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whats the advantage ....

 

Advantages for us:

1. Pocket Queries

2. Paperless caching (ebooks)

3. Pocket Queries

4. Pocket Queries

5. Pocket Queries

6. Pocket Queries

 

oh yeah, and the off chance that I can put a 'members' bug in a Premium member cache. :laughing:

:unsure:

 

The only downside is the one stated above, you know...that whole 'threat' thing.....

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Sue and I have not one but two premium member accounts so we an each better track the types of caches which we love and so that we can each have a separate identity on the national forums. As a long-term premium member, I will take a big risk and stick my neck out waaaay far and reveal a few of the best kept-secrets about premium memberships and the people who enjoy them:

  • we have not only a secret handshake but a secret smile.
  • we have access to listings for very high-quality caches which are not available to regular members.
  • our GPS receivers have an added module that tells us when any other Premium Member is within five miles of our location, and the screen displays their name(s) and maps their location(s).
  • there are top-secret (and very wild) parties held every Friday night and Sunday night for premium members; attendance is free for us.
  • our specially-modified GPS receivers work even in downtown areas of cities when shielded by tall buildings, and even inside steel and concrete buildings, and even underground.
  • we have access to special satellite signals which allow us to get within four inches of a cache location, rather than the normal error margin of seven to thirty feet.
  • we are invited to special dinner functions every Wednesday evening, aand all the food and drink is free.
  • we are invited to screenings of major feature movies two months before they are released to the movies.
  • due to a special engine gadget which we are given, our cars get 40% better gas mileage than those of regular members.
  • we are able to purchase gasoline for 30% of the going price anywhere in the world (except for Croatia.)
  • we are entitled to free charter use of one of the 4,000 Bell Jet helicopters owned by geocaching.com for one hour per week (or 4.4 hours per month) for geocaching outings to remote cache sites.
  • we have free use of any Lear jets in the fleet of 290 Geo Lear jets, with two charter pilots on each craft ready and waiting.
  • we are given 48 hours advance notice of all new caches about to be approved.
  • if we get stuck finding a well-hidden cache, we pull out our remote cache sensor unit, press the "A" button, and the cache we are hunting immediately emits a loud beeping sound for one minute, while flashing a 400,000 lumen strobe light to enable us to find it immediately.
  • when out in the field cache-hunting, we have a special device attached to our GPSr which contains the phone number, cell phone number and email address of every cache hider and every geocacher in the world, so that at the push of a button we can call a cache hider or past finder and ask for some hints on how to find the cache.
  • If we truly cannot find a cache or it has gone missing, we are entitled to claim a find on it anyway due to our Premium member perks.
  • As Premium members, we are able to get caches approved in locations which are blatantly dangerous, insane and illegal, such as in abandoned nuclear reactors (i.e., GCTA5E), in toxic waste dumps, or in sewage lagoons.
  • We get free instant bail service worldwide whenever we get arrested while retrieving a cache.
  • We get free use of a Russian Mir mini depth-exploring submarine and its service tender boat anywhere in the Atlantic Ocean for retrieval of deep sea underwater caches from depths ranging from 1 mile to 2.6 miles beneath the surface of the sea.

To the other Premium members: Folks, sorry for giving away so many of our secret perks, but it was only matter of time before they figured it out anyway!

Edited by Vinny & Sue Team
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I sure have been missing alot of perks! how did is miss all those??

 

Seriously, I don't think it is a question of "what are the benefits." Even though Pocket Queries are worth it to me alone, there are other more important reasons:

 

1. Geocaching.com is THE only place where we as geocachers have to really make our hobby work. It is the central clearing house for all caches. It tells us when new caches have been placed, we can track TB's, etc. etc. etc. For no other reason, we as geocachers should support Geocaching.com as a matter of principle. We drive 30 miles and spend $3.00 for gas, but balk at spending $3.00 a MONTH for something that gives us so much benefit.

 

2. See #1.

 

3. See #1

 

4. See #1

 

That about says it. If we gain benefit we should support it.

 

geofindr.

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I really like the yearly gifts they send us. First year was a hiking stick, then a fleece jacket, backpack, etc. I'm pretty sure we get a new GPS for 10 years? Might be 12.

All that's great but the $30 cost is a great donation to support the site. I'm gettin' my moneys worth.

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I would find it dificult not to spend $3 on what brings me so much pleasure.

Amen!

 

Just the bandwidth alone for the Geocaching.com website must cost a fortune... I am quite pleased to give three bucks a month regardless of the 'benefits' of premium membership! If you want to experience premium membership first hand, why not simply try it for a month? Even if you decide you don't need the extras, you will have helped support an activity you enjoy...

 

peace!

 

:(

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I would find it dificult not to spend $3 on what brings me so much pleasure.

Amen!

 

Just the bandwidth alone for the Geocaching.com website must cost a fortune... I am quite pleased to give three bucks a month regardless of the 'benefits' of premium membership! If you want to experience premium membership first hand, why not simply try it for a month? Even if you decide you don't need the extras, you will have helped support an activity you enjoy...

 

peace!

 

:(

 

As I have stated in several similar threads about Premium membership in the past, I much agree. I much enjoy and appreciate this sport of geocaching and the community as well, and I recognize that geocaching.com is a large center or hub for this community and provides some great services. So, we appreciate this site and the service it offers very much, and feel very grateful for it. It is an honor for us to be able to support this site with a measly 3 bucks per month. We actually have several premium accounts, since we have our main account for the Vinny & Sue Team, while Sue also has her own Premium account to allow her to better track and watchlist her favorite types of caches from her own PC, and I also maintain a separate Premium account for the use of our friend Greta, who lives in the ID/WY area, and who is my co-placer on our extreme backcountry caches out there; the Premium account allows Greta to keep tabs on our two Premium-member-only extreme backcountry caches in her neck of the woods.

 

As for the few bucks per month which we chip in, we feel that it helps pay for the site, the bandwidth, the programming, and to support the folks who help to run this site. For us, it is about appreciation and gratitude. And yes, we do appreciate all the extra benefits (PQs, etc.) which we get with a Premium account as well!

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Just remember, once you're a premium member, you can never get out. If you try and cancel your membership Jeremy has Keystone put a horses head in your bed. That's just the first warning. After that if you still try and get out, he comes to you home himself, In your bedroom where your wife sleeps! Where your children come and play with their toys.

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Just remember, once you're a premium member, you can never get out. If you try and cancel your membership Jeremy has Keystone put a horses head in your bed. That's just the first warning. After that if you still try and get out, he comes to you home himself, In your bedroom where your wife sleeps! Where your children come and play with their toys.

 

You make a joke out of it as if it funny, but the first phase -- the so-called "friendly warning" stage -- actually happened to us once, and it was a NIGHTMARE! It all started when due to a minor glitch, Paypal accidentally discontinuted our Premium membership subscription one day for about 24 hours. Well, we woke up the next morning to discover the head of a dead horse in our bed, and our dog was acting very strangely. An animal communicator whom we hired was able to tell us that our poor beagle Toby had seen a very terrfiying-looking man in our house during the night, carrying the head. The description matched that of Keystone to a "T". We later learned from neighbors that a large dark beater car with Pennsylvania plates had been seen parked in the woods near our house at 3AM in the morning that day. We will never again let our Premium membership lapse for even a moment.

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whats the advantage ? do they have secrete handshakes and get a decoder ring lol..would like to hear the advantages as i now have a tb in a premium cache that i cant watch....

 

- What's the deal? It's a great deal. :(

- What's the advantage? Lots, but my favorite is saving preparation time.

- Secret handshakes? Not included, since it's not meant as elitist . :(

- Decoder ring? Sold separately - you still have to solve some puzzle caches on your own.

 

You can look at the following link for more information:

 

Groundspeak Premium Membership

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Having a membership is also one of the requirements to being selected as a reviewer. And once you're a reviewer you don't have to pay as one of the perks. :( MS

 

WOW where did this come from, there have been regular members that were asked and accepted to become a part of the reviewer team without being a premium member. Did you just make this up or what, you sure do not know the facts

 

Max Cacher

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Sue and I have not one but two premium member accounts so we an each better track the types of caches which we love and so that we can each have a separate identity on the national forums. As a long-term premium member, I will take a big risk and stick my neck out waaaay far and reveal a few of the best kept-secrets about premium memberships and the people who enjoy them:

we have not only a secret handshake but a secret smile.

we have access to listings for very high-quality caches which are not available to regular members.

our GPS receivers have an added module that tells us when any other Premium Member is within five miles of our location, and the screen displays their name(s) and maps their location(s).

there are top-secret (and very wild) parties held every Friday night and Sunday night for premium members; attendance is free for us.

our specially-modified GPS receivers work even in downtown areas of cities when shielded by tall buildings, and even inside steel and concrete buildings, and even underground.

we have access to special satellite signals which allow us to get within four inches of a cache location, rather than the normal error margin of seven to thirty feet.

we are invited to special dinner functions every Wednesday evening, aand all the food and drink is free.

we are invited to screenings of major feature two months before they are released to the .

due to a special engine gadget which we are given, our cars get 40% better gas mileage than those of regular members.

we are able to purchase gasoline for 30% of the going price anywhere in the world (except for Croatia.)

we are entitled to free charter use of one of the 4,000 Bell Jet helicopters owned by geocaching.com for one hour per week (or 4.4 hours per month) for geocaching outings to remote cache sites.

we have free use of any Lear jets in the fleet of 290 Geo Lear jets, with two charter pilots on each craft ready and waiting.

we are given 48 hours advance notice of all new caches about to be approved.

if we get stuck finding a well-hidden cache, we pull out our remote cache sensor unit, press the "A" button, and the cache we are hunting immediately emits a loud beeping sound for one minute, while flashing a 400,000 lumen strobe light to enable us to find it immediately.

when out in the field cache-hunting, we have a special device attached to our GPSr which contains the phone number, cell phone number and email address of every cache hider and every geocacher in the world, so that at the push of a button we can call a cache hider or past finder and ask for some hints on how to find the cache.

If we truly cannot find a cache or it has gone missing, we are entitled to claim a find on it anyway due to our Premium member perks.

As Premium members, we are able to get caches approved in locations which are blatantly dangerous, insane and illegal, such as in abandoned nuclear reactors (i.e., GCTA5E), in toxic waste dumps, or in sewage lagoons.

We get free instant bail service worldwide whenever we get arrested while retrieving a cache.

We get free use of a Russian Mir mini depth-exploring submarine and its service tender boat anywhere in the Atlantic Ocean for retrieval of deep sea underwater caches from depths ranging from 1 mile to 2.6 miles beneath the surface of the sea.

To the other Premium members: Folks, sorry for giving away so many of our secret perks, but it was only matter of time before they figured it out anyway!

 

You forgot to mention all of the free time that comes along with it (it would take me an hour to type all of that)

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we are entitled to free charter use of one of the 4,000 Bell Jet helicopters owned by geocaching.com for one hour per week (or 4.4 hours per month) for geocaching outings to remote cache sites.

 

Special members get Eurocopters, and what this about a time limit on the use...........

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Just remember, once you're a premium member, you can never get out. If you try and cancel your membership Jeremy has Keystone put a horses head in your bed.

 

Due to cost constraints we have switched to Tofu horse heads and ketchup.

 

Ok, fine, now you've convinced me. Go ahead and raise the fee from $30 to $45 a year -- when my subscription runs out, I want a REAL horses head, not some vegan version! For the extra $15 a year, I think it's worth it. For that matter, make it $50 a year so Keystone can FLY the head over, rather than riding a bus. Waiting for a week after the subscription runs out is just too long. I want same day service dangit!

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Just remember, once you're a premium member, you can never get out. If you try and cancel your membership Jeremy has Keystone put a horses head in your bed.

 

Due to cost constraints we have switched to Tofu horse heads and ketchup.

 

Ok, fine, now you've convinced me. Go ahead and raise the fee from $30 to $45 a year -- when my subscription runs out, I want a REAL horses head, not some vegan version! For the extra $15 a year, I think it's worth it. For that matter, make it $50 a year so Keystone can FLY the head over, rather than riding a bus. Waiting for a week after the subscription runs out is just too long. I want same day service dangit!

Not sure what people are smoking, but Tofu is considered an upgrade in some parts of the country.

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Having a membership is also one of the requirements to being selected as a reviewer. And once you're a reviewer you don't have to pay as one of the perks. :( MS

 

WOW where did this come from, there have been regular members that were asked and accepted to become a part of the reviewer team without being a premium member. Did you just make this up or what, you sure do not know the facts

 

Max Cacher

 

Some reviewers may not have negotiated for the perks when they accepted the position. I do hope you were savvy enough to at least get an invitation to the annual, all-expense paid reviewers’ event in your contract – I hear it’s a blast. MS

 

Oh, I forgot to add photos from last year's rumored, exclusive event in the British Virgin Islands:

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Where Max Cacher reportedly spent most of his time:

 

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Im almost conviced,but nobody has mentioned the claims ive heard about one fellow once becoming a premium member that his hair grew back an he doesnt have to use viagra anymore an another fellow even claimed his toenail fungus cleared up..are you sure the costs is 30.00 an not 29.95 ? lol..well doutless its a noble cauce ..i was unaware of where to look an see for myself of the advantages or reasons..you guys might want to advertise the premium membership a little more....thank you for the info....ps,what are pocket queries..

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Just remember, once you're a premium member, you can never get out. If you try and cancel your membership Jeremy has Keystone put a horses head in your bed.

 

Due to cost constraints we have switched to Tofu horse heads and ketchup.

Ok, fine, now you've convinced me. Go ahead and raise the fee from $30 to $45 a year -- when my subscription runs out, I want a REAL horses head, not some vegan version! For the extra $15 a year, I think it's worth it. For that matter, make it $50 a year so Keystone can FLY the head over, rather than riding a bus. Waiting for a week after the subscription runs out is just too long. I want same day service dangit!

 

After that incident at the airport, Keystone is a little afraid of getting up in the air anymore. As his personal chauffeur (you can check my profile!), I can assure you that the bus he rides in is no normal Greyhound bus. It has been fully customized by Custom Coach Corporation, and has all the amenities you'd expect of an 'Executive' level coach. He rides in style, indeed, watching his favorite shows on the 52 inch plasma HDTV with 7 channel surround. His leather recliner has 10 motor massage and dual heat, and he sips nothing but the best Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac. Trust me, your Premium Membership fees are being put to good use!

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Im almost conviced,but nobody has mentioned the claims ive heard about one fellow once becoming a premium member that his hair grew back an he doesnt have to use viagra anymore an another fellow even claimed his toenail fungus cleared up..are you sure the costs is 30.00 an not 29.95 ? lol..well doutless its a noble cauce ..i was unaware of where to look an see for myself of the advantages or reasons..you guys might want to advertise the premium membership a little more....thank you for the info....ps,what are pocket queries..

 

I became a premium member and my butt got smaller. Does that count? It certainly does to me.

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Just remember, once you're a premium member, you can never get out. If you try and cancel your membership Jeremy has Keystone put a horses head in your bed.

 

Due to cost constraints we have switched to Tofu horse heads and ketchup.

 

NOOOOOO! :) Now thats a step back!

 

Don't quote me, but I see an upgrade in the near future from Tofu horses heads and ketchup to actual horses heads.

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For me it's the incredible stuff that I find in the "members only" caches.

 

In one members-only cache I found a $100 bill! In another I found a Garmin 60c which I use as my main GPS now. It's amazing how much more generous everyone is when it comes to these members-only caches. I know I am.

 

I usually just put the McJunk in the regular caches but I save the good stuff for the members caches. Last week I placed a bag containing 25 different unactivated geocoins in a members-only cache! A few months ago, I left some tickets to a Seahawks game in another one!

 

Well worth the $30 for this perk alone!

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WHEW!!!! When I first started reading this thread, I thought the real secrets were going to be revealed - but then I realized that those are reserved for us Charter Members (our oath prevents more info from being revealed - you don't want to know what Keystone does in THAT situation!).

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For me it's the incredible stuff that I find in the "members only" caches.

 

In one members-only cache I found a $100 bill! In another I found a Garmin 60c which I use as my main GPS now. It's amazing how much more generous everyone is when it comes to these members-only caches. I know I am.

 

Oh! and GrnXnham, remember that Tag Heuer members cache series? (It was sort of like the Jeep TB's - except they had some cool watches stashed in member caches all around the US.)

 

I love mine!

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I was "this close" to paying up, then they seperated all the LC's and virtuals over to WM.com. It tee'd me off. Now I'm thinking about paying up again, for other reasons. Just to avoid criticism mainly... But most of my caching activity is over at that "other site" lately. So I'm not sure what I'm gonna do...

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I was "this close" to paying up, then they seperated all the LC's and virtuals over to WM.com. It tee'd me off. Now I'm thinking about paying up again, for other reasons. Just to avoid criticism mainly... But most of my caching activity is over at that "other site" lately. So I'm not sure what I'm gonna do...

 

I like my membership, but I don't really like pushing it. I waited so long mostly because of getting the criticism mentioned. I still think MOC caches are a little too much, and am reluctant to use that feature. I'm somewhere between boycotting them, and using them. (If only I could just make it so only cachers with a set number of finds instead of PM status could see the listing, I think I'd like MOC's.)

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