An idea from overseas.

Frankjc3rd · Post by **Frankjc3rd** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:14 am

I registered on here just in case I ever came across a euro that I could enter into the system. I am a user on http://www.wheresgeorge.com here in the US. My understanding is that marked notes in the EU are removed from circulation. May I suggest a "mark" that is not a "mark". Possibly a small line under the short code or even a smiley face in the zero of some of the larger notes.

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:35 am

Frankjc3rd wrote:I registered on here just in case I ever came across a euro that I could enter into the system. I am a user on http://www.wheresgeorge.com here in the US. My understanding is that marked notes in the EU are removed from circulation. May I suggest a "mark" that is not a "mark". Possibly a small line under the short code or even a smiley face in the zero of some of the larger notes. :?:

And what use could such marks be, if I may ask? I'm sorry, but I'm simply unable to understand the point.

Ganymede · Post by **Ganymede** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 11:38 am

As far as I know, the people that use marks to keep track of their own bills generally use small marks - dots, small crosses etc. - that fall into the same category.

The only really obvious marks I've come across are the ones made by bank tellers...

Frankjc3rd · Post by **Frankjc3rd** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 7:02 pm

Ganymede gets it. If you see a note with what looks like a special mark on it be sure to enter it as you may give another user a hit. Then again if you are a user of this site you will be entering it anyway.

Ganymede · Post by **Ganymede** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:05 pm

I don't know about Where's George, but the kind of people entering notes here are só obsessive about EBT they wouldn't dream of letting a bill go through their hands without registering it...

These little marks are more to make sure they don't get the two piles (registerd - yet to register) mixed up.

bplinson · Post by **bplinson** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:12 pm

So people on here do not mark their Euro bills with the URL???

nodisch18 · Post by **nodisch18** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:17 pm

bplinson wrote:So people on here do not mark their Euro bills with the URL???

No that is not completely true, for instance Euroblaster uses a stamp or something. But i think most people don't write the url on notes. The reason is that most people want a real hit and not a forced one. But you are free to write the url on the bills!!

BTW welcome on the forum! Happy tracking!

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:22 pm

nodisch18 wrote:The reason is that most people want a real hit and not a forced one.

That is not the main reason. The main reason is to prevent destruction of
the bill, because when it is marked, the lifetime of a bill decreases drama-
tically, and that way also the chance to get a hit. I only mark bills (with a
stamp) which are already marked in some way, because then it doesn't
matter anymore.

nodisch18 · Post by **nodisch18** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:24 pm

Elmo wrote:
nodisch18 wrote:The reason is that most people want a real hit and not a forced one.
That is not the main reason. The main reason is to prevent destruction of
the bill, because when it is marked, the lifetime of a bill decreases drama-
tically, and that way also the chance to get a hit. I only mark bills (with a
stamp) which are already marked in some way, because then it doesn't
matter anymore.

I don't think that that is the main reason. If you look at the statistics of Euroblaster and HNL it is pretty obvious that the change of a hit with a marked note is much bigger. Look a the hits Euroblaster got, most are one-note-wonders, if the url wasn't written on the note he wouldn't have that hit!

ResQgeek · Post by **ResQgeek** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:07 pm

One of the first things I noticed about Eurobilltracker.com is the really low number of hits you have. I acknowledge that the website hasn't been around as long as wheresgeorge.com and that not as many bills have been entered, but I suspect that lack of URLs on the bills is contributing to the low hit rates. I label every US bill I enter at wheresgeorge with the URL, and I currently have a hit rate in excess of 17%.

I'm not sure I understand the desire for a "real" hit rather than a "forced" hit. My opinion is that the goal is to find out where the bill has travelled, so it doesn't matter how you get the note re-entered. The important thing is to get it re-entered anyway you can, so that its movement can be tracked.

As for the destruction of marked bills...I won't claim any expertise regarding the policy on this in Europe, but in my opinion, it would be an unnessecary expense to destroy otherwise servicable bills just because of minor markings made on them. However, I don't get to make that decision. Overall, I think that the risk of marked bill destruction is worth the increased chances of hits.

BTW - when I mark my bills, I do it by hand, in moderatly small print, and I always try to find a margin, or some other out of the way place on the bill to write the URL. I don't like the idea of large marks or stamps in the middle of the bill, which detract from the overall appearance.

Anyway, those are just some of my thoughts on this issue.

ResQgeek

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:49 pm

ResQgeek wrote: As for the destruction of marked bills...I won't claim any expertise regarding the policy on this in Europe, but in my opinion, it would be an unnessecary expense to destroy otherwise servicable bills just because of minor markings made on them. However, I don't get to make that decision. Overall, I think that the risk of marked bill destruction is worth the increased chances of hits.

That destruction policy is very different in the euro countries. The Belgian and
Italian NCBs are a bit 'reluctant' in destroying bills, while the German and
Finnish NCBs are very strict considering the destruction of bills. And I have
read somewhere that the US are very reluctant to destroy bills compared to
Europe. I have seen a dollar bill (don't know the value anymore) with
George's eyes burnt out!

And I have seen somewhere that a TV broad-
casting corporation wanted to promote a new series by putting stickers on the
1-dollar bills!

Edit: changed a controversial part

nodisch18 · Post by **nodisch18** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:02 pm

Elmo wrote: ....while the German and Finnish NCBs are real nazis considering the destruction of bills....

Please watch your words...., i'm quite sure you don't mean it offensive but it looks a bit rude!

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:14 pm

nodisch18 wrote:
Elmo wrote: ....while the German and Finnish NCBs are real nazis considering the destruction of bills....
Please watch your words...., i'm quite sure you don't mean it offensive but it looks a bit rude!

Yes, some people might misinterpret this, so I have deleted this wrecked
sentence.

Gauss · Post by **Gauss** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:00 am

I'll take this occasion to mention the following:
In Germany, political correctness requires that none of the terms "Nazi", "Adolf", "Hitler", "KZ" (for concentration camp), "Drittes Reich" or similar be used within any comparison with a living person or any recent event. Actually not even comparison, but also within the same quotation.
Any politician who does not obey this unwritten rule has to resign, most recently the minister of justice in 2003. Previous cases include the president of parliament in 1988 and the most promising candidate for federal president in 1993.

Kamarenes · Post by **Kamarenes** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:05 am

What an appropriate post on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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