Good afternoon. First I want to say that I do work for DeLorme and I am posting here with permission. I do not wish to start any conversations about our products and I am not here to sell anything. Also, I can not comment on the cache review process because I do not have sufficient knowledge about the subject to do so. I would simply like to comment on a few of the posts that are in this thread.
The DeLorme Challenges were created by fans of our products with absolutely no influence from DeLorme. The challenges were actually brought to our attention by GC.com when they contacted me to ensure that we wouldn't be upset with the use of images of our products on the site. These caches were posted without our knowledge and, as a result, without any advertising revenue being created for GC.com. We have since purchased a small amount of advertising on the site but I can assure you it is not a significant portion of GC.com's revenue and the DeLorme Challenges were not the motivating factor in our decision to advertise.
Our interactions with GC.com have proven that they are strongly committed to keeping commercial uses of the site to a minimum and they have actually declined speaking about possible marketing activities that would have gone against that committment.