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  1. OK...

     

    The tracking number of any trackable item (travel bug, travel tag, geocoin) is the "magic" number that allows cachers to log a discovery on the item, or to move it out of / into caches - i.e. move it around the world.

     

    I think most trackable owners want their item to receive real logs from people who have genuinely seem the real item, not simply a photograph of it somewhere on line.

     

    There are cachers for whom numbers are everything and they'll actively search on-line photos of trackables to glean visible tracking numbers, and then use them to make "fake" discovery logs and sometimes the numbers get put onto list which are then circulated around among other geocachers who can also log the items etc etc... ad infinitum. If you want to refer to a trackable in a log, or forum post, or some other public place, then you can either mention it by name or use its public reference number, the one that starts with TB*****, and this can be found near the top of every trackable's home page.

     

    You can delete the photo that you posted, erase the tracking number with a bit of photographic photoshop sorcery, then re-post the santized pic. ;)

     

    Read a bit more about it on this topic:

     

    Please do not post tracking numbers online!

     

    MrsB :)

     

    Thanks mrs B, will do

  2. I got an email today from a member saying

     

    "You have posted pictures that clearly show the tracking code. That is supposed to be secret, only known by somebody who actually has the trackable in their possession

     

    I am 5000 miles away I could post a log or "virtualy" grab it from you. It doesn't happen alot but that is why on the Travel bug page the TB also has a reference code"

     

    I was aware I had taken photos incorrectly

     

    I would like to try and understand what I did wrong and why, how could someone grab the trackable from a photo?

     

    I am sorry if I made a noob mistake

     

    Sarah x

  3. Thanks everybody.

     

    I plan on going caching in the city today and I stocled up with a few items to leave.

     

    I find myself obsessed with geocoins, i browse shops, i have two coins ordered and I bid on one from USA

     

    Its a eagle with wings.

     

    Geocaching has brought happiness and fun in to my life.

    Every day could be a cache seeking day, I aim to sign several hundred before I go away for surgey in several months time.

     

    When I am safely back and recovered I will start again.

     

    I really do want to say a great big thank you to the great people of geocaching. I believe it brings a lot of people fun and happiness, great for people of all ages.

     

    I will be reccomending geocaching to people I know.

  4. I don't know about the coin above but with regards to the coins in the UK I have seen a couple of actual coins set free into the caches but lots of them don't last long... too pretty.

    my coins stay with me. too pretty to chance them getting stolen. I had an earthday coin that went to all my logged caches to count up my miles until i reached cache 100. then i switched to a 100 achievement coin and that will probably change to another one once i get to 200. :)

     

    I would love to set one free, have my lucky charm travel the world, but wonder if it would get lost along the way

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    I am new here and new to geocaching, I have no geocoins of my own yet, I keep coming across Suncompass Geocoin Gold

    can anyone tell me more about the Suncompass Geocoin Gold geocoin?

     

    how hard are they to find in the uk?

     

    once you get a geocoin you have purchased, do you hang on to it, travel and log it or do you put in a geocache and watch it travel?

    also how common is it for a geocoin to make it to its destination and back to owner?

     

    sorry for the noob questions. I like the idea of geocoins

     

    I plan on getting a geocookie online soon as well as a Suncompass if I can find one

  6. I have a Iphone 4, a nokia lumia windows phone and an android device,

     

    Why do I have to pay £6.99 for the geocache app for each device?

     

    should you not be able to buy it, and then get a download link for cross platform like iphone, windows mobile and android? or get 1 copy for each of your devices.

     

    Iv paid for the app for my iphone, iv paid for premium membership, I dont really want to pay another two times.

     

    6.99 x 4 is not cheap

  7. Hi my name is Sarah, I am 29 F and I am new to geocaching.

    I started today by getting the paid app and membership, found my first cache today

    I managed to find 1 out of 4 which was cool.

     

    got some geocoins coming soon

     

    the plan is to travel well, cache hard, explore and share and I hope to start my first geocache in the near future.

     

    I have 1 Suncompass Geocoin Antique Gold and also a Geocookie Geocoin.

     

    The suncompass I aim to leave somewhere in the uk before I go away

    The cookie will be the most traveled, that will travel to Thailand and back before it gets released in to the wild

     

    geocaching I find is a fun way to get in shape, get outdoors, and it brightens up a rainy day

     

    Thank you

     

    Sarah x x x

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