Retained!

[xeroky]

Hi,

 

I do not know what procedure to follow. A user has retained my 'travel bug' from November 2013. I sent two emails but he did not answer me.

 

I checked their logs and saw that the July 2014 found a cache.

 

Is there some kind of manager who can make something from geocaching.com?

 

Help me please. Someone has been in the same situation? Why have you done?

 

Thanks,

[+cerberus1]

Not much more you can do, other than the (hopefully polite) emails you sent, asking them to move it along.

No reply (and you have none), you could mark it missing and forget about it.

- Or, either reuse the tracking code on another object you'd like to send out again (and take your chances...), or attach the code to an object with you most times (walking stick, tee shirt, etc) for folks to discover.

[+kunarion]

he did not answer me.

The taker has not been Geocaching in months. Some people will keep a TB safe anyway, and put it into play once they return to the game. Others will pack it away and it becomes lost in clutter or discarded. But it could turn up at any time. Some of mine reappeared like magic, over a year after all seemed lost, and unfortunately, with no story of where it was all this time. Why do we never get the rest of the story, especially if the TB was lost? I'd bet it's a good story. Lately, my TBs had a much harder time, but now I only have a few left in the wild. Takers seem to be blind to "Do Not Keep Me" inscribed on the TB tag. They must have a miserable life of deliberately making other people miserable. Wouldn't want to be them.

 

On my TB pages in this situation, I add the word "[MISSING]" to the title of my TB, once I lose contact with it, usually long before I may officially Mark it Missing (if I ever choose to Mark it Missing). I also add text such as "I haven't heard from Kitty since [last known sighting of the TB]. If you find her, please ask her to write", at the top of the page in big red letters . I eventually make a new version of the TB using the tracking number, a much nicer version, and I keep it.

 

The "Private Message" system can and does lose emails, from you or to you, without notice, because it's a combination of site scripts and email. The informative error messages in "email" are lost when using PM.

 

Once you've annoyed a cacher with extra "emails" on the same subject, they may become less than responsive. But when you send a PM, and include your real email address and request the recipient use that, the reply email message is passed through fewer systems. TB Takers should never require the TB Owner to guess what happened to the TB ("several emails" should not be required). But many Takers are immature, or just plain jerks, or both.

Edited April 1, 2015 by kunarion

[+no100066]

So, just a thought...but I am finding a lot a travel bugs listed in a cache but not there. I know this has been gone over many times, but here is my thought... Check on your travel bugs and respond to messages or notes that are written and mark them as missing. If they are not in the cache since 2013, they are missing. In addition, cache owners... mark them as not in inventory. Would make the game a whole lot more fun.

 

Just my 3 cents worth (inflation you know)

[+kunarion]

So, just a thought...but I am finding a lot a travel bugs listed in a cache but not there. I know this has been gone over many times, but here is my thought... Check on your travel bugs and respond to messages or notes that are written and mark them as missing. If they are not in the cache since 2013, they are missing. In addition, cache owners... mark them as not in inventory. Would make the game a whole lot more fun.

 

Just my 3 cents worth (inflation you know)

That's not what the thread is about. And that dead horse was thoroughly beaten.

Edited April 1, 2015 by kunarion

[+cerberus1]

So, just a thought...but I am finding a lot a travel bugs listed in a cache but not there. I know this has been gone over many times, but here is my thought... Check on your travel bugs and respond to messages or notes that are written and mark them as missing. If they are not in the cache since 2013, they are missing. In addition, cache owners... mark them as not in inventory. Would make the game a whole lot more fun.

 

Just my 3 cents worth (inflation you know)

Off-topic, but...

Can't tell you how many times after "TB not in cache" was added to a log, head out - to find that it's stuck to the sides/top (with who knows what - yuck!), or in with the pile of kid swag and simply missed.

One was almost a year, and when I finally went to do maintenance on the ammo can, the coin was stuck to the top.

People eat snacks when accessing caches?

Sorry, but I'm no longer marking trackables missing just because you say it is.

I don't know you from Adam.

- When I do maintenance (ammo cans take a while...) I'll look.

[+kunarion]

So, just a thought...but I am finding a lot a travel bugs listed in a cache but not there. I know this has been gone over many times, but here is my thought... Check on your travel bugs and respond to messages or notes that are written and mark them as missing. If they are not in the cache since 2013, they are missing. In addition, cache owners... mark them as not in inventory. Would make the game a whole lot more fun.

 

Just my 3 cents worth (inflation you know)

Off-topic, but...

Can't tell you how many times after "TB not in cache" was added to a log, head out - to find that it's stuck to the sides/top (with who knows what - yuck!), or in with the pile of kid swag and simply missed.

One was almost a year, and when I finally went to do maintenance on the ammo can, the coin was stuck to the top.

People eat snacks when accessing caches?

Sorry, but I'm no longer marking trackables missing just because you say it is.

I don't know you from Adam.

- When I do maintenance (ammo cans take a while...) I'll look.

More to the point, if it's logged Retrieved, in the hands of a cacher, with no further info, that TB certainly isn't "Missing". Well, not unless the Owner can also log that Geocacher "Missing".

Edited April 1, 2015 by kunarion

[+Harry Dolphin]

More to the point, if it's logged Retrieved, in the hands of a cacher, with no further info, that TB certainly isn't "Missing". Well, not unless the Owner can also log that Geocacher "Missing".

 

I've got one that has been in a cacher's possession since 2006. I think it's missing. He hasn't been on-line at GC since 2008, and only found one cache. But looks more interesting as being in his possession.

[+Team Beynon (Morfy)]

This is what makes me nervous about releasing our bugs in the next few days. But if we don't try.....

[+NanCycle]

I can't tell you how many of my TBs were picked up by a n00b cacher who wrote in their cache log "My first Travel Bug" (may or may not have actually logged the TB) and then was never heard from again. It happens. After a year or more, I reissue them; so far, only one previous version has resurfaced after being reissued.