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We know what kind of police they are. (And we're happy they do it.) That's funny.

What can I do when reviewers in my country (Netherlands) ignore this and I have travelbugs in tb prisons? For one thing, reviewers are not Travel Bug police. They can't do anything about bugs already in caches. It would be a full time job for 50+ people! They can ask a CO to remove any wording from the cache page that requires a one for one trade. They can't keep policing pages that are edited after approval, but a private message to the reviewer might help. Nicely worded, don't hound them, they are busy and they are volunteers. What you can do is ask the community to rescue your TBs by posting a note on the TB page, the cache page, and in your regional forums, or local cache group Facebook page. When you release a TB, it's like sending a message in a bottle. You have no control over what happens to it once released. Maybe it will float along peacefully, maybe it will be caught in a storm, maybe it will be tossed up onto a rock forever. The fun is in watching what happens. If your trackable hasn't moved in a long time, post a note to the cache page asking the next dinner to please confirm if it's there or not. You can edit the post to change the date, if it drops of the page. Check out the pinned thread at the to of this Forum, on what we should know about TBs. Good luck!

Si elle ne dit pas «trackable on www.geocaching.com" sur elle, elle n'est pas un élément trackable et devrait être traitée comme un objet de "swag".

Thread reopened. Groundspeak permission granted to have this announcement here. Thank you!

Are these all trackable on geocaching.com?

Are these all trackable on geocaching.com?

Call one home, try to bring it in, or stop one from moving. It will confuse people like crazy if two are traveling on one tag number.. Don't delete any of the history. Edit the page, as stated above.

Give it some time. You can make a proxy,(Search these forums for proxy), or release the copy tag, if you have one. But I would wait at least six months before doing that. The longest record that I'm aware of, for a TB to reappear is eleven years. They do come back. Did you have it labeled with a goal tag? Sometimes people don't log them until they drop then off. It's vacation time in a lot of places, so give it time.

Closing thread. Message sent to the OP.

Closed at the OP's request.

Title updated at OP's request.

IowaMongoose, Don't confuse geocoins with Travel Bugs. I think what you are referring to as "in Shadow Boxes" are geocoins. Yes people sell those, individually, or in batches, unactivated or activated and adoptable. Check out the geocoin forum threads. Once in a while, you'll see a Travel Bug for sale, but the seller should be the owner of it, otherwise, it's theft.

Please take any pathtag discussions to the pathtag website. Closing this thread.

Closing this thread, as it is not about geocoins.

If anyone wishes to discuss those items that are not Groundspeak authorized trackables, please do so on that website. This forum is for discussions about geocoins. Posts have been edited. Thank you, Eartha Volunteer Groundspeak Forum Moderator

Here's the thread.

As far as I can recall, one was posted recently as coming back after eleven years.

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I would take them, look up their goals, find out when they were connected, ask the owners if they want them connected, then release them accordingly. It is possible it was something as simple as the last cacher not wanting to lose them, or forget to drop them, so he/she clipped them together for the backpack ride, and forgot to disconnect them when they were dropped off. Did they have the same, or separate owners? And were both owners in agreement to them being attached to each other? Those are the questions you would need to have answered.

The owner might feel like you are turning their trackable into your own personal traveler after carrying it around for months and months. It looks like they want it to see the Tall Ships, and it's not reaching its goal. The object is to travel from cache to cacher to cache. It's time to grab it back from the owner and release it into a cache. With a note explaining that is what you are doing. Try using an online translator and post your log in both languages.

The OP would like this thread closed, and I will honor the request. However, I also want to remind people that when you post in a public forum, you are going to get all kinds of answers. Some helpful, some not helpful, some might even be humorous, or completely off topic. And you won't often get the answer you are looking for. That doesn't mean it was a bad answer. Since your original post is gone now, I will close this thread, as requested. If you release a travel bug into the wild, you never know where its travels will take it, but don't lose hope, some have come back years later. Sometimes, you might email the may holder, and get no response. Many Cachers never even validate their email, so they won't receive your message. If your travel bug is gone for sure, you can always release a copy tag.

Title updated at OP's request.

A muggle is a civilian that does not know what geocaching is. I will be moving this thread to the geocaching topics forum, as this is not travel bug related.

Thread closed at OP's request.

Title updated at OP's request.