Trackable Help

[arizkma]

I am new. I picked up what looks like a homemade stamped coin, not realizing it was a trackable. I've spent a lot of time reading about what to do, but the coin doesn't say trackable on geocaching, and the letter and number code isn't found on there when I search. Is there someplace else to record it online? Is there a place on my app more to find more info from the location in which I found it? Thank you for helping a newbie.

[+ecanderson]

You may have picked up what is known as a 'Pathtag'. Is it about the size of a quarter with a hole punched in it? Not sure why it would have a number, though.

 

Without giving too much away, can you describe the 'number'. Is it a set of 6 letters and numbers of some sort?

[+cerberus1]

Would it happen to be a "Cache In, Trash Out" coin listed on the cache page's inventory?

 

Does it have it's tracking code on the edge/rim of the coin?

[+niraD]

There used to be some third-party sites that allowed personal signature items to be tracked. My own personal sig tokens used to be trackable on the sigitem.com site, until it folded under the weight of spammers. There's a chance that it could be trackable (or could have been trackable) on such a third-party site.

[XxyomomxX]

I am new can you help I found a trackable and I don't know how to enter the code can you help Thanks

[+Ben0w]

I found a trackable and I don't know how to enter the code can you help

Goto http://www.geocaching.com/track/default.aspx and enter the code in the first input field (just under those three boxes with info).

 

Be sure to enter the correct code (possibly reading/typing mishaps include the letters/numbers 0/O/D, B/8, l/I, 1/7, 7/Z, U/V, ...).

 

Then you get to the trackable's listing. There, in the upper right menu you choose the "Found a trackable? Log it!" link.

 

Choose wisely (following menu items may appear, depending on the trackable's current status):

• "discover" = if you've just seen it (not in your posession)

• "retrieve" = take it out of a cache

• "drop" = place it in a cache (be sure to give the correct code)

• "visit" = drop & retrieve at once

• "grab" = get it from another cacher or place (latter is useful when it's not logged in the correct cache)

• "write note" = leave a note (you won't need the trackable code then)

• "mark it missing" = if you're the owner of a cache the trackable is assigned to but it's not in there.

 

Please "discover" it only if you have seen it personally. Don't just copy codes from a picture or a list shown/given to you.

 

Please wait a bit (~1 week) if you want to log a trackable online and it's in your posession but not yet correctly logged by the previous holder (so i.e. "retrieve" is not in the menu list above). Give him/her time to log properly.

 

Thank you!

Edited May 22, 2015 by Ben0w