I lost my cellphone, apparently I left it on the backseat of a taxi I caught from Norwich International Airport to home on Friday night. It is quite a nice phone, a Nokia N95, one that I wouldn’t want to loose… But the important thing is the phone numbers I have stored in it’s memory and the photographs I have taken with it and not backed up.
I didn’t even register that I had lost it until I got an email from You Get It Back a truly fantastic company founded on the principle that most people are honest. I stuck a You Get It Back sticker on my Nokia a few months ago after I got a free sample, the sticker has a simple message – Reward for Return and a freephone number.
The sticker worked and a nice gentleman who took the taxi after me, found the phone, read the sticker, made a call and the rest is history. People are basically honest and if you make it easy for them to be honest they do the right thing. You Get It Back claim a 75% success rate in getting your property back.
I just ordered a big stack of You Get It Back stickers and luggage tags because I love products that work and I like being reminded that most of us are nice people most of the time.
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Comment by Una on 5 October 2008:
Brilliant; can I have 3 for my 3 phones:)
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Comment by Martin on 6 October 2008:
I had a cracker last week. I went to get £200 out of a cash machine outside tesco. While I was waiting for the cash, Deb (my wife) was giving me grief about something.. I took my card out of the machine and walked off with the continued ear ache but without the money. 15 minutes later, I was paying in Tesco and realised it had gone missing. I went outside for the off chance that my money would still be in the machine but resigned to the fact it had gone. When I got there, a young student said, “You lost some money?” and she had waited for me to return and gave it me back, saying that she would cry for weeks if it had happened to her. She wouldn't even take my offer of £50 for being so honest. Puts your faith back into human nature…
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Comment by thehotaisle on 6 October 2008:
Hi Martin,
I actually met the man who started You Get It Back (http://www.yougetitback.com), Frank Hannigan is a larger than life Irishman with a permanent smile and good attitude. As a decent honest bloke himself he genuinely believes that humans are honest and helpful by nature and will naturally do the right thing given half a chance. The You Get It Back business model is based on helping everyone to do the right thing. Like I said it is brilliant – go and buy some and help humanity to be a better place.
Steve
Comment by Rachel O'Donnell on 7 October 2008:
Steve
Just read your article and the lastest Yougetitback.com innovation is even better – contact backup and lock down of your phone if it is lost or stolen. Basically a small application sits on the background of the phone and is then activated if the device gets lost or stolen. It ensures that all the data on the phone is secure and cannot be accessed by anyone except you. It will also back up all of your contacts. You can also set perameters so the phone will lock down under certain circumstances such as the SIM card being taken out or X number of calls were made outside your contact list etc. They are currently doing a free trial for this service. Download it from http://www.yougetitback.com
Comment by thehotaisle on 7 October 2008:
Hi Rachel
I am going to download and try Mobile Superhero for my Nokia N95 and report back on my experience.
Steve
Comment by thehotaisle on 7 October 2008:
Hi Rachel
I am going to download and try Mobile Superhero for my Nokia N95 and report back on my experience.
Steve