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    I've been doing this wrong the whole time?

    in General geocaching topics

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    Ever since my first caching experience in March 2004, I have apparently been caching the hard way.

     

    Well, two years, 3 GPS's, 250 smileys and a load of headaches, I finally figured out how to enter in the coords correctly with the GoTo button and the arrow and all that stuff. And it was from a topic in the Getting forums I read tonight that corrected me. Since I started, I had just gone to the page on my Magellan Explorist that showed the coords and matched them to the coords to the ones on the piece of paper. Apparently I could've made it much easier! :laughing:

     

    Oh Well. Does anybody else use my method?

     

    I admit, that's how we did it too for the first few weeks. I think it's kind of good, because it gives you sense of how the coord works, so now when the arrow is all a flitter, I can ignore it and just watch the numbers.

     

    We do things the easy way now though!

    Nutlady coin

    in Trackables

    Posted · Edited by coreynjoey

    This is shameless....but has no one else received my coin/s? I was pretty sure I sent coins to all that have paid..... Several havent, but I assume folks change their mind, or find somthing they like better, and heck, thats ok!

    Im pretty happy ( and surprised) by the turn about on these. There are several coins that folks asked for at the start......Ive sent emails for a pay pal addy , order info, etc. I will assume in a few weeks you are no longer interested. And thats fine.

    I did order enough to fill every "request". So if you dont have your coin soon, please contact me.

    And I feel REALLY bad about this....I went back through pages of emails.......I did a trade with someone for the coin and pin set that had children caching. Nice big coin, 3-D, trackable, coin came from I THINK Texas Geocaching Association, and was from a coin of the month type deal. If someone could please verify that, your coin and pin is ON the way.

    Sorry about this..the coin trades just got away from me. And I feel particularly bad about the trades I have gotten but not sent.

    Sandra

     

    I don't think I've received an invoice yet. I'll send you an email.

    At last! AT LAST! Muahahahahahah! :) :) :)

    in Trackables

    Posted

    It has been SUCH a long, strange road since hubby and I first decided that we wanted our geocaching signature item to be a coin. The first minting company we tried took forever and a day to deliver a very substandard sample coin, promised to refund our deposit, and then later refused to do so, effectively skunking us out of $300.

     

    The second minting company we chose took considerably less time to produce lovely mockup art and then a whole run of coins... which to our dismay weren't really what we wanted. However, unlike the first company (who I now liken to a sack of weasels), the second company convinced me to give the process a second chance, and produced a run of absolutely gorgeous coins in less than two weeks, for just the price of a new die and shipping on the coins.

     

    Result: I plan to sing the praises of AllAboutCoins at every geocaching event I attend for the next few years. :D:D:D

     

    Anyway, the practical upshot is that we now have 300 of these beauties: 25 gold-finished ones numbered FTF01-FTF25 to leave in our own caches, 75 silvery ones for the caches that we find really memorable or inspiring, and 200 copper-toned ones for the more ordinary sort of cache.

     

    CAVEAT: these coins not for sale, they're not for trade, they're just our sig items and we plan to stick one in every decent-sized cache we can find. :P We're going to place our first one somewhere this upcoming weekend, after I print out little cards to include with them that explain that whoever finds a coin gets to keep it.

     

    I absolutely can't wait to hear what people think of them when they start to be found! *insert happy dancing sort of icon here* It's been more than four months since we started the process; I'm so very glad that everything finally came together.

     

    GEOCOIN-new-final.jpg

     

    I'd love to find one of these! Hopefully you'll spread the love a little bit south!

    WSGA 2007 Geocoins

    in Northwest

    Posted

    Is this a solicitation for geocoins? Groundspead forum guidelines attached....

     

    http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?act=boardrules

     

    "Commercial Postings/Solicitations are not allowed. Commercial content as a direct or indirect (either intentional or non-intentional) attempt to solicit customers through a forum post will be edited or deleted. Notwithstanding the above, Groundspeak reserves the right to include limited commercial content in this Forum, in its sole discretion."

     

    Just asking everyone to follow the rules. Not trying to offend.

     

    I believe you can sell geocoins, at least in the geocoins forum, as long as they are trackable on geocaching.com, and since he's directed everyone to that thread, it should be fine.

    You Have Already Found This Cache!

    in Website

    Posted

    I think a red check mark somewhere near the top of the cache page would be nice. The same one that is on the cache search listing:

     

    check.gif

    :unsure:approval:mad:

    I would like that feature very much! [:o]

     

    This gets my vote too! I usually find a listing I want to do, load it up in Google Earth, and then look at the other caches nearby. I'm getting to the point where I can't remember if I did those caches or not, so then I have to look at the listing, click on show all logs, and scroll through the page looking for my log to see if I have done it or not.

     

    A nice simple checkmark at the top would make it sooo much easier!

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