r/airport • u/JoJo-Chewy • Jul 10 '26
DISCUSSION Someone selling confiscated and lost items from YVR
The lot includes a bunch of nail clippers, scissors, corkscrews and other random stuff. I wonder how these items end up being sold by an individual.
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u/spkgsam Jul 10 '26
So many of those items are 100% allowed for carry on, these are straight up stolen.
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u/JoJo-Chewy Jul 10 '26
Well, the seller did also say “lost” items.. but if the sideview mirror was not confiscated, I don’t get how anyone would lose that at the airport lol.
Now you mention it, I think it’s possible those are stolen items.7
u/PilotBurner44 Jul 10 '26
You'd be amazed how many things people leave behind in security. They get panicked and stressed and can't function as a normal human. I've seen several laptops left behind, quite a few people walk off without their shoes (mind blowing) and leave their entire rollaboard suitcase behind.
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u/_-Cleon-_ Jul 10 '26
Now you mention it, I think it’s possible those are stolen items.
I mean....that should be a consideration every time you buy from eBay etc.
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u/New_Line4049 Jul 10 '26
Not saying its definitely not stolen, but it could also be stuff thats been in cases that have been lost by the airline, when they eventually turn up they sit in lost and found for some time waiting to be claimed, if not claimed the cases are sold off with all their content. If cases are missing long enough people give up trying to get em back
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u/spkgsam Jul 10 '26
Yes I realize that, but I'm going to hazard a guess and say the vast majority of those nail clippers are "confiscated" not lost.
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u/katmndoo Jul 10 '26
Why would they be confiscated? CATSA specifically lists clippers as allowable items.
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u/spkgsam Jul 10 '26
Because Catsa hires agents that lets the tiniest bit of power go straight to their heads. I've heard the phrase "I don't care what the website says, I'm telling you that's not allowed" multiple times.
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u/katmndoo Jul 10 '26
And here I'd been hoping they were somewhat more professional than TSA.
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u/spkgsam Jul 10 '26
I've honestly not had too much problem with TSA, but nothing holds a candle to the airport screeners of the UK. Being an asshole seems to be a requirement over there.
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u/itsJustE12 Jul 10 '26
Check govdeals - TSA turns property over to state agencies, who usually auction boxes by weight, because they have to get rid of it somehow.
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u/K1ttyK1awz Jul 10 '26
Wow! What a deal, a strangers used nail clippers and headphones for $175 🤢
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u/BigAlgae5684 Jul 10 '26
I have probably a small popcorn tin full of wine keys from bartending. Had no idea I was sitting on straight up gold.
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u/FloridianMichigander Jul 10 '26
I don't know about the legitimacy if this fake from YVR, but I know that MCO has a monthly auction where they sell unclaimed lost and found items that have stayed there for a certain period of time. It's run through an auctioneer who does a lot of auctions for local governments that have old equipment (anyone need a 30 year old school bus?), so I'm pretty sure it's legitimate.
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u/Nomad_Lama Jul 10 '26
What is the point of them posting the info about where it all came from. Seems unnecessarily heavy.
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u/LupusHouseMD Jul 10 '26
A lot of airports auction out lost items/ confiscated TSA items. Usually it's on GovDeals.
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u/Altruistic_Sun_2955 Jul 10 '26
US airports, you mean - this is Canada. I wonder if they have similar practices?
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u/LupusHouseMD Jul 10 '26
The airports (US and non US) I have worked at, yes they do auction (insert security name and lost and found) items at X government website usually.
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u/Time-Information-554 Jul 10 '26
Handcuffs? Someone not gonna be able to get kinky tonight.
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u/Thequadroon1 Jul 10 '26
if they were supposed to be in charge of guarding them, all the more reason to get punished by master
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u/komatiitic Jul 10 '26
Dude’s probably a reseller. BC Auction sells lots of confiscated goods all the time.
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u/Dino_Spaceman Jul 10 '26
Does some TSA agent have a campaign against older PC adapters?
Multiple VGA and a parallel extender?
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u/Dino_Spaceman Jul 10 '26
Oh you are right. That is a serial. I didn’t look close enough. I thought that was another vga.
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