So a friend of mine, who I refer people to when I cannot do a search, received a call from a young mother. She lost her keys the day before on the beach. She had called another person who frequently advertises on all the shore town Facebook pages. I won’t call him a detectorist; I will call him greedy.  He wanted a large fee to come out to search and then a hefty reward when the keys were found. 

She explained to him that she was poor and had two young children with her. She doesn’t have a spare set of keys and cannot afford to buy a new fob. He wouldn’t do the search because it wasn’t worth his time. She ended up sleeping in the car with her kids that night. 

The next morning she called my friend. He went out and did the search and found the keys. 

My friend is a fellow first responder who cares about people. Be wary of people with metal detectors that charge a huge fee just to show up. They don’t care about you or your lost item. They are just greedy. They do not represent the hobby, and they should not be called a detectorist. 

If you lost something metal and need help finding it, CALL ME at 707-706-3626 or contact my friends at The Ring Finders New Jersey on Facebook.

The next step is to contact the media to expose these frauds.