How to get a TB moving again

[+BarX2a]

When you purchase a TB there is a copy/replacement tag included. If the TB goes missing can you release this copy tag and get it moving again? How is this done?

[+kunarion]

When you purchase a TB there is a copy/replacement tag included. If the TB goes missing can you release this copy tag and get it moving again? How is this done?

It seems like the "Copy Tag" is more like a souvenir to keep, a tangible item for you even if the TB goes missing. That's why it has "Keep Me" imprinted on it. But people do release them. I accidentally released a "Copy Tag" once, instead of the "Don't Keep Me" tag.

 

If there are two (or more) items in circulation with identical tracking numbers, it becomes tough to know which one was found or which is being logged at any time. But if that becomes an issue, you may be able to get all but one removed from circulation.

[+cerberus1]

We've noticed some have sent out the copy tag after they considered the thing missing.

Not sure what that thinking is...

If "Don't keep me" didn't work, how would one expect it to keep moving with a "keep me" tag on it?

 

- But to answer your question, sure, you can release it as if you happened to find your original (retrieve, or grab from another), and simply place it in another cache.

[+boothie103]

I'm relatively new to this Travel Bug Business and having found three in quick succession from foreign countries I decided to go for it. I released five and only one has moved on, the rest are being held by people who have collected them. Is this what you mean by getting a Travel Bug moving again, people holding them in their possession and not moving them on? My first one has been held up for quite a few weeks and as part of this discussion, am I allowed to send the holder a nasty gram asking him to move it along? All of them have been tagged as Non-collectable.

One I had found had travelled around 22,000km and out of respect, moved it on in three days.

[+BarX2a]

I'm relatively new to this Travel Bug Business and having found three in quick succession from foreign countries I decided to go for it. I released five and only one has moved on, the rest are being held by people who have collected them. Is this what you mean by getting a Travel Bug moving again, people holding them in their possession and not moving them on? My first one has been held up for quite a few weeks and as part of this discussion, am I allowed to send the holder a nasty gram asking him to move it along? All of them have been tagged as Non-collectable.

One I had found had travelled around 22,000km and out of respect, moved it on in three days.

Nice works a whole lot better than nasty.

Have they been having your TB "visit" caches or are they just keeping it too long ? There is a guy in my area who will pick up a TB and it travels with him for weeks at a time, visiting caches and logging the miles along the way. Then he eventually drops it into a cache somewhere. This is fine with me as long as it is moving, logging and eventually gets to someone else. How do you know they have collected your bug and are planning to keep it forever?

[+boothie103]

I'm relatively new to this Travel Bug Business and having found three in quick succession from foreign countries I decided to go for it. I released five and only one has moved on, the rest are being held by people who have collected them. Is this what you mean by getting a Travel Bug moving again, people holding them in their possession and not moving them on? My first one has been held up for quite a few weeks and as part of this discussion, am I allowed to send the holder a nasty gram asking him to move it along? All of them have been tagged as Non-collectable.

One I had found had travelled around 22,000km and out of respect, moved it on in three days.

Nice works a whole lot better than nasty.

Have they been having your TB "visit" caches or are they just keeping it too long ? There is a guy in my area who will pick up a TB and it travels with him for weeks at a time, visiting caches and logging the miles along the way. Then he eventually drops it into a cache somewhere. This is fine with me as long as it is moving, logging and eventually gets to someone else. How do you know they have collected your bug and are planning to keep it forever?

I keep checking the logs for the bugs and one is travelling from cache to cache, one is sitting in a cache with a nice photo of the cache location as requested, a third has been sitting doing nothing in the hands of the person who retrieved it and said he doesn't do much travelling and will try to find a cache when he can and the other two are much the same.

Is this what you meant by moving a TB along? I do not want to be a thread stealer!

Edited September 16, 2015 by boothie103

[+BCandMsKitty]

I'm relatively new to this Travel Bug Business and having found three in quick succession from foreign countries I decided to go for it. I released five and only one has moved on, the rest are being held by people who have collected them. Is this what you mean by getting a Travel Bug moving again, people holding them in their possession and not moving them on? My first one has been held up for quite a few weeks and as part of this discussion, am I allowed to send the holder a nasty gram asking him to move it along? All of them have been tagged as Non-collectable.

One I had found had travelled around 22,000km and out of respect, moved it on in three days.

Nice works a whole lot better than nasty.

Have they been having your TB "visit" caches or are they just keeping it too long ? There is a guy in my area who will pick up a TB and it travels with him for weeks at a time, visiting caches and logging the miles along the way. Then he eventually drops it into a cache somewhere. This is fine with me as long as it is moving, logging and eventually gets to someone else. How do you know they have collected your bug and are planning to keep it forever?

I keep checking the logs for the bugs and one is travelling from cache to cache, one is sitting in a cache with a nice photo of the cache location as requested, a third has been sitting doing nothing in the hands of the person who retrieved it and said he doesn't do much travelling and will try to find a cache when he can and the other two are much the same.

Is this what you meant by moving a TB along? I do not want to be a thread stealer!

 

I don't think what you are talking about is what the OP means.

 

The last three instances you cite are, while not ideal, can be reasonable. They haven't just decided to keep them, but are planning to move them eventually. Ideally, a tb should be moved ASAP, but at least these seem to be going someplace eventually.

 

I think what the OP means is a TB that has disappeared, or is in someone's having that won't respond, and the assumption is that it will never move again. The OP was asking about startig his TB again by releasing the copy tag.