Why would someone be "watching" my trackables / travel bugs?

[+Anthony_Jillian]

I searched through the forum but couldn't find an answer for this.

I'm wondering why someone would be "watching" my trackables / travel bugs? I could understand someone watching their own trackables. Several of my trackables being watched are also MIA. Does anyone have any insight? Is there any way to see who it is that is watching the trackables?

 

Thanks for any info!

[+Max and 99]

6 minutes ago, Anthony_Jillian said:

I searched through the forum but couldn't find an answer for this.

I'm wondering why someone would be "watching" my trackables / travel bugs? I could understand someone watching their own trackables. Several of my trackables being watched are also MIA. Does anyone have any insight? Is there any way to see who it is that is watching the trackables?

 

Thanks for any info!

I can provide just one possible reason. If I move along a trackable and place it in a geocache, sometimes I will  watch  it to see if it gets moved along after I placed it. 

[RuideAlmeida]

4 minutes ago, Anthony_Jillian said:

Does anyone have any insight?

 

By instance, I have some of the geocoins I designed on watchlist... just to follow my "children'' voyages and occasional comments about them... maybe a little silly, I know.

[+kunarion]

30 minutes ago, Anthony_Jillian said:

I searched through the forum but couldn't find an answer for this.

I'm wondering why someone would be "watching" my trackables / travel bugs? I could understand someone watching their own trackables. Several of my trackables being watched are also MIA. Does anyone have any insight? Is there any way to see who it is that is watching the trackables?

 

Thanks for any info!

 

One way to find out is to post a Note log, asking who's watching the Trackables. The watchers receive the question.

 

I may check on a Trackable to find out what became of it, how it's doing.  But I may do so without it being on an actual watch list.  Anyone can view any of your Trackable pages at any time.

[+NanCycle]

I add all trackables that I have moved to my watch list.  Just like to see where they pop up now and then.

[+cerberus1]

The rare time I actually Retrieve and Drop a Trackable insteada simply Discovering it, I might watch it to see if it's moving or just sitting there.

If it's just sitting there, I'll stop by and find a slightly busier cache for it.

 

No, there's no way of knowing who's watching, just like a cache.  You could Write Note and ask on the Trackable's page though...

 

Edited August 19 by cerberus1
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[+CAVinoGal]

8 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

If I move along a trackable and place it in a geocache, sometimes I will  watch  it to see if it gets moved along after I placed it. 

 

7 hours ago, NanCycle said:

I add all trackables that I have moved to my watch list.  Just like to see where they pop up now and then.

 

Same here.  I know that once I drop a trackable in a cache/event, it is out of my hands.  But I take photos of the trackables I carry and visit to different caches, and then put them on my watchlist when I drop them, just because...I like to see when/if they are picked up and moved.  I'll follow them for a drop or two, then take them off my wartchlist in most cases.  Some are moved quickly, others sit for awhile.

 

There's no need to put my own trackables on a watchlist, as I get all those notifications anyway.  But I do like to track ones that I have moved, at least for a time.  Nothing sinister or malicious, just curiosity and following up on my own activity.  Three TB's that I placed in a local cache have been there since I found the cache and placed them there in April of this year - I was just about to go retrieve them and verify they were actually still there when someone found the cache and took one of the three, and left another.  It is a puzzle cache, and that was the first find since mine in April.  Patience....

[+steve-geo]

I’ve placed watches on trackables that I carried a long time, for many adventures, and grew to have an attachment to.  It’s fun to see what becomes of them.  All too often my own trackables disappear, never to be heard from again.  It’s nice to at least get some email from some trackable and know that they survived.  Since no emails are issued until they are dropped or grabbed it may be a long time between notifications, that trackable also was well liked and thought highly of by someone else, not just me, is quite a testament to its charms.  This has affected what kind of trackable I release and how I present it.  Often it’s not the trackable, but what it is attached to or the story of the mission that creates that bond.

[+Anthony_Jillian]

Thanks for all the great responses!