Placing a cache in a building

[Johnny_kiddle]

Hi peeps,

 

Im thinking about putting a cache inside the lobby of my workplace, the boss says its ok but im wondering if anyone else has done this and if they had any problems ?.....

 

Thanks in advance !

[+NickandAliandEliza]

Hi peeps,

 

Im thinking about putting a cache inside the lobby of my workplace, the boss says its ok but im wondering if anyone else has done this and if they had any problems ?.....

 

Thanks in advance !

 

Pretty sure you are allowed to if certain conditions are met. We've found a few that were inside buildings.

 

.......the only thing - is the entrance to your workplace particularly interesting?

[+The Blorenges]

Just keep this in mind (from the Cache Listing Guidelines / Requirements)...

 

"Commercial Caches

 

Commercial caches will not be published on geocaching.com without prior approval from Groundspeak. A commercial cache is a geocache listing or geocache which is perceived by Groundspeak, Groundspeak's employees, or the Volunteer Geocache Reviewers as having been submitted to geocaching.com with the principal or substantial intent of soliciting customers or generating commercial gain. The geocache is presumed to be commercial if the finder is required to go inside a business, interact with employees, and/or purchase a product or service, or if the cache listing has overtones of advertising, marketing, or promotion."

 

If you can avoid all the above trip wires then you might be OK.

 

MrsB

[+ratcliffe]

Personally I wouldn't bother, as I wouldn't expect many people to go into an office block to find a cache, you are going to get stared at and also possibly interfere with the running of the business.

However, you don't say where you work, if it is in a museum, then it could be a really good cache placement, as it would be interesting.

Don't let anyone on here stop you, we all get to choose the caches we visit, after all!

[+currykev]

I would ignore such a cache.

[+abanazar]

Reminds me of one we found right beside the entrance door of a small private hotel in a seaside resort. There was no good reason for bringing anyone there, certainly no view. I think the cache description mentioned the hotel's owner being curious in who might seek it (there was no hint of commercialism as far as I was concerned, and the cache owner wasn't the hotel owner). Even so, this permission didn't account for all the muggle residents traipsing in and out of the door!

 

I wouldn't have placed it myself, but regardless of all these factors, we still went for the cache (after bottling it several times, I might add!), just because we happened to be staying a few streets away. I was going to say that it wasn't a particularly worthwhile cache, but actually my young sons and I got quite a buzz over retrieving and replacing this by very 007 means! (Darkness, critical timing, and leaping over (low!) wall to avoid being seen through entrance door by receptionist ... )

[+Mad H@ter]

I'm sure that it shouldn't be a problem a precedent seems to have been set

Edited September 22, 2010 by Mad H@ter

[+Team Noodles]

I'm sure that it shouldn't be a problem a president seems to have been set

Who voted that one in?

 

[+SpaceGamer]

I'm sure that it shouldn't be a problem a president seems to have been set

Who voted that one in?

 

 

No idea, but seeing as how there is no precedent in cache placement, maybe a president out ranks that.

[The Hearse]

I have bagged a few in buildings and normally it doesn't present a problem provided the description is good enough and you can assure they seeker they are not trespassing. I went to one in the hotel gardens next to the windows of their lounge bar. I was unaware that in the bar was a framed description of what Geocaching is about including the whereabouts of the cache. I found it very off-putting trying every anti-muggle trick in the book, much to the amusement of the onlookers. I would not want to set myself up for that experience again.

[+Mad H@ter]

I'm sure that it shouldn't be a problem a president seems to have been set

Who voted that one in?

 

 

No idea, but seeing as how there is no precedent in cache placement, maybe a president out ranks that.

Darn Google spell checker

[+GAZ]

I would ignore such a cache.

 

Unless it was a micro? Heh-heh!

[+sTeamTraen]

Im thinking about putting a cache inside the lobby of my workplace, the boss says its ok but im wondering if anyone else has done this and if they had any problems ?.....

Will every single person who works in reception be briefed about the existence of the cache, from now until you archive it?

 

Can the cache be found without having to interact with employees?

 

Is the lobby somewhere that people can hunt around in, looking furtively, without being considered suspicious by employees, or by other customers of the business?

 

You need three big "Yes" answers, and even then your reviewer may well not like it. Geocaching is about going outside and finding things.

[+MartyBartfast]

Didn't there used to be a cache that was in the shop window of an Estate Agents (or similar) and was visible from the street?

 

IIRC you just had to open the door and ask them to get the box out of the window.