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08/04/2006 at 12:27 am #1723583
Is it considered bad taste to visit the same cache repeatedly to grab TBs or geocoins? There has been a lot of geocoins popping up around me, but they’re in caches I’ve already found. I’d like to go grab ’em, but I don’t know if that just ain’t cool since I’ve previously found the caches.
Thoughts?
-katy-
eta: Just wanted to clarify–I meant doing this from time to time to see new geocoins and perhaps move some bugs along. I have no intentions of staking claims on certain caches and always taking the goodies. 😉 I think discovering coins is the best option….lets me see them and log them, but also lets new finders to the cache take them. 8)
08/04/2006 at 12:57 am #1764251My opinion — as long as you don’t always go and grab them, and give others a chance once in a while, it’s okay to revisit for bugs and coins.
I’ve not done it myself, but I have no problems, as long as you don’t log another find.
Bec
08/04/2006 at 1:42 am #1764252At my travel bug hotel, I invite people to return for repeated bug and coin exchanges and a few have. But sometimes I will put a special coin or a jeep into a cache of mine that hasn’t been visited in a while to get someone new to visit. When someone who has found it before goes and grabs it, it’s a bit irritating.
Now I am not the geocaching police and I will not tell other people what to do, but my recommendation would be: if your are going to grab a coin from a cache you have visited before, it would be *nice* to leave some other coin in it. That way you have not diminished it in any way.
08/04/2006 at 1:46 am #1764253Oh, another thing you can do if you are just looking to get some new icons or something: go to the cache, write down the number, and leave it behind. Then you can write a “discovered” log which will count on your stats, but the coin doesn’t move.
08/04/2006 at 1:53 am #1764254@LightningBugs Mum wrote:
Oh, another thing you can do if you are just looking to get some new icons or something: go to the cache, write down the number, and leave it behind. Then you can write a “discovered” log which will count on your stats, but the coin doesn’t move.
Ah, that’s a great idea; I forgot about the “discover” option for trackables. 8)
-katy-
08/04/2006 at 12:41 pm #1764255In general, I’d say it’s bad form if you’re doing it solely for the purpose of boosting your TB count. I cound see doing it if a bug has been languishing in a cache for months, or the bug has a goal that you can help fulfill (i.e. a bug wants to go to France and you have a trip to Europe in your future.)
08/04/2006 at 2:18 pm #1764256My 2 cents …
(a) It’s for sure Ok to do at a cache that “advertises” to be a Travel Bug Hotel … I have a couple of those and assumed that they would get multiple visits by the same person.
(b) In the case of other caches, I guess it’s more of a gray line, but personally I feel it’s still ok. Typically the goals of a TB involve keeping them moving, and that’s exactly what the person grabbing them is doing, even if it’s a repeat visit. TBs are different than caches, so grabbing a TB is a bit different than visiting a cache, the cache is just the grab point. Now playing “hog” and grabbing all the TBs out of an area on the globe, that’s not very nice … but if you see a specific TB and feel you can keep it moving, I say go for it.
08/04/2006 at 4:02 pm #1764257I too am facinated by geocoins I have not seen yet. Any time I see a new one pop up in my area, I try to get there quickly to claim it. And, since I have done most every cache in my area, I stop by the cache, sign the log again, and take the coin number with, leaving the actual coin behind. On occasion I do the same for a Unique TB too. The problem for me, is that I almost always get to the cache to late, and find the coin gone… but thats caching.
The golden rule here, in my opinion, is to have fun. And in that fun, make sure you are leaving room for other cachers to have the same amount of fun. Unless you can move a coin or bug along it’s intended journey, leave it for others to enjoy. And remeber, always smile while caching! 😀
08/05/2006 at 12:12 am #1764258I bought a slew of geocoins at one time and been slowly putting them in my caches over the summer. When I first started I even put caches all over the area mine and others caches.
Point being my intent is the geocoins are for those who have not visited the caches before. Only once so far did I have someone who did my caches come back around and take all the geocoins.
Now I do feel that if the cache is a TB hotel that what it is there for people to pick up TB and move them along. I like a cache that is located right over the boarder of WI in MN and use that to dump TBs if I have a period of not caching.
08/09/2006 at 3:25 am #1764259If I visit a cache, a 2nd time around for the sole purpose of a coin, I will always leave a different coin in it’s place. That way if someone else was hoping to get a coin, they still do.
08/09/2006 at 4:41 pm #1764260Last fall, I dropped a WJTB in a series cache final with the intent of increasing interest in that particular series. Someone who had found the cache a week before, went and took the Jeep the very next day. When I last checked, this person had yet to put the jeep into another cache. To be sure, I found this to be very annoying. I can only imagine the frustration when this happens to someones personal coin.
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