Tooeygeotrashed
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Yes I sent email after six months, which I figured was not exactly harrassing after so long a time. I did get a reply with apologies and excuses and a promise to move the coin on the next day and I would get an email with an update in addition to the log entry - nothing happened. I did email again after that but have had no reply.
I can understand the policy regarding privacy when there could be some ambiguity regarding events - but not when the facts are a matter of record on geocaching.com
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Why should coin nappers receive the protection of anonymity by Groundspeak rules. If members are not prepared to play the game fairly why can't others be warned not to place game pieces within their area. I have a coin racing to Australia which has not moved since April, I won the cointest by the way and received a fabulous Compass Rose Gold 2006 Geocoin. But -- the race is still on and I promised the coin I am racing to the owner of the cache it is headed to, so not only is my game being spoilt but so is my 'competitors' - sadly I don't think his coin has made it out of Australia yet
Log entries are accessible, member profiles can be viewed et cetera, so anyone with an interest could actually see who is 'holding' my coin - so why are there rules about not naming names.
Name and shame I say - what say you.
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Brilliant concept - hopefully with everyone's help there will be one place to find information on coins. I hope to make a contribution soon.
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I thought the 'What's in your mailbox' referred to what had arrived in the post, as in USPS, Royal Mail kinda post. Not a forum post
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Post edited. Wrong forum.
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I ordered a set via website, any idea of when these might get shipped?
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Type of coin - World Travel Geocoin
Date of Drop - December 2nd 2007
State of Drop - Virginia
County - Patrick County
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And just sometimes an experienced cacher logs the retrieve, acknowledges the coins mission and an agreement to help it on its way and then sits on it, and has done for over six months, ignores my emails (3) with the exception of one reply - which contains an apology and says the coin will be moved tomorrow and be logged and an email will be sent - and nothing. Go figure. In future any coins I send out - whatever their mission - I will ask that they are NOT taken to ALASKA.
Education is not the answer, it doesn't take a committee member of mensa to work out how to log a coin, or what to do if you find one and never saw one before. Heck - if you can use a GPSR and you got logged onto geocaching.com you can work out what to do with a trackable, saying folks don't know is baloney.
Like most things in life, there are the few that spoil it for the majority. I am a great believer in what goes around comes around and they will get their just deserts at the end of the day.
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Picked an Ivy leaf and used my fingernail to mark out my initial, then made teeny little tear in page to thread the stem through. Will return to log properly though.
Don't worry folks across the Pond, Scottish Ivy isn't like Poison Ivy over there
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It's not always newbies that get it wrong, I released a coin in February that was in a race, it covered almost 5,000 miles by April, then it was picked up and nothing happened for months. I sent a couple of emails to the cacher that made the retrieve but got no response. I finally got an email yesterday with apologies, my coin had been 'forgotten' about, my emails had been diverted into a Spam folder. It was just an unfortunate set of circumstances, if someone has a huge inventory of coins it is going to be relatively easy to miss seeing that a coin 'in the hand' has not been moved on. The coin had physically been passed to someone else and was only recently returned into the hands of the cacher who retrieved it in April - even that part I find confusing because there have been no discovery logs. Anyway I am told that the coin will be moved on shortly.
The other coins that I have lost have been my own fault, inexperience in placing caches, they were muggled and I don't believe they were taken for the coins, I believe they were too visible.
It is dissapointing to 'lose' coins, but if you dropped a fifty dollar note on the floor of the shopping mall, no one is going to rush home and log on to Where's George. If you put coins out in the wild you have to be prepared to lose them. If you decide not to play that game then you lose out on the fun that can be derived from seeing where your coins go.
We all make mistakes, some are deliberate, only bad Karma can come to folks who are mean enough to spoil the game for others.
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glitch caused double post
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I would love to participate - if you receive any of these coins and would like them to see Scotland send them this way
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Do you have any of these coins left ??
IF possible I would like one in each finish, let me know if this is possible. Thanks
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There is a book all about it,
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if you spend anytime in wild places Kathleen Meyer’s International Bestseller How to s*** in the Woods is down to earth & informative about how to relieve yourself without harming yourself or the environment.
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