I tend to put bugs in more difficult/remote caches. I do this because these are usually better hidden and most novice cachers tend not to go after these. My reasoning is to prolong the life of the bugs since more experienced cachers tend to respect bugs more and I don't want to be the last one to handle the bug.
Of the 5 bugs I have sent out the two that are missing where grabbed by cachers with 3 and less finds and have not ever cached again.
I will however try and place them in caches that will be visited.
Of course the was the exception when I placed the TN Volunteer travel bug at a hard to find cache, Hoodoo Hideaway, on the Peralta Trail but then what would you expect from a Florida Gator.
Team Sand Dollar
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Brekke
To:
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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] What should I do when a geocacher looses my TB?
I've had travel bugs that I thought were lost that showed up again 4 months later. Hang in there it may come back. I currently have one that has logged more than 17,000 miles, and now it is lost. I'm hopeful. Something I have done, and something that I have seen others do is to use the Copy Tag and make another TB out of it...but I would wait until you are pretty sure that you're not going to see the other ones again....just call it (insert name here) Copy Tag. I enjoy watching my TB's move - (or not move, a lot of people who get travel bugs feel that they have to then put them in very low frequency or hard to get to caches). TB's really aren't that expensive so if I lose a couple, it's all part of the game. I'll put more out just because I like to watch them. I had one that lasted for 4 days, I contacted the person about it, and he replied that he was sick of my pesky travel bug and would place it soon...he never did, and by looking at his profile, he never visited the site again, and that's the one I replaced with the Copy Tag..(though Highpointer retrieved that one a few days later and put it into a cache on the 17th of May that hasn't had a visitor since...as I said a lot of people figure they have to put TB's into difficult out of the way caches. You just have to decide for yourself whether it is really a waste of money for you, if it is, don't put any more out, if you want to watch them, put more eventually one will get around fairly well.
I like to watch them, so for me, I will buy more and put them out there....the choice is really up to you.
Hope this helps.
Joe
TeamBlunder
----- Original Message -----
From: IFISHAZ@aol.com
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:18 AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] What should I do when a geocacher looses my TB?
Hello IFISHAZ (Dennis P.) here,
Unfortunately I have had two travel bugs lost by geocachers who had retrieved them from caches. Anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do next? It seems to me (as a relatively new cacher) to be a waste of money to buy TB's that if they get lost are just gone (both bugs were lost in their first months of life, one wasn't even a complete month old). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, IFISHAZ.
IFISHAZnospam@aol.com
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