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- What happens to unclaimed baggage? It ends up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center, located in Scottsboro, Alabama. And what is the Unclaimed Baggage Center, you ask? The Unclaimed Baggage Center is the only store in America that buys and resells unclaimed baggage from the airline industry. Watch this episode of Infrequently Asked Questions to learn what goes on behind the scenes, what the weirdest items the center has seen, and the item the U.S. government almost lost to the Unclaimed Baggage Center.
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this video is highly watchable and bulks of the credits go this very excellent spokesperson!! awesome!
What a great spokesperson! I'm dying to go visit that place.
It's quite cool! Hope you get to visit some day :)
That's my oldest sister's youngest. Thank you!
a VERY important question that wasn't asked/answered is, "do you ever make an effort to reunite lost luggage with their original owners before you put them up for sale?"
That is the airlines' responsibility. Always put more identification inside your bag in case your outside tag is torn off in transit. if you are missing a bag or item, report it immediately to the airline. If they find it, you have 90 days to claim it before it is considered unclaimed.
Oh me..... road trip road trip road trip.... what fun it would be just to look even if one didn't purchase!!!
Its kind of like a really good Thrift Store and the Smithsonian of American History had a baby
great to know where to find good finds
Great video! She is so cute.
That's so cool!
Excellent mini-doc!
3:15 the story about Hoggle made me laugh! Imagine that 😂 I know the character but I guess I would scare too haha
Look how normal all the video footage of the past is. When flying was a great experience.
Love you guys!
So cool! Like a treasure hunt!
I grew up not too far from this place. My friends and I used to go frequently and I still have a lot of stuff from there -- mostly interesting watches. It wasn't quite so large and commercial 30 years ago.
Now I want a psychadelic rock band named "The Unclaimed Baggage Experience"
I used to work in a charity shop (thrift store to you Yanks), and the neighbouring railway station used to donate stuff to us. We got about twenty umbrellas on one occasion.
Ok, this is now on my bucket list. Or maybe my every other week list..... 600 miles! I can do it!!!! LoL..................
added to travel list!
The existence of this "industry" caught me by surprise, but glad things are not going to waste - insightful, but I am left wondering how is the price of an unclaimed bag determined?
It’s a really neat store but their prices aren’t as competitive as you might think. I found comparable products for less on Amazon, which made the waste-reducing aspect moot.
road trip!
Count us in!
I want to go to there
Hold on a minute. There was a plaque on the government-owned underwater camera that was "worth its weight in gold". Why didn't the airline return it to the government?
Do the airlines search for the owner, or just hold it for 90 days in case there is a claim?
Are the bags bought/sold with any knowledge about what's inside?
I feel sorry for all the people who watch this video and spot their luggage on the shelf in the background :(... or perhaps that phat camera ring, or wedding dress.
Kinda sad. In this day and age, wouldn't you think they could take a photo of the insides of luggage, or even the outside (if it's not generic) and post it online within that 90-day period so people could scroll through to claim their stuff. Cheats couldn't get away with lying because the luggage should still have its flight tag on, and if the claimant can prove they flew that day, then BINGO!
They didn’t contacted them within 90 days?!? Don’t they have a label and phone number? There’s something wrong with people. Probably they would cheat on insurance. And
long ago, My mother’s luggage was misrouted from Virginia to San Antonio. In a few hours later they did found it and brought over to my grandparents place with courtesy. No extra charge either.
Man, I miss a Southern accent.....
Wait...you have *_Hoggle‽_* And the Jim Henson Workshop doesn't want him back? That's crazy. Now I wonder what happened to Ludo...
I"m wondering if it is him or a reproduction
@@sarahprunierlaw9147 Good point. Looked pretty authentic though.
When they find a pack of cocaine, the employees have to destroy it by snorting it all out.
Why don't they list the items online? One has to travel to AL to buy the lost luggage items? That's ridiculous
@Tim Parsons Thanks for the link, unfortunately they do not offer goods for sale on it.
I suspect that their inventory is too large and transitory. It would probably take a full team of people to take a photo of each item, upload it, write a description and then to track and remove it once sold. That's a lot of extra work.
I don't know of any thrift stores that list their items on line.
@@grantk4 The Salvation Army has online stores on both Facebook and eBay. Goodwill also sells online.
I really hate this...no offense to the very articulate spokeswoman. If you have ever lost your luggage on an airline, you know what a terribly frustrating experience it can be. It is really difficult to get any straight answers as to what has happened to your possessions. It really seems like, before these lost items are sold in bulk for resale, there should be a better effort to contact people who have claims for lost luggage with the airlines. If there is no identification on the luggage, even a partial list of specific contents could identify the owners.
Seriously, can't get more "up to date" video of passengers on the planes!?
Probably not without paying royalties.