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Thanks to all who submitted offers, I am currently working with one cacher to take all the coins

Thanks to all who submitted offers, I am currently working with one cacher to take all the coins

I have decided to thin the herd on my collection, most of my coins are 5-10 years old and unactivated GC.com trackables. I would prefer to sell in batches with the second batch being general coins (I think 62 coins and trackable tags in this batch): 10yr T-Shirt 2006 COMPASS ROSE 2007 COMPASS ROSE 2007 COMPASS ROSE ANTHUS LAPTOP Arizona Geocachers BONOBO CACHE BUDDY Cachnoids Cachnoids Cachnoids Cachnoids Cash Geocoin CHERRY CITY CACHERS CHERRY CITY CACHERS Equator EU EURO CACHE FOUND FROZEN BONE GEO JELLY, GO JAYBE Geocoin Fest - Oregon Geocoin Fest - Oregon Geocoin Fest - Oregon Geocoin Fest - Oregon Geocoin Fest - Oregon Geocoin Fest - Thank you Geogold GRAND CANYON Groundspeak Lacky 2009 Groundspeak Lacky 2009 Groundspeak Lacky 2009 Groundspeak Lacky 2009 Ham Radio Highly Addictive JungleHair Karma Karma Magic 8-Ball, Blue Magic 8-Ball, Blue Magic 8-Ball, Green Maritime Monopoly MT HOOD TERRITORY Nero Ontario Beaver Piranha Radiation symbol Ranger 216 Train Ranger 216 Train Ranger 216 Train Ranger 216 Train Signal Jan'06 SLAB Spinning Surfboard Surfboard Tie-Dyed TIKI TIME MICRO TWO CACHE USA 2005 USA 2006 USA 2006 USA 2006 USA 2006 USA 2006 If you are interested, email offers to cacher@n45.us. I will decide on an offer by Saturday morning 6/17/17.

I have decided to thin the herd on my collection, most of my coins are 5-10 years old and unactivated GC.com trackables. I would prefer to sell in batches with the first batch being navigation related: Hogwild Compass Hogwild Compass Mariner's Astrolabe Mariner's Astrolabe Nocturnal Nocturnal Quadrant SUNDIAL SUNDIAL If you are interested, email offers to cacher@n45.us. I will decide on an offer by Saturday morning 6/17/17.

I completely agree with Mudfrog, and I really do not need another way to ignore the herd. I think a better solution would be to allow us to designate within our profile our contact methods

If you can get out to Oregon, I highly recommend GC17. It is close to the original stash and another oldie GC12. At this time of the year, it probably will not be available again until May or June due to snow and most people do it in conjunction with a trip to the lilypad in Seattle for a blockparty in the summer. The hike is nice with wonderful views of Mt Hood.

They moved to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/OregonSAGA/

Yes, the cache may actually be moving. I was in contact with a couple of cachers and it should be in the wild again sometime this year!!! whoo hoo. I needed a holding place for the cache so people won't go looking and get disappointed; so i normally dump it about 100 miles from land. Although, I used to be a submarine officer and it did go submerged for a month or so with a buddy.

Wow, it is strange to see two of my caches listed in the same forum; one rated too high and one rated too low. For the keep it moving cache - this cache has been everywhere. From submerged hides requiring scuda gear, to near the top of Mt Fuji (I took it to both places myself) and if you really want to get into difficulty try to figure out where pablomac left it. This can certainly rate a 5/5... difficulty five as you have to catch it and terrain five as it can be anywhere. Yes it does get old that it mostly gets passed from person to person at events and i have been it correspondence with the recent finders to get it back out in the field and to "keep it moving". But it is only a game, which is my primary philosophy for geocaching, and people like playing with what is unique. There are several other moving caches around so go find one if you like...I currently know of one about 10 miles from my house that is waiting to find a park. But if you are concerned that "Keep it Moving" is overrated for D/T and has become pocket lint, get off the computer and go find a cache...I would recommend GC17 as it is a beautiful hike and only rated 1/2.5.

There have already been a few oregon geocoins...shoot me a email with an address and i will see what I have

I recently upgraded to IE9, and now when trying to modify a PQ for caches along a route, the sliders are missing for "search radius" (distance to either side of track) and "show me" (total caches shown). I am basically ending up with PQ showing only 1 cache.

Or that the cache owner is now caching under a new name

I am lucky to live in Oregon and have done GC12, GC16, GC17 (which I adopted in 2007) plus been to the sites of Dave ulmer's first two caches.

how about $50

I was doing a few handmade in various shapes http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=2220976

email sent on the Baileys Nippon

Petitioning may not work but $ talk and this is one reason for me to not renew my membership.

Trade a handmade for a hand made?

email sent

Huh? What game are you playing that has not had a problem or complaint? What is truely amazing is how few complaints there are. The reviewers have a tough time and need enough information about your cache to make a decision on posting it. The more complex or unusual the cache is, the more information they will need. The easiest answer can be to post a detailed note to the reviewers when you create you cache listing. It's a little more work up front that can save time later, although the cache may still be disapproved if it does not meet placement guidelines.

The not another micro should be oakcoins (http://www.oakcoins.com/activate/num.htm), the DNF I did not think was trackable...does it have a 6 digit code on it or just a 3 digit serial number?

You start to see why some other options like pathtags (50 for about $100) are becomming more popular and why so geocachers do pre-orders to judge demand for their coins. It seems like you have to be fairly well established in the game to do a coin on your own or at least with your own money. I have been involved in several different batches of coins. My first 2 coins were not trackable and cost about $350 per 100 coins including dies. The next batch should have been cheaper except the manufacturer (in Korea) had issues and I had to go with a new vendor (in China, and new dies) for about $550 for 100 trackable. For the local geocaching group the first batch was about $2.80/coin untrackable dropping to $1.67/coin for the second/third batch. At this price, several showed up in local caches, but most were bought as traders. My past few coins I have worked directly with manufacturers in china...not something I recommend unless you are willing to live with possible problems. For my latest batch i went low cost trackable (see TB2VAY0)...I bought tracking codes from Groundspeak for $1.50/each and I am hand creating them from brass or aluminum stock (although low melting point allows like cerotru are a good option). This last coin is turning out to be the most fun and the lowest initial outlay. $150 for 100 codes, $9 for Al stock, and $5 for a set of letter punches from harbor freight (I already had a dremal tool and engraving bits). The nice thing about this option is: In less then a week I went from concept to coin in hand with tracking numbers; I can go non-trackable SI for under $0.25 and produce them at a rate of about 5/hr; I can change design easily (Groundspeak design approval is not difficult and they have already approved 4 different designs); or if one goes missing from a cache I can always re-use the number. A few year back, people complained about coins costing over $5, now $8-10+ seems the norm. I wanted a low cost option as very few caches seem to rate a $8-$10 trade item. Alternatively, if you are concerned of cost and want a small batch then think of other items that could be made as signature items. If you want trackable, then engrave or attach a TB/coin tracking number.

It's showing a generic icon???

I like this idea...but how about groundtalk.gs?

Sorry, I was looking at the initial objective "a united effort to improve the guidelines, FAQ, rules and ethics of Geocoining." That looks like part of the game to me. Is the real issue the market for geocoins? There has been a lot of questionable products for a while and where you have money being exchanged you will attract questionable persons. It will be difficult for the initial objectives as stated to resolve either of these.