Bits: Heathrow Rewards 100% bonus with Etihad, track your bags with Smart Tags

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• Andy Smith-Thomas says:

  9 Aug9 August 14:55

  Re: the tags. The only time I’ve ever lost bags is because the airline have out them on the wrong plane. At which point they already have an airline tag that can lead any airline to my contact details, right?

• Trevor says:

  10 Aug10 August 12:11

  Tags… I agree, these seem fairly useless as any loss would occur by the airline, and hence tracking would no doubt be done by the airline 2D barcode and I’ve never had these pull off.

  Furthermore, who leaves their bags lying around so that they are likely to get lost and in need of a readable baggage tag – human or otherwise? They’re far more likely to be stolen in which case the thief would be less interested in getting in touch, and would you be wanting to give them your details anyway?

  Finally, since your bags would presumably be in your own possession if not in that of the airline, why would you be trying to hide your details within a QR code that anyone can scan anyway? I certainly wouldn’t waste money on a gimmick such as this!

  But… I can see 1 usefulness of QR coded tags, and it’s unlikely that those for sale would suit the need. I’d want to be able to update my destination information without changing tags.

  So for this and for those who do have other reasons that I fail to see, I’d propose printing your own dynamic QR codes for free. This can be done via accounts with either http://www.qr-code-generator.com/ or https://www.evaunt.com/ As long as you choose a dynamic QR code, you can print it once but update the details on the linked URL before each trip to ensure your destination details are included. Far more useful (if the tags were indeed ever used) than having you bags going home when you aren’t!

  PS Evaunt is an e-business card service, but could easily be used for this purpose.

  • Trevor says:

    10 Aug10 August 12:34

    Just to be clear, when creating digital business cards with evaunt, you then need to create a QR code using the created URL with either QR code generator above, or their partner site http://www.qrstuff.com/ Either way you have a dynamic QR code and you can create mutiple. With a QR code generator account it says you can only have 1 dynamic code.

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