I purchased 4 packs of samsung smart tags and apple airtags for christmas presents

[Anonymous]

I gave them out individually as christmas presents to family members

If there is a defect issue with one of them will samsung or apple offer support since they were gifted and not purchased by my family member who may have to reach out for support if one of them happens to be defective?

[Anonymous]

4 pack
not 4 individual packs

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand the appeal of these. Are you people constantly losing things?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the appeal of these. Are you people constantly losing things?

NP. Airlines do. Thanks to an Airtag, I learned that Air France flew our luggage to Canada but did not unload it in Canada and flew it back to France. We were transiting back to Detroit via Toronto. It took 3 days or so to get it all delivered to our home.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the appeal of these. Are you people constantly losing things?

NP. Airlines do. Thanks to an Airtag, I learned that Air France flew our luggage to Canada but did not unload it in Canada and flew it back to France. We were transiting back to Detroit via Toronto. It took 3 days or so to get it all delivered to our home.

This.

We also put one in the car that is parked in DC. https://mpdc.dc.gov/trackmystuff

[Anonymous]

Apple ones are fine but maybe not Samsung

[Anonymous]

I think there are small circumstances where it is useful...like it the tag falls off your bag. Airlines can find tagged bags. In scenario above PP had more info but would likely have gotten her bag back either way. I recently traveled with someone who used them. It seemed like another thing to concern your self with. She was checking on her bags regularly. No issues with any of our bags. I am 56 and had a baggage delay 1 time. It was delivered to my hotel in about 12 hours.

[Anonymous]

OP, to your question, I have my doubts about whether the companies would service a lone tag from a set without proof of purchase, but since they currently sell for <$20 a pop, it's not a big deal. If one of the recipients is a kid who would be severely disappointed if theirs failed, I'd just buy them another. But in my experience the AirTags at least have been 100% reliable.

To the question of their uses: I have AirTags on my dogs' collars, not for minute-by-minute tracking but so I get an alert if one of them is not near me, i.e. not on the property as expected; I have them on my keychain and have occasionally used the beeper function to locate my keys in the house or under the car seat; and I have them inside my daily backpack/handbag and inside my wallet. Plus luggage when I travel.

I'm pretty organized and tend not to misplace my stuff, but I have very scatterbrained friends who are always losing their keys etc. who swear by them.

And I have several friends who have put tags on their elderly parents' things to help with finding lost items.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, to your question, I have my doubts about whether the companies would service a lone tag from a set without proof of purchase, but since they currently sell for <$20 a pop, it's not a big deal. If one of the recipients is a kid who would be severely disappointed if theirs failed, I'd just buy them another. But in my experience the AirTags at least have been 100% reliable.

To the question of their uses: I have AirTags on my dogs' collars, not for minute-by-minute tracking but so I get an alert if one of them is not near me, i.e. not on the property as expected; I have them on my keychain and have occasionally used the beeper function to locate my keys in the house or under the car seat; and I have them inside my daily backpack/handbag and inside my wallet. Plus luggage when I travel.

I'm pretty organized and tend not to misplace my stuff, but I have very scatterbrained friends who are always losing their keys etc. who swear by them.

And I have several friends who have put tags on their elderly parents' things to help with finding lost items.

I use them to find my keys; I generally can find them eventually but if someone borrowed them it can take a beat to track down in the house. With a busy family, it’s nice to have an easy button that saves time.

I also put one on my work badge; I actually have never misplaced this, but it’s a huge deal if I do, so way better to have additional peace of mind.

I will probably put one on DW and DD car. More than once they have parked and forgotten where they parked, so this would be a huge help. Sometimes iPhone does record where you parked, but if you don’t plug in it won’t

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the appeal of these. Are you people constantly losing things?

NP. Airlines do. Thanks to an Airtag, I learned that Air France flew our luggage to Canada but did not unload it in Canada and flew it back to France. We were transiting back to Detroit via Toronto. It took 3 days or so to get it all delivered to our home.

This.

We also put one in the car that is parked in DC. https://mpdc.dc.gov/trackmystuff

Nothing is free. Even if they deny it, of course they can track you. How widespread is this available in other places?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the appeal of these. Are you people constantly losing things?

NP. Airlines do. Thanks to an Airtag, I learned that Air France flew our luggage to Canada but did not unload it in Canada and flew it back to France. We were transiting back to Detroit via Toronto. It took 3 days or so to get it all delivered to our home.

This.

We also put one in the car that is parked in DC. https://mpdc.dc.gov/trackmystuff

Nothing is free. Even if they deny it, of course they can track you. How widespread is this available in other places?

Well, my phone is usually with me when I'm in the car and they can track the phone. If I want to go off grid, I need to ditch both.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are small circumstances where it is useful...like it the tag falls off your bag. Airlines can find tagged bags. In scenario above PP had more info but would likely have gotten her bag back either way. I recently traveled with someone who used them. It seemed like another thing to concern your self with. She was checking on her bags regularly. No issues with any of our bags. I am 56 and had a baggage delay 1 time. It was delivered to my hotel in about 12 hours.

PP. I'm 55.

1) On my first trip to Europe as a child, Pan Am lost our luggage so we couldn't leave the Munich area for 1.5 days. Back then, they wouldn't ship your luggage anywhere out of the arrival city.

2) When I was in college, my family of 5 (along with about 50-100 other people) did an entire Caribbean cruise without our checked bags thanks to the combined incompetence of Air Jamaica, our now defunct cruise line, and various port countries' customs departments.

3) On a trip to Hungary in my 30s, two of our checked suitcases made it and one did not. The one with some food gift Christmas presents. It did come later...but we were flying very close to Christmas. A few more hours and the gifts might not have arrived before the holiday festivities started.

4) The recent Air France debacle occurred right before an airline worker strike in France. And one of our party was intending to travel home by car to a different US city after landing. So we needed that luggage re-routed. And some people who had been impacted by a previous Air France strike earlier that year were waiting months to get their stuff back. Because a warehouse worth had built up due to labor actions.

5) For business purposes, I once shipped a precious box of oversized prints by DHL from California to Germany. We shipped it in a hard black plastic chest since absolutely no crushing or bending would have been acceptable. This packaging was accepted at the pickup point. The box was shortly thereafter completely lost somewhere at Newark airport for three days, totally missing the necessary schedule to reach the event where we wanted to use the prints. Luckily, as backup, we'd paid to send a person to the event in question with a full backup set of the materials.

6) I've known people who've had things stolen from their luggage or never got their lost suitcase back.

So I guess "lucky you", PP who only ever had one baggage delay.