+MartyBartfast Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Hi all, I've recently seen that a couple of caches I've done in the past have had Geocoins & Jeeps left in them and considered revisiting the caches just to pick up those items (so I can collect the icons on my profile), but I wondered if this would be considered "bad form" - what does the forum think? In the end I didn't go back 'cos I didn't have the time. Martyn. Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I'd say that re-visiting caches to pick up TBs, jeeps etc is totally acceptable. If either of the interception TBs I'm watching arrive in a cache I've already done, I'd be the first to go get them! Ditto for jeeps as I don't have a yellow or white icon yet Quote Link to comment
Nediam Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 That's fine. I've done it to "drop stuff off" and "pick stuff up from" caches I've already done. Just make sure you don't log the cache as another "find" just create a "note" Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Perfectly acceptable in my opinion. If you are just re-visiting to collect icons, you may consider it more 'sporting' to pick them up and then drop them again. I placed a certain popular geocoin in a cache on Saturday, and was pleased to see that somebody who revisited the cache to get the icon, sportingly left the coin for somebody else. I have set myself a personal rule that if I revisit a cache to pick up a TB, I will drop a different one in it's place. I may make an exception if the TB has languished for weeks though, as TBs love to travel. This is just how I think that I should play the game though, and it's not an official rule. The word etiquette comes up very often in reference to TBs. Etiquette is not the same as rules, it's very easy to get sucked in! Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 There was a UK geocoin in a cache I'd visited before that looked interesting, but I also had a TB to drop off. So I dropped the TB in the cache, checked out the geocoin, realised I couldn't help it on its mission so left it, logged it in and out explaining why I hadn't taken it. Seems alright to me. Quote Link to comment
alistair_uk Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Errr, what they said. I tend to pick up a few TBs from local caches I have visited in the past if I will be travelling a great distance and then deposit others on my return. I always post a note to say that I have done this, just in case someone is planning a visit for the bug and does not notice it has gone. Quote Link to comment
+drums4monty Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I agree. I visit caches that i have done to pick up and drop off. If I am going to visit another cache very soon I will take the TB/coin, otherwise log it out log it in, and post as a note, not a find. Quote Link to comment
+Andy&BeckyRiley Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I think it's fine and indeed should be encouraged. It gets someone to visit the cache and check it's still there, dry etc etc. I dropped off a German geocoin in a local cache and a certain resident of this forum who shall remain nameless had bagged it within 90 minutes! Andy Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Just today I went out to two caches I had already done, to pick up TB's, and managed to get one of ARCHAIC CHARMER's logs deleted, as funnily enough he hadn't visited the cache, when he said he had. Quote Link to comment
+The Mighty Shark Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I have been back to a cache just to pick up TB's & Geocoins on more than one occasion. But when I go on line to log them on the cache page I always post it as a note rather than a find. I say go for it Martyn Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 Well thanks for the replies, it looks like a unanimous "go for it" so I will - if they're still there when I get a chance to go out! Ta muchly Martny. Quote Link to comment
+The HERB5 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 But when I go on line to log them on the cache page I always post it as a note rather than a find. Can you/What happens if you log a cache mor ethan once ? Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 But when I go on line to log them on the cache page I always post it as a note rather than a find. Can you/What happens if you log a cache mor ethan once ? It adds another find to your stats. This is considered bad form by most people, as you don't really have to search for it if you already know where it is. Unless the cache owner has moved the cache to a new hiding place and given permission for re-logging - then it's ok. Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I did a 'Maintenance Visit' on one of my caches at the weekend. To my surprise, there was a Yellow Jeep in it. As it's not one of my 'more popular' caches (just four 'Found It' logs since my last visit in December 2004), I took the Jeep to move it on to a more frequently visited cache. For me, this was the exception, however, as I normally wouldn't go to one of my caches, or one that I'd previously done, just to get a bug or coin to add to my tally. On a couple of other occasions, I've had e-mails from bug owners asking if I would 'rescue' their bug that had been in one of my caches for quite a while and have been quite willing to do so. That said, I don't give a Tinkers Cuss if others do... each to his/her/other own. Quote Link to comment
+The HERB5 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Unless the cache owner has moved the cache to a new hiding place and given permission for re-logging - then it's ok. DOH, have had a couple re-located I could of found. I'll have to search for the ones I can search for now. Quote Link to comment
+bobuk Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I agree with what has been said before.. As yet i dont have a cache of my own so when i wanted to let free into the wild a UK geocoin i used a cache near by (GCKRNP) there have been two visits to this cache site but neither one took the UK coin B. Quote Link to comment
+The Mars Bars Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) It should be encouraged! I have just moved Bonnies UK coin to a cache in the centre of Paris that I knew the location of because I'd previously found it. (I only posted a note though) If there had been another coin in there I would have moved it on. I have also picked up TB's and coins from my own cache, notably from one that I set over Christmas were some kind gentlemen deposited 13 tb's in one hit a couple of days after an event in the area! Unfortunately, the day after they did this was the stated date on the cache page for the box to be replaced by a much smaller container..... A lot of puzzle caches use TB's as clues, It would be ridiculous to suggest that if the TB is in a cache that you have previously visited it would be cheating to retrieve it. Cheers Dave Edited January 17, 2006 by The Mars Bars Quote Link to comment
Dave from Glanton Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) But when I go on line to log them on the cache page I always post it as a note rather than a find. Can you/What happens if you log a cache mor ethan once ? It adds another find to your stats. This is considered bad form by most people, as you don't really have to search for it if you already know where it is. Unless the cache owner has moved the cache to a new hiding place and given permission for re-logging - then it's ok. OK, starting to go slightly OT here, but what happens if you try and log a find against one of your own caches? Of course, I'm not suggesting for one minute that I've ever had to do a full-on search to find one of my own caches when returning for a maintenance visit, oh no, of course not....gosh, don't those piles of stones all look very similar..... <cough><shuffle> Edit - learn to spell, idiot child! Edited January 17, 2006 by Dave from Glanton Quote Link to comment
+The Mars Bars Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) But when I go on line to log them on the cache page I always post it as a note rather than a find. Can you/What happens if you log a cache mor ethan once ? It adds another find to your stats. This is considered bad form by most people, as you don't really have to search for it if you already know where it is. Unless the cache owner has moved the cache to a new hiding place and given permission for re-logging - then it's ok. OK, starting to go slightly OT here, but what happens if you try and log a find agaist one of your own caches? Of course, I'm not suggesting for one minute that I'd ever had to do a full-on search to find one of my own caches when returning for a maintenance visit, oh no, of course not....gosh, don't those piles of stones all look very similar..... <cough><shuffle> You get a smiley! This can happen by mistake and I hope that is the case with the many examples of this phenomenom that can be viewed on geocacheuk.com Follow this link! Owners who have logged their own caches! Read the explanation as to why this list exists before casting aspersions Edited January 17, 2006 by The Mars Bars Quote Link to comment
+bargee Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I agree with what has been said before.. As yet i dont have a cache of my own so when i wanted to let free into the wild a UK geocoin i used a cache near by (GCKRNP) there have been two visits to this cache site but neither one took the UK coin B. Its alright bob i've got my eye on it for a dawn raid, if only it stops raining in the morning, your coin will soon be on the move Iain the bargee Quote Link to comment
alistair_uk Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 What about a webcam? Do you feel it is acceptable for a cache owner to log a find. Finding the camera is after all not normally a problem. Quote Link to comment
+The Mighty Shark Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Can you/What happens if you log a cache mor ethan once ? Nothing... It just adds the log. I have never had any problems adding more than 1 log to a cache. Never logged it as a find more than once though. all additional logs have always just been as a note. Quote Link to comment
+Orchards Finest Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 We grabbed a white jeep on Sunday from a local cache which we did back in May. Felt cheeky taking it from under the cache owners nose but will replace locally next w/e so cachers along the south coast get a chance. Quote Link to comment
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