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I have been to three caches in the last two days that are supposed to have coins and they are ALL MISSING. I implore you all DO NOT PUT COINS IN CACHES IN THE BANGOR AREA. This thief needs to be caught, and until then I would NOT place coins around here.
Which caches have you checked?
We know about the one in Brown Woods.
The one at Cole's Museum was taken a while ago and the old coins and bugs have not be listed as missing yet even after inquiring about it.
Maybe someone ought to set up a "sting" operation and catch the thief.
plan in the works my friends plan in the works.
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Originally Posted by EvilHomer
Ooh, I hope it's evil, Homer...
You may want to consult with Fins2Right....
I can sit in the woods with a case of beer and a shotgun overtop of the cache... I'll get em!! :rolleyes:;):D:D:D:D
Oh Yeah, !!! A good blast of Rock Salt ,oughta do the trick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiram357
Can you still blast someone with rock salt in our times???
Opalsns
If your aim is good enough.
For my 10th birthday, my Dad bought me a bolt-action, 20 gauge shotgun. Somewhere around that time he also gave me a small reloading set. Obviously I didn't have a lot of money in those days, so I cut corners by reloading with anything I could find, including rock salt, rocks, acorns, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opalsns
I still have the reloading set and plenty of rock salt, so if anyone needs a couple of shells... :eek::eek:
Upon seeing this, I'm glad that my somewhat rare Leatherman Coin moved to Augusta in the past week. Hopefully it will be safe and stay in circulation.
The Spiked Trail Bat makes a return??? ;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by EvilHomer
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Originally Posted by firefighterjake
RENAMED: SWEET CACHE JUSTICE baby!
I have two TBs I am worrying about. Well worrying is a strong word. One was picked up in April and never dropped. The other in June I think. I have tried to message the people and one of them has not even logged on to the site in a while.
Film at 11:00 (i hope)Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilHomer
I hope this is appropriate for this thread.
If not , I'm sorry and TPTB can delete it.
I just found this curious, especially the answers to buyer questions.
And the (8) feedback with a negative and it's the only thing being sold????
I wrote him and told him he had better check at GC.Com to make sure he's not selling stolen coins.
Thought I'd Share
http://cgi.ebay.com/Geocoin-and-Path...d=p3911.c0.m14
Opalsns
Hmmm.... The seller is VERY defensive for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opalsns
I don't think he understands that a coin being "activated" means that it is already owned and was released. Now wether that is the current owner that activated them I dunno... but it does seem suspcious that he won't share anymore information about the coins.....:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by WhereRWe?
another thought... I downloaded the pic and zoomed in as much as I can, all of the coins in the center appear to be pathtags... I wonder if the owners know those are being sold... The items to the left appear to just be wooden tokens, and only about 5 or 6 look like trackable coins...
I am almost tempted to report the auction as containing potentially stolen property. The fact that he won't even give his friend's username is really fishy... and I find it hard to believe that he is getting bids 10x what he originally expected but is unwilling to go on gc.com and educate himself. You would think he would want to have all of the information sorted out so he can be sure to get the $100 people are willing to spend.
Don't waste your time. I noticed an ebay sale of a coin and asked for the tracking number. The seller gave it to me and after seeing that it was activated, explained it to them. His ebay id and caching id (yes, he was a geocacher) were close enough that I was able to see that he logged a cache, but didn't log the coin retrieve. I offered to pay for shipping, then to buy it, but he refused. I found the coin owner who also got involved, but neither ebay nor GC.com would do anything about it. The owner marked the coin page as stolen, but that was all she could do.Quote:
Originally Posted by benandtina
Wow!! 8 unique bidders!! Not only do I not believe how this seller came to be in possession of these coins I can't believe anyone would be willing to bid on them; they are essentially validating the taking of coins out of caches. (I'm operating under the pretense that only a geocacher would want geo-coins) I read the "sellers" claims that these coins aren't "stolen", if they are or not is irrelevent as it would not take long for a lowlife scumbag to deduce that a visit to all the caches with coins could mean easy money. It also wouldn't be a far stretch to say that the bidders of these coins would stoop low enough to steal activated coins out of their local caches. :(
I don't believe for a second the "owner" activated 8 of the coins and still would have them all in their possession and not have placed them in circulation, else why activate them. I could understand 1 or 2, maybe, but 8 comes across as "something's not right here." Also, if it is an ex-geocacher who just happened to want to get rid of his collection then I would think that person knew other geocachers and would offer them the first choice at the coins and pathtags.
Too bad this happens but it is not surprising.
I have nearly 70 coins and mine are all activated. That is the only way I know of for people to be able to discover them. I bring them to events just for that reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by TRF
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Originally Posted by Mainiac1957
lol. Too much `tricity has gone through your frontal lobe. :D;) I activated all three of mine too and they are in somebody elses collection waiting to be discovered.
Thanks for that Brad!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mainiac1957
Yeah I hear yah, seems some people are just too perfect to admit it though...:D All mine are activated,I think?:rolleyes::confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by TRF
I have a fairly good collection going, maybe 100 coins or so and haven't activated a single coin. I guess my thought is that if I ever decide to sell some of them they would be more valuable unactivated. Am I right about that? I don't do e-bay, just getting them from the various outlets plus 5 each month from the Coin Club.
I hope that most don't find the collection of coins presumptive of theft.
For those that collect, have you found 3 hole coin holders that actually keep the coins in place? If so, where can I get some. I bought some at a coin shop but the coins are always falling out.
I've bought coins from ebay. I always make sure to get it in writing that the coin is not activated and an activation code will be provided. Atleast then it's a form of contract that's reliable. We have and like the type of coin book w/solid pages and a sliding window!? I would think if you were going to sell/gift any of your coins.....you'd have to keep track of the activation code or atleast where to get it for each and ever coin. That sounds like an organizational nightmare...esp. if you end up w/anywhere near as many as Barry ;)
i have a few coins i would sell cheep to local cachers only. send me a private message, and they are not activated.
Sheesh! I have no idea where "Greene, Maine" is. Am I a local cacher?Quote:
Originally Posted by Katadin Goddess
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Not too tricky. 201 South to 202 west. Stop when you hit Greene about 12 miles before lewiston. That's certainly local. A warning though..there's no cold beer anywhere in Greene that I know about! Stock up in Leeds!:)
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Originally Posted by WhereRWe?
That is one of the things that I like about Dubord. He knows where all of the cold beer is sold!
I still wonder which caches were ripped off for the coins...any clue?
So, where is this collection kept? Do you have dogs?Quote:
Originally Posted by dubord207
Just doing, a, um, survey.
We have two dogs, Nick and Bo. They are Black Labs and eat raw meat every day. We haven't had any mail delivery here for about 3 years. Seems the last 2 letter carriers turned up "missing." Bo laughs when we ask what happened to Pete the Postal guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ekidokai
Nick could care less about geocoins. He's into beer, and beer only. If you come to my house and you've drank any beer in the last month, then you're toast! If you don't drink beer but drove my a store that sells it on your way here....well he'll know and you might loose an arm or at least sustain bad leg bites!
Oh, and I have a lot of guns, most never fired at coin thiefs. The National Guard has our home on the "do not raid" list because of the dogs and the guns.
Call first!!!:)
Having been to Dan's house and shared a beer with the "boys" I can assure you that they know the smell of and taste of beer. Dan also has a cannon!!
Jeepers Dan, with all that defense, you sound like another cacher on this site...You should put a cache on your property within range of your living room window! :D:eek::D
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Originally Posted by shuman road searchers
Come on Jim. Who doesn't have a cannon?
Jeepers Dan, with all that defense, you sound like another cacher on this site...You should put a cache on your property within range of your living room window! :D:eek::D
He does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is your cannon Steve?!