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Life sucks, man.
$322 gone. The thing that sucks the most is that they were not even a month old.
EDIT: serial number is sgwycm4f3lkkt
If you are searching this serial number on google, Do not purchase this item, as it has been filed in a police report as stolen and missing property.
Once again,
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it was a smash and grab type of thing. one second it was there, the next, gone :(
Were you in a public place? On a train? That sucks man
school :(
@theOGozbargainer: Uni or highschool?
Highschool is pretty easy, wait til they use the airpods and call the teachers in.
Have your proof ready, ie. S/n. Im sure they can sit both of you and the accused and work it out.
(If you manage to get them cornered, don't forget to offer to drop the charges for… $1,000… yeah, start there and haggle down. If they pony up, go ahead and get them into trouble anyway.)
@Mrgreenz: It is not extortion. It is not even blackmail.
It is actually a settlement. Litigation reaches settlement all the time… except I am being devious.
Revenge. Cold dish.
@[Deactivated]: My experience suggests that teachers don't care no matter the situation, value, or evidence.
@stinkydog: Depends on the student and the way they pitch the idea.
Teachers do not want extra work nor would they want extra trouble with parents (who would?) but teachers (pillars of our community, shapers of future minds, ushers of knowledge, etc.) are a fickle bunch. Sufficiently incentivized and liability limited, they would do it.
@theOGozbargainer: I feel for you. Back when I was in year 12 some a$$hat stole my beloved Nokia 5510 out of my bag while I was in my Physics exam.
Those were the days. You kids with your newfangled white-plastic fantastic life will never know the joys of polyphonic ringtones and physical keyboards in phones that looked like a taco!
@chartparker: Going back even further, before mobile phones (whaat?!) some a-hole at school "borrowed" my brand new Sony Walkman with my favourite cassette inside. Teachers did nothing - I shouldn't have taken it to school. 27 years later and I'm still salty about it!
@ChocStrawberries: You guys and your technology.
Back in my day, I took my favorite rock to school and some a$$hole stole it. Was your standard smash and grab. 27 millennia later and I'm still salty about it!
@tessel: Ha! I still see the guy on my friends' Facebook posts sometimes, so I know how to find him…maybe I'll be in touch about those "skills"….
@njastar: Yeah, that sucks. If yours happened the 90s, even more so, since I know how much keychains were coveted back then! ;)
@chartparker: Lol. In highschool my girlfriend's unlocked locker was raided and her phone stolen.
She never locked her phone with a code, so I sent an SMS along the lines of "I'll find you and break your everything blah blah blah".
Phone ended up back in her locker the next day.
Meanwhile, despite a problem with thieves in the school, I'd leave my discman and 5 CDs in my bag in random places, wherever I wanted, never had an issue. Which pretty much told me exactly who the thief was. Some kid 2 years below always trying to get friendly with "the boys".
Ahh. I peaked too soon. I know it.
@chartparker: Kids these days will never know the struggle of printing out the polyphonic key sequence and programming your ringtone in.
@abuch47: They might have been saving up for ages for it. Don't assume a kid is spoilt if they have something nice - they might have worked hard for it ;)
Or maybe they actually did have a rich Nigerian Prince as an uncle
What do you mean smash and grab? Did they damage your locker or school bag?
@YeemaiI: We have lockers in Australia. You'll see them when you're old enough to go to high school…
@ChocStrawberries: Sydney as well, I had them in high school, my kids have them in high school. Yeemail, how do you lug around your school books etc? Or are some schools fully digital now?
@YeemaiI: Yes, and lockers too. Start of term and end of term is a very heavy bag, rest of term is not so bad.
@kiitos: QLD schools (in my experience as a student and a parent) don't have lockers. Private schools may.
@voiletmay: Sure we do! My kids are in a Qld state high school and have had their own lockers since the first day of grade 7. Quite a drama when they lose their locker key. We have multiple copies cut and kept by various people for when this happens. I also had a locker when I was in high school 25 years ago but we had combination padlocks on ours. I remember my locker combination to this day (still have the padlock). Of course we don't call them school 'bags', we call them 'ports'…
@pierrejb: Same here! Locker #182, and I still use the combination lock elsewhere still with the same combination.
@YeemaiI: How else would we have got to make the joke that never got old about ma bag, malaka.
(30 years ago, public school VIC)
What did they smash?
Going to assume a metal locker.
Track it
its not like an iphone. if someone takes it and reconnects it to a new device, theres no proof its yours anymore.
i do have the box and serial number tho.
the worst thing is, im 95% sure who stole it but i have no proof.
Is the serial number printed on the pods somewhere?
Can you get close to the person you suspect and connect to the pods and get the serial number?
i have the serial number :D but its disconnected from my phone now :(
every iphone is unique to the airpod
it doesnt lock like icloud :(
Isn't the serial number printed on the case?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209371
If you can involve a teacher/staff member just get them to inspect their case and compare to your box.
@cuteseal: i have the serial, but the guy who took it isnt gonna bring them to school. why wouldnt they just sell it
@theOGozbargainer: Assuming this is an underage teenager?
Time for a stern talking to the parent I'd say
You could try and contact Apple to deactivate the serial number? They could then blacklist the device and remove the ability to connect to new devices.
Good luck!
Apple don't give a sh*t if your device is stolen or lost.
I don't think so. Airpods aren't connected to the internet or network like a phone. Apple can't program them.
@bmerigan: The blocking would only occur on Apple Devices as the iPhone would ping Apple's servers to check whether this device has been blocked. Apple could then install a firmware update that bricks the device to prevent it from connecting to anything else.
but if its on YOUR phone under YOUR find my airpods, surely that is enough proof
Pretty sure the serial number is printed under the lid of the case (might want to google exactly where).
This^ Your AirPods serial number is on the underside of the case when you open it (link below for exactly where). If it matches your purchase box, you can prove it belongs to you.
Sorry this had to happen to you. Hope you can get a replacement or get back the stolen one.
Stolen or lost?
stolen ;(
Do you have credit card purchase insurance?
oo! I will investigate on that. thank you
Or portable contents insurance
i dont have any credit card insurance :(
@theOGozbargainer: Sometimes, home & contents insurance will cover portable items taken out of the house (eg. jewellery, laptops, etc). Depends on the level of cover
@Maichu: There is an excess per claim. Even if he somehow lowered it to $300, he would be getting a net $22 and risk an premium increase next year which will be more than $22 for sure.
Yeah - it's a problem at my kids school as the air pods are easily lost/stolen but they aren't locked do an apple id or device so anyone can re-use them…
Hopefully Apple get around to locking them to devices.
$300 earphones for school kids?!
They do have $1200 iPhones these days; what's a pair of $300 wireless earphones?
And the rest - I see kids with iPhone Pro Max.
My kids can suck up their Iphone 7 (hand me downs)
If you're buying your kids $1200 phones, something's wrong with your parenting.
It teaches them a great life lesson though, one worth at least $322 - what you can't defend does not belong to you.
It teaches them a great life lesson though, one worth at least $322 - what you can't defend does not belong to you.
This is a terrible life lesson. It frames the loss as their own fault, and paints the world as winners and losers, with the thief being the winner simply by getting away with it. This leads to the the corollary: anything you can take does belong to you.
The lesson here should be "some people are dicks, be prepared". Same thing, but firmly acknowledges the theft as the bad action, not the lack of defence, and implicitly discourages being another dick in the world.
This leads to the the corollary: anything you can take does belong to you.
Everything in context. When you teach a child, you would set the scope of the lesson. I teach my kids that lesson but I also tell them never to take what does not belong to them.
The corollary of the above would then be - no one will take what is yours as it is not theirs. We all know otherwise.
Scope.
The lack of a defence is an invitation for offence. You may disagree with it because of the corollary but your believe does not stop someone from insidious intent.
It frames the loss as their own fault
No it doesn't. One doesn't have to be at fault to feel the consequence.
You do not punish the child because they've lost a gift. You may express you are upset but ensure that you've put it in context - you are upset that they did not have the foresight to see the envy of others and to be more mindful of their posession.
A child who has not suffered loss will have a rude awakening when they grow up. They will either end up kicking and screaming against "the machine" or be completely jaded.
It is a healthy dose of reality.
A child who has not suffered loss will have a rude awakening when they grow up.
It's me versus the world.
Man (profanity) the system. The system out to get you.
Loved hearing those lines in high school haha.
you are upset that they did not have the foresight to see the envy of others and to be more mindful of their possession.
Boom. Exactly man.
What a horrible attitude and a disgusting example of victim blaming.
There are victims that learn and there are victims that cry "victim blaming" at every lesson they could have learned.
Just put your fingers in your ears and keep chanting, "I'm a victim, there is nothing I can do to empower myself or prevent future loss."
Yeah, that'll show me and my "horrible attitude".
@[Deactivated]: I hope those kids who got their arms cut off by despots learned a valuable lesson about the problems of having 2 arms.
@sarahlump: Because flaunting luxuries is the same as living under tyrannical rule.
Why avoid dark alleys with drug addicts? That's like trying to defend your limbs from warlords. Same same amirite?
I would feel it teaches them the following life lesson:
Life is a risk calculation. Everyone makes their own decisions. And everyone will learn along the way.
It's actually a hard hitting life lesson. The sooner we realise that we do not really own anything - it's just temporary, like us - we can learn to better handle loss and disappointment. And we can still be content.
Of course the should be sympathy for the victim.
Whilst I may not subscribe to the whole mandala concept, I agree with learning to handle loss and sympathising.
I'm with you on this one.
I used to be into watches, rings, chains, caused more trouble than it was worth in my hoodlum days. Now I just want to be unfettered, but it's certainly true that if you can't defend your chain, you don't deserve that chain. At least, that's true between ages 15 and early twenties.
(Some) People are shit.
There's a song about that!
Ha, it's on OzBargain forums!
How did you lose it?