+The Canning Clan Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 We want to make our own cache in a very special spot to us. I've been reading about FTF prizes but need some ideas. be willing to spent up to $10......anyone???? Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 An unactivated geocoin - lots to choose from, check out the Travelers, coin threads - would make a great FTF premium. Quote Link to comment
+LSUFan Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I go down to the local trophy shop and get a small ftf trophy made up. Our local ftf competitiors around here really like them. It's something they can add to their collections. Here is a pic of one for my "Looks Greek to me" cache. I had it printed in Greek fonts to match the theme of the cache. The one pictured cost about $6 bucks, if I remember right. Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 unactivated TB tags, too. gift cards to an area sporting good store, or any gift card for that matter... Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 We want to make our own cache in a very special spot to us. I've been reading about FTF prizes but need some ideas. be willing to spent up to $10......anyone???? Ten Dollar Bills work great. Gift cads to restaurants are good too. Or maybe something from the Groundspeak shop. Bret Quote Link to comment
+mrking Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) I got a Palm Zire with cables off of Ebay for $5 CDN. Placing the cache this week. Edited January 4, 2006 by mrking Quote Link to comment
+cudlecub Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I had stickers printed up with FTF at a local print shop that cachers put on their vehicles. I had 50 printed up and they were less than a buck each but the cachers love them. Quote Link to comment
+The Canning Clan Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 some great ideas folks...thanks. got me going in the right direction anyways............$10 bill......funny, but not a bad idea Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I put 10 of the gold sac dollar coins in a cache once as FTF - folks took them 1 at a time - oh well. Quote Link to comment
+Jhwk Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Mini-mag flashlight - good for the old caching backpack Quote Link to comment
+The Canning Clan Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 mini mag....good one Quote Link to comment
+Palm Grunt Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 A cache I just placed a few days ago had a 1st and 2nd finders prize. The 1TF was a new Belkins 4 port USB hub vacum packed by a food saver and the 2TF was a Regal Cinema movie pass and PDX geocoin, sealed in the same manner. Quote Link to comment
+Team Maccabee Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 For my first (and so far only) cache I had 3 FTF prizes, for different categories of finders: 1. Adult - $10 gift certificate to local Army-Navy Surplus, enough for 2 ammocans. 2. Kids - package of cool kid's swag and a PaNoWeGe kid's wooden nickel. 3. TUS FTF - That special FTF prize for the Tiresome Usual Suspects, Seattle's dedicated FTF hunters. It is ... well, special, and is meant to be rehidden in a new Seattle cache for yet another FTF hunt. It's had two holders so far, and I hope that it will be re-hidden soon. Team Maccabee Quote Link to comment
+Bluejaytoo Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I think coins (geocoins or otherwise) make great FTF prizes. They have a high perceived (and sometimes real) value. I hid a cache that marks a historic event which took place in 1881, so the FTF prize was an 1881 Morgan dollar. I also included a #1 ribbon I picked up at a dollar store. I'll be placing some more caches in the spring, and at least one of them will have an unactivated '06 PA geocoin. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Lovely old silver coins. In circulated condition in rolls, they're only worth about the price of the silver. So that's, like, three or four bucks for a big ol' Walking Liberty Half. If you've never held one in your hand, it feels like deadly serious money. I snagged one FTF in my whole caching career, and I got a blue squishy frog. I was such a newbie, though, I thought it was keen. Quote Link to comment
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