boggymarsh

If he's at all like the sales managers I know, he wouldn't be upset. He'd think that £350 was pretty cheap, and he'd know he'd have spent much more than £350-worth of his time if he'd designed the whole thing himself. (Ask any gc.com event organizer how many hours' work they put into making it run smoothly - and that's before you've counted the months or years of hard-won experience which feed into the plans.) I haven't been on one of these particular courses, but I have been on a similar-sounding treasure hunt in London. I was with about ten colleagues, and all of us involved thought it was a good deal. None of us got saddled with the pressure of organizing it, everything was beautifully planned and worked seamlessly (which we all know isn't always the case with geocaching trips!) and we were all happy to chuck in our share and get on with enjoying the day. Of course, you're quite at liberty to decide it's not worth the money to you. But that doesn't make it a rip-off - and it doesn't mean that everyone else will feel the same way. Cheers Richard Well said Richard thats what my boss thought, after the event I was on the way the team got on was more productive they did us a one off deal it was more than £350 I think they charge that for hotels so there clients can use it at their venue and they own the right to use their own private caches. If Theta can pull all that together without the hassle and get small companies performance to improve I think any operations manager or director would be delighted if they saw their sales increase because of a small investment in the bigger picture of things.

I don't see what's wrong with the cache description. Where's the "direct marketing"? Yep - no mention of any marketing agenda on the cache page, and not even a link to their site from the hiders profile. Where's the commercial bit? Hi I saw this thread and though I'd make a comment, I have been on one of theta's courses, they are brilliant, they got me into Geo-caching. Someone here seems to be missing the point though, they are a commercial venture aiming geo-caching at hotels and companies to increase productivity and promote business. The course I went on was at a hotel and the hotel had loads of bookings and like me possibly some people took the sport up afterwards. In a way they support geo-caching. I had a chat with the guy who was running it and they are based in West Lancs, they have a lot of support from the land owners and farmers wheras some people who place caches don't even ask. I have seen their minium impact policies and some catchers don't even care about that, don't they deserve a break ? It's companies like them that are good in promoting general geo-caching. Somebody mentioned that they called it geo-caching which can be done without a map or compass, does geo mean geographical and cache as in a hidden location, there is no mention that geo-caching should be done with a gps unless of course people can't navigate without one ! Just a thought.