Finding a 4.6 million check to Haribo: A marginal aspect also irritates the community

Created: 11/14/2022, 6:00 p.m

By: Florian Dörr

Measly reward?

Excessive finder?

The discovery of a 4.6 million euro check caused discussions on Facebook.

Frankfurt - A man finds a check for 4.6 million euros on the street in Frankfurt.

Addressee is Haribo, exhibitor of the retail giant Rewe.

Apparently he got lost at the Niederrad train station.

What sounds like a jackpot was actually quite worthless: The honest finder turns to the candy manufacturer and gets six Haribo packs as a thank you.

This was recently reported by fnp.de "Since it was a crossed check, nobody but our company could have redeemed it," explains a Haribo spokesman to the

.

According to fnp.de, the story from Frankfurt is now causing some discussion on Facebook.

The corresponding article was liked almost 10,000 times.

There are also almost 2500 comments.

And the reactions could hardly be more different.

4.6 million check to Haribo found: reactions in very different directions

On the one hand, the critics have their say, punishing Haribo for what they consider to be a meager finder's reward.

"If a packet of Haribo now costs 771,923.13 euros thanks to inflation, then everything is fine," they say somewhat cynically.

Or: "A bit fussy, even if it was just a crossed check!" And with a touch of irony: "The times are so bad that today you can only pay with bags of gummy bears."

Six Haribo bags for a found million check?

A case from Frankfurt prompts hundreds of comments on Facebook.

(Iconic image) © Sebastian Willnow/dpa

However, among the Facebook commentators at the

there are also those who criticize the finder of the 4.6 million euro check from Frankfurt: "He can be happy that he received a finder's reward at all.

A personal check is a check made out to a specific person and cannot be cashed by a third party.

Or: "Do you have to expect a 'huge sum' of finder's reward for something that's taken for granted these days?"

4.6 million check to Haribo found: "It's 2022, or was I wrong?"

The check from Rewe to Haribo, which was found in Frankfurt-Niederrad, was ultimately destroyed by the finder at the request of a company lawyer for the confectionery manufacturer.

"There was such a large sum on it that I couldn't even pronounce it," he is

quoted as saying by the

More precisely: 4,631,538.80 euros.

Against this background, and despite the fact that it would have remained a worthless piece of paper for him either way, the man found the thank you from the company "a little cheap", as the

quotes him.

Incidentally, one commentator on the FNP article on Facebook about the Haribo Check Fund in Frankfurt, which is not even concerned with the amount of the finder's reward, was very well received.

He says: “It's amazing that people still work with checks these days.

It's 2022, or am I wrong?

I firmly assumed that no one would use checks anymore.

But presumably people still work by fax or, in a completely new way, by BTX." (fd)