Eric Tenders

I recently had a cacher go to one of my caches the cache was a Nano. He said he found it but when he was taking the log out he dropped the small magnet inside and couldn't find it so he took the cache home and notified me that he wanted to give it back to me to fix and replace. My question is should I tell him to fix it himself since he is the one that broke it, or take it back replace it and move on and not say anything. Just trying to get a feel for what the right thing to do is, and would like some opinions please ET

I recently received this email on one of my caches, I have removed the Cachers name and just posted his email, is he right???? This is a cache that I have at a park and it is a Nano under a bench, in the cache I did not have a size, or much or a hint. When the cacher posted his find he posted that it was a nano. I simply asked him to remove the part of his post that said what the cache was (Nano) and I did it nicely, he never emailed me for a hint or anything, when he had a problem not finding it and other cachers have found it with no problems in fact one said it was a great cache and he only had 12 Finds....well anyway here is the angry cachers email and this is what he said. "People need to know what size the cache is that they are looking for especially when its a NANO. I had looked 4 other times with no luck. When I realized from someone another post what size it was I knew what to look for. Its just a game and people are supposed to be able to find the cache. People will look differently if they know what size it is. Since I have over 700 finds and it took me 4 tries to find it people that aren't as experienced might just give up on the cache. I am not sure if I will remove the NANO reference or not." Please let me know your thoughts. Eric Tenders

PureCouger< I looked at your profile and see that you are in my area, and I can only assume that you are talking about me in your post. My wife and I recently moved to this area, and I had some experience with me Cousin and would go along with him before I moved when he would go caching. I found out fairly quickly that I didn't really enjoy the frustration of finding them as I did the enjoyment of placing them for people to find. I saw that there were many spots in our area that could us some caches for folks to find, so I started placing them. One guy in particular loves finding my caches he has found almost ever single one and gets most of the ftf on them. I guess the way I look at it is this is a great sport and everyone has there particular area they like to excel in some like First to Finds, some like Mystery cahes, some like Multis, some like to find them, and some like to hide them. If I am doing something wrong and against the ethics of Geocaching I will stop right away, but so far from what I am reading in the responses I'm not seeing anything wrong with the fact that I only have 12 finds, and 75+ hides. Please someone let me know if I'm doing something wrong here, and I will be dissapointed that I can't place anymore but I will stop. By the way this is my fist post to this forum, so I apologize if I did something wrong. Eric Tenders You didn't do anything wrong. Only thing I can see wrong with your hides is they are nearly all micros. But that is just me, I like smalls and regulars. When I was doing the Washington county challenge, and like most state county challenges micros don't count. So they get filtered out of the PQ's. Keep hiding ... but get some small lock'n'locks Jim Jim, Thanks for the coment you are right most are micros as my Cousin had a whole lot of Bisons that he gave me, cause his friend works at a supplier that makes them. but just a few days ago I hid my fist Ammo Can and I even had a $50 bill for the ftfer as it was a pretty good hike and challenging...... check it out on my hide list of caches.... so I'm getting there. But it's hard to turn down the new larger Bisons for .50 cents a piece. E T

PureCouger< I looked at your profile and see that you are in my area, and I can only assume that you are talking about me in your post. My wife and I recently moved to this area, and I had some experience with me Cousin and would go along with him before I moved when he would go caching. I found out fairly quickly that I didn't really enjoy the frustration of finding them as I did the enjoyment of placing them for people to find. I saw that there were many spots in our area that could us some caches for folks to find, so I started placing them. One guy in particular loves finding my caches he has found almost ever single one and gets most of the ftf on them. I guess the way I look at it is this is a great sport and everyone has there particular area they like to excel in some like First to Finds, some like Mystery cahes, some like Multis, some like to find them, and some like to hide them. If I am doing something wrong and against the ethics of Geocaching I will stop right away, but so far from what I am reading in the responses I'm not seeing anything wrong with the fact that I only have 12 finds, and 75+ hides. Please someone let me know if I'm doing something wrong here, and I will be dissapointed that I can't place anymore but I will stop. By the way this is my fist post to this forum, so I apologize if I did something wrong. Eric Tenders