So, I just finished unpacking from Fanime a couple days ago, and I realized something: My DS has gone missing!!! I am hoping I didn't, but it may have fallen out of my bag at con. I know that there is a slim and none chance of finding it, but if anyone found a white DS, could they let me know? I still have the serial number for it, so I can match it up and won't be taking someone else's...
The best thing to do is to send the information of your DS (Serial number is great because it's a unique way of IDing it) to help@fanime
Thanks, but it looks like I was over-reacting. A friend of mine had grabbed it from me by mistake when she grabbed her stuff. It's nice to know that, should something like this happen, there is some way of possibly recovering it. Props to the Fanime staff!
I lost a JVC Everio G Digital Camcorder. There should be some cosplay pics, other pictures and a couple videos taken of the con as well as some videos containing me in it! ^^
I lost my mind... has anyone found it?
I lost a skirt, but if I somehow left it in the convention centre I think I've got more to worry about than the skirt. I don't recall walking around in my underwear....
I lost a nice pair of running socks, but I think they were tossed out by housekeeping.
Quote from: NanaI lost a nice pair of running socks, but I think they were tossed out by housekeeping.
That's one of the many reasons why we didn't let the maids step foot inside our room @.@
Quote from: MoogleborgI lost a JVC Everio G Digital Camcorder. There should be some cosplay pics, other pictures and a couple videos taken of the con as well as some videos containing me in it! ^^
Please email help@fanime dot com regarding this.
I am emailing the help@fanime right now...but I thought I'd give a shout out as well. I lost my health insurance card in the Marriot lobby/check in place.
I kinda really need that. -_-'' considering I just paid $100+ out of pocket for a doctors' visit.
My biggest question is CAN THEY HELP??? i realzied NOT people can find things and then SIMPLY return them..I already return someones glasses because they look expensive and someone elses wallet, I did found a DS and return that to the Registration desk because The help desk told me to go to REgistration, which they told me to go to Con ops, and then con ops said no we don't do Lost and founds, try registration and finally i arrived and announce it live....
btw, the Ds was old and its color was gold!
as for the glassess ONE of the lens is broken but the frame is black with a slick line of a silver like chrome at the edge!
but like i said before.... CAN THEY HELP???
Yeah... I found a digi-cam that I turned into lost and found, and apparently, the person picked it up(I heard from a friend of mine in staff later that day when we were having dinner).
Though I don't understand what you're trying to say in your post, I'm just stating what I THINK you're trying to ask.
For items that don't have ID, they can't go out of their way to track the owners down, but it';s still a good idea to have a nice centralized place for people to contact when they realize there's stuff missing.
(btw update on my mysteriously disappearing skirt, it was in my friend's luggage! whoops!)
You do realize that even if your skirt did go missing there would be a reasonable reason. And here it is... YOU'RE AT A CON! Crazy stuff happens all the time. :P
Quote from: Kodoku on June 03, 2007, 06:13:23 PM
I lost my mind... has anyone found it?
I Don't think your going to get the back lolz :D
we should have a Good Samaritan Lost and Found award each year at Fanime. The winner who turns in the most valuable lost item gets a free con pass for the next 3 years.
Here here?
Quote from: THEBROTHERHOOD_CEO on January 21, 2008, 01:28:24 PM
we should have a Good Samaritan Lost and Found award each year at Fanime. The winner who turns in the most valuable lost item gets a free con pass for the next 3 years.
Here here?
If we give something away like that someone might be tempted to steal something just to give it back. The award's gotta just be recognition.
Quote from: THEBROTHERHOOD_CEO on January 21, 2008, 01:28:24 PM
we should have a Good Samaritan Lost and Found award each year at Fanime. The winner who turns in the most valuable lost item gets a free con pass for the next 3 years.
Here here?
Time to borrow a friend's expensive laptop. =P
youre right, i didnt think of that. yeah, just recognition. maybe a certificate, or something?
Quote from: THEBROTHERHOOD_CEO on January 26, 2008, 12:20:05 PM
youre right, i didnt think of that. yeah, just recognition. maybe a certificate, or something?
I understand that you're concerned with... "the experience" of other people at the con and all, but I doubt there's actually any reason for Fanime to make a certificate that no one, not even the person who'd receive it, would care about.
I'm going to sound like a sap, but isn't the knowledge that you're returning something to someone reward enough? That's why I'd do it.
Quote from: Moonblossom on January 26, 2008, 03:18:58 PM
I'm going to sound like a sap, but isn't the knowledge that you're returning something to someone reward enough? That's why I'd do it.
Most people could say they do it, to help others, to sympathize with having something lost, for balancing karma, for self-gratification, for reassurance that they're good people. That's the natural reason.
Though, I find the feeling of returning lost items a strange sensation. Even though my rationalization of
why is due to the above reasons, I wonder if it's for any of that-- helping others, helping myself, being a good person. I don't usually mind going out of my way to do a deed like this, even if it's inconvenient for me... but I think I do it
because I can. And that's probably my primary, maybe only, reason why I'd do it. I probably wouldn't even bother identifying myself.
None of this has to do with anything, though. Just felt like saying it.
Quote from: THEBROTHERHOOD_CEO on January 26, 2008, 12:20:05 PM
youre right, i didnt think of that. yeah, just recognition. maybe a certificate, or something?
Here's some fun irony. We should promote the idea of giving someone something for doing a "selfless act". Because you know... the whole point about it being selfless... doesn't matter.
lets say someone finds a lost wallet. it has 23$ in it. It has an ID and credit cards, etc. Currently there is no incentive for this individual to turn this in to the lost and found other then them being a good human being. I am just trying to find some way of creating a system by which a more scrupulous person would at least think twice before taking the money and throwing the wallet into the garbage, like I have seen people do.
Any ideas?
No, because the idea of keeping it is absolutely alien to me. As it should be with most people ><''
If people just stopped for like, half a second, to think "Shit, what if this were -my- wallet? How would I feel?" then maybe they'd just be decent human beings and return it.
Between the idea that there are people there who wouldn't return it, and the whole glomping/lack of personal space issue that's been all over the forums, I'm starting to think Fanime is populated by selfish people who have no respect for anyone but themselves..
it is unfortunate that there are people at the con who are the type of person who would not turn it in whole to the lost and found.
My chief concern is perhaps finding someone on this forum with a genius idea as to get them to turn it in when they otherwise wouldnt...
some ideas:
signs indicating where the nearest lost and found is. i think some people might keep the stuff out of laziness.
paper fliers posted up that are like PSAs that encourage people to be careful with their things and for people to turn in what they find.
also, we could have a good Samaritan wall where they take Polaroids of people who turn in the lost items.
its not that i want to reward people for doing what they already should, but rather am more concerned about people losing things and having it drag down their fanime experience.
Last year, I remember there were PSAs about remembering to wash and whatnot over the loudspeaker. Maybe the occasional "Be careful with your stuff, nothing ruins a trip to the dealer room like a missing wallet!" or "If you've found something that may be important to someone else, please bring it to the Lost and Found or contact a Rover!" type messages, just to keep it on the general public radar then?
it would be a start.
Quote from: Moonblossom on February 03, 2008, 12:23:09 PM
Last year, I remember there were PSAs about remembering to wash and whatnot over the loudspeaker. Maybe the occasional "Be careful with your stuff, nothing ruins a trip to the dealer room like a missing wallet!" or "If you've found something that may be important to someone else, please bring it to the Lost and Found or contact a Rover!" type messages, just to keep it on the general public radar then?
Your right MoonBlossom I did Say over the PA " and a quick reminder to all fanime go'ers, Remember to take showers during the con and that soap is your friend." Some times I did add " and remember if you find Items that you know are not yours, then do the right thing and Bring it to the Lost and found, that would be Con Ops or if your unsure to where that is then bring it right here to the fanime booth. Normally the Fanime booth in the Dealers room is not the Lost and found, but We have found that When a Item is Lost and brought to Us we can see if Its an item that Need to be returned to its owner fast, or can wait in con Ops, for you to find it. Last year We returned two digi cams, 3 cell phones, credit cards and wallets. Anyone who comes to claim a item Must ID the Item per scratch and such. we will not give out a item to someone it dose not belong to. Its fun and the right thing to do. Like last year we where brought a California ID, and so we made a PA that the person on the card, say "BOB" please come to the Fanime booth right now. so BOB shows up and we ask to see his ID for his gift ;D so he Looks for it and discovers he lost it and he wins it back. Even BOB got a kick from it, walked away with a smile.
The Only Down Side to Helping the Fan is the sometime we get alot of Lost items turned in and we know that when someone has lost a item they dont know its gone. so making a PA that we have your say " Digi Cam" at the fanime booth, the person is great full for someone turning it in. but Unfortunately some Dealers Do NOT like to hear PA's like that. so we try to tone down PA's to one a hour. I can see their point but I think helping the Fan get his lost item back is worth hearing a PA here and there. but thats just me. So this year 08 I will try and cut down on PA's unless It is needed.
That's a good idea, announcing that something has been found. Sometimes it takes me a while to notice I'm missing stuff ><
Lost & Found will be located in Convention Operations, Con Ops for short, as it has been every year since I took over the department back in 2002.
We will be located in the Willow Glen I room at the Marriott hotel, and we will be open the entire convention. We usually open for business around 3 pm or so on Thursday, and we close on Monday when load out is complete.
If the Marriott is too far away, any Safety person should be happy to drop the item off in Con-Ops for you, since their base is just down the hall from us. Please be sure to let them know where and when the item was found, since that can be helpful in identifying the correct owners. Please don't just dump things on Registration or Dealers staff if you don't absolutely have to - they have their own jobs to do and it's a hassle for them to run stuff up to us.
After the convention is over, lost & found items are turned over to the folks that monitor the e-mail address help at fanime dot com. Items are held for 6 months after the con, and then donated to charity if not reclaimed.
-Jeanne
Con Ops Head
Fanime Con 2008
yes Go Con OPs ;D