We have several geocoins that were purchased from an online auction site.
The coins are all unactivated and trackable on Geocaching.com.
We have retrieved activation codes from geocaching.com in the past, but recently our attempts during the past two weeks have resulted in an error message stating that we have exceeded the hourly limit for code retrieval. Not sure how many tries per hour are allowed, but we have certainly not reached the limit as we try one time every few days.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, I would like to drop these coins on an upcoming trip!