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On the Left Side of the Road...Ya hey! Welcome!
On the Left Side of the Road...@RSplash40 wrote:
Well if nothing, this thread has convinced me to never release the coins I have…
Ditto. Especially the coins our kids received as gifts. Really hard to explain to them how we practice “don’t take it unless you intend to move it” etiquette, only to have to explain how their own coins get stolen.
On the Left Side of the Road...Dave,
I have a new letterbox hybrid cache to be given away to the next winner, so we’ll have to coordinate.
Actually, it will be a DIFFERENT stamp than the one pictured in one of these pages, but it will still be an ammo can filled with goodies.
So…let’s chat…
On the Left Side of the Road...@The Crippler wrote:
After about 10 minutes a couple from Texas sat across from us and opened a huge box full of coins and put up a sign that read ” Any coin $5″.
This really surprised me, but I suppose it shouldn’t have. Any thing that has a market will cause a demand, ethical or not.
What dismays me, which is really the answer to the question that started this thread, is the attidude that coins shouldn’t really be considered trackable and that they are there for the trading (or taking). I’m willing to “take the financial loss” for things that go missing out of ignorance, but if there is simply a market out there for coins, no thanks. And that will likely be the demise of geocoins as anything other than a personal-trade item, I predict!
Like so many other things in life, there are those who choose to profit off the welfare of others. Apparently they can live with themselves, so be it, but I have no desire to perpetuate their behavior with my contributions!
On the Left Side of the Road...@labrat_wr wrote:
One of the better ways to protect a released coin, at least to begin with is to place them only in caches that require some effort to retrieve whether by D/T rating or Puzzle cache, or premium member caches.
I think s|s can attest that this only works “to begin with.” His “it takes a pair” TB, which wasn’t supposed to leave the table at an event, and which was supposed to be placed only in 5/5 caches, was taken and put in a urban park ammo can under a bridge where kids play. Not surprisingly, it quickly disappeared.
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On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Black-Cat wrote:
The point of geocoins is whatever you want it to be. Or not to be if that’s your choice.
So if the way I want to play the game is to take every ammo can that we find because hey, they’re kind of handy, is that ok too?
Obviously no, but that’s exactly what happens when someone steals a coin and adds it to their permanent collection.
I didn’t realize how naive we were regarding coins, and that people simply assume they were there to take rather than move along. Like I said, I have better things to spend my money on that building up people’s personal coin collections.
On the Left Side of the Road...@kansas64 wrote:
I think it is wrong to consider coins trackables at this point, as everybody makes them into collectables (myself included)
Therefore…”What’s the point of geocoins?”
This basically confirms that people collect them, even though they are stamped “Trackable at geocaching.com” with a unique number.
Therefore, the tracking is pointless, and you can expect to spend $$ per coin just to add to someone’s personal collection when they steal them.
No thanks!
On the Left Side of the Road...@Timberline Echoes wrote:
We have seen a few where a copy was made of the coin, laminated and send around.
Not a bad solution, and not likely to get stolen.
However, seems to defeat the purpose of actually having the coin travel.
On the Left Side of the Road...@bugsmasher69 wrote:
I have sent out over 300 geocoins. Some are drilled and tagged and some are not. … If they are tagged or not doesn’t seem to make much difference on if they disappear of not.
This surprises me.
What is the experience of others who have gone the drill-and-tag method?
On the Left Side of the Road...Well this is my point. They are marketed as a trackable, not a collectible. However, the become a collectible.
So why should I pay to build someone else’s collection?
What am I missing here?
On the Left Side of the Road...Thanks; I had found that one but I was hoping to find one that didn’t require me to click through each cache (this version still does). It’s probably a gc.com TOS limitation. But, it beats opening each cache individually from w/in GSAK.
On the Left Side of the Road...Oh, and we just bought 4 blocks of PZ-Cut…
On the Left Side of the Road...There is a new and very prolific letterboxer in the GB area, athomedad, who we made acquaintance with and got talking about letterbox hybrids. Looks like he was able to team up with some geocachers to get a hybrid placed.
In other news, there should be a new letterbox in the Eau Claire area for you in coming weeks…I have to get it in the mail first…
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