Twitter Treasure Hunt

By Miss Cellania in Blogs & Internet on Jun 3, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Anthony Gardiner of Wellington, New Zealand bought an engagement ring for his girlfriend, but she turned him down. He can’t return the ring and doesn’t want to keep it as he considers it bad luck, so he’s staging a treasure hunt!

Anyone keen to pick up the ring, valued at NZ$5,000 ($3,268), will need to be in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, on Saturday to join the hunt, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

Clues to the ring’s whereabouts will start being posted on social networking site Twitter (http:/twitter.com/donoogle_com) at 8 a.m. local time on Saturday (2000 GMT on Friday).

Link to story. Link to Twitter feed.

Tags: engagement ring, New Zealand, prize, Twitter

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Kathy
Jun 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Sounds like he took the rejection pretty well!
Johnny Cat
Jun 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I predict there will be blood. People are still ravenous over treasure hunting, and it tends to be a bit zanier over there in New Zealand.

Also…donoogle?
VonSkippy
Jun 4th, 2009 at 12:17 am
“the ring, valued at NZ$5,000 ($3,268)…”

No, the ring might have been SOLD for NZ$5000 but it’s actual value (thanks to the wonderful Debeers scam) is only a (very small) fraction of that amount.

Diamonds are the WORSE investment EVER!
Alex
Jun 4th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Yup, VonSkippy is right: diamond are worthless investments because you simply can’t sell them.

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/01/10-facts-about-diamonds-you-should -know/
Paula
Jun 4th, 2009 at 1:01 am
I wish there were more real-life treasure hunts.
SenorMysterioso
Jun 4th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Whoever thought they were an investment? Ive never seen them marketed as such.
ted
Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Is that THE ring? No wonder she turned him down.
halonineteen
Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:21 am
A NZ video article on it:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Disheartened-twitterers-rejected-ring-up-for-gr abs/tabid/209/articleID/107238/cat/676/Default.aspx
Miss Cellania
Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:30 am
I don’t know for sure, ted. That is the guy’s Twitter profile picture, which is the only picture associated with this story.
wookietim
Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:48 am
“Clues to the ring’s whereabouts will start being posted on social networking site Twitter (http:/twitter.com/donoogle_com) at 8 a.m. local time on Saturday (2000 GMT on Friday).”

Someone might want to point out – 2000 is not 8 am….. it’s 10 pm.
seefish3
Jun 4th, 2009 at 7:11 am
This idiot’s gonna eat 3 grand because he thinks it’s “bad luck”? Moron.
If he kept his mouth shut, the next “cool chick” might have worked out. This sounds fishy, and I should know…
Miss Cellania
Jun 4th, 2009 at 7:17 am
wookietm, local time means in New Zealand. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is a global touchstone and was probably added so folks around the world can figure out when to start following the Twitter feed as spectators. So yeah, if you are in England, you’ll want to start watching the shenanigans online at ten PM.
OddNumber
Jun 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am
All this talk of how diamonds aren’t really worth anything is making my head spin given the ring I recently gave to my fiancé. Although I wouldn’t mind getting that chunk of change back, I appreciate the fact that she’ll be wearing that piece of jewelery for the rest of our lives.
Vonskippy
Jun 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Congrats OddNumber, your mush for brains has readily accepted one of the greatest marketing scam ever where greedy gem vendors pair up with greedy jewelers and convince you (and your significant other) that the only way you could TRULY be in love is if you piss away large chunks of your income on shiny items that have no intrinsic value. And people wonder why the current divorce rate is over 50% (but honey, you’re wearing my shiny ring – how could you possible cheat on me? but dear – he offered me a bigger shiny ring! Oh!).
Kate
Jun 4th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Vonskippy, your argument has little to do with diamonds themselves and the diamond industry. Yes, some women get obsessed about the ring, or view marriage as a band-aid, but if you’re going for the diamond alone you’re either going for the $$ or for the status of being married, and that is a much, much bigger factor in divorces than the mere presence of a stone will ever be.
seefish3
Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
So, Vonskippy, you live in your parents’ basement and you’re really only, like, fourteen, right?
ted
Jun 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Don’t be down on Vonskippy because he points out society’s hypocrisies. We are in a material world, and we likes our shiny stuffs.

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