Requests For Coin Activation Codes.

[+2Dolphins]

Hey everyone,

 

We have recently been inundated with email messages from people who have purchased or traded for Delaware Geocoins and were not given the coin activation number. Should we give these people the activation codes or do what we have been doing which is request that the original owner send us email requesting the code.

 

Our concern is one of security, what if someone sees a coin in someone’s collection, remembers the number and then asks us for the code to activate, how do we know they are legit?

 

I am just interested in everyone’s opinion on this, is this happening to everyone else who sold coins?

 

2Dolphins

[+AtlantaGal]

Send them the code. Y'all put the codes on the baggys, which get tossed a lot of the time.

 

I was able to pull off my stickers and attach them to the coin case OR rewrite them on another sticker and attach it to the coin case.

[+WWC-World's Worst Cacher]

Yep, give them the code, or what else are they gonna do. Not likely they are going to know the number on the coin unless it is in their possession.

[+welch]

Maybe you could offer to activate the coin and then use the adopt feature to send ownership to whoever?

[+Renegade Knight]

For future reference the code should either be on a site that will last a long time, or inside the coin bag/baggie with the coin itself. Not loose, Not taped (though that's better than loose) to the outside to be destroyed when some people tape all that to something else for misapplication of the Sissy shipping method.

 

I've got more than a few unactivated coins with no code, lost costs, codes on cards that are in the pile (but not with the coin) and so on. It gets to be a mess.

 

In your case I think your idea on Security is fair enough. You can be nice and send the code but the reason for the code to begin with is that a random person can't activate the coin.

Edited February 2, 2006 by Renegade Knight

[+Team Maddie UK]

In a lot of cases the coins go to clubs to be redistruted. There is no way of keeping track who got what number unless the person distributing them also has to keep a record and then ask on a members behalf. Yes I think you should give the numbers.

[+RustyBeerCan]

I like the ease of pulling up activation codes from web pages

like from HERE

 

the buyer does not have to save all the wrappers.

coin flips, the Cheapo wrapper that the coin flip was in, peice of cardboard, piece of bubblemailer it's stuck to, loose pieces of paper...ect

 

the shipper Wont have to sort and tag over 1000 individual coins

and reply to many many emails asking for activation codes

plus you wont be searching for activation codes 5 years from now.

 

I say give'm the activation code.

then use an activation code retrieval service if possible.