People who keep your travel bugs!

[LDove]

I have a couple of bugs that I have sent nice e-mails to the people who have them to get them moving… no reply and in the meantime the travel bug stays there! Any suggestions? One guy has not geocached for awhile so Lord only knows what he did with it! 😡

[lagrac]

Don’t even get me started!

It usually goes like this:

1st Nice e-mail

2nd Nice e-mail

3rd Sarcastic e-mail

4th Bleeding Heart e-mail (how my mother gave me that TB when she was on her death bed and it was her final wish to see that beanie baby make it to Wausau!)

4th Finally- I rename the TB ‘Stolen from me by some Bung Hole’ and result to further childish name calling.

This is why my Blings don’t go any further than my bookcase in my living room and very special Events.

😀

[LDove]

😆 😆 😆 Love the idea to change the name, although I doubt the knucklehead would check the travel bug page anyways. UG, it really makes me mad, especially since these two bugs got a good start in life and now… gone. Oh well, time to order some more tags and get a few more out there I guess! 🙄

[Vegas Gamblers]

I have a post in the help thread about this very topic. I set a TB free in one of our caches and the cacher that found it was their first cache and none found since. I have sent emails but nothing. So I would assume that it is gone forever.

[Frizz]

I’ve had a recent spate of bad luck with travel bugs. One of my bugs was placed in a cache in MN that was used as a cache for a field trip for new cachers. One of the students picked up my bug, and of course didn’t log it, and will probably never cache again. The student was identified after I emailed several of the finders, but has not responded to any emails. I initially got really mad, but soon realized that in the greater scheme of things, losing a travel bug, while irritating, is not an earth shattering event. My mental health has been much better since.

[Lostby7]

@lagrac wrote:

4th Finally- I rename the TB ‘Stolen from me by some Bung Hole’ and result to further childish name calling.

😀

LOL…..I just did this to one of mine! I have sent this guy about 5 emails now….oh well. I feel better now. 😈

[hogrod]

I gave my brother a Wisconsin geocoin as a present, I placed it in a cache in madison with a goal to make its way toward where he lives. The lady who picked it up lives a few states away and caches all the time, yet she never placed the coin anywhere.
grand total that Wisconsin geocoin lasted one cache. after looking into who picked it up, I noticed a pattern of them picking up bugs and claiming to drop them, yet a few weeks later no one ever sees the coins in caches, so I’m pretty sure they are collecting them.

I have not have very good luck at all with travel bugs/coins, and probably wont ever buy anymore.

[vtwinspin]

my tb the wildride went to south dakota and has came up missing the family placed it and no one has seen it in that cache since,what to do Im at a lost

[3 Hawks]

Then again, I’ve visited a few out of the way caches that had not seen visitors for 6 months and found “lost” TB’s sitting there waiting to be brought back to life. One was a TB that started out in Italy and had been missing for almost a year. I don’t know how it made it’s way to WI, but it didn’t walk/swim/fly here all by itself.

Why are some people so intent on spoiling the game for others? I guess it is just a commentary on the state of morality in general.

Let’s find these evil little kleptomaniacs and burn their GPSr’s.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

It’s so frustrating. Our DeLorme coin, the one that was going to do the delorme for us–it even has its own gc.com profile–didn’t get very far. It got three pages, and then I noticed that the cache it was last placed into hadn’t been found in a long time. I asked someone who lived near it to check, and they think the whole cache is gone. Kind of like happened to the actual delorme final. I think you’re right, it’s a reflection of a general societal tendancy these days. Too bad.

On the other hand, another missing one did turn up again and is moving around once more. We found a coin in one of zuma’s caches we exchanged the other day that we thought was great. “Stop the Geocoin Thief!” on one side, and “Get Your Own Geocoins” on the other.

[-cheeto-]

How about geocoins that forever stay in Geocaching event inventories? 🙂

Or placing a friend’s travel bug in a very neat cache to only have the next person log on the cache page that they grabbed it but “oh i guess i dropped it on the trail somewhere”….

-cheeto-

[Timberline Echoes]

We have released 24 trackables (TBs & Coins), 6 are listed as unknown, 12 are fairly active and the other 6 haven’t moved for a long time. 50% working… we are not planning on releasing any coins in the near future but may let a few TBs out that are sitting here not activated. We have ordered pathtags and hope those will be fun to watch.
TE

[LDove]

We also ordered the pathtags kind of for the same reason. At least with those, they CAN keep them and we can watch where they end up. 😕

[Hylife]

sorry, but what are pathtags? I heard about them at an event but never further pursued their identity..

[Hylife]

so yeah, I just released my FIRST TB, the first person to grab it took it 30 mi. in the WRONG direction, and then placed it in what’s referred to as a “TB Prison”..

I suppose it’s my luck..I just expected him to make it to one normal cache before encountering this type of situation.. 🙄

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