SDPlayer

I ran into one of these marked notes last night and it really irritated me. Fortunatly it was only a 2003A, nothing important. But it got me to wondering if anyone has ever run into a more valuable note that has been similiarly defaced?

NOS

Yes, WG is a plague upon older notes. People deface and destroy Web Notes, 40 year old stars, Red Seals, you name it all in the name of getting what they call a "hit". I don't even like to mention the site on here for fear of getting people involved with such practices. In all honesty I hope that the United States Federal Government one day shuts the entire site down. Many of the stamped bills get destroyed at the FRBs solely because of the WG stamps and markings. This should be grounds for the United States Federal Government to close them down. Not only this but in the last day it has been revealed that the site administrator has banned of all words "Christ" and "Jesus" from being used in user notes for bills. This tears it for me and I will no longer be apart of WG.

SDPlayer

The bad thing is it's still makes the news. I saw a TV news article on CBS Wednesday night where they even interviewed the creator of the whole idea. I don't know if he is also the site admin. I hadn't heard about the religious ban in the notes. Maybe we'll get lucky and EVERYONE will stop doing it!!!!

Bonedigger

I got one in Minnesota a couple of months ago...

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NOS

Yes he goes by the name of Ha n k. If he had blocked all religious words and names it would be different but he has banned only Jesus and Christ! If the United States Federal Government doesn't shut him down then hopefully he will have no choice but to one day close it down himself. He was mentioning the other day about how bandwidth and space usage continues to rise, raising operational costs. Every time someone enters a bill with a note it takes up space on a server someplace, this is not free to do.

hontonai

Maybe we should enter every note that passes through our hands on his site (without making a mark on any of them).

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NOS

That is a good idea but thankfully there are already enough users out there who have saved us the trouble of doing so. There are individual WG users with way too much time on their hands who have somehow managed to enter more than 500,000 bills without marking any of them.

Coinlover

uhh, lets not. i've been emsing bills for a long time now, and have gotton some very interesting hits. that is another hobby of mine btw. i thought you emsed bills nos? are you stopping? not everyone on that site is evil ok.

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hontonai

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Coinlover

ENTER MARK SPEND = EMS.

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cesariojpn

I'm not gonna note the actual serial number, but I have a WG note where the serial # is A00000YYY*.

Yes, they defaced a low serial numbered star note.

NOS

The site administrator crossed the line with his hateful, disrespectful and venomous attitude towards Christians and perhaps even people of faith in general. I am done with WG now in part because of this but mostly because of his banning the use of only Jesus and Christ.

Magman

ouch!
I gotta say I do enjoy finding WG notes in change, so I can enter them and see where they came from (which is the whole idea in the first place, I believe)
but to mark such a low serial number! thats horrible.
the notes Ive found have all just been normal worn notes. nothing special

clembo

I know I have found at least one Forth Worth 295 engraving error with a WG on it. Might not mean much to you but it's a legit error note.

The concept is cool and I used to actually track those that I got. NEVER marked one though that I can recall and if I did it was a rag.

Betting there's some good notes still floaring around out there with the WG stamp.

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andrew289

I participate in Where's George all the time. Living in a tourist Mecca, I've received some great hits over the years. It's fun, it's a game. It's only a dollar. You can't save them all ...I mean it's only a dollar. If it causes to much stress perhaps you should find another hobby. There are more important things in life to be concerned about. More important than stamping a dollar with a rubber stamp ... I mean really.