+bumblingbs Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Thanks, I hope this will be quick. I had a TB, a white Jeep, that I held for a long time, as I wasn't geocaching. I eventually handed it over to a person who said they were a fellow geocacher. Since then, I have reason to think that the TB may now be inactive. Well , ok, gone. Thankfully, it wasn't a personal TB. At any rate, I can't figure out if there is a way on my cache page to indicate the fact that it is likely out of circulation. I think I've seen this option before, but I can't seem to find it. Thanks~ KB Quote Link to comment
+WeightMan Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 If the TB is logged into a cache it is possible for the cache owner to mark it as missing. The TB owner can do it as well. I don't think the person shown as holding the bug can do that. On the TB page, on the right side under options is a pull down menu. The cache owner has it defaulted to Recalculate Distance. The TB owner has it default to Mark As Missing. Those may be where you saw this before. I did not see that option on the one bug I am currently holding. Quote Link to comment
+yumitori Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I think the Jeep travel bugs are 'officially' owned by Jeep, and I doubt they care whether it's listed as being in your hands or not. If you want it off your profile you could drop it in one of the travel bug graveyards <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?key=bug+graveyard&submit4=Find> or in an archived cache. Your local reviewer might be able to help you mark its location as 'unknown' as well. Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I've set the location of the White Jeep that was in your inventory to "unknown". Quote Link to comment
+bumblingbs Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 Thank you to all who responded; I appreciate the help. Maybe the TB will show up again, but in retrospect, it WAS an odd encounter. Not that I'm against odd encounters, but I don't usually lose TBs. ~Karen Quote Link to comment
+shunra Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 If the TB is logged into a cache it is possible for the cache owner to mark it as missing. The TB owner can do it as well. I don't think the person shown as holding the bug can do that. On the TB page, on the right side under options is a pull down menu. The cache owner has it defaulted to Recalculate Distance. The TB owner has it default to Mark As Missing. Those may be where you saw this before. I did not see that option on the one bug I am currently holding. If anyone runs into this kind of problem in the future, they could just "drop" the bug into one of their own caches, and then, as cache owners, they could declare it as missing. Quote Link to comment
+WeightMan Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Now why didn't I think of that. Good thought Shunra Quote Link to comment
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