So what else is new? 😕

I just did the same thing a few weeks back. I was able to shake a couple loose, but many I contacted gave no reply at all.

We have about a 1/3 of ours missing – I believe we have launched over 30 of them now.

Many of our coins have gone MIA and I fear they are now in a collection some where. I doubt I will ever launch a coin again. The dog tags are not as valuable as the coins but seems we have about equal numbers of each missing.

Do you need a little cheese with that..??? Guess that is why they call them “Bugs” and not boomarangs.
TE

What is more baffling and irritating is the fact that so many “last finders” refuse to even reply to emails. That’s just rude.

I have 105 geocoins out circulating, none let loose in the past 2 years. Most of them were sent out to travel in 2007 and 2008.

About 80 are missing and about 25 are still traveling.

Interestingly, one of first coins I set free, PCCYKF, is a personal Zuma coin that Robin made for me and she only made 55 copies. It went missing out of the first cache that I put it in, and I marked it missing. Then 3 years later it reappeared and has been traveling well around the state. I imagine being one of just 55 coins made it might have some value to coin thieves (though I am sure featuring my likeness diminishs that somewhat). Anyway, the coin is traveling well, and recently Tami picked it up.

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re: coin thieves
There are a few things we can all do to make things a little better.

1. If you visit a big event and see someone selling coins without activation codes, drilled coins, and other obvious thefts, complain to the event organizers and get everyone you know to complain. Basically make the event organizers life misery until they throw out the thieves.

2. If someone shares with you their “collection” for discovery and you find that the coins are not theirs, let them know that you don’t appreciate their activities. If they continue to steal coins, out them in the forums.

3. If you buy coins on Ebay that turn out to be stolen, report the seller and demand a refund due to stolen property. Try to get the coin back to the owner if possible.

Having a collection is a lot less fun if you can’t show it off.

WI.Hibiscus showed us an interesting concept on the travel bug thing on our way to Hilo a few weeks ago. I didn’t discover the TB but should have, but maybe she’ll chime in here also. They basically bought a TB tag and then engraved that number on a bunch of custom cut camels. I believe each camel also had a unique 1 of # on it or something similar. Basically you were allowed to keep / move the individual one and note # on the TB logging page. It was the first time I had seen anything like this, but was definately a unique way to propagate the TB.