LadeBear68
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I want to add a note about the Viking Helmets. I ordered one a couple weeks ago and thought it would be flat on one side or it would be small. Today, I went to the Post Office to get my mail and it said I had a package to pick up. The only package I was looking for was my helmet.
When I picked up the package I thought it was too big for my coin. I opened the package to find a big box and a HUGE helmet inside. It was not small like I expected and it wasn't flat on one side like I expected. The tracking number is a little hard to read but I love the coin and the size of the coin. It is a wonderful coin for the price and the coin is amazing with all the details.
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It was your webstore, GeocoinDesign.
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I went to place an Order. The order page took me to paypal where it said payment had to be made immediately and I had to enter a credit card number. I have only used our checking account for paypal and I don't understand why I have to add a credit card to the paypal account. Has anyone else had this problem? We only use a debt card and I don't use it on the internet since the bank gave our number to someone else who enjoyed gambling.
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I am happy to see these being produced. Place my order several weeks ago. Can't wait to get them.
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I have talked with EricK several times and enjoyed talking to him at the GCF in Pittsburgh. I understand that Erick is going through several issues right now and I for one am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope things get back to normal as he produced quality coins. A month is not nine months, a year or never as has happened in the past. At least you received your coins, several companies in the past haven't delivered at all.
Some people cry the blues on the forums, take coins and money from people and go geocaching or produce their own coins and yet they are welcomed with open arms on these forums.
My point is caveat emptor. Don't believe that everyone who deals on the forums is honest and your friend and file the claims with paypal within the required time frame or be willing to give up your money.
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Email sent.
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I was there in May of 2007 to volunteer at the panda preserve for two weeks. There is a virtual at Tianamen Square (GCA209) , Richshaw (GCA20A), the Great Wall has two virtuals (GCKB03), one in the Forbidden City (GCBFF1) and other ones (GCC01B) (GCC018). The actual caches there weren't great because people didn't maintain them and not a lot of cachers there at the time but that looks to have changed recently:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.asp...;lng=116.408283
There is an Earthcache that was added after I left: GC1RHYW
And my favorite, not in Beijing but the oldest cache in China: GC201F
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b1-c9fa5801b5b0
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I noticed this information on coudynews.com this morning. Is anyone attending from the area?
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I signed up for Oakcoin's monthly geocoin club so that I could receive one of the tenth anniversary coins. I thought it would be out over a month ago with no luck. Did anyone else join the club and if so, did you get the tenth anniversary "new orleans" colored coin?
It is going on three months since the event and no coin.
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Count my family in for at least three, hopefully four.
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Well I would love to help but I am mad at you for dumping me last night.
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Yup, we will be in MB golfing from October 3 to the 10 so I am going to have to delay our trip home by a day.
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GC2C1EY in South Carolina is all ready to go. I'll submit it once things solidify a little more.
What time and where will yours be?
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Congratulations Kinzua Cachers. Only an hour from work, hope to attend with the family.
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This looks like fun but won't be in Vegas until August. We will be playing golf at Coyote Springs which is only an hour from the trail. Now to figure out how to get the husband to spend some time caching after golfing.
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The reviewer for our area (Huntingdon County, PA) is either OReviewer or Keystone. I know that Keystone published over 6 caches in my area this morning so it isn't a matter of him being too busy. A short note to the reviewer might help in case there is a problem.
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Does it say trackable on geocaching.com?
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Ladebear, I didn't say I take my self as geocaching police, but that this sounds like geocaching police!
and I do not think that my way is better than others!!! Who said that???
I have an opinion and you have an opinion!
I do not have anything withte sellers in ebay, but I am not a seller there! I am a buyer! I do not even know your codenames there! I do not know if someone is in a crisis etc! I am not doing it all the time I did oit only 2-3 times and if I causes problems to the seller he may follow some rules the next time!
Some coins have rules! We have to follow them! don't we? I explained in an other post here what happens if we do not respect the cachers who are gifting these coins! the fun is off and everything stops! so why someone spois the whole fun just to make some money? LadyBee gave a great example for this!!!
There is a geocacher that is making coins, not mystery ones but other non trackable and she is simply saing... if you want to sell it I will take it back!
Now if the seller is so desperate, he can contact with the mystery coin maker and get his ok!!! He can add it in the selling page and everything is ok!!! where is wrong with that?? Many mystery makers gave their ok and mystery coins were sold to support other geocachers with problems!
Most of these mystery coins are non trackable, so the mystery senders probably created this rule, the coins are not to be sold, but you can keep it, just like Signal the frog did with Lackeys 2007, or Moun10bike did with his coins! It is a kind of keeping the ownership! since the coins are not trackable this is the best way!
now to speak generally....
some months ago a moun10bike geocoin was being sold! How??? the seller was not moun10bike!!! So??? He was selling a coin that was not his???
So if the seller was in crisis too it is ok? If yes, the next time someone will go and take coins from caches and sell them!! Not that this doesn't happen already!
In ebay there are many coins to be sold... some cacher even bought stollen coins from there!
would it be nice to start seeing stollen coins that we own, being sold in ebay???
If you are in a crisis it means that you are not obliged to follow some simple rules???
I do not know the seller either! so I am talking generally!
What rules? If you give me a coin I own it. There are no rules. With the mystery coins I have received there were no conditions that I don't sell the coin so I don't have to ask the mystery coin giver if I have their permission. The coin is mine to do as I wish. Whether that means giving it away or selling it.
The difference with Moun10bike and Signal is that they still own the coin according to Geocaching.com. You don't get to transfer the Moun10bike coin or the Signal coin to your name. (In some incidents) If it isn't trackable, Groundspeak can't step in and deactivate the coin.
Your comparison that someone takes the coins from caches and sells them is far fetched. It is a comparison of apples and oranges. Because someone sells a mystery coin does not mean that someone will run out and take coins from caches and sell them.
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Great thread. There are actually three in MD:
Maryland Municipal League Geo Trail
http://www.mdmunicipal.org/programs/geocache.cfm
The Ranger Series
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...db-bfdd08e5388a
Star Spangled Banner geo trail.
http://friendsofchesapeakegateways.org/pro...s/ssb_geotrail/
Delaware had one but apparently they are out of coins.
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It is so sad.....
I do not like seeing mystery coins being sold just to earn some money!
It is only ok if the maker, the mystery coiner gives the permision! And this always has to do about something serious, a health problem, an economical problem or for a donation....
The mystery coiners are spending their beautiful money who actually made with sweat from their job (they are not finding the money on the road... as we say here..), just to make us happy! At least I consider them as a kind of a medal of friendship, happyness..... that is why they are so special!
and most of these coins have a card or something saying that they are not to be sold! someone spend his money and gifted the coin to us... and we just can not even respect a simple wish???
I have seperated the mystery coins I found in caches or in my mailbox too! I have them in a different section in my collection! For them I feel that I am the keeper and not the owner! I also do that in some other coins, but especially for the mystery ones!!!
It would be nice if there are auctions with them and see them to comunicate with the mystery coin maker (many have account...) and the sellers to write in their auctions that they have the permission from the mystery maker!!!
Just because this can be put and actually the mystery coin maker will not even know it... It would have been nice if a special thread would be created where the seller and the mystery maker would post that the coin is "clean" so it is ok to sell it! Especially the post of the mystery maker has to be there!
I have seen in time mystery coins or coins that are not to be sold, in auctions! In some I contacted with the mystery maker and let him know about it! I didn't know the seller, the biders or the mystery maker! I just felt that I was doing the right thing! If more will do that... maybe.... things will be better!
This may sound like a kind of geocaching police, but... I believe ti is for good!!!
I cringe when I see someone designate themselves as the geocaching police. In my view, it is nothing more than a tattle tale. Why do you think your ways are better than anyone elses? You have no idea why they are selling the coins and you only cause trouble for someone that may be in a crisis. It also is none of your business what their problems are and they don't have to explain anything to me or you. I haven't looked on ebay so I don't know who is selling it. I also sell on ebay because it is fun and not because I need the money. I have two mystery geocoins and I wouldn't sell them but I don't think it is right to judge the person who sells mystery coins. Perhaps they aren't into collecting them or need the money for other reasons. I believe that for some it is very hard to sell their coins and to have the geocaching community pass judgment on them for doing so is not appealing. I am glad some of you have other coins that you can sell but unless you are trading 13-15 coins for the mickey diver coin I don't see the seller making the same kind of money from selling traded coins.
When I received my mystery coins there was no slip of paper telling me I couldn't sell them. When someone gifts you a coin you can do with what you want or else it is not a gift. I don't need permission to sell the item if it was a gift. The seller risks never receiving a mystery coin again but perhaps the money is more important to them right now.
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Not this year, to me my plans are much much better.
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Is the rumor true? The Allegheny Geotrail is now on until June 2011?
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And than there was the time in Mexico, didn't you have help from border patrol?
Allegany State Park - Missing Hiker
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If anyone is familiar with the Allegany State Park, can you provide any information to the State police about this area:
Police ask for help in missing man case
Updated: Sunday, 14 Nov 2010, 2:04 PM EST
Published : Sunday, 14 Nov 2010, 2:02 PM EST
SALAMANCA, N.Y. (WIVB) - It's a race against the clock as rescuers continue searching for 92 year old Thomas Hamilton.
The retired pastor has been lost in Allegany State Park since Wednesday.
New York State Park Police are now requesting the public's assistance from anyone familiar with the Allegany State Park area who may be familiar with a 3 foot high concrete structure, white in color, approximately 15 - 20 feet long, 6 feet wide, with an opening or entranceway. Inside of the structure is an inlayed mosaic stone floor. The structure is located on a slope or hillside in a wooded area.
If anyone has ever observed anything similar in the area of Allegany State Park please contact New York State Park Police at 716-354-9111.