Help....can't pick up a geocoin

[+The Slaughter Family]

I have 'in error' picked up a geocoin the other day. I have tried and tried to pick it up from geocaching.com, but without success.....any help to solve this is appreciated. Many thanks

 

[+longwayround]

I have 'in error' picked up a geocoin the other day. I have tried and tried to pick it up from geocaching.com, but without success.....any help to solve this is appreciated. Many thanks

 

 

Do you have a tracking number for the coin?

[+The Blorenges]

I have 'in error' picked up a geocoin the other day. I have tried and tried to pick it up from geocaching.com, but without success.....any help to solve this is appreciated. Many thanks

 

 

The first response with these sorts of problems is always, "Have you misread the O for a zero, the Z for a two, the S for a five?" etc etc...

 

MrsB

[+ivanidea]

I have had this problem on some of the coins I have picked up, which have extra digits after the tracking number.

 

Just enter the first group of characters (usually 6).

 

If that still does not work, try contacting the owner or previous finder for advice (assuming the coin is still listed at the cache).

 

Ivan

[+The Slaughter Family]

will get the details

 

I have copied and pasted the id no from the webpage

[+The Slaughter Family]

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...52-c49b566ff696

 

this is the coin

[+The Blorenges]

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...52-c49b566ff696

 

this is the coin :D

 

O.K.

 

I can only suggest trying possible variations of the geocoin's tracking number, as suggested in my post#3 above. If you want to email me the number (as it appears to you) I'll have a go at working out what it could be.

 

MrsB

Edited August 27, 2008 by The Blorenges

[+The Blorenges]

I've just had a quick look at your profile and I see that you haven't had any dealings with geocoins before

 

You must use the number actually on the coin itself to log it, not that reference number on the geocoin's page (i.e. not TB1TQ40).

 

Go to the geocoin's page, then top right side click on "Found it? Log it!". In the drop-down, select the "Retrieved from..." option. In the box "Travel Bug Tracking #" you must put the number which is on the geocoin . Then add any comments and click "Submit Log Entry".

 

Hope this might help!

 

MrsB

[+The Slaughter Family]

I've just had a quick look at your profile and I see that you haven't had any dealings with geocoins before

 

You must use the number actually on the coin itself to log it, not that reference number on the geocoin's page (i.e. not TB1TQ40).

 

Go to the geocoin's page, then top right side click on "Found it? Log it!". In the drop-down, select the "Retrieved from..." option. In the box "Travel Bug Tracking #" you must put the number which is on the geocoin . Then add any comments and click "Submit Log Entry".

 

Hope this might help!

 

MrsB

 

Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You

 

That did it.........simple when you know how.......learning something new all the time. Many thanks all for the help