buy a ticket and you could be on your way to making a fortune,
well up to $1 million if you buy all of the tickets with clues in them, rather than
retiring a Michigan jeweler decided to close shop and make money by using about
$1 million in precious metals as treasure for would-be treasure hunters willing
to pay for clues, photograph Johnny’s Treasure Quest, Johnny Perri has been a
jeweler his whole life, after learning the business from his father, but the
economic crisis caused by the coronavirus proved too hard for his shop in
Macomb County, Michigan. He had to options: either sell everything and retire,
or find a new way to make money using the jewelry. Perri and his wife chose
option two, allegedly burying or otherwise hiding around $1 million-worth of
jewelry in dozens of spots, from the Detroit metropolitan area through the
Upper Peninsula. Now the jeweler is challenging people to go hunting for his
treasures and claim them for themselves, if they can find it, “I have buried
not only my entire jewelry store but thousands upon thousands of dollars of
gold, silver, diamonds & antiques in various locations in Michigan from the
bottom to the upper peninsula,” Perri writes
on his website. “Everything I have buried has a history and many memories
attached to them that I have let go and placed in the ground for you to
discover.” Johnny Perri’s new business venture is called, “Johnny’s Treasure
Quest”, it invites people to go on
real-life treasure hunts, uncovering clues, solving riddles and walking away
with thousands of dollars in riches. While they claim that the total value of
the buried or hidden treasure exceeds $1 million, the jewelry is split into
dozens of separate treasures. Each quest starts on a certain date and has a
limited number of tickets, the catch is that in order to receive clues for each
treasure hunt, participants must first buy a ticket for that specific quest.
Once quest begins, every registered treasure hunter will receive a set of clues
to point them in the right direction. Whoever finds the treasure first gets to
keep it for themselves, “You follow the riddle, you got a little wit, a little
adventure in you, you’ll find it quick – I don’t expect it to go more than a
week,” Perri told FOX2 Detroit, the first treasure quest is scheduled for
August 15 and the available tickets have already been sold out. Tickets were
priced at $49, and the value of the 200 ounces .999 Silver up for grabs was
estimated at $4,000. The next available quest will take place on September 13,
and the value of the hidden treasure is estimated at $7,000. Tickets are still
available, but cost $59, in the
official rule list on the Johnny’s Treasure Quest website, participants are
warned not to share the clues they receive on social media or with people who
did not register for the treasure hunts. If they do so, they will be
disqualified and forbidden from taking part in other quests, and attempts to
acquire the treasure after breaking this rule will be met with legal action, Perri
claims that all of the hidden treasures are monitored with GPS trackers, so he
knows the moment one of them is moved or otherwise tampered with, the Michigan
jeweler said that he is “Giving people
adventure is giving them something to believe in again, besides this Covid crap,”
so is anyone going to buy a ticket?
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