+The BeeGees Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 I just received an email notification that one of my WG$ was found in a local cache. Along with the notification came this message. -------- -------- IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ!!! -------- -------- Marking and depositing Where's George? bills into a bank or any other financial institution or merchant is STRICTLY PROHIBITED! Any account found dumping marked bills into a bank will be immediately terminated without warning or question. I'd never seen this message before. Does anyone know if something happened to trigger this notification? Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Have no idea BeeGees I did a few bills a week or two ago to put in caches. 2 of them got sent to my sons school for his lunch by his mom. The other one went into my cache. It was the first time I ever did the WG thing, but I remember reading a statement similar to that on the website about not dropping them into the bank. I think they were referring to taking a bunch and marking them and then putting htem in a bank. Brian As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. -Donald Trump Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Not sure, but I guess that some people have been "georging" hundreds of bills at a pop and bringing them to a bank, or store to distribute them. "You can't make a man by standing a sheep on his hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" - Max Beerbohm Quote Link to comment
+Lone Duck Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Can you imagine how much time it would take to register "hundreds" of bills? That Quack Cacher: Lone Duck When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 I wouldn't put them in a bank anyway - don't they filter out defaced bills? Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by The BeeGees:I just received an email notification that one of my WG$ was found in a local cache. Along with the notification came this message. -------- -------- IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ!!! -------- -------- Marking and depositing Where's George? bills into a bank or any other financial institution or merchant is STRICTLY PROHIBITED! Any account found dumping marked bills into a bank will be immediately terminated without warning or question. I'd never seen this message before. Does anyone know if something happened to trigger this notification? The webmaster at Where's George has had that on all email notifications for about a month ago. Somebody decided to dump a bunch of bills into a bank and he got wind of it and decided to place that message in the emails. Sam Lowrey - Banks don't decide when bills get destroyed, only the FEDs do. There have been many instances where I've seen hits at Where's George from a teller at a bank saying that the bill is going to be destroyed only to have that bill get hit again somewhere else. The Feds will decide when a bills is too mutilated to continue its life in the great outdoors, not some local yokel bank. Webfoot Veni...Vidi...Vicachi. I came...I saw...I geocached. Quote Link to comment
+Bilder Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 If you do it right it is not defacing the bill. It is marking it, and yes, there is a difference. Defacing is putting a mark on the portrait on the bill. Marking is anywhere BUT the portrait. That is why it is not a crime to stamp a bill for wheresgeorge.com. Just keep it off the dead guys. There are guys out there who get stacks of bills fresh from the bank, all in sequencial order and register them. They then take them back to the bank or store and let em go. The guys that do this usually work in said bank or store. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have never been lost. Been awful confused for a few days, but never lost! N61.12.041 W149.43.734 Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 quote:Can you imagine how much time it would take to register "hundreds" of bills? People do it. There are people with 70,000, 80,000 and even over 100,000 bills registered. That's a lot of typing! As far as a the bills being defaced, the federal regulations consider defacing to be anything that renders a bill to be unusable. A carefully placed stamp doesn't do this. Even the banks stamp some bills. "You can't make a man by standing a sheep on his hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" - Max Beerbohm Quote Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Lone Duck:Can you imagine how much time it would take to register "hundreds" of bills? Not as long as you'd think, as long as you've got a stamp. We had a rummage sale last summer and I got a stack of ones to use as change. It took me about 20 minutes to mark about fifty bills. The nice thing about getting them straight from a bank is that you can get new bills that have a better chance of staying in circulation longer. - - - - - Uh oh... Quote Link to comment
+trippy1976 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:There are people with 70,000, 80,000 and even over 100,000 bills registered. That's a lot of typing! Forget the typing, that's a lot of coin! Each of those bills is worth at least $1! (actually it's no coin - I know.) -------- trippy1976 - Team KKF2A Assimilating golf balls - one geocache at a time. Quote Link to comment
Team Radius Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 "Keep it off the dead guys" reminds me of Shrek- "DEAD BROAD OFF THE TABLE!" LOL Quote Link to comment
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