Travel Bug in stolen bag

[+m4yb]

Hi all, my first time here, with a problem.

Last month I had my geobag stolen (as I slept, next to my bed while camping, but that's another story).

I have dealt with the loss of my Garmin, my accumulation of geotools, my cards and money, prescription sunglasses and medication. But in the bag were also 3 TB's I had only just picked up at an event.

Contacted the owners, 1, a local, has marked it as missing.

I contacted the owners of the other 2, to ask for the tracking codes so I can try and replace them. No reply, inactive cachers.

I contacted them again, asking if they can be marked as missing so they are removed from my inventory, No reply.

What else can I do? I dont want them on my inventory forever!

Edited September 16, 2016 by m4yb

[+cerberus1]

You could email Groundspeak at the Help Center, explaining the issue, and giving them the names of the "inactive" owners.

 

Or, you could put those two trackables in your archived cache, getting them off your inventory.

When the Auto Remove kicks in (around a year), it "should" mark it missing for the inactive owner, and out of your archived cache.

[Keystone]

If you could provide links to these two trackables, I'll be happy to mark them missing after confirming that they match your sad story.

[+m4yb]

TB #1

 

TB #2

This one is still showing as at the event as I had not had a chance to log it as taken yet.

 

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Edited September 16, 2016 by m4yb

[Keystone]

I marked both of those TB's as missing. I'm happy to help! As I will be traveling to Australia next week for a long holiday, I hope this will give me some good caching karma.

[+m4yb]

I marked both of those TB's as missing. I'm happy to help! As I will be traveling to Australia next week for a long holiday, I hope this will give me some good caching karma.

 

To be sure! Good caching karma here especially from Western Australia! many thanks!

[+The Happy Hodag!]

The recommendation of putting the TB's in one of your caches, even if just virtually, has me thinking. . .can a CO still mark TB's as missing if they're listed on a cache they own? If this is the case, the OP could have dropped the TB's in their cache, then marked them as missing.

 

-The Happy Hodag!

[+jellis]

What I would also do is watch them. Sometimes they turn up. We've seen some reported showing up in garage sales.

[+m4yb]

Update: due to the diligence of the local police, 2 of our stolen items have been recovered (laptop and ipad). But not my bag or Garmin, I guess the 16 yo thief has no interest in geocaching. He has been arrested on 37 counts of burglary from the campground.

Common belief is that the whole bag would have been binned. I still have hopes it may have been thrown in bushland or sand dunes near the camping ground.

Thanks for your help everyone.

Edited September 23, 2016 by m4yb

[+Ben0w]

The recommendation of putting the TB's in one of your caches, even if just virtually, has me thinking. . .can a CO still mark TB's as missing if they're listed on a cache they own? If this is the case, the OP could have dropped the TB's in their cache, then marked them as missing.

Yes. But it would add a false distance/location to the trackable. The kind help by keystone surely is the best way.