Have you ever wondered where your donated clothing really goes? One user Tiktok decided to find out by slipping Airtag into a couple of sneakers, throwing them into the basket of the Room Cross and tracking their journey using “find my application.” There are donations in Munich in the Red Cross. Five days and several border intersections later, sneakers appeared in a used store in almost 800 km, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Naturally, he traveled there, found them on a shelf and bought them back. CITE = “https://www.tiktok.com/@moe.haa/video/7517337535471750422” Data-vide-id = “7517337535471750422” Data-MBED-FROM = “OEMBED”. @moe.haa
wir haben schuhe mit einem airtag gespendet … und schuu, Wo sie galenten sind! 👟🧐#A#ARTAGS#Schuhspender#Roteskreuzt#TrackingMissionb#Bosniens#Wenthe Nreiset#Tiktokdokus#Socialexperimentg#gutetatw#Weltreederschuhe#Capcut
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So … was it fraud?
Not really. No matter how strange it may seem, it tracks your donated sneakers to the stand for resale in another country, this is actually part of how the donations of clothing work. At least for the Red Cross.
This is how their German website describes their sorting process (translation of ours):
“I have about 18,000 used containers in Germany. Depot model <#8221;
So, although at first it may seem fragmentary, a donated pair of shoes ends with a price of four countries more than 500 miles, this is not necessarily a scam, but rather part of how the system works. Nevertheless, there is something a little surrealist that the old pair of sneakers could see more Europe than their original owner.
