Does WhosMyOwner support any charities?

Yes, at least 10% of profits is donated to charity every year.

In our first year we have worked with national UK charities including Scouting UK and WAY.

In addition, we can provide WhosMyOwner key fobs with your own logo, to be re-sold or given away at fund-raising or promotional events. Charities benefit by retaining a portion of the sales price.

Our key fobs are especially effective for fund raising. Recipients typically keep our key fob on their main key ring to benefit from our lost key notification service. With your logo printed on the other side, they will be carrying a daily reminder of their affiliation with your charity. We can also include your logo and message in our quarterly member newsletter.

Please contact us well in advance if you are a charity interested in reselling WhosMyOwner for charity fund-raising.

Can I sell WhosMyOwner tags for a fundraiser?

If you represent a registered UK charity, then yes you can.

WhosMyOwner provides a unique and highly lucrative fundraising package.

Contact us via the Contact page for  details.

Does WhosMyOwner have an affiliate scheme?

Yes, contact us for details.

Do you sell labels?

WhosMyOwner is a subscription-based service.  Most people join WhosMyOwner by ordering our Startup Pack, which includes a set of high-quality plastic tags designed to protect the whole family’s keys and bags, plus a 12-month subscription.

If you need more tags, we encourage you to save money by printing or making your own.

We provide free resources for members, including  personalised ready-to-print labels, a QR code, and a personalised lock screen image for your smartphone or tablet.

If you love the luggage and key tags in your starter pack, you order more after login.

You can order tags from a growing catalogue of designs, with your own personal WhosMyOwner code, or new codes if you’re buying as a gift.

We can also produce bulk WhosMyOwner key fobs using your organisation’s logo instead of ours.  By giving something of value to your customers or members (key return service), they’re likely to keep the fob – and your brand – with them and visible every day.  Please contact us if this is of interest.

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Does the Finder get a reward?

It’s entirely up to the owner to offer a reward, either up-front on their labels or after a Finder has been especially helpful in recovering their item.

Police lost property offices in the UK will generally issue you with a receipt when you hand in something you’ve found.  If it contains cash, you are often entitled to a reward if the item is claimed by the owner, and to the full amount if it’s unclaimed for several months.

So if you’ve found something containing cash and would like to increase your chances of getting a reward, you could take note of the tag (or point it out to the police) and notify the owner where it is.  When they collect it, the police will collect the reward for you and let you know to collect it.

If it’s not cash, you could still hand in the item and notify the sender.  If they don’t claim it, you get the item after a few months, and if you don’t want to keep it, there’s always a well-known online auction site!

We often invite Finders to try the system for themselves, and often reward confirmed finds with a free trial period.  In fact, Finders are one of our best sources of new members.  Once people see how useful WhosMyOwner is as an owner, it’s not a big leap to signing up.

Are there similar products out there?

Sure!

Several banks and insurers offer a ‘lost key return service’ – usually paid – to their banking or credit card customers, or via insurance policies.  This might cover both keys and bank cards.  It probably won’t cover your child’s favourite toy!

Other companies provide luxury coded labels, luggage tags, key-rings, and other physical products, and rely on profits from these to top up membership fees.

They all do SOME of what WhosMyOwner does, but nearly all rely on a ‘middle man’  to operate 24-hour phone lines, or recover, package and post your items back to you. Or they depend on retail mark-up on tagging products we believe you don’t actually need.

Any ‘middle man’ service requires significant staff and overheads to operate, requiring higher prices to cover their costs.  It also introduces what we consider to be unnecessary delays in getting your stuff back.  All you really need is someone to tell you where to collect your stuff!

Is WhosMyOwner.com just a type of insurance?

No, WhosMyOwner aims to avoid claiming on your insurance, assuming your loss is even covered!

The majority of items handed in to Lost Property offices around the world are never claimed, so they’re never returned to their owners.

Insurance can’t help with this; it can only contribute towards the cost of replacing what you’ve lost.

Most of us are unsure what’s covered by our Gadget, Home or Travel insurance policies, what exclusions or excess (deductible) payments apply, and how claiming might affect the policy or its future premiums.  So we often choose to abandon our lost items rather than face the inconvenience of police reports and claims processes, unless we’ve lost something of particular financial value.

WhosMyOwner doesn’t distinguish between high and low value items; you can tag anything from your smartphone to your child’s favourite toy.

It doesn’t have any exclusions or variable premiums, and it doesn’t require ANY effort or paperwork on your part after you’ve sign-up and tagged your valuables.

Remember, WhosMyOwner often works its magic within minutes or hours, not weeks or months.  In many cases you’ll get a text notification that something of yours has been found, even before you realised you’d lost it.

The best outcome after losing something is getting it back quickly and safely, not having to replace it.