CharlieZulu Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 Hi folks: We are new to all of this (13 found) and we need to understand the TB thing a little better. While the concept of taking a TB from a cache and placing it in another (and logging it as such) is straightforward, I don't get the "grab" a bug thing... When someone says on the tracking page that they've "grabbed" a TB, I gather this means that they've left it where they saw it, but it's some kind of virtual grab ??!!? What is the point of this? charliezulu Quote Link to comment
+fairhair Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 One cacher can hand over a TB to another to get it somewhere it wants to go. To drop it the second cacher must have in his/her inventory, so he/she must grab it. There's also another use for grabbing. Lately I dropped a TB in a new cache of mine. Then I discovered that the longtitude for that cache was completely wrong which caused the travelled distance for the TB to be wrong. To correct this, I grabbed the TB, so I could drop it once more after having corrected the coordinates. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 When someone says on the tracking page that they've "grabbed" a TB, I gather this means that they've left it where they saw it, but it's some kind of virtual grab ??!!? What is the point of this? I had to grab one this weekend, because the person who left it forgot to log that he'd dropped it off in that cache. I saw the log where he picked it up. I thought about prodding him to log it so it would get that extra bit of mileage, but it wasn't far. He's a caching name I know and it was obviously an honest mistake. Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 When you log a travel bug it gives you an option to choose, either write a note, or pick up the bug. If the bug is currently in a cache it will say "Retrieve from cache name________" If the bug is currently held by another cacher it will say "Grab bug from Cacher____________" If you pick up a bug from a cache, and you go to log it and it tells you to grab it from someone, but you know you took it from a cache, make sure you give that person time to log it into the cache you took it from. If it's days later, perhaps a friendly e-mail reminder to tell them you've got and need to log it will help speed up the process. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 If it's days later, perhaps a friendly e-mail reminder to tell them you've got and need to log it will help speed up the process. It was weeks later, and I didn't want to embarrass the guy Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 If it's days later, perhaps a friendly e-mail reminder to tell them you've got and need to log it will help speed up the process. It was weeks later, and I didn't want to embarrass the guy weeks, days, time is relevant. Don't worry, he may have forgotten and could appreciate the reminder, coming from someone who knows of him. Quote Link to comment
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