Everyone knows that sinking feeling. You get onto your next train or the bus or you walk through your front door and realize you left it behind. Next to the table at the bar. On the ledge at the coffee shop. On the airplane. Wherever it was it’s gone, and you probably aren’t going to get it back.
Stickandfind.com, a new website dedicated to returning lost gadgets to their owners, wants to change that. The site is based off the idea that everyone knows what it’s like to lose a gadget and everyone hates it. The process is simple – you order printed labels from stickandfind.com and put them on your gear. Your labels are then associated with an account, which you can access any time to report lost equipment. If/when your gear is recovered, the finder contacts Stick and Find, which then acts as an intermediary between finder and owner. There is no annual fee, no contract, and no usage fee for retrieving lost gear. You only have to buy the labels.
It sounds a little farfetched, that someone might actually return that high value gear, but Stick and Find reports a 75 percent return rate on lost items. Stick and Find also cites a survey done by the Guardian in which 71 percent of those polled said they would return a fat wad of cash if they found one. When you consider that some 70 million cell phones are lost across the US each year, a 75 percent return rate means 49 million people could be a whole lot happier.
