I lost my cellphone last night in the Hilton lounge. There was a little bruhaha in the lounge and we got kicked out… I got back to my room and realized I did not have my phone… what a crappy feeling. Then I went down and scoured the area and did not find it.
What sux now is I dunno if I should run to the local sprint store and drop like 600$ on a new one (how bad does that suck) or chill in hopes someone picked it up.
If you have it or know someone who might have picked it up please try to find me at the conference. I will love you long time.
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you should ask your provider to block your number, maybe someone found it and is calling to everyone and is spending like $xxx … Just get it blocked so nobody can call with it.
Have you been calling it continually since? I have to resort to that all the time..
I guess someone finally got some truly “Free Ringtones.”
I assume someone will return it. Who steals cell phones these days? If it was a wad of cash, thats understandable, but a cell phone?
Uh, you did borrow someone else’s phone and try to call the one you lost, right?
Is it safe to assume you’ve tried calling yourself…
I say wait if you can, if you need to make the calls go buy one. You can always sell it again on eBay.
Know the feeling, I lost all my keys and my USB drive a few weeks ago. I did get them back and it was a real load off my mind.
Phone the phone.
Its bad .. get info from reception? :-s
I too lost my phone in a hilton hotel, but that was after I threw up in the plants in the driveway of the hotel waiting for a taxi. I seem to remember we lost a bottle of dom perignon as well which my drunken buddy procured from a display in an exhibition about the history of champagne in the lobby?? That was an expensive night….
ouch
If it’s likely you’ll get a call which is worth more than $600 to you in the next few days, it’s probably (financially) worth your money buying a new phone.
(If worst comes to worst, you can run a competition on your blog – “Win My Shoephone!”)
If having a phone isn’t worth $600 to you in the next few days, then you’re probably better off waiting for it to turn up.
I think the value of the phone is inversely proportionate to the likelihood it will turn up.. I can’t get rid of my brick
Brent
P.S. – I gotta ask – what was the bruhaha? In fact, what sort of bruhaha could possibly happen at an SES conference?
By the way – is it my imagination, or is your site running pretty slow lately? :S
Perhaps Ms Dewey picked it up?
My wife just lost her Treo 700 yesterday too.
hey shoe,
I got a free treo 650 here! I was skeptical too but they delivered right to my Hotel room in like 15 minutes, just enter your email address and answer some silly questions. It takes like three minutes. Just cut and paste this url into your browser!
http://www.freeTREOatspammydomain.com
Just hope you backed it up. I lost my phone earlier this year… Now I’m going to back my new one up RIGHT NOW! I don’t even know my girlfriends phone number, my phone just knows. Who memorizes numbers anymore?
Missing mine too, but for a very different reason. One of my kids got their hands on it (I think), shortly before I needed to charge it, so while I know my phone is in the house, I can’t call it to figure out where it is. It should turn up soon, but it’s my 2 year old who doesn’t talk who tends to snag it, so questioning doesn’t help.
Drives me nuts, but at least I only rarely get calls on it.
What a great deal! I love those Free TREOs from Spammy Domains!
Post and/or check on newyork.craigslist.org
Good luck!
Hopefully some one will return it.
That sucks, I couldnt stand losing all the numbers in the phonebook. Need back ups of those.
So that’s why you haven’t been returning my calls! :p
i’ll mail you a new phone… what you need?
Drunken Phone Losing is a favorite past time of mine – check out this service: http://www.returnit.com.
Ahh that really sucks, I know how you feel to. I have lost my cell phone 2 times. I’m a cingular user so I just bought some cheap phone to replace it. I’m a poor college kid that can’t afford phones ahah.
Haha, don’t you love kids. You will remember these days when you get older and laugh.
So are we going to see your phonebook on John Chow’s blog? His blog seems to be down right now for some reason, so he might be rifling through it now!
Why didn’t you get your friend to phone it while you were looking for it?
Or maybe you did:P
Hey, the link’s busted, could you fix it?
That really sucks I know how that is my fiance broken my ipod, and both of my cellphones.
he skates.
Suck man, good luck
I laughed. Oh how I laughed.
You’re sweating over $600 but your ReviewMe’s basically pay for it. Think about us poor blokes.
This is like a competition. Who find the phone with a website review
I heard Shoe through someone out a window Marsellis Wallace style after they called him a white hat.
I also had a similar experience in losing a cell phone. The next time I purchased one, I made sure I took out the insurance plan. Sometime expensive, but worth it if it is ever lost or stolen.
$600 are peanuts for you.
BTW will you review my blog if I buy you a new?
Money your on just buy another.
Kev
Block your phone, and any important numbers, tell them to expect dodgy calls.
Kev
That’s what I was thinking… the perosn who has it probably isn’t answering it at all just using it to rack up$ in calls.
Add another vote for returning to a FULL RSS feed. Or provide separate feeds for full and teaser.
Good luck with the phone & keep up the excellent posts.
I hope i will lose my phone the day apple will present their iPhone… so I will have the courage to spend 600 bucks on a phone too
Cheer up – I lost my cell phone at Affiliate Summit (Vegas) and somehow it was returned…there’s hope!
Bad news about the phone but I am sure you can easily afford another one.That said, I am more interested about the “bruhaha” and “getting kicked out” aspect of this event. Care to share?
Emailed ya Shoe, hope you find it man!
that is a good idea actually. Shoe should offer a free review for whichever companies mail him a phone first.
I have your phone at Hilton for. Send me your magentic AdSense. Or face my magnets.
dude let’s split the price then
Later on you review my site on your blog, in that case people going to your site will see my review too
Dang Shoe, that stinks. Hope you find it man!
Sprint > all
That will teach you to bruhaha at the Hilton
if we all chip in, we could get shoe a new one
OH NOOOO!!!
Ouch. I lost my cell one time in Chicago Midway airport during a layover on my way to a job interview. Very stressful.
I’m guessing he can actually afford a replacement.
Yeah, the simplest step is to just try calling it. Maybe someone picked it up but isn’t smart enough to figure out who owns it.
Hahahahaha.
Check YouTube for the ShoeMoney sex video…
The least I would do is report the phone and also call up Sprint even if you don’t have a insurance. I had the same situation and to my surprise, they helped me out.
Kind of like the feeling I got when my dog ate my cell phone. Sucks to have to get a new one… especially if you have some data you want to get out… hope you find it.
Shoe,
What kind of phone you want? I run a Sprint Store in Columbus, Ga. Phone is on me contact me on MySpace or at TeeP @ bluedevilmedia dot com.
And I just donated 2 Treo 650s last week. Bad timing.
lol that was a good one I have to admit.
LOL, “check youtube for shoemoney sex video”, I spilled Gatorade all over my keyboard, ok not really but it was really funny.
I’ve never lost a cell phone and I’ve had it for 3 years, my friends lose them all the time. By the way, is that in Vegas? I was recently there and will live there in the future.
I cant imagine loosing my phone… I guess I am going to backup all contacts now
So much for the illusion that Shoe is making money hand over foot if he’s worrying about a $600 phone.
HAHAHA! heheh…hehe..he…woooh!
That’s funny man!
Sorry Shoe!
While you’re mailing it, mind getting another envelope and stuffing one for me as well
Yeah, I work for US Cellular… I’ve never had a stolen cell phone report at all… Because it’s no use to the stealer. They can have it for a day maybe, and then the line will be suspended, or if they try to do anything the serial number is known to be stolen. I’m sure someone found it, it’s not like it was a ring or anything.
lol i got so many dam phones lol
If you find the Phone, list it on eBay, I am sure ShoeMoney’s phone would go for quite a bit of money!
Judging by the readership of this blog, it’d be more popular than Paris’s
I probably will get US Cellular when I buy a phone
Who cares about the damn phone. Who the hell was fighting?
that sucks man… maybe you will get lucky and someone will return it but i wouldn’t hold my breath.
So we’ll expect to see you with a phone necklace in the future?
Prediction: Upcoming discovery of self-taken topless photos of Shoe & him posing with little dogs.
dam… i’d like one of those!
you should get one laser inscribed with the super shoe logo, it would cost nothing!
Unless that includes a tracking device, a laser inscription has nothing to do with retrieving a lost phone.
Sucks to hear about ur phone. Droped my Treo in a toilet over the holidays…Sprint’s insurance co. was nice enough to replace it and told me not to bother sending it back…
Well.. at least you didn’t lose your wallet, which I absolutely hate losing.. credit cards, cash, id, driver’s license are a real bummer to replace.
Mike McDonald lost his phone on the bus. He was lucky enough to get it back the next day when Ken found a picture of it with Mike on his camera from the dinner.
That’s pretty lucky.
Hey Shoe – any luck with the phone?
What did you end up doing?
OMG that is classic! I can see the website now… Click here to hear Shoemoney’s ringtones and download them FREE!
Someone might return it, let me tell you my story.
I live in upstate, NY. My fiance went to the Bronx (1hr and 45 mintues away)to drop off my niece at her mom’s. Anwyay, he dropped his phone in the building and didn’t notice. He has a camera phone. The picture is of me and our son.
I get a phone call from a lady that is visiting someone in the building. She resides in Boston Massachusetts. She tells me she was going to the store to buy pampers for her child and found the phone on the floor, in front of the elevator. When she opened it, she saw our picture and she found “Home” in the phone book. She asked me what she should do with the phone?! She dropped the phone off at my sister’s apartment.
What’s the point? Leave cute pictures of your kids, niece or nephew on your phone. They make people feel guilty. HaHa!
No, really … there still are people out there that are honest. I always return cell phones when I find them at the supermarket, WalMart and the mall. I believe “What comes around, goes around.”
Good luck!
That sucks Shoe. Hope it all works out for you.
that sure sucks .. i don’t think anyone will return a valuable items such as a handphone
you will let us know the story if anything happens?
I’d rather lose my left arm then my cellphone :\
Do you have the new iphone ;p, My ipod recently broke, so I’m waiting for that to come out. I’ll be getting an Ipod with a new phone.
Always hold your cell phone with your right hand. That way, if you do lose your left arm, you’ll still have your cell phone.
Ok… have you checked eBay yet? I would imagine if you have a huge fan base, there might be a few knuckle heads out there that would be like, “Oh wow! I have ShoeMoney’s Cell Phone!”, and put it on eBay. Naturally, they won’t be thinking of the consequences… but still, it’s worth a shot!
Ok, all kidding aside, I am sorry that you lost your cell phone. That really sucks. I have lost mine a few times and it gives me the most empty feeling. I wish you the best on finding it.
Dude, you find your phone yet?
just read this & lol’d
i could use a new cell phone though…!
Is this post like the ultimate Shoemoney/ringtone/treo linkbait post or what?
Hopefully by now you’ve either found your phone, blocked your number, or something…it definitely sucks to have lost your phone, especially in a big city like NYC. I’d be surprised if you get it back.
Anyhow, I left my cell phone once on the way to the airport in Memphis and had left it on the seat of the shared ride van…went immediately back and turned out the driver had picked it up and turned it into his office. I was able to get it back right away that time.
Did you have the phone locked and a password on it by chance? Perhaps someone picked it up and turned it into the bartender or hotel staff? Man, does this bring back memories…
Too bad there aren’t more people as nice as you. Anyone ever try/have luck with one of the tag and track companies? They give you labels with an 800#, ID# and a note offering a reward if found.
So, did you find it
what model of the phone and which brand, that you’ve dropped. I hope that you will get it back soon, man. Cheers, tomorrow might be a better for you.
Did you already find it. Whole wolrd knows about your phone lost so I think someone could return it already and have nice feeling than
Cmon Shoe – you’ve got 100 posters here wanting to know – did you find it?
Hope you backed it up. It’s like you dropped the soap or something.
“Who steals cell phones these days?”
That comment was just stupid. EVERYONE steals a cellphone. That’s the first thing muggers steal. They don’t care about the SIM, they sell phone on black market.
Your MessageMake sure your phone is immediately shut off by your provider, and next phone you get you should cover with a lost and found recovery service. I use TrackItBack and they will return your items for free. Good luck finding your phone.