SPECSCOVER.COM
GLASSES INSURANCE
PRESS RELEASE
March 25, 2010.
LOST GLASSES: SPEC WEARERS LOOK TO FRIENDS, PSYCHICS – AND THE TOILET.
Consulting a psychic and dialling 999 are just two of the things people have done or would do if they lost their glasses.
Praying, posting a lost-and-found ad on the internet and going to a Police station to report them lost also figure in what people would do to be re-united with their specs according to a survey carried out by glasses insurer www.specscover.com.
The most common place they’re found is “in plain view”, while other locations they’re likely to be re-discovered include “on my head”.
Thirty three per cent of people would go to a friend or colleague first to ask if they’d seen them, while 5% would go to a psychic and 1% would dial 999.
“People who don’t wear glasses perhaps don’t appreciate the desperation and lengths those who do wear them will go to to find their lost specs,” said Carmi Korine of SpecsCover.
“That 4% of specs losers would pray is pretty significant, that 5% would consult a psychic indicates the level of desperation, but even just 1% dialling 999 is a little eye-opening.”
People searching for glasses most readily asked friends had they seen them, followed by backtracking their most recent route or actions, posting an online lost-and-found ad, offering a reward, going to a Police station, “quartering” (carrying out a methodical search), consulting a psychic, praying, dialling 999 or doing “other”.
Most likely place to find lost glasses was “in plain view”, followed by in or on furniture, in own clothing, in a bar or restaurant, in a bus/train/cab, on a car roof, in the bin, in newspapers, “on my head”, in a washing machine, in somebody else’s clothing and in a toilet.
“The great irony is that glasses insurance covering loss, damage or theft only costs from £1.99 a month, probably about the same as the bus fare to the local Police station, and certainly less than the price of a reward or lost-and-found ad,” said Carmi Korine.
www.SpecsCover.com is owned by Supercover Insurance, a 15-years-established provider of insurance for consumer portable high-intrinsic-value products such as mobile phones, laptops and other gadgets, as well as spectacles.
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Further information:
Iain Macauley
0161 929 0446/07788 978800
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