TriciaG

Oops., you're right - yesterday. It's hard to keep up when the date keeps changing every day.

Huh. I randomly checked one of your finds, and your log shows up for me.

I'm not a reviewer, but it sounds like you had no good options. I mean, if you had dropped a generic container and THEN had strapped caches to the protected trees, you still would have had problems. I don't think your issue is the coordinate check / setting up a listing before setting out the container; your issue in this case is that you put the container on a protected tree.

Just do a generic listing, submit it for a coordinate check as discussed above, and then once it clears the coord check, make your elaborate cache, place it, and do the final listing submission. Edit to add: it would suck to be the first to find on a generic container, only to lose out on the full experience of the well-built cache container.

I'd say, archive and replace in a different location. You might also consider making it Premium Members Only, to weed out some of the potential "download and wreak havoc" "players".

See my question in the separate thread you made about this.

Did you earn one of the other wonders with that cache? (Taj Mahal, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, or Parícutin Volcano) Perhaps you cannot earn more than one wonder, so that cache went to one of the others.

General etiquette is 2-3 weeks: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=42 As a TB owner, nowadays I'd call that "simply wonderful" since it seems like many people keep them a month or more.

I'm not sure how to do it on the app, since I don't use it. In a browser, therefore, go to each link you posted above. Scroll to the log you want to delete. Click on "View / Edit Log / Images" Click the garbage can icon. Click "Yes' on the "Are you sure?" message.

Wow! Godspeed!

Hmm. Hubby dislikes Earthcaches, and we don't do Adventure Labs. So for us, a traditional there would be just fine. Others' mileage may vary.

It's hard to say. They could be missing, or you could be inexperienced and simply not seeing them (especially the one on the bridge, which could be the size of the tip of your pinky finger). Logging a Needs Maintenance as you did is fine - it alerts the cache owner to a potential problem with the cache. By the way: You posted "Found It" on all 3 caches. If you used the Geocaching app, you didn't change the log type. You may want to delete those "found its". Also, you do not have to post multiple "DNF" logs on the same day. One is sufficient.

Same here, the latest Firefox. Try refreshing the page.

Doesn't it? See this: "All of it" is ambiguous and could imply submission as well, especially if the cache page that was designed is complicated. And "ongoing maintenance" may imply maintenance of the cache page as well (removing the NM log with an OM log, updating the description/coordinates, etc.) But I don't want to argue about this. Your thought process and mine are obviously different. If you thought my comments were inane, that's fine.

Random thoughts: Who would get the notifications of NM logs, etc.? Who would have control over the cache description? If it's the "buyer", are they going to diligently notify the contractor of maintenance needed, etc? Is the buyer going to update the cache page as needed? When the contractor says "the cache is no longer viable; archive it" will the buyer do so? If it's the contractor who has control (if that were technically possible without them owning the cache), then all the buyer gets out of it is a +1 on the Owned Caches stat. *shrug* It's pretty meaningless, IMHO. The fee would have to be sufficient to make it worthwhile to the contractor but low enough to be attractive to the buyer. How many cachers want to pay someone so they can get another cache listing in their "Owned Caches" list?

The TB could have been taken by someone who didn't log the cache, so you don' t know if it was one of those 3 or 4 players or someone else. That's one of the risks of sending out TBs - they often go missing, and it's hard to know who has it.

Pathtag? No idea. Geocoin? The same "adopt a trackable" link given above. Pathtags are made by a different company, so they may have adoption capabilities somewhere else. On the other hand (after looking at your profile), if it's this one: https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1563310 then it's a geocoin, and adoptable by the link given above.

Worked for me:

Have you tried posting a note to the trackable itself, saying it's not in the cache? The trackable owner can also mark a TB as missing. It is probably time for GS to do another "ghost trackable" sweep. I wonder if they are planning on ever doing it again.

The first NA alerts the reviewer, but a second doesn't hurt anything (err, except maybe the CHS, but with one or two NAs, the CHS doesn't matter as much).

Whether or not you need permission to put it on the electrical meter/box, have you gotten permission to place the geocache on campus? At the very least, yes, you'd need permission to place a cache on a university campus.

Note that you can see higher difficulty/terrain caches ("advanced" ones) on other apps.

Micro.

No, I see no opposition. They allow geo-art, and the British flag isn't obscene or otherwise objectionable these days.

No. You can bulk buy codes for things like geocoins, but you must have Groundspeak approve the coin design. It's more than what most people want to do when they ask about buying just the tracking codes.