My stolen airpods are at an address about 100km from where I live. WWYD?

[franke]

That's it really. I left my airpods on a flight to the UK (I'm in mainland Europe). They were then picked up by someone who went on holiday in the UK. The airpods showed up on the findmy app as far as the airport of departure where the trail went cold. Several weeks on, they have now turned up in my home country at an address about 100km from here. The house has three apartments in it. What would you do?

Why can’t you claim them on your travel insurance? Mine always covers electronics as standard. I’d only have to pay extra if i wanted coverage up to £1k per item, £5k total. A £250 pair of AirPods should be no problem.

Honestly, I think the best thing to do is buy new AirPods and insurance, just start afresh. I wouldn’t trust that your AirPods are in the same condition that you left them in. Plus, you can’t ever really sanitise them to give full assurance that they are completely clean again. AirPods aren’t cheap but I don’t think they break the bank enough, that repurchasing is completely out of the question. You can save up over a period of months if needed.

Also you need to weigh up how much it might cost for you to travel to the apartments (& then return possibly empty handed or with a damaged set of AirPods) vs just buying a new pair

This intrigues me. You can sound the alarm if you're close enough, right? I didn't realise it would actually deactivate them.

The alarm doesn’t deactivate them. But to anyone wearing them, they’ll hear the alarm which is uncomfortable

WWID? Nothing, write them off as a xareless
moment and get a replacement. DDs have them and they’re minging up close, who wants to use second hand AirPods? 🤢
ps maybe it’s just my dds with grotty inner ears but still… I wouldn’t want to insert second hand goods into my ears!