spooko13

For what it's worth, I'm having the same problem. Fav point appears when I give it but it's gone if I refresh the page or leave it and go back to it. I tried giving the fav pt then tried removing it. Even though the point showed as being there, removing it didn't work as if the point wasn't there at all.

Excellent thought, Pup Patrol! I figured that had to be it, but unfortunately it didn't work for me. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I really looked at the page this time and noticed that it seems to be aimed toward regular members. The "name" of the page is "Become a Premium Member", and it says "Sign in to become a Premium Member" above the Sign In button on the page. I'm already a Premium Member so I find it odd that I'm getting this page in the first place.

My membership is up for renewal on the 26th. Yesterday I received an email from Groundspeak to confirm my payment details. I am set up for auto-renewal but I wanted to make sure the Visa card in the system was the correct one. For some reason when I try to view/edit my membership details I cannot get past the login page. I tried navigating to the page from within GC.com and by clicking on the link in the email, and once there I tried both of the sign in buttons on the page but it just keeps looping me back to the same sign in page. I am using IE 11. I also just tried it with MS’s Edge browser with the same result. Anyone else have this problem? Thanks in advance for any help with this.

Thanks for your suggestion, Lil Devil. I can certainly go out and find more caches (and most definitely will!) to get more fav points added to my total. The main reason I posted this, however, is that I thought a bug may exist in the way this is calculated. If it did, I figured Groundspeak would want to know about it, and if it didn't...well, I would probably learn something new about how all of this works. Thanks for posting!

Hmmm... Very interesting, Bear and Ragged. I wasn't aware that this would happen. I guess it's possible (maybe even probable) that I may have deleted more than the two Found It logs that I've already mentioned, which would explain the discrepancy. Seems like a bizarre rule, though, IMHO. I can understand the first part of what you said (if I'm sitting at 9 finds and I delete a log I would need two caches to get the fav point). That makes perfect sense. It just seems a bit strange to me that I wouldn't get "credit" if I entered another Found It log to replace the one I deleted. If 1 is subtracted when a log is deleted, 1 should be added when the find is reentered. I would still only have one find on that particular cache. Oh, well. If that's the way they do it, that's the way they do it! Anyway, thank you once again for your input! I appreciate it!

Bear and Ragged...as far as I can remember I have deleted two "Found It" logs, the one I mentioned in my post that I deleted recently as a test and one over a year ago. (I had logged the wrong cache by mistake. Doh!) I'm pretty sure those are all the Finds I've ever deleted. Pinkpiggy7...I was wondering the same thing. However, I had found this in the FAQ section for Favorite Points: Q: "If I purchase a Premium Membership later, will I be awarded Favorite Points for the geocaches I found when I was a Basic Member?" A: "Yes - for first-time subscriptions! If you upgrade to Premium Membership we will add up your past geocaching finds and award Favorite Points accordingly." I started off as a basic member and had a few finds under my belt before I upgraded. I was given a fav point when I became a PM, and the finds I had at the time I upgraded were included toward my total count. One thing I should have added to my original post is that things had been in sync until recently, which is part of the reason why I think it has to do with changing the "Notes" to "Finds". Thank you both for your suggestions/comments!

Hello! I am a premium member with (fortunately) a nice, even number of finds which makes the math here very easy. It seems like my favorite point total is off by one and the number of caches I need to receive another point is incorrect. I have an idea as to what may have caused this which I will soon explain. I have 1,790 finds, 40 of which are lab caches. Since lab caches don't count toward earning favorite points they are subtracted from the total bringing me to 1,750 eligible finds. All of these are finds of distinct caches. According to the help topic, I should have received 1 point for being a premium member and 1 point for every 10 caches I have found, resulting in a grand total of 176 fav points. At this time I would need to find 10 caches before another point is added to my total. Currently, I am sitting at 175 fav points, and I need 7 to get another one added. This doesn't add up. Recently I posted some notes to caches so I could add a "visited" log to some TBs I had. (It's a long story as to why I did it this way. I'll just briefly say I didn't have time to write the Found It logs right away but wanted to give the TBs their miles.) Later, I went back and changed those "Notes" to "Finds". What I'm thinking is that those finds are not being included in my total as far as the fav point calculation is concerned. I tried deleting the log from one of the caches and then entered a brand new Found It log to see if it would be counted, but the number needed to receive another fav point did not change. It's almost as if those caches have been "locked in" with the original note that I posted. I hope I have given enough detail to help in researching this. Thanks!