+mikemtn Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Is there any way to know how many Travel Bug Dog Tags there are out there? I have a few of them that are in the 200's, as in TB213. Does this mean this was the 213th one made? Is the number in the address line the number it was activated as? I have more questions than answers. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Is there any way to know how many Travel Bug Dog Tags there are out there? I have a few of them that are in the 200's, as in TB213. Does this mean this was the 213th one made? Is the number in the address line the number it was activated as? I have more questions than answers. From what I've noticed there was some early collation in terms of the reference number, but not the tracking number. With the addition of coins, jeeps, UFD, etc, you'd need a computer to tell you where something like TB1AW9X fell in the rotation. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) Your TB214 has a URL of http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=532 Which would suggest that it's #532. I don't know for a fact that this is a correct inference; that 532 = trackable issue number, but I'd bet 20 quatloos that it is. TB codes use both letters and number so it there would be TB21A, TB21B TB21C TB21D etc. When I fool with the number based trackable URL I see trackables out to 5,000,000+ http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=5080000 The Travel Bug you requested does not exist in the system. But 5070000 does exist; so somewhere between 5,070,000 and 5,080,000 tracking numbers have been issued. Edited June 13, 2013 by Isonzo Karst Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 You'd think they could lower the price a bit. Quote Link to comment
+mikemtn Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Thanks. So numbers in the 500's are really low numbers. I know I got them soon as I could after they started selling them. Quote Link to comment
+palmetto Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Yes, I'd call that a really early TB. The earliest TBs not in the hands of one of the Groundspeak founders belong to assorted Virginians who attended a geocaching breakfast in Manassas VA where some were sold prior to their being publicly available and announced on geocaching.com. The first TBs sold through the site to the general public (not to Lackeys) start at ~ #40. Quote Link to comment
+EXMAN Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 You'd think they could lower the price a bit. +1 Quote Link to comment
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