Andys101 & Redfrock

we've not been getting them either

alas i have just lost one too - and mine was just a tiny lock n lock box. they took the box, the log book and the Tb but left the calling cards and a couple of other bits, and this particulat cache is in a very obscure place - you would be unlikely to notice it if passing by - as it is a bit of a climb LOL but still it went. I am of the same opinion, do I archive, and not bring people to a beautiful place or do I try again and hope the miserable bums have forgotten about it

And so it goes on ..... still no movement, still not placed in a cache I know it is the taking part that counts but at this moment in time I don't even feel like I am taking part! They can't say they don't know this coins mission .... I attached a laminated card to it, and the link is on its homepage

Thanet - 200 caches = 8 coins = 4% BUT ... its a 40 mile radius to get 200 caches from here

Did you send them an email explaining that this coin is not a keeper and to please release it? I put it on a rather large laminated card which I attached to it! But I will be sending this cacher an email. Thing is I don't want to sound like I am being a pain!

7 people have now grabbed or discovered my coin and are posting it between each other! Why???? This has been going on for 10 days! So it has done next to no mileage and visited only 2 caches! Don't think this coin is going to get very far!

How many have been released this way? Its such a great idea, we've just ordered a second one!

mine has been 'grabbed' or 'discovered' by 5 different people now without being moved

1. 01/01/00 – 29/07/02 2. 30/07/02 – 29/03/03 3. 30/03/03 – 18/08/03 4. 19/08/03 – 23/01/04 5. 24/01/04 – 19/04/04 6. 20/04/04 – 26/06/04 7. 27/06/04 – 03/09/04 8. 22/08/04 – 26/11/04 9. 27/11/04 – 05/02/05 10. 06/02/05 – 23/03/05 11. 24/03/05 – 21/04/05 12. 22/04/05 – 21/05/05 13. 22/05/05 – 04/07/05 14. 05/07/05 – 13/08/05 15. 14/08/05 – 19/09/05 16. 20/09/05 – 28/10/05 17. 29/10/05 – 11/12/05 18. 12/12/05 - 21/01/06 19. 22/01/06 – 15/02/06 20. 16/02/06 – 14/03/06 21. 15/03/06 – 09/04/06 22. 10/04/06 - 28/04/06 23. 29/04/06 -

Mine are all drilled & tags attached but have still had one go missing. However I mustn't say anymore as I have already been told off in a thread I opened that i was apparently flogging a dead horse

Congratulations

Huh? This topic has been discussed beyond belief. well I'm sorry you feel like that, but I felt this was the appropriate place to raise the matter and possibly learn something, and maybe I haven't had the opportunity to read such a thread before.

I must admit I am at a total loss as to why people feel the need to keep somebody elses property. I can understand that coins might go missing if a cache is muggled but other than that I am stunned. As you can probably tell, one of my coins has been stolen, for want of a better word and now I am worried about releasing my other coins. I didn't buy them to keep but to release and watch their journeys. I had done everything I thought necessary to make the coin unattractive to collectors. I 'defaced' it by drilling a hole through it and attaching a very specific message about what it was and it's mission, but it would seem this wasn't sufficient. The cache wasn't muggled - it is in a very well hidden spot, and when I finally got to the cache 2 months after my friend had placed there, in the hope of retrieving it and getting it moving, the cache was safe, as was all its contents. It was just my coin that had gone, and no mention in the log book that it had been retreived. Unfortunately 2 other cachers coins were stolen within a 4 mile radius of this cache at around the same time. The area is fairly local to us, and there are not a huge amoung of cachers in the area. So if defacing the coin isn't going to stop somebody, then what is? And just what makes these people tick??? Moan over. edited for spelling

clicking on the recalculate button (if they are yours) will sort it out

and sorry to go on but what is even more interesting is that mine, multitrackers and walkergeoffs coins were all pinched from caches in a 4 mile radius in the Medway area.

Well, that'll teach me for being cocky. My EU coin 'Full Circle' didn't even managed to move on from the crawling stage. My good buddy LMN put it into a relatively local cache and that was it, never to be moved again. Today I decided to go there and pick it up as it had been there too long, and lo and behold, no coin and no mention as to who stole retreived it. Just what use is a coin with a hole and a mission tag attached to someone other than the owner?????

thanks for such prompt responses - we'll give it a go tonight.

technophobe here once again! Hubby bought a laptop today, mainly for his bits and bobs but we will be taking it with us when we go camping because then we can check cache pages etc while away, rather than looking on my Palm Vx and realising that I don't have the necessary pics, poems, etc etc So, the question is, am I able to run my Gsak program from both my home computer and my laptop. i'm not worried about internet connection just yet, I just want to be able to sit in the caravan the night before planning the following days caches from the offline info, and then of course bookmarking them on my palm for when I go out.

that is a really interesting bit of info! Thanks for that Am shocked at the amount of drop outs though...how could anyone ever lose their passion for caching?

we're going to try and come but are at a christening but seeing as it is best buddy Naughty's birthday the day before, we think we ought and I'd have liked to meet you, since you're a HO too!!! the feeling is most mutual Hazel ;-) we could have compared notes about all this restricting red tape that they keep putting in place maybe another time

we're going to try and come but are at a christening but seeing as it is best buddy Naughty's birthday the day before, we think we ought

bumping one last time, just in case, as we set off tomorrow (cannot come soon enough!)

I'm slowly releasing all of mine - after all as much as some are pretty (sorry such a girly thing to say ) and they are all nice and shiny, I'm not quite sure what I would do with them if they were sat at home in a box. They would just be more clutter - geoclutter admittedly, but clutter all the same. So they have all been drilled and tagged, so that nobody can honestly say they didn't know what to do with them. I would hope the only risk of them going missing was if they were put in a cache that was muggled etc, but alas I think that is rather naive of me (although quite what someone would do with an activated geocoin with a hole drilled in it is beyond me). BUT - I am very selective in the ones I buy - I am not a icon freak ... and these days they are working out not much dearer than a travel bug, particularly once you have bought something to attach to the bug. R

Thanks for the ideas - don't think we shall be able to get the meet as we shall have only just arrived which is a shame. Looks like there are some good ones that we shall be making a point of doing

Coins already to go, laminated card attached, will be putting in the post Tuesday at the latest! (its a 4 day bank holiday here in the UK )