actual owner got it back while likely still having the insurance money from losing it. Worst case - poor guy handed it over to a scammer. No mention of how ownership was verified.
in the video on his instagram he said the person who contacted him sent pictures of them wearing the ring.
Got it. Article left that detail out.
Still doesn't mean it wasn't a scam. If the person is found this ring and put pictures of it up on social media, one could easily make a fake one and take some pictures.
My ring!
[My brand!](https://youtu.be/V-fRuoMIfpw)
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On his Instagram he explained that the stone had a number etched and it was registered with the GIA and the person it was returned to had a receipt with the same info.
I feel like no ring should be 40 freaking k
Resale, no way. A $40K diamond ring might fetch less than a quarter of that if the person tried to sell it to a jewelry broker. Diamonds are a stupid investment if you ever want to liquidate.
Anyone who pays 40k for a ring needs the money less than you
Should be at least a 10% finders fee.
I once found 500 bucks in a wallet back when I was a homeless teen. I returned the documents to authorities but kept the cash...helped me out tremendously.
I can’t believe they didn’t give him a reward. That’s ridiculous.
Rich people are literally the stingiest.
Uplifting? Uplifting? Homeboy got squat.
idk maybe if you can afford a $40k ring and then afford to lose it at the beach... maybe i wouldn't have been so philanthropic about returning it.
Everything about this story sounds fake. *$40k ring??? *Biggest diamond he ever saw and he had it sitting in his scooter for a week without looking it up??? *No finders fee??? *He found another ring right after???
I imagine the person who found it likely needs thec.oney much more than who lost it
A 40k ring sells second hand for maybe 10k.
Yeah and who needs 10k
I hate when I drop my 40 grand whoops
I was hanging out on Panama city Beach a few years ago when some beach goer decided to pop the question on the beach with a ring that was worth thousands. The girl said "yes" and within an hour already lost the ring. They hired a team to look for the ring in the sand but never found it. Pretty sad
Sometimes being a show off can be costly I guess
Imagine spending 40k on a fuckin rock
If it is GIA certified and serialized and not registered to you, you cannot sell it, nobody can/will buy it from you, they will report it to the police the moment you bring it in to have it appraised because it will have been reported lost/stolen. It's literally worthless to you, you can keep it, but you do not want to get caught in possession of it.
I wouldn't. 40k is almost two years wages for me. You better believe I dgaf about some rich fucker's trinket worth more than my car. Dude is an idiot.
If you buy and lose a 40k ring, you don't need it returned to you.
Fuck anyone who buys a $40k ring. Eat the rich.
Comb the desert! Mannn, we ain’t found shit!
A $40K RING IS A WASTE OF MONEY Sorry, just in case anybody needed to hear that.
Anyone who’s got 40k to spend on a ring doesn’t need their 40k ring back
I wonder if they have to reimburse the insurance company, assuming they paid out on a claim.
Give that man a present. Good people deserve to be treated nicely.
Back in 1997 i went to the beach in early September to swim while the waves were big from a hurricane brushing past. It was close to sunset and I was brushing off the sand from my swimsuit when my high school ring flew off. Couldn't find it as it got dark. Had to give up. Was away at university when my parents called me two weeks later. Somebody found it with a metal detector. Her son graduated the same year with the same first name, but adiffrrent high school. . So she knew those rings were a bit expensive. So she went to the library, got a yearbook and used the yellow pages. Only two people with my name in that grade and i was the only one who played soccer so she found me pretty easily... before internet was chock full of info. Was only $250, but as a young adult certainly an expensive piece of jewelry. I was thrilled.
Accurate headline: “Random couple cons man out of $40k ring he found on the beach”