justoolingaround

I only need a cache hidden by an owner that starts with 7 to complete the alph-numeric challenge, However, there does not seem to be a way in either geocaching.com or in GSAK to pull up a list of caches hidden by 7blahblahblah. Does anyone know a way? Thanks.

Ok, how about $4.99 per year. The point of my post was not that I will "try the competition". There is no competition to geocaching.com, really. That's what makes this so hard to digest. The maps in my area are now useless on the computer, and I live in one of the 50 largest cities in the nation with fiber-optic internet. I don't have a gps, I use the geocaching ap on my android phone (which I paid $9.99 for). The live map feature on that is flawed, too, because you have to constantly hit refresh to find caches around you. If you are travelling in a car, forget it. C:Geo had an excellent live map feature, which was the only thing I used it for, but that was killed, too. We do this hobby because it is fun to do, but my kids are not yet old enough to be able to look them up on their own, and I don't have the time to find ways around the current problems to find them, either. My only option right now is to run pocket queries, but that does no good when we are on the road. I'm not threatening anything. I'm simply stating that anything that goes backwards in technology doesn't last very long. My prediction is that geocaching will still be around, but geocachers will move on if it becomes too much of a hassle to do the hobby any more. If only the new maps worked correctly, there would be no issues. No one ever said "Go back to Google Maps or we quit". How would you feel if Ford recalled all of their vehichles and replaced CD players with 8-track players? You probably would quit buying Fords.

Wait, you're advocating increasing the membership fee by $90 a year? If they were to do this, there'd be a full-on revolt. There's no way 60% of the PMs would renew if that happened. If Groundspeak ever wants to thin out the herd, so to speak, they'll have to keep your idea in mind. It would be a great way to chase away masses of people. I wonder how many of these people posting on here saying they're leaving will actually go through with it. I bet they'll go try the competition for a short time and then come crawling back when they see how bad things are over there.

$30 a year for membership. Really!? It comes down to the money (as always). I am so disgusted with the current state of maps, I am willing to put up $9.99 a month to have a subscription to geocaching.com. I have only been geocaching for less than a year, and became a premium member because it was "only" $30 a year to become one. We now have an opportunity to show that we are serious about this hobby and willing to pay to be a "premium" member. At $9.99 a month, you should be able to get 60% of your premium members to renew, while increasing income by 400%. This should be enough to get a contract from Google (with advertising stating "brought to you by GoogleMaps"). $9.99 a month for a hobby that can be enjoyed by the entire family is not much to ask. Asking your premium members to take a major step back in technology and still try to enjoy the hobby? Way too much to ask. I am willing to pay whatever it takes to enjoy this hobby again. If it means trying to find workarounds or putting up with inferior technology, though...sadly, I guess it will be time to find another hobby.

Never mind. Figured out my problem. Not sure how do delete this post, though.

I get frustrated getting the same pocket queries over and over stating that this cache has a trackable when it doesn't. Is there some way (that I have yet to discover - I am still fairly new) to mark the trackable as not being in the cache? Then, if 4 more people also post it missing, it is marked as lost and removed from any caches until it is logged again? I keep running into caches where the trackable has been missing for over a year, and people just keep leaving notes that "no TB found". This doesn't help with pocket queries. This is more of a suggestion post, but I coulnd't find any forums for suggestions. (I may be just blind, though). Thanks.