What is a fair trade for...

[+Warturtle]

a Travel Bug or a GeoCoin? Today I found my first TB, and I traded a magazine for it... is that fair?

[Motorcycle_Mama]

Traded it with whom?

 

In a cache, GeoCoins and TravelBugs are not trade items. They are travelers and are meant to move from cache to cache. If you take one from a cache, you do not need to leave anything in its place.

 

Or are you saying that you traded the coin for a magazine with another person.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

Trackable items, Travel Bugs and geocoins are not trade items.

There is no requirement to trade, as they aren't yours to keep. You need to move them on.

Anything else in the cache (aside from the logbook and pen/pencil) are trade items.

 

Good reading here: http://www.geocaching.com/track/travelbugfaq.aspx

 

EDIT: As a sidenote, you should also log at Invest Wisely cache (GC1NFV4), as well as retrieving the TB from it.

Edited July 12, 2010 by Gitchee-Gummee

[+Warturtle]

Oh, ok, I guess I just restocked the cache, then!

[+Brooklyn51]

Oh, ok, I guess I just restocked the cache, then!

 

Absolutely nothing wrong with doing that. I wish more cachers would.

Edited July 13, 2010 by Brooklyn51

[+lachupa]

I always leave something even if I don't take anything. Karma and all.

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

I always leave something even if I don't take anything. Karma and all.

Excellent!

 

As in all of life there is no hard-and-fast rule to geocoin trades.

 

ACTIVATED geocoins are usually travelers, with or without a stated mission. Don't keep an activated coin without permission of the owner.

 

If you see that it is logged into the cache it is activated, since unactivated coins can't be logged.

 

If it is not logged into the cache run the geocoin number through the trackable search engine at http://www.geocaching.com/track/default.aspx

 

UNactivated geocoins are usually trade items. Unless it is specified you likely won't know which is the case at the cache site unless the unactivated coin is in packaging with an activation code or otherwise so marked.

 

Loose geocoins without packaging are almost always activated travelers.

 

If you are not sure if it is activated or not leave something equal as a trade (most geocoins are worth around $8, mine cost me $12). When you get home if it proves to be activated move it along and look at what you traded as a nice trade or gift to the cacher who will find it.

 

If it is unactivated you can move it, trade it or keep it.

Edited July 13, 2010 by TheAlabamaRambler

[+Warturtle]

I always leave something even if I don't take anything. Karma and all.

Same here, except less for karma, and more for not having to lug it all the way back