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  1. Droo

    ATMA coinsh

    What you found was a variant on a path tag. They are cheaper to produce than geocoins but are not trackable on Geocaching.com. Because they are not a geocaching.com product and not trackable here it's not really okay to talk about them here. You'll need to use their website, ATMAtags.com, to learn more about them. Good luck.
  2. By the time a geocoin has been logged into the tracking system it could be long gone as another cacher may well have visited the cache and picked up the coin and dropped it again in another cache that another cacher might have visited before it's been officially dropped in the cache again. So it's just dumb luck. Enjoy the hunt and you will be surprised by what lands in your path..... patience, grasshopper.
  3. I'm surprised that module is still on the GC site. It's absolutely useless. For me it shows coins that haven't been there for years and never shows new ones and my subscriptions status makes no difference (paid vs not).
  4. There is no disabling a geocoin for maintenance as you might do with a cache... at least not without Groundspeak and if they disable a trackable it's for good, no going back.
  5. The type of geocoins that fall in the SWAG category are the non trackable ones. That is you have to trade for them as you would with normal swag - with something of equal or greater value. Only geocoins trackable on Geocaching.com are not considered swag and need not be traded for but must be moved to another cache within a 2 week period, max. So personal coins, wooden nickels, poker chips all fall into the swag category (as well as those geocoins trackable on sites other than Geocaching.com). To know if they are trackable on Geocaching.com it must say so somewhere on the coin. Good luck.
  6. Droo

    Geocoin icons

    Nope, sorry. The custom icon is designed by the coin maker when the tracking codes are purchased and the design is submitted for approval. Each coin design or issue is given a generic icon or a custom icon can be used for an extra small fee. So if you wanted to mint your own batch of 50+ coins you could have a custom icon that represents them but not an individual custom icon for each coin. Hope that makes sense.
  7. Droo

    Swag?

    You can leave $5-$13 geocoins in trade for $1 trinkets if you want but you'll be seriously poor in a very short time.... unless you're related to Bill Gates.
  8. I'd email the owner for the tracking code so I could grab it from the "wrong" cache and drop it in the "correct" one.
  9. I'd email the owner for the tracking code so I could grab it from the "wrong" cache and drop it in the "correct" one.
  10. Geocoins in caches are there as travelers and need to be moved. That is their primary goal. Not all have mission statements which are not orders on where or how the traveler ought to be moved but more like requests. You do what you can: getting a coin to the Internation Space Station may not be within the capability of every cacher. As stated above they are not to be traded for, they are not swag, but moved. It is best not to keep a traveler longer than 2 weeks from retrieval to drop off and to offset that some cachers will keep the thing moving by dropping it off in the various caches they visit and retrieve them again - also known as dipping, which is okay within reason: hoarding is not nice. Geocoin owners may dip as much as they like. Some use certain coins as mileage trackers for their caching activities. As a coin owner you can pretty much do what you like with it. As a finder all you can do is enjoy it for a short time and move it along. Thank you for asking.
  11. I don't know what you could to do to get your funds back but this is a start. If Matt is now working for Groundspeak they should also know about this, though they are not responsible for his actions, and perhaps seek to de-list him as a "Trusted Vendor". Stealing from you because he was allegedly robbed is no excuse for being a thief himself. Additionally use the search function to seek previous malfeasance reported here on the forums about Matt and SoCalGeocoins back when he was living in Long Beach, CA.... I vaguely remember it was about the time your Huskies coin came out, maybe a little earlier. Good luck.
  12. No need to "reactivate it". All a person has to do is log a grab or retrieval so it's placed in their Inventory then it's available to drop in a cache. Missing is just a virtual cache, as it were, in the sky. You can grab it any time since you know the tracking number but it's less messy if the person who has it does so.
  13. Geocoins found in caches belong to other people. Cachers have bought and released them to follow their travels and enjoy the logs that finders will post when moving them from cache to cache. They are called travelers for that reason and need not be traded for when found in caches but if you pick one up you must move it to another cache and logging the retrieval and drop off in the tracking system. If you want to get snapshot view of the kinds of coin designs that have been produced look for them on Ebay.... look but do not touch as they can be expensive. Many coin designs sell out pretty fast while others languish and the perceived values are reflected in what they are being bid for or what is asked for them. It's a fine way to discover where your tastes range. Price wise you should not have to pay more than $10-$15 plus shipping unless it's sold out and unavailable anywhere else and you really have to have it. Which vendours should you look at? Not all actually carry a steady stock. Producing a batch is expensive and not being able to sell them all or recoup the initial cost of production is a risk most coin makers face. Go through them all and discount the ones that clearly have little stock or seem to focus on selling general geocaching gear, you'll be paying them a middleman fee, but if you have to have it and the price seems fair to you.... go for it. Some vendours are actually producing geocoins and stocking them and they are the ones you want to bookmark or become familiar with. Don't forget the Geocoin Store right on Geocaching.com too: if there is a middleman fee there it goes to support the geocaching site.
  14. Totally acceptable. Just call it, or I should say name it for what it is ... a proxy. So long as you include the word "Proxy" in the name all is fair in love and war. The laminated card haters can't hate you too for making them hike 20 miles in the mud and snow and ice in a blizzard with cranky children in tow just for a laminated card.
  15. Go to Your Profile. On the right side, top box is a link to View Public Profile, click on it. Look for a link to Edit Public Profile then enter your content.
  16. Simply stated just indicate in your Found It log that the trackables are not there. You could even click on the trackable's icon and post a note to it which informs the owner. This serves to notify other cachers of your observations and creates a timeline: logged into cache on date A, second or third finder after that date indicates it's no longer there so previous finder(s) MIGHT know what happened ... owner can contact that cacher to find out status of their traveler. The tracking system relies on the good will and also the competence of cachers using it. If folks don't know what they are doing or don't care you can bet there will be many errors and loose ends. Owners of the cache or of the geocoin or travel bug can remove a missing traveler from a last logged position into what is known as an "unknown location". But it's not wise to do so only days after "did not see geocoin" note is posted to a cache. It's usually best to be patient and let whoever picked it up to get around to logging it out before tossing it into the "Lost and Unfound" bin.
  17. You could start with the Contact us link to reach the "Lackeys" for help.
  18. What TDM22 says is correct but the system relies on people using it correctly and you will find with experience that the tracking system gets misused quite a bit. You may be very excited that a cache near you has the icon for a geocoin only to find it hasn't been seen there in quite a while. Or you may come upon a cache with no traveler icons and find a geocoin in it. There is no way to say for sure that there will be or won't be a traveler in a cache. Of course if you want a geocoin of your own you can purchase them from the list of approved manufacturers and vendours on the Geocoin Page of geocaching.com. Please remember that trackable geocoins in caches belong to folks who released them to travel from cache to cache and travelers need not be traded for, only moved. Good luck.
  19. Droo

    "Collectible"

    You do not want it set to "collectible". If you do it tells anyone who finds it that it is okay for them to add to their collection, including their virtual collection... and then it's gone.
  20. Maybe the harder cache has seekers wandering around and around arousing suspicion, or creating a "cacher's trail", that attracts muggles' eyes. Or it's just so danged good the cache gets stolen to be implemented elsewhere!!
  21. Droo Week 1: Must take a selfie while playing Twister with at least one other person. Winner will be chosen based on picture quality and contortion of self whilst taking the photo. Contestant must be clearly seen to be the one taking the picture (no outside help).
  22. A secondary delight in collecting geocoins is the icons that comes along with them. To add to your icons hoard you must activate. Should you sell you lose the icon in the owner's column but add it to the other with it's discovery. BTW, selling an activated geocoin requires an adoption so ownership is transferred in the tracking system.
  23. It's probably trackable on the geocacher.co.za site emblazoned on the coin... or not. To be trackable on geocaching.com it HAS TO say "trackable on geocaching.com" on it or sum such variant: it's a design requirement by the PTB. Nice bit of swag indeed.
  24. Thank you for checking in. It sounds like you found a personal coin/item or swag. The rule of thumb for trackables is that it must say somewhere on the coin, sometimes on the edge, "Trackable on Geocaching.com" or some such variant. Trackables need not be traded for with something of equal or greater value as they are intended to be moved but swag does. Enjoy.
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