Missing Travel Bugs

1queenand4jokers · Senior Member

Missing Travel Bugs

Gumpy · Member

You could create new tags if you know the number, or you could contact the owner of the T.B.'s and see if they are willing to send you the copy section of the tag. I don't see the reason of not using that tag, as the owner you can always edit your bug without the needing the number so why not use it as back-up T.B. tag?

Depending on what your budget is like you could also replace the T.B.'s with something similar, or you could copy what the manufacturers of Cabbage Patch dolls did. If you sent in a doll for repair and they couldn’t fix it they sent you a death certificate. You could do the same thing. email them a certificate saying "I am sorry to inform you, but your T.B. has gone to a better place."

Peter and Gloria · Senior Member

I would not send a missing bug to a TB graveyard; that would screw up it's mileage if it is ever "found" or replaced. As cache owner (or TB owner), you can mark the TB as missing.

Although a TB may have been in a cache of yours that gets muggled, I don't think you are responsible for replacing it. As a TB owner, I know that I am at the mercy of muggles or of geocachers that just don't like to play nicely. We have a TB (a US GeoCoin) that has been held by a geocacher for over seven months. We hope that eventually it will get back in circulation.

We have another TB that we thought had been sitting in a cache since last June. A cacher just logged it last week saying "my kids picked it up last fall" but it was not logged. Hopefully it will be moving to Texas soon. "Missing" TB can always turn up.