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Diy Geocoins?


Kasakato

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You would need to get the design approved by Groundspeak, before they would sell you the tracking numbers. At a minimum, the design would have to include similar wording to: "trackable at geocaching.com" on the coin for it to be approved. I have not heard of anyone attempting to do this for a hand cast geocoin yet.

 

--Marky

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Even if you decide to not make hand poured coins trackable, they're still excellent to make/place/trade. The Tiki coins are hand-poured and they're absolutely wonderful.

I totally agree there! There are also a few sites (some free, some not) that will do offsite tracking of items, if you can't get the geocaching.com tracking worked out. Another way to go (but, obviously, more expensive) is just to attach real travelbug tags to them. <_< We've done this on a bunch of various non-trackable geocoins.

 

--Marky

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Also if you do buy tracking numbers its a min. of 100 for 1.50 each and if you want an Icon its a min. of 500 plus 150.00 for the icon. I would agree that it would be almost better to not mess with the tracking them being handmade would make them great.

Yep - 500 codes + icon = $900

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You could also checkout Traveler Tags and see how they could help.

 

Not to bash but that site is a pain to use. Most cachers I know wont pick up TB from them becasue logging is a pain in the butt.

 

I had a problem registering with that site. I kept sending emails (at least 10 times) trying to get it fixed, but never heard back once. That's not great service for a site that charges to track things.

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One possibility for hand-poured coins, if you can't afford to have them trackable on GC, is to add a small ring to the mold, such that a T-Bug chain could be looped through it. If you sold just the coins, but emphasised the loop, there are some (us, perhaps? :o ) who might go the extra cost and add a tag to the coin. A lot would depend upon how much you decided to charge for the coin.

 

As for other means of tracking, you could always set up your own website for it. The code is fairly simple. I don't think it would be fair to GC (or prudent, for that matter) to go into the details here, but it can be done relatively easily.

 

Finally, I have to agree about TravelerTags. Customer service there is, from my experience, a completely unknown concept to them. They do not reply to e-mails, except for their automated query-registry, and in several parts of their website you are refered to another part that doesn't exist. The concept is a nice-enough idea, but whoever is running it is obviously not paying any attention to it :)

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