Another Where's Georger here
Another Where's Georger here
Hi. I am new here and was referred form Where's George where I have the profile name of BERT and can be found here BERT's WG PROFILE
I live near Heidelberg Germany and hope to be very active here.
I have one question. How do you mark you Euro bills? Do you stamp them or just write the URL on them.
So far I have just written eurobilltracker.com
[Edit moderator: corrected url -- HNL]
I live near Heidelberg Germany and hope to be very active here.
I have one question. How do you mark you Euro bills? Do you stamp them or just write the URL on them.
So far I have just written eurobilltracker.com
[Edit moderator: corrected url -- HNL]
Only if something is already written on the bill I stamp the URL on it,
because when something is written on the bill, there is a big chance the
bill gets destroyed. If something is written on the bill, it won't matter
anymore. But it is safest, esp. in Germany, not to write the URL on a
clean bill, to prevent destruction.
because when something is written on the bill, there is a big chance the
bill gets destroyed. If something is written on the bill, it won't matter
anymore. But it is safest, esp. in Germany, not to write the URL on a
clean bill, to prevent destruction.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.' - Kurt Vonnegut
- Annie_in_exile
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Welcome, stranger It's nice to see new faces here (figuratively speaking).
I've had a mixed approach towards writing/stamping the url on the notes. When I first joined (and knew nothing) I thought it was an excellent idea and I remember writing the url on a handful of notes. (Yes, I know this comes as a surprise to some fellow users, but yes, I've done that. ). Nothing ever resulted from that, however, and I quickly changed my mind - if I was to have a hit, it should be an "unaided" one.
Then, a couple of months passed. And them some more... no hits. Now that I've got a couple of real ones, I thought it wouldn't harm to see whether adding the url would make any difference. So, last time I got a truly horrible, dirty, wrinkly note, I wrote the url on its margin. When registering the note, I mentioned that on the comment field, so should there be a hit, it would instantly be recognised. So, as a conclusion: in the future I might occasionally write the url on the note if it's near the end of its life, but I wouldn't bother ordering a stamp for that purpose.
Ugh. I've spoken.
I've had a mixed approach towards writing/stamping the url on the notes. When I first joined (and knew nothing) I thought it was an excellent idea and I remember writing the url on a handful of notes. (Yes, I know this comes as a surprise to some fellow users, but yes, I've done that. ). Nothing ever resulted from that, however, and I quickly changed my mind - if I was to have a hit, it should be an "unaided" one.
Then, a couple of months passed. And them some more... no hits. Now that I've got a couple of real ones, I thought it wouldn't harm to see whether adding the url would make any difference. So, last time I got a truly horrible, dirty, wrinkly note, I wrote the url on its margin. When registering the note, I mentioned that on the comment field, so should there be a hit, it would instantly be recognised. So, as a conclusion: in the future I might occasionally write the url on the note if it's near the end of its life, but I wouldn't bother ordering a stamp for that purpose.
Ugh. I've spoken.
- hoppa
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First of all: welcome to EBT.
About marking the bills. I've never done it so far, mainly because I don't have the time to do so. I spend already a lot of time writing the numbers down in order to take them nome with me. My coworkers wouldn't appreciate it if I made them work harder just because I have to write the url on every bill.
About marking the bills. I've never done it so far, mainly because I don't have the time to do so. I spend already a lot of time writing the numbers down in order to take them nome with me. My coworkers wouldn't appreciate it if I made them work harder just because I have to write the url on every bill.
it is better not to say anything and let people doubt if you're stupid; then to speak and take the doubt away. - Mark Twain
I've entered something like 750 bills in Where's George, marking about 70% of them. With that, I recieved a hit rate of approximately 9%.
I've entered something like 1200 bills here, marking about 0% of them. With that, I received a hit rate of approximately 0%.
However, it is important to note that the banking system works different in Europe. Bills get shipped very often to offices of the Central Bank (e.g., by default when you insert a note into a vending machine), and - with strictness vaying somewhat from country to country - sort out all notes with individuality (marks, fissures, dirt). The continuous replacing costs something, of course, but this is the ECB's policy. This policy may be part of the reason (apart from tradition in many central and northern european countries) why there are no 1EUR bills.
I've entered something like 1200 bills here, marking about 0% of them. With that, I received a hit rate of approximately 0%.
However, it is important to note that the banking system works different in Europe. Bills get shipped very often to offices of the Central Bank (e.g., by default when you insert a note into a vending machine), and - with strictness vaying somewhat from country to country - sort out all notes with individuality (marks, fissures, dirt). The continuous replacing costs something, of course, but this is the ECB's policy. This policy may be part of the reason (apart from tradition in many central and northern european countries) why there are no 1EUR bills.
Well there is also 09322 Amerika in SaxonyGanymede wrote:Russia!
Did you know there's an America in The etherlands?
As for my question above, the University of Idaho, Moscow, is a world leading school in Graph Theory. And it is somewhat more likely to find US$ somewhere in Moscow, ID, than in Moscow, RU. So this question was very serious.
- Frankjc3rd
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I am also on WheresGeorge.com. I registered here in case I ever came across a Euro.Speukes wrote:Today I entered my first 9 bills on Where's George. Any other users of wheresgeorge.com here?
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G. Carlin 1937-2008
Nothing is forever, but the internet comes close.
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