+Chipper3 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I have a travel bug that still shows in a cache but it is looooong gone with no logging by whoever took it. It has been several months. How to I mark the TB as missing. How mark so it no longer shows as being present in the cache. dan Link to comment
+kunarion Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 See if this is what you want: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=41&pgid=397 1 Link to comment
+colleda Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Some spoiled kid may have found your Forest Fairy too cute to resist. Link to comment
+Chipper3 Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 17 hours ago, kunarion said: See if this is what you want: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=41&pgid=397 Thank you, Just what I needed. I was failing to find the "accept" button. Link to comment
+Chipper3 Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 7 hours ago, colleda said: Some spoiled kid may have found your Forest Fairy too cute to resist. Yes, I am sure that Rosey Pinecone is now part of a collection somewhere. And she had such a great mission! =( I will try again with a new Bug Link to comment
+niraD Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 8 hours ago, colleda said: Some spoiled kid may have found your Forest Fairy too cute to resist. Not long after I started geocaching, I was told that the trick is to attach a TB tag to something that is interesting enough to encourage people to take photos of it as it travels, but not so cute that someone (especially kids) will want to keep it. Link to comment
+TeamRabbitRun Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 (edited) 40 minutes ago, niraD said: Not long after I started geocaching, I was told that the trick is to attach a TB tag to something that is interesting enough to encourage people to take photos of it as it travels, but not so cute that someone (especially kids) will want to keep it. So, to test this, I attached a tag to something SO uninteresting that I thought nobody would swipe it. This was back in 2014. I even put a note on it asking people what they thought it was as kind of a fun thing. "Email me your guess!," I said. A friend of mine picked it up (before I new her IRL!) and she pondered what it was in her log. She dumped it into another local cache in a rest stop on the New York State Thruway, and two weeks later it was gone; the CO marked it as missing. Ah, well. You can put a tag on a broken piece of plastic and somebody will, um, 'collect' it. https://coord.info/TB6J2Y7 Edited January 30 by TeamRabbitRun Link to comment
+Chipper3 Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 1 hour ago, niraD said: Not long after I started geocaching, I was told that the trick is to attach a TB tag to something that is interesting enough to encourage people to take photos of it as it travels, but not so cute that someone (especially kids) will want to keep it. I have lost every TB that I have put out. Sometime they go a few miles and then poof! I even tried the TB "Hotels." I think that, at the end of the day, people just don't pay much attention and/or don't know the "soul" of the activity. Maybe the equivalent of Trolls who just misbehave for the entertainment value. End of Rant Link to comment
Keystone Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 As the technical "How do I...?" question on marking trackables missing has been answered, I am closing this thread. Anyone wishing to discuss the root causes of missing trackables is invited to bump one of the many threads on this subject in the Travel Bug forum section. 1 Link to comment
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