+ibycus Posted January 24, 2005 Author Share Posted January 24, 2005 When they're in, I'll post to this thread. Anyone I don't hear from in some amount of time, I'll e-mail offlist through their geocaching profile. Quote Link to comment
+superpuppy Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I'd like a couple too. Quote Link to comment
+Ed Rad Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Put me down for 3. Quote Link to comment
+paul2tele Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 For West/Cent Wash. cachers who have pre-orders in, I could potentially be a courrier. Will be back in Calgary in April or May (trying to schedule a meeting the week of April 4th). Coins could be distributed at an event, a'la the great M.A. geocan parking lot offload. (CDN airport security: "The metal detector is still going off, empty your pockets please") paul2tele Quote Link to comment
+Team LightningBugs Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 3 please. Quote Link to comment
ghostwriter13 Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 I'll take 5 Quote Link to comment
+Facedances Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 3 for me please! Quote Link to comment
+Nazgul Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I'd already posted on the CAC board thread that I'd like 5, but I'll mention it here again because it's easier for me to keep an eye on this thread. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
barnabasbenn Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I'll take two please...Can they be paid for by money order? Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 I'll take two please...Can they be paid for by money order? Don't see why not, it will just take you a bit longer to get your coins. Quote Link to comment
+Mandimom Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 We would like 5, thanks! Quote Link to comment
+Barefoot Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 (edited) Ad my order for two, er, make that four.. Thanks! edited for quantity. Edited January 31, 2005 by Barefoot Quote Link to comment
+kiltsurfer Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I'll take two please...Can they be paid for by money order? Don't see why not, it will just take you a bit longer to get your coins. Ibycus, when do you want us to send money and stuff like that? I want to order ten of them, and don't want to hold up any coins because of late payment. THANKS Quote Link to comment
+robinego Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Please put me in for 5 Thanks Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 I was wondering how important the trackability of these coins is to people here? It seems like on the Calgary Cachers board, most people really don't care too much about the tracking of them. What about here? If they aren't trackable, the price may go down a bit... What if they were trackable on geocaching.com? (the price would them go up by about $1.75/coin...) Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Why so much? Someone else said they had discussed it and it was only something like 50 cents more to be trackable on GC... Unless I read that wrong? I don't care either way on this one since I'm going to save mine and not use it. But pretend you didn't see me say that since I'm self banned from posting this week. Quote Link to comment
+Spencersb Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 When we designed the West TN coin, GC.com wouldn't track them. From waht I understand, only USA and Moun10Bike goins get tracked on GC.com Travelertags.com agreed to track ours for .40 each, but we gave them the back side of the coin. Personally, tracking isn't a big issue with me, these things disappear too fast anyway. I've never actually seen a coin, even a tracked one, IN a geocache! Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 Well I'm currently talking with Groundspeak about tracking the Calgary coins on the site. There are some issues that we need to overcome if it is ever going to happen, but I wanted the opinion of the folks here as to if it was worth it or not. Right now, what I'm leaning towards is to have them numbered, but not trackable(anywhere). That would get them minted the fasted, and that way if anyone who bought them wanted to track them they still could throw their own code together to do it. Or at a later time I could put something together to do it. Quote Link to comment
+Team Tillery Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 what I'm leaning towards is to have them numbered, but not trackable I like that idea. I'd never leave them anywhere so I don't really care if they're trackable or not. But I like the idea of numbering them. Quote Link to comment
+willcall Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Agree - numbering is great (but not even essential). Tracking is not important. They look too cool to give up, and they'd just wind up on someone's shelf without being logged anyway. Quote Link to comment
+vds Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Agree - numbering is great (but not even essential). Tracking is not important. They look too cool to give up, and they'd just wind up on someone's shelf without being logged anyway. my two cents is numbering is ok but optional, tracking is 'really' optional. Anybody who wants to get theirs tracked can do so on travelertags.com (but I'd support both numbering and tracking as long as the price doesn't go through the roof). Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 Well the numbering is pretty cheap (my cost to do it is 40 cents/coin), from what I'm hearing here, and on the Calgary Cachers board, most people don't seem to care much about the tracking, so for now, I'm not going to bother with it. The reverse of the coin will probably change slightly from what is pictured at the start of this thread (been some talk of putting either the Leatherman Geocaching logo on it (the gx), or a compass on it, or an Alberta wild rose in place of where it says 'CALGARY CACHERS'...). Quote Link to comment
+GeoCrickets Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 The GeoGrickets will take 5 when they come in. Thank you for your hard work on this. Quote Link to comment
+Team Bear-Cat Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 If they can be shipped to us (Georgia or Arizona), we would like 3! Oh, BTW, how much are they ?!?! As far as tracking goes, it's nice, but at least one of them we will add to our Geo-coin-chain TB that travels with us. The others will be traded or high-value items for a FTF in one of our caches... Thanks very much! Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 9, 2005 Author Share Posted February 9, 2005 Ok, quick update. Yes, they can be shipped to Georgia (or Arizona). The cost will be $4/coin+shipping rates (I'm thinking though if payment is made via paypal I'll have to up the cost slightly to cover whatever paypal transaction fees are). I'll take basically any reasonable form of payment that an individual can accept, but fees associated with taking that payment are up to the buyer to cover (I'm selling these at pretty close to my cost on them, so I can't afford to take much of a hit). Shipping is whatever it costs me to ship them (earlier in the thread I indicated approximate shipping rates to the US for various numbers of coins...). I will ship via letter-post to keep the costs down, but if they don't get there, they are uninsured so there is a trade off. If there is sufficient demand to look in to other methods of shipping I can do that. Design is soooooo close to being finalized (honest). Looks like we aren't going to have the gc.com logo on it, and they won't for the moment be trackable, but they will be individually numbered. The front of the coin will remain essentially unchanged from what it was at the start of this thread, but the reverse will have a wild rose on it, along with the "leatherman Gx logo" Quote Link to comment
+ManGenGho Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 I don't know if this helps at all, but after reading the Colorado caching forums, their new coin is being tracked at gc.com Apparently they have made a new policy very recently to allow groups to track coins through their website. I don't know many details, just thought I'd throw it out there. Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 9, 2005 Author Share Posted February 9, 2005 Yeah, the trouble is, they want too much money for the tracking. Considering most people don't seem to care too much about the tracking, adding a substantial amount to the price to make them trackable on gc.com didn't seem like a good option. Also, there were some issues with how the coins were to be numbered. gc.com wanted non sequential alpha-numeric codes on the coins (to make it harder to guess coin numbers, and fake logging them), the guy I'm dealing with can't mint coins like that. In fairness, we probably could have worked through most of the issues eventually, really since no one seems to care much about the tracking, it really seemed to be a non-issue. In the end it was just too much of a hassle. I still haven't eliminated the idea of tracking them later on, but for now, I just want to get the things minted and distributed. Quote Link to comment
+justybug Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 i'm in for 5 when they show up. Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 OK, so we've got the final design ready. I'll post it here in a bit (don't have a decent pic handy). Looks like we have orders for about 254 here (by my count). As far as payment is concerned I think the best for everyone involved is to send me a cheque (or cash) directly (I'll trust you all not to send me any NSF cheques). I was looking in to paypal, and started reading WAY too many horror stories about them. While I'm sure everything would go over just fine, there is always that worry that I'll be red flagged for some mysterious reason and they'll take all my money (if you REALLY want to use paypal, let me know, and I'll set it up, but I'd really prefer not to). Anyways, the cost per coin comes to $4 Canadian/coin. At current exchange rates (on x-rates.com) that works out to 3.25 US/coin, but I'm going to say $3.30/coin to protect myself from currency fluctuations as much as possible. Shipping for the coins from Canada Post's Website is as follows: Other Letter-post - includes items that are non-standard and/or oversize Up to 100 1.70 Over 100 up to 200 2.90 Over 200 up to 500 5.80 and each coin weight 26 grams (too bad they aren't 1g lighter ) So, prices are as follows: 1 coin - $4 + 1.70 Shipping = $5.70 Canadian = $4.75 US 2 coins - $8 + 1.70 Shipping = $9.70 Canadian = $8.08 US 3 coins - $12 + 1.70 Shipping = $13.70 = $11.41 US 4 coins - $16 + 2.90 Shipping = $18.90 = $15.75 US 5 coins - $20 + 2.90 Shipping = $22.90 = $19.08 US 7 coins - $28 + 2.90 Shipping = $30.90 = $25.75 US 10 coins - $40 + 5.80 Shipping = $45.80 = $38.17 US If you're paying cache, feel free to round to the nearest dollar. Canadian orders will be subject to different shipping rates, items will be sent totally uninsured, untrackable (just like a letter). If this is unacceptable, I can arrange some other method of shipping on request. The coins aren't going to be available for about another 6 weeks, so plenty of time to get your cheques to me. Please send payment to Dale Atkin 12 Country Lane Dr. Calgary, AB T3Z 1J2, Canada Please include your caching handle, and e-mail address (and of course return address) with the cheque so I can make sure I get everything right when I send things out. Quote Link to comment
barnabasbenn Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Thank's for the info and address.Looking forward to the coins. Quote Link to comment
+Go JayBee Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Will you take a U.S. Postal Service Money Order? Those are as good as gold here in the USA.... JayBee Quote Link to comment
+Square Bear Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Ok ibycus will have a check in the mail for 5 coins tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Will you take a U.S. Postal Service Money Order? Those are as good as gold here in the USA.... JayBee Yeah, but why would you do that, that is going to cost you more money isn't it? Quote Link to comment
+Go JayBee Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Will you take a U.S. Postal Service Money Order? Those are as good as gold here in the USA.... JayBee Yeah, but why would you do that, that is going to cost you more money isn't it? I think that for the amount of the check it would only cost about $1.50 US. Just thought it would b better for you....don't have to wait for personal check to clear banks over international borders, etc. Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Naw, don't worry about it, unless you want to. As I said, its going to be about another 6 weeks before the coins are here. Don't know how long it takes a US cheque to clear on average, but I imagine that should be enough time. Plus I trust you guys anyways, and I'd only ridicule you a small about for passing a bad cheque (heck isn't the NSF fee for most banks something like $20 anyways?, probably more than most of you are sending me at any rate...) Quote Link to comment
+Night_Hawk Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Count me in for 5 as well. Quote Link to comment
+Ed & Julie Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 (edited) Sending payment for 2 tomorrow Thanks!! Ed & Julie The Badge & The Butterfly Edited February 17, 2005 by The Badge & the Butterfly Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Wanted to add, if anyone wants me to send their order "Registered Lettermail" let me know. That includes $100 insurance, and costs an extra $11 (Canadian). Within Canada is an extra $6.25. Quote Link to comment
+bluegillfisherman Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Payment for 5 on its way. Thanks, bgf Quote Link to comment
+blazerfan Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 I sent my payment for 5 coins Quote Link to comment
+Grandpa Rocks & Grouchy Gramma Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 My info and check for five is in the mail this morning. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+Mandimom Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 We put a check in the mail for 5 coins Feb 19 but it might not go out till Feb 22 since Monday is a Holiday. Mandimom Quote Link to comment
+vds Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 My check was in the mail yesterday from Seattle !!! Quote Link to comment
+willcall Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 I had indicated desire for 5 originally, but sent check for 7. If you don't have spare inventory, please have a beer on me with the difference. Thanks Quote Link to comment
+Blind Avocado Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 Is it too late? I would like to send a check for 5 coins. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
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