Grabbing

[+scanker]

I've come across this phrase a couple of times, sometimes in big capital letters, "NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR GRABBING". Can someone please explain what it means?

 

My understanding is that a coin or TB is "grabbed" if you remove it from a cache before the previous person who had it has logged it as being in the new cache. Is that correct?

 

If so, without checking the cache listing the instant before I access a cache, how do I know if I take a coin or TB if it's being "retrieved" or "grabbed".

 

Lastly, why would someone want to prevent "grabbing"? Is it because the true travelled distance would be measured incorrectly, i.e. missed a stop?

 

Thanks for your help.

[+Simply Paul]

It could be that the coin shouldn't be discovered by anyone who's not physically seen it at an event, or perhaps moved it from one cache to another.

 

Alternatively it might be that the coin stays with its owner now (maybe some of their others have vanished?) so it can only be discovered at events, and not grabbed from the owner, or out of caches.

 

So... 'No longer available for grabbing' is a bit vague really. But you knew that already

[+scanker]

Hmm. Not sure.

 

Here's the example I saw recently: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TBMJND

 

The other time I saw it, it was very similar. So these coins are in the wild and located in caches...?

[+calibri]

Hmm. Not sure.

 

Here's the example I saw recently: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TBMJND

 

The other time I saw it, it was very similar. So these coins are in the wild and located in caches...?

 

 

Simply Paul has probably got it about right.If you look at the example you gave it looks as though the coin was available for previews so to speak and has now been placed in a cache.

[+cacherelle]

Hmm. Not sure.

 

Here's the example I saw recently: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TBMJND

 

The other time I saw it, it was very similar. So these coins are in the wild and located in caches...?

I'm no expert, but if I came across that I would assume that it's not for removing anymore in that it's completed it's mission??? That one you show has been on the go since 2005 - maybe that's enough as far as the owners are concerned.

 

I'm guessing the only way to know for sure is by emailing the owners and asking them

[+perth pathfinders]

Sorry, have removed that line.

 

It may have been because some of my coins (not necessarily that one) were getting passed around without getting moved into a cache and think i was probably pi$$ed off at the time? (before the 'discovered' option was set up). - er I think??

 

Can't even remember myself now?? - was a long time ago now - memory lapse?

 

Thanks for pointing it out to me.

 

Sorry for any confusion.

 

[+scanker]

Thanks for clearing that up. I've just realised it was on one of your other coins (Michigan) that I saw this previously.