In Reply to: Personally, I would only enter one or two Wild Georges from the same Georger (m) posted by Hans M. Guy - HMG in MAss on November 4, 2003 at 10:26 AM:
I feel that if you find someone's bills in regular circulation, then you should enter it. Granted, if you keep finding one person's bills, it's not so "cool" and "fun" anymore. But I do NOT think one would need to worry about getting negative attention from Hank from something like that unless it were a LOT of bills.
I think that, for the purposes of accurately tracking the travels of a bill that's been entered here at W.G., one should always enter marked bills that they find. That's the whole point of the site, right? The only reason that I would not enter wilds is if I kept getting a whole lot of them from the same person that involved a means that isn't entirely natural. For instance, if we keep shopping at the same store and keep finding each other's bills there. Or any other situation like that where you can identify exactly how the bills went from one to the other. Each situation would need to be evaluated to decide how many bills should be entered before it's time to stop entering them. And that is up to the Georger.
Just for the sake of more examples...
I used to work a cash register at the admissions desk of the SC State Museum. I received bills there from someone about 45 miles away on several occasions. None of these sightings resulted from her spending her bills there at the museum, to my knowledge. So I entered all of them.
Another example: recently, I started EMSing a lot of $2 bills. There is another Georger that banks about 2 blocks from my bank. Between these two backs is a shopping center where I spend a bunch of these $2 bills. So when I and the other Georger go to our respective banks to get some more $2 bills, we often find each other's marked bills, as well as our own marked bills that went full circle. So far, I have entered all of them that I've found, which isn't all that many... 3-4 maybe? But the other guy has found about 10-15 of mine. He hasn't entered any in a while, though, so it may be that he no longer enters my twos when he finds them. In this example, I would consider stopping entering those bills. But my threshhold has not been reached yet. Maybe if I find a bunch more, I'll think about it...
I guess my point is that a lot of us worry too much about hitting bills and getting in trouble with Hank for entering too many of another person's bills. But remember, the point is to track the money! As long as you aren't trading bills directly, or if there is not some "bill pipeline" that is resulting in you obtaining lots of bills from the same person, you shouldn't worry. It's natural circulation.
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