Replacement Geocoin?

[+crazypig88]

I found a geocoin in a cache that was homemade, as in a wooden disk with pvc around it. When i looked at the paper attached I saw that they stated the other geocoin was stolen/missing. I was wondering if Groundspeak cared if people created replacement coins or TBS when one of theirs go missing.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

It's called a "proxy". Groundspeak is pretty mum on the subject.

[random_incoherencies]

I found a geocoin in a cache that was homemade, as in a wooden disk with pvc around it. When i looked at the paper attached I saw that they stated the other geocoin was stolen/missing. I was wondering if Groundspeak cared if people created replacement coins or TBS when one of theirs go missing.

Groundspeak does not have a problem with it, and in fact encourage it. There is even a web-site that will produce proxy coins for you - http://www.shop.gxproxy.com/Ready2Go-GxProxy-Coins-R2G00010.htm

 

I don't ever send out the real coin anymore, I only send out 'proxies' The original geocoin stays safe in my collection.

[+Bear and Ragged]

I found a geocoin in a cache that was homemade, as in a wooden disk with pvc around it. When i looked at the paper attached I saw that they stated the other geocoin was stolen/missing. I was wondering if Groundspeak cared if people created replacement coins or TBS when one of theirs go missing.

 

Do Groundspeak care that GCs/TBs get stolen? I doubt it... (They've already banked/spent the money)

 

Does the Geocoins page say its a replacement?

It could be that the owner doesn't know...

(It's not unknown for 'someone' to retrieve a coin, make a cheap replacement, and then send it back out on it's travels... Owner only becomes aware of the 'replacement' if a photo gets posted, or a cacher says its NOT a coin.)

[+cerberus1]

I found a geocoin in a cache that was homemade, as in a wooden disk with pvc around it. When i looked at the paper attached I saw that they stated the other geocoin was stolen/missing. I was wondering if Groundspeak cared if people created replacement coins or TBS when one of theirs go missing.

Groundspeak does not have a problem with it, and in fact encourage it.

Interested , please explain where you know this to be true, as I haven't been able to find an official stance on the subject.

[+Droo]

I found a geocoin in a cache that was homemade, as in a wooden disk with pvc around it. When i looked at the paper attached I saw that they stated the other geocoin was stolen/missing. I was wondering if Groundspeak cared if people created replacement coins or TBS when one of theirs go missing.

Groundspeak does not have a problem with it, and in fact encourage it.

Interested , please explain where you know this to be true, as I haven't been able to find an official stance on the subject.

I agree. I don't believe Groundspeak "encourages it". Their job is to maintain the site, provide a small semblance of quality control for cache listings and approval for objects that are going to be stamped with their logo and tracking codes to wander in their system. Everything else is user directed. If cachers want to create crappy caches.... it's up to them. If they want to steal or muggle these caches - who are they, Groundspeak, to stop it? It's not Groundspeak's fault that geocoins are stolen, mislogged, not logged or lost.... that one is all up to the cachers in the field. And that's us, baby.

[+nevadanick]

If you check the options for replacement tags at GxProxy dot com you'll find that they have Groundspeak's approval for making proxies. They reference the requirement that they confirm it is the TO (trackable code owner) who is requesting creation of a proxy.

 

Besides, once you purchase a coin or trackable code ... YOU own it. The only basic restriction is that you NOT violate GS's policy on 'family friendly' uses.

 

It does help when you release a trackable via a proxy, to state that the proxy is traveling. It keeps cachers from disappointing trips to find 'geocoins' in caches that are only replicas or proxies of some sort.