Geocaching Trading Cards

[+GeoLobo]

Looking for others who have created Geocaching Trading Cards or who collect and trade.

Edited February 24, 2013 by Keystone

[+Manville Possum]

I only have one collector card, but I find it very interesting. It's part of geocaching history, and is very nice in detail. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=0266afaa-b1af-4926-a57d-af34f21bf119

I am interested in a personal geocaching card of my own to leave in geocaches as a sig item. I have seen others that look like business cards, but I'm more interested in the quality, detail, and copyright issues.

[+fbingha]

I would not be so enjoyed to find an advertisement of a book in a cache. That is not useful swag. Now, if you left the book.

 

GeoLobo, how do you keep trading cards from getting mangled in the cache? People rifle through caches so egregiously that cards surely get destroyed.

Edited February 20, 2013 by fbingha

[+Manville Possum]

 

GeoLobo, how do you keep trading cards from getting mangled in the cache? People rifle through caches so egregiously that cards surely get destroyed.

I do leave non-geocache related trading cards in geocaches for kids. I put them in the log book. I'm sure that we have all seen the "Hot Wheels" cars before, and there was a series of collector cards printed in Spanish and that was the target market. I enjoy custom vehicles, and worked for Cartamundi at the time. Many cards had flaws and were tossed into a recycle bin, and I ended up with a few.

My daughter also reminded me that we do have more geocaching collector cards, they were part of the Virginia State Parks wildlife series. Our Park system has it's own geocaching program.

[+lamoracke]

I have one from a friend of mine which came from FTFGeocacher.com and Icon Creative. Not bad looking as far as cards go.

[+jellis]

I found two cachers cards. Well one was actually handed to me. I was thinking about doing it, but I don't have the money to throw out there. I did back in 2008 have GeoTags that some cachers still have.

[+kunarion]

GeoLobo, how do you keep trading cards from getting mangled in the cache? People rifle through caches so egregiously that cards surely get destroyed.

If people don't want my trading card (if they beat it up inside the container), it may not matter what its condition is.

 

I've left cards inside cache log books as mentioned, and once placed a card in a bird house cache, within the bird house not in the jar container. My placed cards are in card-sized ziplock bags. They are subject to Cache Smash, but if you want a pristine card, get it before it's smashed, or trade up to a nicer one later.

[+murrayegger]

I imagine if you could make these durable enough to stand a bit of water and made them trackable their collectability would sky rocket.

[+kunarion]

I imagine if you could make these durable enough to stand a bit of water and made them trackable their collectability would sky rocket.

These would be pretty cool if printed on plastic like a credit card. But my card is highly collectible in any condition, of course.

[+whereisitnow!]

I collect these cards. The two I am seeing are Going caching cards 2013 - 2021 and FTF cards. If you have extras I would love to trade or cover your mailing cost.

 

[+whereisitnow!]

On 2/20/2013 at 7:06 AM, GeoLobo said:

Looking for others who have created Geocaching Trading Cards or who collect and trade.

I have going Caching Card #149 from 2021 Be happy to send to you. I am also FTF card #45 Did you make cards?