I bought lost luggage – I had to sift through dirty underwear but I thought I’d hit the jackpot when I found Nike gear
A WOMAN has left social media users horrified after revealing the grim discovery she found after buying someone’s lost luggage.
Ink lover Rebecca Barron took to TikTok where she opened the lost property from London Heathrow airport, leaving viewers feeling unwell.
After bagging a posh Fendi T-shirt from her previous haul, the fashionista may have thought she’d be in luck this time too – however, it wasn’t necessarily the case.
After opening the black luggage, Rebecca was in for a nasty surprise and almost gagged as she spotted massive white knickers with light brown and yellow stains.
”That is disgusting – that is disgusting,” said the dark-haired beauty – who wasn’t wearing any gloves.
As well as stumbling across a pair of ”jazzy Nikes”, the shopper also pulled out ”a lovely swimming costume” from the huge pile of clothes chucked inside.
Whilst sifting through the garments, Rebecca, who posts under the username @ink.couple1, also discovered a bra with huge cups.
”She has big jugs,” the woman chuckled, before sharing her final thoughts.
”After reviewing three suitcases, I’ve definitely come to the conclusion that it is not worth the money.”
Since being uploaded on the platform, the video has racked up close to a staggering 275k views in less than a week.
Grossed out, dozens viewers flocked to comments in sheer horror, with many urging Rebecca to make sure she doesn’t touch the garments without any protection.
One said: ”Ohhh my god, always remember your gloves.”
Another agreed, urging: ”You should wear plastic gloves when you go through those luggages!”
A third cried: ”Skid marks or some discharge stains of some sort.”
”I would’ve thrown up,” chimed in someone else.
”Why waste your money,” a viewer wondered.
With an astronomical 26million bags going missing across the aviation industry in 2022, the auctions are soaring in popularity, with top prices for a suitcase hitting around £100.
How to buy lost luggage
THE famous US store which sells off unclaimed baggage has launched an online shop - so you can buy more travellers' lost items.
The Unclaimed Baggage Center, located in Alabama, has long been a destination for treasure hunters wanting to find a bargain from the abandoned suitcases.
Located in the tiny town of Scottsboro, which has a population of 14,000, it is an unlikely tourist hotspot.
Inside is a megastore of misplaced possessions taken from tens of thousands of suitcases, rucksacks and duffel bags, all lost on commercial flights across the US.
Now, you don’t have to travel to the US and can do your shopping online with their new online store.
The centre has launched the online shopping experience as part of their 50th anniversary, having opened in 1970.
Everything from clothing to electronics are found on the website – current items for sale include high-street dresses from $8 up to 18K bracelets worth over $13,000.
They also have a weird and wonderful section which ranges from gold necklaces and diving equipment to designer gowns and signed memorabilia.
Legally, airlines have a duty to reunite luggage with their owners within 90 days, but if that fails, bags end up at the centre.
So frequent are these deliveries that the Unclaimed Baggage Center has around one million items on sale at any time, with 7,000 new items added to the shop floor every day.
Not everything that is found is sold – a third is binned, including all underwear, while another third of it is donated to charity.
Brenda Cantrell, the store’s brand ambassador, says: “Less than half a per cent of all lost luggage fails to make it back to its owners, but that’s still thousands of bags every year.
“And the vast majority of those make their way here. We have exclusive contracts with all the major US carriers, making us the only store of this kind anywhere in the country.”
According to journalist Jonathon Thompson who went there himself, the 40,000sqft centre is “more like a swanky department store than a musty charity shop,” adding that items are separated into sections, which includes electronics, jewellery and even wedding clothes.
Customers have also found bargains while shopping there – one person bought a £65 vase, only to find out later it was worth £15,000, while one piece of art valued at £45 was actually worth £20,000.
Fans of the mystery hauls can find strangers’ lost luggage from numerous sites, including a place called The Unclaimed Baggage Store.
One lucky shopper recently revealed that not only you can snap up clothes but also iPhones – however, she got her hands on something even more special.
The influencer, who’s dubbed herself the ”treasure hunter”, took the internet by storm after revealing her lost luggage contained a life size R. John Wright Winnie the Pooh collectable bear.
Whilst these bears are collectable items, a quick search on eBay shows the bears being sold from £457.29, all the way to £1,921 – what a win.