Further to my original post I have had no alternative but to submit the following to the website moderators after being accused of stealing the cachers travel bugs.
Hi I recently archived one of my geocaches “Barney's Travel Bug Hotel” GC5X2Q3. After firstly giving a warning of its impending archiving. Just before I took it off line a cacher ID: tomtomgogo, entered a found log and recorded that he had dropped off 7 travel bugs:
El Hierro TBJDKF
Fuertaventura TBJKFM
Gran Canria TBJAF0
La Gomera TBJGGK
La Palma TBJA87
Lanzarote TBJEJ1
Tenerife TBJCQ3
When I collected the cache there were no travel bugs present and no entry from them in the cache paper log. I messaged the cacher in question and asked them why there was no log and that there were no travel bugs in the cache and requested they message me back. I received no reply and therefore deleted their log entry and archived the cache.
Checking the travel bugs home page, he has stated that they have been stolen and states it was the cache owner in one log La Gomera TBJGGK. Looking at the logs for all these travel bugs it appears that reporting them missing and grabbing them back is a common occurrence. I can only assume that they did not visit my cache and logged the travel bugs falsely in order to log miles on them. I have every sympathy if his travel bugs have been taken previously, however the correct procedure would be to transfer the travel bug number onto another medium and release that or have them in your inventory so that you can log them as visiting caches you visit. I consider their statement and implication that I have stolen the travel bugs and their actions of falsely logging the travel bugs and accuse fellow cachers of repeatedly taking them in contravention of the terms and conditions of the use of this site. I am therefore reporting them for this abuse of this site.
Regards
GOG
