How to log a cache crate trackable?

[+TheGrey]

I found a trackable in a geocache says it's from cache crate. It has a CCxxxx code on it, but no TB code. When I search for the CC code on geocaching.com it can't find it. Anyone know how I'm supposed to log this?

[+Max and 99]

What happens when you put the CC number in?

[+TheGrey]

7 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

What happens when you put the CC number in?

It returns a message of "We were unable to find a listing in the system."

[+Hügh]

Presumably you need to activate it.

[+kunarion]

33 minutes ago, TheGrey said:

It returns a message of "We were unable to find a listing in the system."

 

This is something best asked in the Help Center.

 

Sometimes there are letters and numbers in a Tracking Code that are confusing.  0 looking like O, stuff like that.

 

While you wait, information may be useful.

Which cache did you find it in?

Is it obviously brand new, never traveled cache-to-cache?  Is there a cache log mentioning placing a coin that cannot be tracked?  Was a photo of it posted?

 

Edited August 18, 2024 by kunarion

[+TheGrey]

30 minutes ago, kunarion said:

 

This is something best asked in the Help Center.

 

Sometimes there are letters and numbers in a Tracking Code that are confusing.  0 looking like O, stuff like that.

 

While you wait, information may be useful.

Which cache did you find it in?

Is it obviously brand new, never traveled cache-to-cache?  Is there a cache log mentioning placing a coin that cannot be tracked?  Was a photo of it posted?

 

 

Thanks, I've tried it with both a 0 and O with same results. Based on the cache inventory, I think it may be this TB that has been activated and traveling around for a while:

 

https://coord.info/TBAD8MQ

 

However, that TBAD8MQ code is no where on the actual TB.

[+Max and 99]

My cache crate trackable starts with a CC. I'm convinced that's how you need to log it.

[+Tungstène]

3 hours ago, TheGrey said:

It returns a message of "We were unable to find a listing in the system."

This is definitely NOT the message you should see when entering your CCxxxx code in the search box of https://www.geocaching.com/track/

[+TheGrey]

19 minutes ago, Tungstène said:

This is definitely NOT the message you should see when entering your CCxxxx code in the search box of https://www.geocaching.com/track/

 

Thanks everyone for the help! Using the https://www.geocaching.com/track/ link brought me to the trackable page!

 

I was using this page to search for it: https://www.geocaching.com/track/search.aspx?k=xxxxx

 

For whatever reason the search on the first link works and the search on the second link doesn't.

 

Edited August 18, 2024 by TheGrey

[+Tungstène]

Please edit your reply and remove the tracking code we can read at the end of the link.

 

 

Edit: your second link is the one you use when your first search entry is not a tracking code (having misread an o instead of a zero, for example). The new form that then appears is known NOT to give you a second chance to enter it correctly.

Edited August 18, 2024 by Tungstène

[+TheGrey]

2 minutes ago, Tungstène said:

Please edit your answer and erase the tracking code we can read at the end of the link.

 

Good call out! Done.

[+Tungstène]

 I edited my previous answer in order to explain what you were facing.

[+kunarion]

5 hours ago, Tungstène said:

Please edit your reply and remove the tracking code we can read at the end of the link.

 

 

Edit: your second link is the one you use when your first search entry is not a tracking code (having misread an o instead of a zero, for example). The new form that then appears is known NOT to give you a second chance to enter it correctly.

 

Yes.  If the Trackable search fails, you're presented with the failure message where no Tracking Code will ever succeed.  When this happens, I always need to remember to start over on the Trackable search page.

 

Edited August 19, 2024 by kunarion
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[+kunarion]

3 hours ago, TheGrey said:

 

Thanks everyone for the help! Using the https://www.geocaching.com/track/ link brought me to the trackable page!

 

I was using this page to search for it: https://www.geocaching.com/track/search.aspx?k=xxxxx

 

For whatever reason the search on the first link works and the search on the second link doesn't.

 

 

Yeah, that's the way it in fact works.  But I always forget that. 

[+Max and 99]

I'm very disappointed to see that someone is discovering this trackable just because of the forum discussion. 

[+RCH65]

On 8/19/2024 at 2:32 AM, kunarion said:

 

Yes.  If the Trackable search fails, you're presented with the failure message where no Tracking Code will ever succeed.  When this happens, I always need to remember to start over on the Trackable search page.

 

 

Yes... one of the nasty traps on this site - has existed since the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 (back then, the site was entirely made of mahogany wood)