I was perusing the Smythson store and took a look in their travel section. They have some very snobby looking luggage tags, including ones printed on "Smythson signature Nile Blue board and stamped in silver with 'Name', 'Destination', 'Contact No.'."

http://uk.smythson.com/index.asp?Pag...ROD&ProdID=456

How's that for snobby?

From the US Open this weekend, they were giving out baggage tags where you can write your address on one side, and it has 'tennis ball fuzz' on the other. (Of course, the tag was shaped like a tennis ball)

Identifying a generic bag
 

We tie a small length of bright red ribbon from our Christmas decorations on the handle. Sticks out in the crowd.

We have a length of white fabric with christmas polar bears tied onto the handle. Very difficult to miss.^

We use colored Zip Ties on our bags. Plus the bags themselves. Mine is a Turquoise Oyster with holes drilled for the Zip Ties (since we can't lock) Wife's is a Gray Oyster.

We also have Stickers that are reproductions of Old Time Travel Stickers that we plaster all over the cases to help identify. (my Store sells these, PM if you want a link) Stickers also work on the stiff sides of soft sides, so our Rollaboards have them as well (just in case we have to check them too)

I've also used tied ribbons as a form of tags on bags for identification purposes. :)

As I have too.

I still have one of those really old AA tags where they'd laminate your business card together with the AA logo on the other side. It's falling apart so I don't travel with it any more - plus the company I was with at the time no longer exists - but I keep it for nostalgia.

This thread made me think of perhaps getting a tag that reads in big letters "THIS IS NOT YOUR BAG." I'd know it was mine, but anyone else would (hopefully!) put it back.

When I used to bring my lunch to work and store it in the community fridge, I'd write in large letters, "THIS IS NOT YOURS." My lunch stopped disappearing after that.

As for luggage tags, if I find an odd tag or bit of ribbon I'll attach it to my bag so that the combination of odd things really makes it stand out. I have a suitcase with a FT luggage tag, a bright orange shoelace, and a striped wristband. The wristband was given out by a hotel to its guests when there was a large event in the city and the hotel required the wristbands for admittance. They gave me four wristbands, and as I have, at most, two wrists, I stuck one on the suitcase.

Not if your bag is next to mine, which has a red ribbon tied on the handle! :eek:

(I added a silver ribbon to the other handle after seeing multiple bags with red ribbons.)

Get a flourescent pink luggage tag or some really gay color like purple or neon green. Once at the gym someone had cut my standard combo lock because he thought it was his locker. After going thru that mess, I got a flourescent pink combo lock so to make sure no one mistakes their locker for mine. The same can be said for luggage.

Great thread....!

message of apologies to my colleague for divulging this but it is a classic, imho.

one of my colleagues, Al, was visiting Nigeria for the first time and we did have a communal samsonite (hard shell, fluorescent pink) that was available. the agent, who was arranging to meet Al at the airport, asked for a description of himself, since "all you white guys look the same". Al explianed that at the airport, he'd be the white guy standing beside a fluorescent pink hardshell suitcase. stunned silence at the other end of the phone... anyway, upon arrival, said Al stands at the said suitcase and the agent marches straight up to him and announces " you've got to be Al!". he was.

moral of the story:
1. fluorescent pink suitcases are not stolen off the belt.
2. you gotta have big balls to stand next to a pink suitcase.
3. it helps if you have 3 daughters, to feel comfortable about the colour pink!

Alastair... if you read this... my apologies but my greatest respect! i couldn't have done it!

Gordon

I have tied a bright yellow cheapie bath puff (from the Dollar Store) on my very generic black American Tourister bag --- shines like a beacon.

I had a client who was an oil company (since merged out of existence) whose employees carried baggage tags with a "Vanilla Company Name" on them with an address and phone number and everything! They even had someone at that phone number answer with the phony company name! It appears American oil companies are disliked around the globe.

I would have fun with some of these folks when I saw the tag. "Hey you work for xxxxx oil company don't you?" You could see the blood drain from their faces! ;)

I have my FT tag and an old PSA tag that use to belong to my grandfather with his old Shell card in there.

I've met one... sitting on BART in SF. It's very random and fun.