Asking cache placement permission from businesses

[combinatorics]

For LPC and other urban cache types, how do you ask permission from a business for placement? I've successfully asked permission from a couple, but from others I've received a "no". From most I simply get no reply at all after calling or emailing. Has the community found a "best practice" to follow when asking permission that yields successful results? Do you find it more successful when you simply show up with the cache 100% ready to go and just walk in and ask a store manager? Is asking a store manager enough permission when many stores / restaurants / etc don't actually own the land they are on but rather lease it from a development company?

 

Any advice on getting permission for cache placements would be greatly appreciated.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

Hmmmmm...

 

I would say that if you do not receive permission on the first attempt, it's probably better to just drop it altogether rather than to keep pushing...

 

I would take no response as a "no" and move along. Personally, we don't even bother with business hides. Too many problems.

[+worstcaster]

Having the cache ready to show them and some material on what caching is would be helpful. If they say no, politely thank them for their time and leave. Never get into a confrontation over it.

[+BAMBOOZLE]

90% of the type caches you're referring to are probably placed without permission.

[+Isonzo Karst]

I've only placed at a business once. It was owner operated.

I walked in, explained a bit about caching and what I wanted to do, and got the okay. I placed right then, so they could see it.

 

Small businesses are probably easiest to talk to and most apt to say yes.

 

As you've sai, even at an owner operated small business it's certainly possible that the business owner is renting the space.

 

My parents owned a small strip mall in Melbourne FL. There was a cache for a while in the parking lot, the listing said it had permission. This permission has to have been from one of the store renters, as neither the management company nor my parents were asked about the cache. That said, my parents were fine with it (road widening took it out).